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Cambridge law, argued in public.
Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge preserves formal talks and conference panels from the Faculty’s public legal events. Recent episodes move through climate regulation, EU rule-of-law enforcement, international justice, the Supreme Court, the Privy Council, and competition law’s treatment of patents.
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Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge is an extensive archive of formal legal lectures and panel discussions. It is not centered on a recurring host. Instead, its continuity comes from the setting: academic introductions, named seminars, careful questions, and speakers who treat law as an institutional practice as much as a set of rules. Recent episodes move across environmental regulation in the era of climate change, the architecture of international justice, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the Privy Council, EU rule-of-law enforcement, European identity, supranational values, judicial independence, and competition law in patent disputes. The pace is measured. Speakers often begin by defining the problem, separating descriptive claims from normative ones, and identifying the legal mechanisms that matter. That method gives the show a demanding but useful texture. It lets arguments accumulate rather than collapse into slogans. In the international justice panel, the concern is not merely whether the system is under pressure, but whether the pressure reflects enforcement failure, compliance failure, weakened multilateralism, or a deeper challenge to validity and acceptance. In the EU law lectures, the rule of law becomes a moving object: a value, a principle, a source of judicial action, and sometimes a point of political strain. The judicial talks add institutional memory, with attention to courts, jurisdictions, referendums, and the everyday architecture of public authority. The intellectual property session brings a different but related lens, asking how competition law treats patents that may never have deserved legal force. The archive’s strength is breadth without casualness. It gives listeners direct access to legal reasoning as it is staged in seminars and conferences, including the formalities, digressions, and dense doctrinal passages that shape the argument. For a discovery listener, it is best approached as a serious legal shelf: demanding, precise, and often most rewarding when a single legal distinction becomes the hinge of the whole conversation.
Made for: For law students, academics, practitioners, policy readers, and institution-minded listeners who want long-form legal reasoning rather than commentary. It particularly suits people interested in EU law, courts, international institutions, and doctrinal argument.
What sets it apart: The show preserves the lecture-room form: introductions, framing questions, doctrinal roadmaps, and extended reasoning are part of the experience. Similar legal podcasts often compress analysis into conversation; this archive keeps the formal argument intact.
The Faculty of Law has a thriving calendar of lectures and seminars spanning the entire gamut of legal, political and philosophical topics. Regular programmes are run by many of the Faculty's Research Centres, and a number of high-profile speakers who are leaders in their fields often speak at the Faculty on other occasions as well.Audio recordings from such events are published in our various podcast collections. Video recordings are available via YouTube.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It makes the legal architecture behind markets, intellectual property and institutional power audible through detailed lectures and conference debate.
Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge turns formal lectures and conference panels into close examinations of the legal machinery behind markets, institutions and public power.
A judge's dissent can become the court's answer; your confidence in the final word may need revision.
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A disciplined look at international law's pressure points, from enforcement to Greenland.
The panel on international justice is organized around a clear question: whether international law is under strain, and where that strain is most visible first.
A measured lecture on how the rule of law can organize disagreement while remaining contested.
The lecture takes up a hard problem in European law: the rule of law can serve as shared language, even as it reveals the depth of the disagreements beneath it.
A measured look at how the single market depends on the rule of law.
Professor Catherine Barnard frames the single market through the rule of law, asking whether a working market can hold together when that principle is only partly secured.
A clear competition-law review of invalid patents, settlement payments, Article 102, and related remedies.
Competition law takes the lead here as Quentin Schaefer of 11 South Square looks at patents that appear to create market power, even when they are later invalidated or found not to have been infringed.
A careful legal seminar on when rights become abuse, and whether the UK needs its own doctrine.
The episode gives a careful technical look at whether the UK should recognize a distinct doctrine of abuse of rights, and it keeps the tone more seminar than polemic.
A clear, measured guide to appellate courts, dissent, and the way legal reasoning develops.
Lord Jones sets the United Kingdom's Supreme Court and the Privy Council in practical context, explaining how the two Parliament Square courts fit into the wider legal system.
A careful look at how feminist activism challenges erased histories and changes the legal meaning of protest.
The episode frames feminist legal history through power: who gets to decide which actions count, which stories enter the record, and which are pushed aside.
Patient conversations on finance, climate, and purpose.
This episode features a seminar presentation by Professor Doug Zetche on developing an EU framework for impact investing, critically reviewing existing sustainable finance regulations.
This seminar features Professor Albert Frederiksen discussing Norway's complex agreements with the EU, the impact of Brexit on EFTA states' relations with the EU, and challenges to the 'Norway model' due to the EU's strategic rethink of the internal market.
This episode features Quentin Schaefer discussing the competition law perspective on patents, focusing on the enforcement of invalid intellectual property rights and its economic implications.
This lecture session honors the late scholar Karen Knop, focusing on gender, feminism, and self-determination in international law.
Lord Lloyd-Jones, a justice of the UK Supreme Court, delivers a lecture at the Exploring Law Conference on the roles of the Supreme Court and Privy Council.
The answer is yes.
This is the opening address for a panel discussion on environmental regulation in the context of climate change, hosted by the Sir David Williams Law Society at Wollstone College.
Lord Lloyd-Jones gives a talk on the role of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the Privy Council in the UK legal system, explaining their functions and jurisdictions.
Lord Justice Baker reflects on personal anecdotes from the 1970s, including a missed opportunity with a book and the UK's early EU membership and referendum.
The question sounds simple at first.
Professor Catherine Barnard is introduced at a Cambridge Faculty of Law seminar on the rule of law and the single market.
This episode features a presentation by Professor Albertina Albors-Llorens on the challenges of enforcing the rule of law as a value in the European Union legal order, examining its enforceability, case law evolution, and judicial mechanisms.
Quentin Schaefer of 11 South Square argues that competition law can respond when invalid patents already blocked market entry.
Amandine Leonard opens the final session by asking whether the UK needs a distinct doctrine of abuse of rights.
This episode features a seminar presentation by Professor Dr.
This episode features a seminar introduction and opening remarks on Norway's complex agreements with the EU, examining challenges to the 'Norway Model' in light of the EU's strategic rethink of the internal market, particularly post-Brexit.