Seminar Archive

Abstract The article first explores the very concept of trade usages, focusing on the following questions: (i) how are trade usages defined, if at all; (ii) what is the theoretical foundation of trade usages; (iii) what justifies assigning normative value to trade usages; and (iv) what are the critiques directed towards...

EU Law and Sports Arbitration: When Global and Regional Regimes Meet

Andrew joined GCU in September 2014. He completed his LLB (Hons) at the University of Edinburgh (awarded the Lord President Cooper Memorial Prize for the most distinguished graduate of the year, jointly with Jill Robbie). He then completed an MSc in Equality and Human Rights at the University of Glasgow...

The aim of the seminar is to examine how the notion of “online safety” has evolved from a focus on cybersecurity to a broader regulatory concern encompassing content, behaviour, and platform governance. Valère will show how platforms, regulators, and user communities each shape competing definitions of safety, revealing tensions between...

The last 1000 years law have gone through three periods of large unrest, all linked to new communication technology. What can we learn from the use of written and printed communication of law to better understand and predict the consequences of digital communication, changing law and the legal system today?...

Adolf Peter is Professor at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law and Consultant at Fieldfisher focusing on international commercial arbitration, the enforcement of ESG standards in international supply chains and EU law. Prof. Peter is also the Co-Chair of the Legal and Compliance Committee, British Chamber of Commerce...

Between Ambition and Realism - What to Expect from the Upcoming Reforms to the Rome II and Brussels Ia Regulation?

The Centre for Private International Law & Transnational Governance invites you to attend the next seminar in our Crossroads in Private International Law seminar series. Prof Tobias Lutzi (Junior Professor for Private Law at Augsburg University) will give a seminar on the reforms to the Rome II and Brussels Ia Regulation. Prof Lutzi has kindly...

Organised by the Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law (ACCPIL) and the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society & Rule of Law (CISRUL)

The integration of AI systems into various products and services raises uncertainties regarding fundamental rights, democracy, the environment, and the free market. At the same time, these technological advances are characterised by rapid change. In this dual context, recent regulations, such as the EU AI Act, propose or require the...