Conference Venues
Lady Mitchell Hall
Lady Mitchell Hall, which will host the ESIL 2010 opening and closing plenary sessions, is a purpose built conference centre on the University’s Sidgwick Site, not far from the Faculty of Law building. The Hall is a popular venue for large university events and can seat 500 in a mixture of flat and tiered seating. The Hall has a full complement of conference and lecture facilities, projectors, and AV equipment so wherever seated, participants should feel fully engaged in the conference proceedings.
Faculty of Law
Law has been studied and taught in Cambridge since the thirteenth century, and the Faculty has a long-standing tradition of excellence in international and comparative law, jurisprudence and legal history. There are currently 25 professors, 8 readers, and over 70 other University, Faculty and College Teaching Officers. They include specialists in almost every aspect of English law and its history, the laws of other countries (especially European), European Community law, public and private international law, Roman law, legal philosophy, and criminology.
At any one time around 6% of Cambridge undergraduates are reading law. The student body comprises about 700 undergraduate and 250 graduate students. Graduates from the Faculty are prominent in academic life, in the judiciary, and throughout the legal profession. Cambridge judicial alumni include two former Presidents as well as four current members of the International Court of Justice, two former judges of the European Court of Justice, and several members of the Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
The Law Faculty building in West Road, designed by Lord Foster and Partners, and opened in 1995, brings together on one site the Squire Law Library, the Faculty’s lecture and seminar rooms, the administrative offices, and common-room facilities. It doubled the shelf capacity of the library, increased the space for readers and provides a focus for Faculty activities, such as conferences, formal meetings, informal gatherings, and moots.
The Faculty of Law will be the venue for the ESIL 2010 fora and agorae sessions.
Sessions will take place in the lecture theatres on the lower ground floor:
LG19 – The Arthur Goodhart lecture Theatre – seats 340
LG18 - The David Li Kwok Po Lecture Theatre - seats 240
LG17 – Lecture Room – seats 160
Other lecture and seminar rooms in the faculty may be used for interest group sessions or as required. Registration, exhibitors’ stands and tea & coffee breaks will be held in the faculty’s Atrium.
Lauterpacht Centre for International Law
The Lauterpacht Centre will host the evening reception on Thursday in its gardens and may be a venue for some of the Interest Group sessions taking place prior to the start of the main conference.
The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law is the premier centre in the UK for research in the field of international law. In this role, the Centre seeks to fulfil a number of specific objectives: to serve as a discussion forum, to promote research and publication, to provide an intellectual home to scholars from around the world, to provide education and training and to maintain a library of international law materials. To this end, and since its foundation, the Centre has held around 400 lectures, welcomed more than 350 visiting fellows and scholars, and maintained several series of publications - including over 130 volumes of the International Law Reports. Professor James Crawford is the current director of the Centre, which is a home to more than 30 fellows and staff.
Selwyn College
Selwyn College lies alongside the Sidgwick Site, a few minutes from the other conference venues. The College was founded in 1882 and named after George August Selwyn, the first Bishop of New Zealand and later Bishop of Lichfield. The original Old Court is built in the Tudor Gothic style and comprisees the Tower and Gateway, Chapel, Master's Lodge, dining hall and gardens. The College was expanded in the 1962 with the addition of Cripps Court and the College continues to grow, with the development of Ann's Court, the second phase of which was completed in September 2009.
The College first opened in 1882 with 28 undergraduate admissions, the Master, the Tutor and one non-resident lecturer - a far cry from the College as it is today. The College was one of the first in Cambridge to admit women (1976) and now has roughly 360 undergraduates, 130 postgraduates and more than 60 Fellows.
Selwyn College is the venue for the Gala Dinner on the Friday night and the conference buffet lunches. ESIL 2010 participants will also be offered the opportunity to book a room at Selwyn College during the registration process.