Seminar Archive

Responsibility and Accountability for Conducts in Cyberspace

The applicability of international law to cyber operations is nowadays consensual. States, scholars and other actors are now discussing questions pertaining to the interpretation of the rules and principles of international law in this specific context. While some States have developed, together with an increasing number of non-state actors such...

Trade Usages in the Context of and Beyond the CISG (Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods)

This seminar was cancelled

The presentation explores the concept of trade usages, the attitude of developing states during the drafting process of the CISG to trade usages, and the extent to which the concerns of developing states in relation to trade usages have materialised. Namely, the delegates from the developed states were mostly in...

Power Contestations in the Use of Agri-food Data: Towards a Sustainability Governance Approach

Law is intrinsically embedded in politics. Prevailing dynamics and norms can significantly impact new legal rules; hence, there is a need to interrogate the spectrum of engagements of any given subject or phenomenon with the law. In the context of global governance of food and agricultural data, this paper examines...

The Cross-Border Recognition of Changes in the Legal Sex of Transgender Persons: The Landmark ECJ ruling in the Mirin case by Professor Alina Tryfonidou

Transgender persons are among the most vulnerable and marginalised groups in the EU, yet they remain notably absent from EU primary and secondary legislation. The ECJ’s recent ruling in Mirin constitutes a significant milestone in advancing transgender rights under EU law. The main question in this case was whether EU Member States...

The Ownership of Carbon by Professor Jill Robbie

Tree-planting and peatland restoration are nature-based solutions to climate change because trees sequester CO2 emissions from the atmosphere and peatland restoration prevents further emissions taking place. One way to encourage landowners to undertake these activities is carbon trading, whereby landowners and developers receive credits for planting or restoration, and the...

Canada's Journey with Online Harms Legislation

Canada has never passed comprehensive intermediary liability laws, relying instead on piecemeal laws, primarily in defamation, and indirectly in privacy and competition law. Meanwhile, the UK and EU are onto their second-generation laws to address online harms. The Government of Canada undertook a multi-year consultation to develop legislation and introduced...

Regime Creation, Raw Data and Intellectual Property: Holding Power and Opening Doors

Intellectual property (IP) and information can have a significant impact on responses to societal challenges; yet regimes created to address challenges (such as health, biodiversity and energy security) engage with legal regimes relating to IP and information in a variety of ways – from undue deference to overly proactive intervention....

AUCEL seminar - Annalisa Savaresi - A Just Transition? The Role of Litigation in the Transition towards Net Zero Societies

Abstract The transition to net-zero societies necessitates significant changes that may exacerbate existing social inequalities and injustices. The term ‘just transition’ is employed to emphasise the justice implications of decarbonisation and its societal impacts. This concept has expanded from its original focus on labour issues to include broader considerations of procedural,...

Misleading information and investor protection in cross-border scenarios: the location of the financial loss

Disclosure is a pivotal element of capital markets law, which performs the function of facilitating price formation and informed investment decision-making. When issuers disclose misleading information, investors may suffer a pure economic loss if there is a fall in the securities price arising from it. The investors who wish to...

Social Policy and Qualitative Research

Dr Houghton's talk concerns the involvement of young people, particularly young abuse survivors, in policy-making, through a case study of the recent domestic abuse legislation. The first draft of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill did not mention children and young people, but an impact project with 8 young domestic abuse...