Is Globalisation Faltering?: The 2017 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture

The CELS Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture Podcast

Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

Business, Government, News

5.0 • 4 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosts an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the European Court of Justice. The texts of the Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures are published in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies. The 2017 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture was delivered by Mr Pascal Lamy (President Emeritus, Jacques Delors Institute) under the title 'Is Globalisation Faltering?' on 16 March 2017. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for European Legal Studies website at: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/mackenzie-stuart-lectures This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Well, good evening everybody.
0:05.0	Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen.
0:09.0	It's my distinct pleasure to welcome you to this evening's lecture,
0:15.0	the annual McKenzie Stewart Lecture of the Centre for European Legal Studies. I'm Kenneth Armstrong. I have the
0:23.0	double honour of holding the chair in European law here in the faculty and being director of the
0:29.0	Centre for European Legal Studies, which in 2017 is celebrating its 25th anniversary.
0:39.2	The McKenzie Stewart Lecture is named in honour of the first judge from the United Kingdom
0:46.3	to be appointed to the European Court of Justice, following the UK's accession to the then
0:53.6	European Economic Community in 1973.
0:58.3	Jack McKenzie Stewart later became the president of that court.
1:04.3	And tonight's lecture is the 20th to be delivered.
1:09.3	And I'm delighted that we will be able to welcome tonight Pascal Lame
1:12.2	to give this year's lecture like the other speakers in the series
1:19.6	Pascal Lame has made an enormous contribution to public life as you will all, he served as an EU trade commissioner and as
1:32.4	Director General of the World Trade Organization. Pascal Lame is also someone who thinks and reflects
1:42.3	deeply on what and who trade liberal liberalisation is for,
1:48.8	and very helpfully he puts his thoughts on paper. Now his topic for tonight's lecture is,
1:56.0	is globalization faltering, and it could hardly be more timely and so is his book the Geneva
2:05.6	consensus published by Cambridge University Press back in 2013 and in that book
2:13.3	Pascal defines globalization as a historic expansion of market capitalism and a fundamental
2:19.7	transformation of society largely driven by ongoing technological revolution.
2:29.8	But it's his most recent book, Where's the World Going?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.