Centre Activities
3CL runs the 3CL Sullivan & Cromwell 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 in audio via the 3CL Sullivan & Cromwell podcast or in video via YouTube. Any Q&A or discussion sections are typically not included to encourage frank and open discussion.
You can subscribe for an audio feed on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or most podcast services for automatic download, or an RSS feed is available for use on other platforms.
Seminar Programme for 2026
All seminars take place in B16 in person from 1pm to 2pm unless otherwise specified. A sandwich lunch is available for all participants from 12:30pm just outside of B16.
| Michaelmas Term 2026 | ||||
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title | Recording / resources | |
13 October 2026 1-2pm | Professor Assaf Hamdani, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law | 'Are Alternative Investments Essential for Financial Development?' |
Not recorded | |
27 October 2026 1-2pm | Professor Edward Janger, the David M. Barse Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, USA | 'Equity in Distress: Justice and Fairness in Business Rescue' | ||
10 November 2026 1-2pm | Associate Professor Louise Damkjær Christensen, Department of Law, University of Southern Denmark | 'Vulnerable Consumers in the Age of Digital Payments' | ||
24 November 2026 1-2pm | Professor Atinuke Adediran (Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law, USA) | 'Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress' | ||
| Lent Term 2026 | ||||
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title | Recording / resources | |
10 February 2026 1-2pm | Dr Clara Martins Pereira (Associate Professor of Financial Law, University of Durham) | 'Artificial Intelligence and the future of financial stability: regulatory and supervisory gaps in the UK framework' | ||
16 February 2026 5:30pm | Professor Lucio Sarno (Judge Business School) / Professor Felix Steffek (University of Cambridge) | 'Large Moves in the Foreign Exchange Market' / A Regulatory Theory of Corporate Insolvency' | Not recorded | |
24 February 2026 1-2pm | Professor Dirk Andreas Zetzsche (Professor of Financial Law, University of Luxembourg) | 'Towards an EU Impact Investing Framework - A Critical Review of the EU Sustainable Finance Regulations' | ||
3 March 2026 1-2pm | Dr Luca Sicignano (Lecturer in Business Law at the University of Naples L’Orientale) | 'The Imposed Bargain in Contemporary Restructuring Law' | ||
17 March 2026 1-2pm | Professor William J. Magnuson (Professor of Law, Texas A&M University School of Law) | 'The Deep Learning of Hedge Funds' | ||
Further information on upcoming seminars can be found on the homepage.
