Timetable 2014-15
Second Half Session
January - April 2015
- Friday 30 January 2015, 4-6pm, New King’s NK11: Managing Risks Related to Hydraulic Fracturing - Professor Terence Centner, University of Georgia, Atlanta. (Also 2014-2015 Fulbright Scholar Visiting Professor at the University of Aberdeen).
- Friday 6 February 2015, 4-6pm, New King’s NK11: Regulating the Award of Public Contracts - The New European Approach - Professor Peter Kunzlik, University of East Anglia.
- Friday 13 February 2015, 4-6pm New King’s NK11: Beneficial Ownership and Control of Energy Transmission Systems – Dr Monica Waloszyk, University of Aberdeen.
- Friday 20 February 2015, 4-6pm, New King’s NK11: Scots Legal Nationalism and Scottish Nationalism - Scott Styles, University of Aberdeen.
- Friday 27 February 2015, 4-5.30pm, Old Senate Room, The International Legal Framework Governing the Use of Force against Islamic State, Dr Christian Henderson, University of Liverpool.
- Friday 6 March 2015, 4-5.30pm, New King’s NK11: Does Form Matter? Feminisim and the 'Legislative Modernisation' of Scots Criminal Law and Procedure - Ilona Cairns, University of Aberdeen.
- Friday 13 March 2015, 4-5.30pm, New King’s NK11: The Legality of Arming Non-state Actors: International Law at Cross Roads – Dr Zeray Yihdego, University of Aberdeen.
- Guest Lecture - Thursday 19 March 2015, 5-7pm, Old Senate Room: Does IP litigation have to cost so much? Problems and solutions - Hon Michael Fysh.
- Thursday 26 March 2015, 12.30-14.00, Taylor C49: An Illiberal Democracy in the Making: Biases and Preferences in the New Hungarian Constitution - Andras L. Pap - Public Law and Legal Theory Research Group Seminar
- Friday 27 March 2015, 4-5.30pm, New King’s NK11: Credit Rating Agencies and their conflicts of interest: causes, consequences and cure – Dr Tom Burns, University of Aberdeen.
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Wednesday 1 April, 4-5.30pm, NK11: “Several Issues Relating to DNA-Information in the Criminal Justice System”, - Dr. Jungnyum Lee, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany (Alexander von Humboldt Visiting Scholar at the University of Aberdeen)
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Guest Lecture - Thursday 2 April, 6-8pm, New King's NK10: The UN Collective Security System and the Enforcement of International Law - Professor Jean d’Aspremont, University of Manchester.
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Friday 3 April, 9-10.30, CB 202 (College Bounds): Jean d’Aspremont, Professor of Public International Law at the University of Manchester, will give a seminar on “Methodological Challenges in Writing a PhD in Public International Law"
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Friday 1 May, 12pm, MR252 (MacRobert): Making an impact - The UN Watercourses Convention and its entry into force, - Dr Alistair Rieu-Clarke, Reader in International Water Law, Centre for Water Law, Policy & Science, University of Dundee.
First Half Session
September – November 2014
- Friday 19 September, 4-6pm, New King’s NK11: The Arms Trade Treaty: What Does it Seek to Do, and How Effective is it Likely to Be? – Professor Laurence Lustgarten from the University of Oxford.
- Friday 26 September, 4-6pm, New King’s NK11: Counsel and the Crown: History, Law and Politics in the Thought of David Chalmers of Ormond (ca.1530-1592) – Dr Andrew Simpson from the University of Aberdeen.
- Friday 3 October, 4-6pm, New King’s NK11: Get off that land – non-owner regulation of access to land – Malcolm Combe from the University of Aberdeen.
- Friday 10 October, 4-6pm, New King's NK11: Does the UK need a moral right of disclosure in its copyright law? - Dr Patrick Masiyakurima from the University of Aberdeen.
- Friday 17 October, 4-6pm, New King's NK11: Exploring the Constitutional Significance of Britain’s Heavy Dependency upon Conventions - Dr Robert Taylor from the University of Aberdeeen.
- Friday 24 October, 4-6pm, New King’s NK11: Transnationalising Constitutional Review - The Austrian Example – Professor Konrad Lachmayer
- Guest Lecture - Thursday 30 October, 5-7pm, MacRobert Lecture Theatre MR051: The role of demand side managers (aggregators) in the balancing of networks? - Professor David Haverbeke, Partner, Public and Regulatory, Fieldfisher.
- Friday 7 November, 4-6pm, New King’s NK11: Ways of Seeing: The Court of Justice and Judicial Lawmaking – Dr Thomas Horsley from the University of Liverpool.
- Friday 14 November, 4-6pm, New King’s NK11: Scotland after the Referendum - Selected Aspects of Constitutional and International Law – Dr Dirk Hanschel from the University of Aberdeen.
- Guest Lecture - Thursday 20 November, 6-8pm, Macrobert Lecture Theatre MR051: The Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights on the Constitutional System of Member States - Professor Jochen Frowein.
- CANCELLED - Friday 28 November, 4-6pm, New King’s NK11: Beneficial Ownership and Control of Energy Transmission Systems – Dr Monica Waloszyk from the University of Aberdeen.