RevieClare Hwall Cambridge Annual Review 2013 Clare Hall Annual Review 2013 2 Contents Introducing New President 2 President’s Letter 4 Bursar’s Notes 6 From the Senior Tutor 7 David From the Development Office 8 List of Donors 9 New Research Fellows 11 Student News 14 May Ball 2013 16 Ibbetson Family Activities 17 Sports News 18 Rowing News 19 New President Music 20 Art 22 Ashby Lecture 24 of Clare Hall Tanner Lectures 26 Profile: David Neal 27 We are delighted to welcome our new President, David Ibbetson, Regius Professor Profile: Hasok Chang 28 of Civil Law. David was brought up in Manchester, and is still nostalgic for the Peak Profile: Karen Ersche 29 District where he regularly went walking as a schoolboy. His first real experience of the south was when he came up to Cambridge as an undergraduate in 1973, since Profile: Katrina Mueller-Johnson 30 when his life has oscillated between Cambridge and Oxford. Profile: Sohini Kar-Narayan 31 David has a long-standing interest in graduate education in Cambridge. He was a In memoriam: Majorie Chibnall 32 PhD student in the late 1970s at Leckhampton, the graduate community of Corpus Christi College. Later, in 2004, he returned to become Warden of Leckhampton, From the Web Manager 33 where he was much liked and respected. He brings to his presidency of Clare Hall ASH Talks 33 a strong sense of the value of graduate communities, and a keen interest in their cohesion and development. News of Members 34 Cover: Fluid design by Sydney King painted on sacking After his PhD, David took up a post as a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1980, stretched on board. Photograph by Julia Hedgecoe. where he was very successful as both teacher and researcher, and served as Dean of College and Senior Tutor. Twenty years later, David returned to Cambridge, to Corpus, Edited by: Trudi Tate to take up the Regius Chair. At this stage his research moved into comparative legal Clare Hall, Herschel Road,Cambridge CB3 9AL history and Roman law. His research focuses on legal history; his publications include Tel: 01223 332360 [email protected] Produced by Cameron Design & Marketing Ltd Clare Hall Annual Review 2013 3 David Ibbetson Historical Introduction to the Law of Obligations (1999), he feels, in a looser structure which allows them to cook. He listens to a good deal of nineteenth- a highly original and well-respected work, and European talk informally and at length with other students and and twentieth-century music and on occasion has Legal Development: The Case of Tort (2012), as well as academics. This is precisely what Clare Hall offers, played in recorder consorts. many articles on law and legal history from the third and he hopes to foster this environment and help our millennium BC to the third millennium AD. students to make even more use of it. From his experiences at Leckhampton, David places When not working or thinking he ought to be working, A warm welcome to David from the a high value on informality in graduate student David likes to unwind by reading detective stories or whole Clare Hall community. communities. Where undergraduates benefit from a playing bridge. He enjoys food and drink, and describes well-structured environment, graduates work best, himself as an enthusiastic though not always competent Clare Hall Cambridge Clare Hall Annual Review 2013 4 President’s Letter few years the College needs to add a Fellows every year and of welcoming them substantial sum to its endowment just to be back as continuing members of the college sure that it can maintain the status quo, and community, reflects this world better than I look forward to working with the any other Cambridge college. It is a Development Office in making this a reality. principal feature of the College’s identity as a centre for research within the University It is all too easy to think of the younger of Cambridge, and as a place where graduate colleges as somehow not being at intellectual interchange can take place the heart of the University, based as many across the boundaries which are a feature are, away from the picture postcard of modern academic life. I look forward to depictions of the city, to the west on or playing my part in helping Clare Hall to around leafy Grange Road. But that is to thrive as a truly cross-disciplinary look to the past rather than the future. community of researchers, be they Increasingly, Cambridge is a university with graduate students, established academics a strong focus on graduate studies; some within the University of Cambridge, or 40% of students are now postgraduates, scholars from overseas. The President, David Ibbetson and even on the University’s own plan for a conservative expansion in graduate It is a great privilege to have been elected have seen since then has just confirmed numbers of 2% per year, in little more than to the Presidency of Clare Hall, and I very what they said. I am enormously grateful to a decade we can expect that graduate much hope to be able to repay the Martin Harris for handing over the College students will be in the majority. The confidence that has been placed in me in such good shape. university looks likely to develop further in over the next seven years. It is impossible the west of the city. We might well guess to take over such a position without some Not, of course, that there are no that by the time some of Clare Hall’s element of apprehension – new Heads of challenges. The main one, inevitably, is current Fellows retire there will have been House, I discover, are allocated a mentor financial. Like practically all relatively major development westwards of the city’s to help them navigate the shoals – but this modern colleges, Clare Hall’s endowment present boundary. In that world, Clare Hall is more than outweighed by the sense of is not substantial enough to enable it to will, in every sense, be right at the heart of excitement at moving to a new college and face the future with confidence. the future of Cambridge. helping to steer it forward. After my Government funding of British universities election, many friends around the is not something that we can take for No less important to the developing world University told me how lucky I was to be granted, and there is a particular risk of of scholarship is its internationalism. moving to a college which was such a erosion of the college fee paid by, or on Clare Hall, with its long-standing practice welcoming and friendly place, and all that I behalf of, graduate students. Over the next of electing substantial numbers of Visiting David Ibbetson Clare Hall Cambridge Clare Hall Annual Review 2013 5 Clare Hall Cambridge Clare Hall Annual Review 2013 6 Bursar’s Notes together with the staff in the Porters’ amount that the College has to charge Lodge for the help given to our students against Reserves in order to meet all its to make it such a splendid evening. obligations. Our goal to achieve an annual surplus after depreciation is one to which fInanceS I and my colleagues aspire. The full set of accounts can be accessed through the College website (follow the In addition to the unrestricted income trail of ‘The College –> Financial mentioned above, the College records Information’) where I also provide a brief with gratitude the receipt of restricted review and analysis of the figures. donations and benefactions during t he year totalling £1,494,736. This includes a The College achieved an operating surplus capital grant of £261,000 from the of £30k before depreciation. After Colleges Fund and £1,233,736 as specific transfers to and from Reserves, and taking donations. The amounts are not included Other Income Andrew Houston 0% The Kitchen Staff Donations 8% As Clare Hall approaches its fiftieth members. We also said goodbye to our Academic Fees and Charges anniversary in 2016, the Bursar reports on Development Director, Nami Morris, who 15% some of the people and resources that are has moved on to Pembroke College. We Academic Fees and Charges Rents and Charges Endowment Income helping to build Clare Hall’s future. wish her well in her new post. It took 23% Catering Endowment Income some months to replace Nami, and during Donations Other Income Staff that period we were most grateful to Rents and Charges Catering 50% Last year we said farewell to our Head Marie Lemaire, who kept the whole show 4% Gardener, Bob Hulyer, who retired after on the road with minimal resources. A 12 years. Bob had been the Head warm welcome to our new Development Gardener to the Rothschild family for Director, Ranj Majumdar, who comes to many years at what is now our West us from St Antony’s College, Oxford, and Court site so was very familiar with the to new Development Executives, Alex into account depreciation of £376k, the in the Income Statement but are shown layout of the garden and grounds. Our Courage and Hugo Lomax. overall net deficit was £358k. Under separately in the Statement of new Head Gardener, David Smith, will be current accounting standards, income Recognised Gains and Losses. known to many of our readers having We have just had another very successful includes an amount of unrestricted The investment of the college’s been Bob’s deputy for many years. In the May Ball. Thanks must go to all staff, in donations of £197K whereas restricted endowment in the Cambridge University kitchen, Daryl Pool retired after forty particular to our Domestic Bursar, donations are excluded.