Cambridge LawLink Issue No. 9
Spring 2011
CONTENTS The Honourable Michael Beloff’s ‘View From the Bar’…….P.1 A letter from the Chair…….P.2 Faculty Launches Masters in Corporate Law…….P.2 Professor Sir David Williams: 1930-2009…….P.3 Cambridge University Law Society Roundup…….P.4 Mark Elliott Awarded the Pilkington Prize…….P.4 University Challenge for Haiti…….P.4 Elections to President…….P.5 Prominent US Librarian Visits the Squire…….P.5 Programme in European Private Law for Postgraduates (PEPP)…….P.6 Faculty Launches SSRN Research Paper Series…….P.6 The Hon Michael Beloff QC delivers the 2010 Sir David Williams Lecture for the Centre for Public Law
Squire Law Library’s Eminent Scholars Archive…….P.7
THE HONOURABLE MICHAEL BELOFF’S
The Institute of Criminology 50th Anniversary Conference: ‘Challenging Crime’…….P.8
‘VIEW FROM THE BAR’ The tenth Sir David Williams Lecture, the first to be held since Sir David’s death, was held on 21 May 2010. At Sir David’s special request the lecture was given by the Hon Michael Beloff QC, the eminent practitioner, quondam President of Trinity College, Oxford and Senior Judge of the Jersey and Guernsey Court of Appeal.
RESEARCH CENTRE REPORTS ago with the present day. He identified “availability, fearlessness and independence” as the crucial components of the ethos of the bar, with “independence” the most important. His lecture was thus a scintillating defence of the independence of the bar, and an assessment of the threats to it.
Lauterpacht Centre for International Law…….P.9 Centre for European Legal Studies…….P.9 Centre for Public Law…….P.11 Family Matters: Family Law at Cambridge…….P.12 Cambridge Socio-Legal Group…….P.13 Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy…….P.13 Centre for Tax Law…….P.14 Centre for Intellectual Property and
The lecture was entitled ‘A View From the Bar’ and was well attended. It was followed by a dinner in Wolfson College at which Sir Patrick Elias spoke movingly about Sir David and the lectures.
The eleventh Sir David Williams Lecture entitled ‘The Rule of Law and Human Dignity’ was delivered by Jeremy Waldron, Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University Law School, on 6 May 2011 in the Law Faculty.
Mr Beloff gave a lively and stimulating lecture that drew comparisons between the You can read more about the activities of the bar when he was called some four decades Centre for Public Law on page 11.
Information Law…….P.15 Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law…….P.16 Major publications by Faculty Members…….P.17-21 Faculty Funding Successes…….P.22 Freshfields Continues Support for the Faculty…….P.22 Announcements…….P.23-24 Editors: Daniel Bates, Laura Smethurst & David Wills
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