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CCL's Consultation Response cited in the Law Commission's Electronic Trade Documents Report
The Law Commission of England and Wales has published, on 16 March 2022, a Report and Draft Bill on Electronic Trade Documents, following a public consultation as part of its significant law reform project seeking to enable the legal recognition of certain trade documents in electronic form. The current law,...
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Prominent Law Lecturer delivered a seminar on Islamic law & international parental child abduction
On Friday 11 March 2022, the Aberdeen Centre for Private International Law, under the auspices of the Law School Research Seminar series, welcomed Professor Anver Emon from the University of Toronto, Canada, who delivered a fascinating research seminar on Islamic law and international parental child abduction (titled: ‘Hard Legal Problems...
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The Law School successfully held a Decolonising the Curriculum Workshop for staff & students
The School of Law’s EDI Committee organised a Decolonising/Diversifying the Curriculum Workshop which took place on the 4th of March 2022. The Keynote address for the Workshop was delivered by Dr Mohsen Al Attar, Associate Professor at the University of Warwick and a Visiting Scholar at UCL, who provided invaluable...
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Public participation in international investment law
Mr Ilias Kazeem presented a paper titled Public Participation in International Investment Law: Focusing on Host COmmunities of Energy and Natural Resources Projects" to the Centre of Commercial Law. Investment in energy and natural resources projects impact on the rights of the host communities of such projects. Even though the states...
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Dr Adebola participated in a High-level Brainstorming Session on Intellectual Property Rights
On the 25th of February 2022, Dr Titilayo Adebola participated in a High-level Brainstorming Session on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) organised by the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat to generate ideas and discuss the possible elements to consider in the development of the AfCFTA Protocol on IPRs. One of...
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Dr Adebola delivered a talk titled "Geographical Indication in the Era of the AfCFTA
Dr Titilayo Adebola delivered a speech titled “Geographical Indication in the Era of the AfCFTA” during the National Conference on Creating Legal and Institutional Frameworks for Geographical Indications in Nigeria that held on 17 and 18 February 2022. In her speech, Dr Adebola asserted that geographical indication regimes in Africa...
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A British Council-funded research project on cross-border surrogacy in Sri Lanka completed
On 31st December 2021, Dr Katarina Trimmings and Ms Ziyana Nazeemudeen (PhD student affiliated with the Centre for Private International Law), in collaboration with research partners from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (‘the research team’), successfully completed a British Council-funded collaborative research project titled ‘Reproductive Health Care and Policy...
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POAM project successfully completed
On 31 December 2021, the EU-funded project ‘Protection of Abducting Mothers in Return Proceedings: Intersection between Domestic Violence and Parental Child Abduction’ (POAM), coordinated by Dr Katarina Trimmings, was successfully completed. Launched on 1 January 2019, the POAM project involved also Dr Onyoja Momoh and Dr Isla Callander of the...
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DPLP Students Impress at the United Kingdom Student Mediation Competition
Three students from the University of Aberdeen School of Law’s Diploma in Professional Legal Practice (DPLP) programme, Jenna Baxter, Kym Haley and Alannah Comerford, participated as mediators in the 2022 United Kingdom Student Mediation Competition (UKSMC). The UKSMC is a mediation competition that brings together student mediators from different law schools...
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AUCEL joins ABA's new national Network of Environmental Law Societies
Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law (AUCEL) is delighted to be recognised as a charter member of the American Bar Association's (ABA) new national Network of Environmental Law Societies (ELS Network or ELSN), and the only member located outside of the USA.
