Cambridge Law Faculty

Equity in Distress: Justice and Fairness in Business Rescue: 3CL Seminar

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Speaker: Professor Edward Janger, the David M. Barse Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, USA Abstract: The goal of the book is to flesh out concepts of equity and fairness that are embedded (but often overlooked) in the law of corporate governance and the Bankruptcy Code. The main themes of the book have been developed in prior work of mine and with others. The concept of "equity" in financial distress is developed in Jacoby and Janger, "Tracing Equity," 96 Tex. L. Rev.

Cambridge Women in Law: AI's Impact on legal education

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On Friday 18 September 2026 Cambridge Women in Law held this panel event as part of the Cambridge Alumni Festival. AI is shaping all walks of life. This is particularly true in respect of the law. Litigants rely on ChatGPT to submit their complaints and lawyers have access to databases of precedents, search tools and the capacity for AI to manage vast numbers of documents, often better than humans.

Towards a Value-Based Union Citizenship: Trust, Democracy, and Solidarity: CELS Lunchtime Seminar

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Speaker: Dr Luke Dimitrios Spieker, Humboldt University, Berlin Abstract: The CJEU’s decision in Commission v Malta marks the summit of a long-standing, highly controversial debate in European legal scholarship. Considering the Maltese practice of “golden passports” incompatible with EU law, the Court expanded the reach of EU law and established constraints for the conferral of the Member States’ nationalities.

The UK-EU Agreement in Respect of Gibraltar: CELS Seminar

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When the UK and the EU concluded the Trade and Cooperation Agreement at the end of 2020, Gibraltar was deliberately left outside its scope. After more than four years of negotiation between the UK, the EU and Spain, with the Government of Gibraltar advising the UK team, to agree the yet closest relationship of UK related territory with the EU.

Marcus Coates on "Reimagining Responsibility"

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Professor Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan interviews Marcus Coates, artist in residence at King's College, Cambridge, about his new project exploring how responsibility might be reimagined. The experience of living through today’s unfolding and deepening permacrisis poses profound and urgent questions to and of society, individual citizens, institutions and world leaders.

Introducing the Cambridge Research Group on Private Actor Responsibility

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Professor Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, Dr Andrew Sanger, and Nina Prusac discuss the origins, thematic focus, and interdisciplinary approach of the Cambridge Research Group on Private Actor Responsibility. The conversation explores the ideas behind the Group’s establishment, the questions shaping its work, and its aim of bringing together perspectives from within and beyond law to examine a wide range of issues relating to private-actor responsibility.

MCL Student profile: Giovanni

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Students who have studied the Masters in Corporate Law (MCL) at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, reflect on their experiences. For more information see

The effects of the ongoing war on the administration of justice in Ukraine

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A video shown during the visit of Judge Synelnykov (Ukrainian Supreme Court) to the University of Cambridge as a guest of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS). We hear a lot about the horrors of the war in Ukraine but what does it mean for the day to day delivery of justice?

Trademarks and Free Speech: Conflicts and Resolutions: CIPIL Evening Seminar

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Speaker: Lisa P. Ramsey, Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law Professor Lisa P. Ramsey, Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law and an expert on trademark law, will be speaking on her new book, Trademarks and Free Speech: Conflicts and Resolutions (CUP: 2026).

Albert Fox Cahn on Transatlantic Litigation Strategies To Address AI Human Rights Harms

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Albert Fox Cahn, a visiting scholar practitioner at the Centre of Governance and Human Rights and a visiting scholar at Pembroke College, founder in residence at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project’s, and Fellow at N.Y.U Law School’s Information Law Institute, talks to the Cambridge Research Group on Private Actor Responsibility on limitations and structural barriers in using private litigation to regulate AI and the extent to which a transatlantic litigation…

Dr André Dao on Holding Corporations Responsible for Data-driven Human Rights Violations

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Dr Andrew Sanger interviews Dr André Dao of Melbourne Law School on his research on holding corporations to account for data-driven human rights violations. This video is part of an ongoing collection from the Cambridge Research Group on Private Actor Responsibility. For more information see

📚 Book mentioned: Human rights for the data society: Big Tech, the UN and the datafication of rights

Federal Impartiality: Navigating Divisive Rights in the EU and the US

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Guest: Federal Impartiality

The Centre for European Legal Studies and the Centre for Public Law held a book launch and panel discussion on Dr Mohamed Moussa's recent monograph: Federal Impartiality: Navigating Divisive Rights in the EU and the US (Hart, 2026)

The Death Penalty in the Commonwealth: Cambridge Pro Bono Project Annual Lecture 2026

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Full title: 'The Death Penalty in the Commonwealth: A Complex Landscape' The Cambridge Pro Bono Project (CPP) hosted the annual lecture featuring Saul Lehrfreund MBE on Thursday 7th May 2026. Saul is Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of The Death Penalty Project, an international legal action charity based at Simons Muirhead & Burton LLP in London.

Exploring Legal Futures: Exploring Pathways to Becoming a Solicitor or Barrister

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Guest: Exploring Legal Futures

In this webinar from May 2025, the Faculty Outreach, Widening Participation and Communications Coordinator Rosalind Boswell is joined by a panel of lawyers from leading City law firms and chambers: Clifford Chance, Hogan Lovells, Slaughter and May, and Maitland Chambers. The panel share insights into different legal pathways and reflect on how interests, choices and experiences shape careers in law.

Child Contact Arrangements in the Context of Gender-Based Violence. The Spanish no-contact rule

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Speaker: Dr Maitena Arakistain Arriola (Assistant Professor in Civil Law, University of the Basque Country; Visiting Fellow CFL; Bye Fellow, Robinson College) For more information about the Faculty Family Law Centre (CFL), see