John Spencer: Europe and Criminal Justice (CELS 25th Anniversary)
Cambridge Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) Podcast
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
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🗓️ 30 September 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On 15th September 2017, the Centre for European Legal Studies held a conference to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the formation of the Centre. The conference, entitled "The Past, Present and Future of European Legal Studies" brought EU legal academics together, many of them former members or Directors, to discuss the future direction of EU legal research.
Programme:
- Albertina Albors-Llorens: Welcome and Introduction
- Bill Cornish: Gearing up for a CELS
- Alan Dashwood: CELS at the end of the European Communities's Golden Age
- John Bell: The Changing Character of Comparative Law
- John Spencer: Europe and Criminal Justice
- Catherine Barnard: Cloudy with a Chance of Albondigas (not recorded)
- Kenneth Armstrong: Brexit and the Autonomy of EU Law: Causes and Consequences
- Richard Fentiman: Concluding Remarks
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, it's an honor to be asked to speak and a pleasure to meet so many old friends. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm a bit of a fraud to be here as far as cells is concerned because I've only played a small role in it despite some of the kind things that were said this morning, |
| 0:24.2 | I've really been a caretaker sort of two and a half times. I was a caretaker after Alan and before John, |
| 0:36.0 | and I was a caretaker on and off for Catherine. |
| 0:40.9 | I can't remember the exact years, 2008-9, I think, and 12, 13, something like that. |
| 0:50.3 | And really, all I did was keep it going on what was essentially the Alan Dashwood model, |
| 0:57.9 | which was the way it's basically gone since with the seminars and the yearbooks and the periodic conferences and so forth. |
| 1:07.6 | Of course, it had its incidents. |
| 1:11.7 | We had the annual visit to the institutions, and when I think back with the one that I was involved |
| 1:19.1 | in, it makes me think of Adrian Moll's school trip to the British Museum, which some of |
| 1:26.0 | you may remember. |
| 1:35.7 | Things that went wrong weren't quite as exciting as when Catherine had to organise one from Southampton, but I'll get her to tell you about that over tea or maybe dinner. |
| 1:41.5 | I know one of the things, we arranged the accommodation for them, and one of the things that |
| 1:46.0 | we asked all the people who were going to do was to fill in a form which they said who they'd like to share a room with. |
| 1:57.0 | Diane Abraham, I think it was, said to me, we've got a problem here. Mr. X has filled in a form to say he'd like to share a room with Miss Y. |
| 2:06.1 | Miss Y doesn't know anything about it. |
| 2:11.3 | Then we had, we booked the Eurostar travel both ways, but we found coming back, I think it was, we booked on the wrong day. |
| 2:20.7 | But Christoph Iliant was the deputy director, and he was on the trip, and he's a Breton. |
| 2:27.4 | Fortunately, the person in the Eurostar office in Paris or Brussels, I thought, in which now must have been Brussels, was also a Breton, |
| 2:36.8 | and Bretons-Cquiton. Well, so it was able to sort it out. |
| 2:43.8 | My slant for cells, and so far as I put any on it, was the EU and criminal law, and that was really because of my |
| 2:53.2 | total ignorance about any other part of EU law, to be honest. Running cells, it made me think |
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