'Women on Company Boards: the Value of Equality Meets the Principle of Subsidiarity' - Barbara Havelková: CELS Seminar

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🗓️ 22 November 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Dr Barbara Havelková of the University of Oxford gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "Women on Company Boards: the Value of Equality Meets the Principle of Subsidiarity" on 22 November 2017 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CELS (the Centre for European Legal Studies). Barbara Havelková is the Shaw Foundation Fellow in Law at Lincoln College and Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. She teaches EU Law, public law, human rights, comparative equality law and feminist jurisprudence. Her research concentrates on legal regulation of gender during State Socialism and in post-communist transition in Central Europe and on comparative and European anti-discrimination law. Barbara completed her first degree in law at the Charles University in Prague, and also holds an LL.M. from Europa-Institut of Saarland University and a DPhil from Oxford. She was previously a lecturer and fellow at the University of Cambridge and visited several law schools as a guest researcher, including Harvard University and University of Michigan as a Fulbright scholar and the NYU as an Emile Noël Fellow. Barbara acts as an advisor to the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic on issues of gender and law. For more information see the CELS website at http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/

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0:00.0	So good afternoon, everybody, thanks so much for coming along to today's.
0:08.9	The last lunchtime seminar for the Centre for European Legal Studies this term.
0:13.6	Sorry about last week's cancellation, Dave Dalling Green has been unwell.
0:17.9	He's going to come back at some point next term to talk about blogging Brexit.
0:22.6	We'll try and put together a panel of bloggers on Brexit.
0:27.6	Today, however, delighted that we were able to welcome Barbara Havoccova from the University of Oxford, Lincoln College.
0:36.6	No stranger to Cambridge, having spent some time at the manual.
0:40.3	Today Barbara is going to talk about some new work that she's been developing on women-on-company boards.
0:49.3	Her book on Equality and Law came out this summer published by Bloomsbury publishing.
0:57.0	Of course, today is Black Wednesday on Bloomsbury, so there's 25% of, so it's even more,
1:03.0	it's even better value than it was before.
1:06.0	But it's a great pleasure to welcome you back to Cambridge today, really good to hear your talk.
1:10.0	Thank you. Thank you.
1:11.6	Thank you very much.
1:13.6	So I titled the talk, Women on Company Boards,
1:18.6	The Value of Equality Means the Principle of Subsidiarity.
1:21.6	And what I want to explore is exactly this interaction.
1:26.6	But when we think about subsidiarity,
1:28.3	we often think about the internal market,
1:30.1	cross-border situations.
1:31.7	And when legislating on gender equality,
1:34.0	this is exactly not such an area.
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