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2024
July
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Giant Pylons: Why Here, Why Now in NE Scotland: a Workshop to Explore Law, Policy and the Bigger Picture
-The aim of this workshop is to assess the position post election and identify questions on law and policy reform relating to infrastructure linked to renewable energy. This will be contextualised by consideration of just why ‘ giant pylons’ are such a hot button issue in the NE of Scotland....
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Giant Pylons: Why Here, Why Now in NE Scotland: a Workshop to Explore Law, Policy and the Bigger Picture
-The aim of this workshop to assess the position post election and identify questions on law and policy reform relating to infrastructure linked to renewable energy. This will be contextualised by consideration of just why ‘ giant pylons’ are such a hot button issue in the NE of Scotland. This...
June
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CCL Seminar: Generative AI: Promises and (Business) Challenges
-Tailored for the audience who are interested in Gen AI in general, this presentation aims to delve into the structural impact of Gen AI on the infrastructure of the digital era and scrutinize Gen AI players’ business strategy and profitability. On the former issue, foundation models are assumed as INTELLIGENCE...
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CCL Seminar: Reforming the Foundations of UK Company Law to Promote Sustainability
-Company law serves as a potential impediment to the realization of sustainability, which aims to establish a safe and just global space for humanity. The prevailing perspective in company law contends that, while pursuing value maximisation, companies produce externalities that impact society. However, these effects are often perceived as confined...
May
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Book launch event in memory of the late Professor Jonathan Fitchen
-On 31 May 2024, the Law School will be holding a book launch event in memory of the late Professor Jonathan Fitchen - a former Director of the Aberdeen Centre for Private International Law and a distinguished private international law scholar, who passed away after a brief illness on the 22nd...
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Project Workshop: 'Laying the Foundations for a Restatement of Scots Private International Law'
-On 31 May 2024, the Centre for Private International Law will be holding the second workshop in a series of workshops organised under the auspices of an RSE-funded research project titled 'Laying the Foundations for a Restatement of Scots Private International Law'. The aim of this collaborative project is to...
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Second Postgraduate Law Conference of the Centre for Private International Law
-Building on the success of its 1st Postgraduate Law Conference, the Centre for Private International Law (CPIL) of the University of Aberdeen is pleased to host the 2nd Postgraduate Law Conference, to be held on 6th May 2024 as a virtual event. The Conference will bring together early career scholars...
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CCL Seminar: Copyright and Artificial Intelligence - Is there Anything New to Say?
-This seminar seeks to shift to some extent the emphasis of the current discussion on copyright and AI. It stresses the primary, purely economic concerns behind the drive for AI-product protection which are little considered. Furthermore, it underlines the difference between true human creativity and AI-imitation which cannot be a...
March
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Recent Development of Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) and Regulatory Guidelines in Japan
-A broad ranging discussion on recent innovations in collision-based liability to autonomous vessel shipowners of remote controlled vessels and over semi-autonomous vessels. First of all, the presentation will discuss the recent technological developments by NYK Line, Japan’s biggest shipping company. Second, this presentation considers the detailed guidelines for autonomous vessels...
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AI and International Contracts: What law applies if your "smart fridge" takes over...?
-Join our webinar with Prof Tim Dornis, Leibniz Universität Hannover. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere. It not only drives your car, operates your Google searches, organizes your Netflix movies and your Spotify music selection. Sooner or later, it will also take over your household: Some of us own an autonomous cleaning device...
