Centre Activities

3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners.

Subject to speaker consent, the lecture component for each seminar will be made available on the University of Cambridge Streaming Media Service (SMS) and the Apple iTunes platforms, and if recorded on video, on the YouTube playlist. The introductions and Q&A sections will not be included to encourage frank and open discussion. You can subscribe to the '3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series' on iTunes for automatic download to your iTunes library, or an RSS feed is available from the SMS for use on other devices.

Seminar Programme for 2020

Further information on upcoming seminars can be found in the Events Calendar.

Michaelmas Term 2020
Date	Speaker(s)	Title	Registration	Recording / resources
13 Oct 2020	Professor Mark Roe Harvard Law School	'The Power of the Narrative in Corporate Lawmaking'
3 Nov 2020	Professor Sir Roy Goode University of Oxford	Joint 3CL/CPLC Webinar: 'Pits, Ploughs and Plant – The Contribution of the Pretoria Protocol to the Finance of Equipment in Developing Countries'		The Cape Town Convention and Pretoria Protocol, Notes accompanying a lecture by Professor Sir Roy Goode QC Pretoria Protocol Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment
17 Nov 2020	Professor Sir William Blair Queen Mary, University of London	'Commercial Contracts and the Pandemic – Conciliate or Litigate?'		"Breathing space" - Concept Note 2 on the effect of the 2020 pandemic on commercial contracts, September 2020 Update
1 Dec 2020	Spencer Summerfield Travers Smith	'Getting Out Of a Takeover Offer'

Lent Term
Date	Speaker	Title	Paper/Slides	Recording
28 Jan 2020 12:45pm	Dr Suren Gomtsian University of Leeds	'Shareholder Engagement by Large Institutional Investors'	'Shareholder Engagement by Large Institutional Investors' (SSRN)
3 Feb 2020 7pm	Panel Discussion	Blockchain & Law Panel		Not recorded
4 Feb 2020 12:45pm	Jon Lukomnik Sinclair Capital & IRRC Institute	'Blackrock's Environmental Activism: The Third Stage of Corporate Governance'	'The Third, System Stage of Corporate Governance: Why Institutional Investors Need to Move Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory' (SSRN)
25 Feb 2020 12:45pm	Professor Ryan Abbott University of Surrey	'The Principle of AI Legal Neutrality'
25 Feb 2020 5:30pm	Professor Eilis Ferran European Financial Market Infrastructure: Ownership, Governance and Regulation Professor Oliver Linton Some Empirical Methods for High Frequency Financial Data	J M Keynes Fellowship Fund Lecture: 'European Financial Market Infrastructure: Ownership, Governance and Regulation'		Not recorded
27 Feb 2020 4:00pm	Chris Hale Chair Emeritus of Travers Smith	'Private Equity: Its place in corporate finance and how it works'
3 Mar 2020 12:45pm	Claudia Chapman Financial Reporting Council	'Shareholder Engagement by Large Institutional Investors'		Not recorded
13 Mar 2020 12:45pm	Roundtable	Roundtable on Funding Innovation: Current Issues in Corporate Finance		Cancelled

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