Event Archive

Many doctoral projects in arts and humanities engage, implicitly or explicitly, in a comparison of patterns and practices, principles and policies of different countries and cultures. For those who came to Scotland from abroad to work on a PhD, contrasting the way of life in their home country with Scotland...

The School of Law, University of Aberdeen, is pleased to host our 1st Postgraduate conference titled From Local Realities to Global Impacts: The Role of Law in a Changing World. This conference provides a platform for LLM students and early-career researchers to present their work, engage in scholarly discussions, and contribute to...

Upcoming Spring Seminars

Trademark laws are government regulations of language, designs, and other types of expression used to communicate about the source of goods or services. Trademarks are also used by their owners and others to provide information about a product’s qualities, express ideas and opinions, and decorate products and their packaging. Unfortunately,...

The full-day workshop is designed to introduce students to the process of approaching and writing a research proposal for a postdoctoral application. In the first part of the event, we will provide an overview of postdoctoral fellowship opportunities in the UK, the EU, and internationally. We will then host a roundtable...

We invite you to participate in a roundtable discussion centred on the recently published book by Professor Ettore Maria Lombardi. The conversation will cover the effects of AI on copyrighted works, the importance of quality content for AI training and text and data mining (TDM), and the role of copyleft in...

We will have coffees/sandwiched in the room for 12.30 so please do come early. We are pleased to welcome back to Aberdeen, our LLM alumna, Anca Mihalache, who is now the Head of Smart Energy Policy at DESNZ. The presentation will provide an overview of the energy policy-making process in Great Britain,...

The UN Convention against Cybercrime adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 2024 is the result of an enduring east-west rivalry, from the early debate from November 2019 on whether a new UN convention was needed, to the entire process up to August 2024. The seminar will first trace the controversies surrounding the...

You are cordially invited to the webinar of the research project ‘Digital Assets in Scots Private Law: Innovating for the Future’ funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) and led by the University of Aberdeen with collaborators from the University of Edinburgh, University of Dundee, and CMS. Digital assets (eg Bitcoin),...

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....