Welcome to CULSCAST 🎙️ the new Podcast from the Cambridge University Law Society, one of the world’s oldest and largest student-run societies, founded in 1901.

Our Publicity team 📢 is very pleased to be debuting this new initiative, our ‘CULSCAST Conversations’ series, which aims to bring the Cambridge law community closer together through conversation. In addition to posting new content through our ‘CULSCAST Conversations’ and ‘Speakers Select’ series, we have made a collection of 2012-2023 CULS lectures and debates from our archives easily accessible. This collection covers a myriad of highly relevant discussion by leading academics and practitioners. For example: Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Rwanda policy; Information Law in the Digital Revolution; Life at the Bar; and Litigating International Law.

Our Publicity team also runs CULS's socials. Give us a follow to get regular updates on the wonderful CULS events happening throughout term!

• Instagram: ⁠⁠@Cambridgelawsociety⁠⁠
• Facebook: ⁠⁠Cambridge University Law Society⁠

To find out more about CULS or become a CULS member, visit our ⁠⁠

Welcome to CULSCAST 🎙️ the new Podcast from the Cambridge University Law Society, one of the world’s oldest and largest student-run societies, founded in 1901.

Our Publicity team 📢 is very pleased to be debuting this new initiative, our ‘CULSCAST Conversations’ series, which aims to bring the Cambridge law community closer together through conversation. In addition to posting new content through our ‘CULSCAST Conversations’ and ‘Speakers Select’ series, we have made a collection of 2012-2023 CULS lectures and debates from our archives easily accessible. This collection covers a myriad of highly relevant discussion by leading academics and practitioners. For example: Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Rwanda policy; Information Law in the Digital Revolution; Life at the Bar; and Litigating International Law.

Our Publicity team also runs CULS's socials. Give us a follow to get regular updates on the wonderful CULS events happening throughout term!

• Instagram: ⁠⁠@Cambridgelawsociety⁠⁠
• Facebook: ⁠⁠Cambridge University Law Society⁠

To find out more about CULS or become a CULS member, visit our ⁠⁠

Dr Tom Hickman KC, who represented Gina Miller in both Miller cases and the Lord Advocate in the recent Scottish Independence Referendum reference, was joined by Dr Stefan Theil (professor in Public Law) to delve deeply into the current constitutional status of Parliamentary Sovereignty.

- Dr Tom Hickman KC: Overruling the Supreme Court’s Rwanda Judgment – what role now for Parliament?

- Dr Stefan Theil: Preventing judicial review of the Rwanda policy: practical and legal difficulties

For more information see the CULS website at: https://culs.org.uk

Lord Pannick QC spoke about "Miller (No 2), the Case of the Decade?" on Tuesday 3 March 2020 at the Faculty of Law, as a guest on the regular Cambridge University Law Society (CULS) speaker programme.

This event was designed to enrich the constitutional law tripos module but was open to all year groups interested in gaining a deeper insight into what is arguably the most consequential and significant legal case of the last decade.

Lord Pannick QC, who appeared on behalf of the applicants in Miller No. 2 shared his insight into preparations to challenge the Government on their decision to prorogue Parliament. It promises was an informative and interesting evening.

For more information see the CULS website at: https://culs.org.uk

Richard Martin spoke about "Mental Health and the Law" on Monday 2 March 2020 at the Faculty of Law, as a guest on the regular Cambridge University Law Society (CULS) speaker programme.

As many Law students apply and compete for vacation schemes and training contracts, concerns surrounding work-life balance and mental wellbeing in the City are ever pertinent.

Richard Martin studied law at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge before specialising in employment law. He was a partner at Gouldens/Jones Day and then at Speechly Bircham where he sat on the management committee. In 2011, Richard suffered a severe mental illness that left him hospitalised and in lengthy recovery. He is now a leading campaigner and advocate around mental health, within the legal profession and more broadly, in the UK and internationally. He provides extensive training, co-chairs the Lord Mayor’s This is Me campaign and runs the Mindful Business Charter. In 2018 he published a memoir of his illness and recovery - This too will pass - Anxiety in a Professional World.

His talk aims at providing practical strategies, based on his own experience in the legal world, so that students can know the right questions to ask of potential employers and ourselves to stay healthy.

For more information see the CULS website at: https://culs.org.uk

On 21 January 2020, CULS hosted a debate on the proposition "In defence of Foakes v Beer", which featured Dr Janet O'Sullivan and Mr William Day, chaired by Dr Jonathan Morgan.

This is the central question posed by the seminal contract case of Foakes v Beer, and a question which generations of law tripos students have had to grapple with.

This event was designed to enrich the contract law tripos module and was particularly aimed at allowing Part IB students to supplement their lecture notes and further reading.

For more information see the CULS website at: https://culs.org.uk

CULS is excited to present a guest lecture by Professor Helle Porsdam on American history and culture through the lens of constitutional law, taking as her point of departure the current political situation in the USA.

Helle is is Professor of Law and Humanities at the Center for Studies in Legal Culture in the Copenhagen Faculty of Law, where she teaches American Culture and holds a UNESCO Chair in Cultural Rights. She did her PhD in American Studies at Yale University, and has been a Liberal Arts Fellow twice at the Harvard Law School as well as a fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and the University of Munich.

This event was kindly Sponsored by Clifford Chance.

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https://www.facebook.com/camlawsoc/

This debate on 1 February 2019 focused on an age-old question between some of the biggest voices in constitutional law. Experience a debate between eminent professors, and hear them justify their preferred theories. This debate ties in with constitutional law teaching.

Panellists:

- Professor Paul Craig (St. John's College, Oxford),

- Professor Christopher Forsyth (Robinson College, Cambridge)

Moderator

- Professor Trevor Allan (Pembroke College, Cambridge)

This event was kindly sponsored by Clifford Chance.

For more information see the CULS website at: https://culs.org.uk