Event Archive

2020

February

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  The International Regulatory Framework for Genome Editing: Issues and Perspectives

  04 February 2020, 13:00 - 14:00

  Genome editing is often presented as a radical breakthrough in research and innovation that will be far reaching in its application and revolutionary in its consequences. The promotion of expectations triggers concerns in the general opinion and in the research community along the binary lines of too little regulation vs....

January

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  The Practice of Law

  29 January 2020, 12:30 - 13:45

  University of Aberdeen alumni and University of South Carolina law graduate Sheri L McAllister JD LLM will be visiting the law school on Wednesday 29th January 2020 and will be giving a presentation from 12.30-1.45 in the Old Senate Room on her work as an advocate in the USA.  Sheri...

2019

December

• One Hundred Years of Turpitude: A Century of War Crimes Trials

  09 December 2019, 14:00 - 16:00

  In this retrospective on a century of war crimes trials, Gerry Simpson will discuss the Nuremberg and Tokyo War trials, their antecedents at Versailles and in the crime of piracy, and developments since then in the field of international criminal law (Eichmann, Pinochet, Milosevic et al).

November

• 'Safe Deposits? The Perils and Pitfalls of Storing Gametes and Embryos'

  20 November 2019, 13:00 - 23:55

  James Lawford-Davies from Hill Dickson International Law firm will present the HFEA’s focus and concern about storage periods. James will cover the statutory requirements regarding storage and the extension of storage periods and explain the HFEA’s guidance in relation to resolving problems relating to stored material.   James has always worked in...

• Corroboration, Jury Reform and Justice in Rape Cases - tying the threads together for Scotland

  19 November 2019, 15:00 - 16:00

  Talk by PhD researcher David Lorimer from the Centre of Scots Law

October

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  Oil and Minerals for Good: Conference

  30 October 2019, 12:30 - 17:00

  Curing the Resource Curse Moving the frontiers of Local Content, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Indigenous Peoples Rights and Impact & Benefits Sharing Agreement

• Neuroscientific Evidence in Criminal Cases - Workshop

  17 October 2019, 11:00 - 16:00

  Workshop Theme In recent years neuroscience has added to our understanding of human behaviour and these developments are likely to impact increasingly upon the criminal justice system. This workshop will provide cross-jurisdictional perspectives on how this type of evidence is treated in the courtroom. Programme  11.00             Registration and Tea/Coffee 11.30             Isla Callander, Elizabeth Shaw...

• The Evolution of Land Law: some French and Scottish Perspectives

  11 October 2019, 16:00 - 17:30

  This event is inspired by a book entitled La propriété foncière du Code civil. Un sol surface appelé à devenir volume (translated as Land ownership of the French Civil Code: when land surface area in 2D becomes a 3D object). The book – written by one of the speakers at...

• Strategic Litigation and Tobacco Control

  02 October 2019, 13:00 - 14:30

  This paper considers how Philip Morris has used international investment arbitration and World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement procedures as a vehicle to introduce changes to its corporate policy, and what implications this strategy might have for International Economic Law and governments’ regulation of health. Fiona Smith is Professor of International...

September

• A Review of the Review of the Regulation of Legal Services

  13 September 2019, 12:45 - 13:45

  The Centre for Scots Law will host an event entitled: 'A Review of the Review of the Regulation of Legal Services' by Esther Roberton (Senior Governor of the University Court of the University of Aberdeen). It will be chaired by Malcolm Combe, senior lecturer in law at the University of...