Law School Guest Lectures

Dr Michael Waibel is a Senior Lecturer at Jesus College (Cambridge), and also Harvard Link Coordinator and Deputy Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. His main research interests are public international law and international economic law, with a particular focus on finance and the settlement of international disputes. He teaches international law, WTO law and European Union law. In 2008, the American Society for International Law awarded him the Francis Deak prize for his AJIL article, 'Opening Pandora's Box: Sovereign Bonds in International Arbitration'. The European Society of International Law awarded him their 2012 book prize for his monograph Sovereign Defaults before International Courts and Tribunals (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He was previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre and a DOC scholar of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Fiona urged us to reflect on our legal research and posed some challenging questions, foremost amongst which was that law is not always the answer. In her words ‘a narrow field of enquiry that focuses only on doctrinal law without taking into account the context in which it operates and perspectives from cognate disciplines that will help us to understand the content, (in)adequacies and operation of law (e.g. political science, international relations, sociology, philosophy/political theory, and psychology) can be limited and limiting.’ She very much made the case for more inter-disciplinarily – although, this itself raises many challenges. If you are interested in reading more about Fiona’s presentation, please visit her blog post: http://fionadelondras.com/2015/10/28/abandoning-the-vanity-of-lawyers-some-advice-for-new-law-phds/

Anglia Law School Guest Lecture - Dr Youseph Farah Lecture on International Arbitration: Reflections on CJEU Decision in Gazprom and revised Brussels I Youseph Farah joined the University of Essex, School of Law, in 2005. He currently lectures on Contract Law, International Trade Law, and Commercial Law. He teaches International Commercial Arbitration, and international commercial litigation. Youseph also contributes to Business and Human rights, and is a member of the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Essex. Youseph was a visiting Professor twice to Michigan State University, and a visiting Professor to Lyon III.

Anglia Law School Guest Lecture - Dr Aldo Zammit Borda Legal Grounds for Intervention in Syria - Dr Aldo Zammit Borda.

Katalaina Sapolu, the Director of the Rule of Law Division at the Commonwealth Secretariat, delivered a very interesting lecture recently on International Legal Instruments and Cybercrime: A Commonwealth perspective. She is involved with the Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative (CCI), which unites 35 international organisations, including Interpol, OAS, Council of Europe (CoE), Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) and ITU, contributing to multidisciplinary programmes in Commonwealth countries.

The panellists are: Prof Christopher Grey (Chair of Organisational Studies at School of Management, Royal Holloway University of London), Dr Adrian Pabst (Senior Lecturer in Politics, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent) and Mr Roger Casale (Director of New Europeans and, from 1997-2005, Member of Parliament for Wimbledon). It is chaired by Ms Helga Hejny (Lecturer, ALS, ARU).