The Nature of Values in Supranational Legal Orders: Nabil H. Khabirpour
Cambridge Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) Podcast
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
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🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On 28 March 2026 CELS held a seminar event on 'The Rule of Law as a (dis)unifying Value in the European Legal Order?'.
Among the rule of law's many virtues is its capacity to provide a framework for deliberating competing ideas of justice, fairness and equality. Yet a value once widely shared is now increasingly contested in both status and meaning. The Centre held this event to explore these and related questions.
The seminar was structured around four core sub-themes. Each of these will begin with a 20-minute presentation followed by a facilitated discussion:
- I:The Nature of Values in Supranational Legal Orders - Nabil H. Khabirpour (Video (YouTube) / Audio)
- II: The Judiciary and the Rule of Law in Europe - Lord Justice Baker (Video (YouTube) / Audio)
- III: The Rule of Law, the Market, and European Identity - Professor Catherine Barnard (Video (YouTube) / Audio)
- IV: Enforcing the Rule of Law as a Value under EU Law - Professor Albertina Albors-Llorens (Video (YouTube) / Audio)
For more information see:
https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/activities-archive
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, good morning, everyone, and welcome to this seminar. |
| 0:06.8 | The rule of law as a disunifying value in the European legal order. |
| 0:13.3 | It is particularly good of you to be here on a Saturday morning. |
| 0:20.3 | And I will start with just a few introductory words before setting out the plan for the day. |
| 0:29.6 | So in terms of my own person, my name is Nabil. I serve as a fellow-in-law at Lucy Cavendish and as an affiliated lecturer at the faculty. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm also a fellow of the Centre for European Legal Studies, which is kindly hosting this seminar. |
| 0:50.3 | As you may know, the Centre for European Legal Studies is a center here at the faculty |
| 0:56.6 | that exists to promote research and inquiry into the fields related to European law. And it's been a |
| 1:08.0 | particularly busy and engaged year for the center. |
| 1:13.6 | We're very happy actually to know that many of you here have also been at other spaces |
| 1:19.6 | that the center has convened. |
| 1:23.6 | So why a seminar on the rule of law and in particular why a seminar on the potentially disunifying |
| 1:33.1 | nature of this value? The thinking really began with a deceptively simple insight, which is that |
| 1:44.0 | members of society do not always agree, |
| 1:49.7 | hard though it might be to believe that, given what is currently happening in the world. |
| 1:56.0 | And when they do not agree, when we do not agree, there are really only two avenues out of that conundrum. |
| 2:05.6 | One is discourse and the other is violence. |
| 2:11.7 | But simply saying we believe in discourse and in the power of conversation and in the power of mediating |
| 2:20.9 | our differences is is not sufficient. We need a discourse that in its core is cooperative |
| 2:31.9 | because as Yirgen Habamasa said, |
| 2:35.0 | it makes a difference whether we speak with one another |
| 2:39.0 | or merely about one another. |
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