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Seminar Programme for 2023-2024

Easter Term 2024

Date

Speaker(s)

Title/Further Information 

Recording / resources

26 April 2024

10.30am - 12pm

LG17

 

Chair
Gavin Robert, affiliated lecturer on the MCL and Competition Law LLM,Cambridge University 

Speakers
Ricardo Zimbron, and Marc Zedler, who led the investigation into Microsoft/Activision Blizzard case at the Competition and Markets Authority and at the European Commission respectively.

'Microsoft/Activision Blizzard: Convergence or Divergence in EU and UK Merger Control?' Not recorded

1 May 2024

1pm, G24 and Online

Eleanor Sharpston KC 
Advocate General, CJEU (2006-2020) and Goodhart Professor, University of Cambridge (2023/2024)   
'Of Hijabs and Shechitah/Halal – Does the CJEU (and perhaps even the ECtHR) have a Blind Spot about Non-Christian Religions?'

Of Hijabs and Shechitah/Halal – Does the CJEU (and perhaps even the ECtHR) have a Blind Spot about Non-Christian Religions?

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Of Hijabs and Shechitah/Halal – Does the CJEU (and perhaps even the ECtHR) have a Blind Spot about Non-Christian Religions?

8 May 2024

5.30pm, B16 and Online

Eleanor Sharpston KC 
Advocate General, CJEU (2006-2020) and Goodhart Professor, University of Cambridge (2023/2024)

and 

Dr Markus Gehring 
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Member of CELS

‘The 2023 Franco-German Proposal on Reforming and Enlarging the EU – A Conversation’

The 2023 Franco-German Proposal on Reforming and Enlarging the EU – A Conversation

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The 2023 Franco-German Proposal on Reforming and Enlarging the EU – A Conversation

 

Lent Term 2024

Date

Speaker(s)

Title/Further Information 

Recording / resources

26 February 2024

5pm, G24

 

José Manuel Durão Barroso
Former President of the European Commission

'EU, UK and the World: Reflecting on Challenging Times'

UK-EU Relations: How can they be Improved?

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'UK-EU Relations: How can they be Improved?'

 

Michaelmas Term 2023

Date

Speaker(s)

Title/Further Information 

Recording / resources

19 October 2023

5.15pm

Emmanuel College, Cambridge

 

Presenter
Anu Bradford, Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organizations
Columbia Law School

Respondents
Victoria Lang, Assistant Legal Director at the CMA, currently advising on the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill

John McInnes, Senior Legal Director at the CMA, leading the CMA’s policy and international function and overseeing legal input on the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill

'Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology' Not recorded

25 October 2023

1pm, G24 and Online

Eleanor Sharpston KC 
Advocate General, CJEU (2006-2020) and Goodhart Professor, University of Cambridge (2023/2024)   
'Language and the CJEU'

Language and the CJEU

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'Language and the CJEU'

8 November 2023

1pm, G24 and Online

Eleanor Sharpston KC 
Advocate General, CJEU (2006-2020) and Goodhart Professor, University of Cambridge (2023/2024)
'Decoding CJEU Judgments'

 

Decoding CJEU Judgments

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'Decoding CJEU Judgments'

22 November 2023

5.30pm, B16 and Online

João Vale de Almeida
Former Ambassador of the European Union to the United Kingdom (2020-2022)

and

Eleanor Sharpston KC 
Advocate General, CJEU (2006-2020) and Goodhart Professor, University of Cambridge (2023/2024)

'UK-EU Relations: How can they be Improved?'

UK-EU Relations: How can they be Improved?

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'UK-EU Relations: How can they be Improved?'

29 November 2023

1pm, G24 and Online 

Eleanor Sharpston KC 
Advocate General, CJEU (2006-2020) and Goodhart Professor, University of Cambridge (2023/2024)
'The CJEU, its legal reasoning, and its interaction with its Advocates-General'

The CJEU, its legal reasoning, and its interaction with its Advocates-General

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'The CJEU, its legal reasoning, and its interaction with its Advocates-General

30 November 2023 

MACKENZIE STUART LECTURE 2023

President Síofra O'Leary 
European Court of Human Rights

'Why the European Convention on Human Rights still matters'

Why the European Convention on Human Rights still matters

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'Why the European Convention on Human Rights still matters