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2019
March
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Is the scope of damages for copyright infringement contrary to the rule of law?
-Admission is free, no booking required
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The South African Land Reform Programme And Expropriation Without Compensation: A Silver Bullet Or A (Calculated) Shot in The Dark?
-Admission is free, no booking required
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The Right to Self-Defence under International Law: Reading and Re-reading the Caroline Correspondence, 1838-1842
-Admission is free, no booking is required
February
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Regulating Campaign Spending in the Age of the Internet
-Admission is free, no booking required
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Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms in EU law
-Admission is free, no booking required
January
2018
November
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Horizontal Censorship: Employers' Power to Regulate Socio-Political Speech
-Admission is free, no booking required
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First Seminar of the Consortium CRENAME in Tomsk
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Professor Tina Soliman Hunter is participating in CRENAME's first workshop as part of the on-going project looking at the behaviour of oil in Arctic conditions and its impact on the regulation of oil spill prevention and response.
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Joe Thomson and Contract Law in Scotland: Against Legal Nationalism?
-Admission is free, no booking is required
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Kompetenz - Kompetenz in International Commercial Arbitration: Is It Time For Uniformity?
-This seminar was cancelled
Admission is free, no booking required
October
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The Making Available Right: Realizing the Potential of Copyright's Dissemination Function in the Digital Age
-Admission is free, no booking required
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Modern Energy Law
-Admission is free, no booking is required
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The Power(s) of Global Constitutionalism
-Admission is free, no booking required
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Brexit and limping divorce statuses: A critical analysis of the ties that bind us to national law
-Admission is free, no booking required
June
March
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The Right to Self-Determination and its Limitations - Scotland and Catalonia Compared
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In light of the Scottish position regarding Brexit on the one hand and the Catalonian independence movement on the other, new light is shed on the question as to how parts of a country may legally react to developments at the central level that they (by a majority) disagree with....
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Energy Arbitration Seminar on Mining Arbitration in Africa and Latin America
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Peter Hirst will be talking about his experience in mining arbitration in Africa and Latin America as well as career opportunities in international arbitration
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North Korea and the Use of Force
-The ongoing launch of missiles combined with the test of large nuclear bombs by North Korea causes great concern around the world. Although North Korea is no longer subject to the Non-Proliferation Treaty it remains subject to international law obligations including various UN Security Council resolutions. However, to date, the...
February
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Courting Environmental Justice: The Adjudicatory Dimensions of the National Green Tribunal India
-Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: A role of the judiciary is to shape and facilitate environmental laws, policies and principles. India’s green judiciary, particularly the National Green Tribunal (NGT), is an example of its transitional move through substantive and procedural creativity in the current socio-ecological crisis. The juristic and scientific interventions...
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Cross-border portability of refugees' personal status - Bridging private international law and migration law
-Admission FREE, no booking required. Speaker: Professor Jinske Verhellen, Ghent University, Belgium Abstract: The EU member States seem to have prioritised the reception of asylum seekers and the development of short-term assistance programmes. Yet strategies to tackle the long-term legal consequences of the refugee flows into Europe are less clear. While those short-term interventions...
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A Multi-Speed European Union, Brexit, and the Future of Judicial Cooperation
-EU measures in the area of civil justice cooperation cover many areas. However, they leave the impression of a patchwork. On the one hand, they do not necessarily cover all Member States. On the other hand, some measures are extended to third States. Also, there are countries in the midst...
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Brexit trade negotiations - where is the UK heading?
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The seminar will set out the key questions for the UK and the EU as both sides embark in the negotiation of their future trade relationship.
January
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Values and Decisions: Division in the Supreme Court
-This research draws on theories and techniques from psychology to explore the influence of personal values on the exercise of judicial discretion and judicial decision making in the Supreme Court. This paper will argue, that although law frames and constraints decision making, in hard cases personal values play a role....
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The Role of Standards of Review in Labour Law
-Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: A distinction can be drawn between employment rights expressed as (i) rules and (ii) standards of review. The observation that not all labour laws are directed towards the correction of general labour market failures is taken as a point of entry to engage in further research...
2017
November
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Property Theory Perspectives on the Community Right to Buy
-Speaker: Professor John Lovett Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: The community rights to buy that now exist in Scottish land reform legislation can result—at least in some cases—in what international property theorists call a “private taking” or what might be characterized as a private-to-private compulsory purchase order in the UK. This paper...
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Guest Lecture - Changing lives and (occasionally) changing the law: An illustration of the work of University Law Clinics
-Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: In performing their roles as centres for Clinical Legal Education, many University Law Clinics employ real-life or live-client models to facilitate student training. While working under the supervision of professionals, students offer legal assistance to qualifying clients. This promotes access to justice and positions university clinics...
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Fact-Finding in International Law: The Role of Commissions of Inquiry
-Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: The Hague Peace conferences of 1899 and 1907 can be regarded as the first steps in setting up institutions that dominated international life in the 20th century. During one of these conferences Russian diplomat Fyodor Martens first elaborated the Concept of Inquiry. The idea behind this...
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A Law & Economics Analysis in Support of Corporate Social Responsibility: Prevention of 'Accidental' Stock Market Over-Valuations for Innovative Corporations
-Admission FREE, no booking required. This presentation is topical because the US and other nations have loosened their guidelines on forward looking revenue statements for publicly traded corporations, particularly with regards to innovative technologies. This policy was originally intended to facilitate information to the market for industries from Silicon Valley and...
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Late in Life: MER, decommissioning and late life operations on the UK Continental Shelf
-Admission FREE, no booking required. Speaker: Graham Dallas Bio: Graham is a Business Development Manager with Aker Solutions since 2015, focusing on brownfield maintenance, modifications, operations and decommissioning. Graham has worked in engineering for over 25 years, with the last 20 in oil and gas. He started his career as a Mechanical Technician Apprentice...
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Investment Arbitration in the EU? A song from the past or a new beat?
-Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: Investment arbitration in the European Union is currently experiencing one of its most crucial challenges. At EU level, there are different opinions claiming that the applicability of investment treaties to resolve intra-EU disputes is no longer valid. The main argument flagged is the existence of a...
October
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Can innovation deliver energy justice? Why regulations and new technologies foster equitable energy systems
-Speaker: Dr. Michael LaBelle Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: This presentation is topical because the US and other nations have loosened their guidelines on forward looking revenue statements for publicly traded corporations, particularly with regards to innovative technologies. This policy was originally intended to facilitate information to the market for industries from Silicon...
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Cross-border portability of refugees' personal status - Bridging private international law and migration law
-This seminar was cancelled
Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: The EU member States seem to have prioritised the reception of asylum seekers and the development of short-term assistance programmes. Yet strategies to tackle the long-term legal consequences of the refugee flows into Europe are less clear. While those short-term interventions are of course important, European...
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Abandoning Principles: The Right (and Wrong) of Abandonment of Land in Scots Law
-Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: If and when landowners wish to rearrange their affairs and no longer own a particular piece of land, the normal course of action would be to transfer that land to an aspiring owner (for a suitable price). In a buoyant market, this will often be an...
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Critical issues in investment arbitration. Some considerations from recent cases under the ECT
-Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: A number of cases are currently open under the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) against some European Member States, addressing a number of common issues on both jurisdiction and the merits. However, the few awards rendered until now are not fully consistent, so making the outcome of...
September
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The role of Rawls and Dworkin in the regulation of oil and gas extraction: an exploratory study
-Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: As more and more states discover new energy resources, particularly oil and gas, there is much discussion about what type of legal framework should be created to effectively regulate the extraction of the resource and ensure that such extraction benefits the country and its people. Too...
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Women in legal academia in Germany
-Speaker: Professor Phillip Hellwege Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: On the professorial level women are still underrepresented in legal academia in Germany: less than 20% of all law professors are women. The problem has been discussed for more than two decades. Different measures have been taken. Books on gender studies fill whole...
June
May
March
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Guest Lecture - Legal Issues on War Reparations
-Admission FREE, no booking required. Speaker: Professor Pierre d'Argent Abstract: War reparations represent a particular challenge and test for the rules relating to the international responsibility of States. After having recalled the major historical instances when war reparations were claimed, this lecture will address some salient recurring legal issues. Beyond those legal technicalities,...
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Rape and Sexual Assault in Virtual and Augmented Reality
-Admission FREE, no booking required. Speaker: Dr John Danaher Abstract: Although promised for decades, virtual reality (VR) technology now seems poised for the mainstream. For many, the technology holds promise: new exciting and immersive video game experiences; new forms of social interaction; new worlds to explore. But there is darker side. In October...
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Prohibition of the Use of Force by Terrorist Armed Groups
-Admission FREE, no booking required. This seminar examines the possibility of extending the international prohibition on the use of armed force to terrorist armed groups. This prohibition, enshrined in the UN Charter and customary international law, applies to States. Should/can it also apply to terrorist armed groups?
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Resolving Energy/ Natural Resource Conflicts in the Far North: Conflict, Compromise and Continuity
-Admission FREE, no booking required.
February
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The Contours of a Human Right to Affordable, Reliable, and Modern Energy Access
-Speaker: Marlies Hesselman Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: Today, no less than three billion persons world-wide live in severe energy poverty, accounting for 40% of the world population; more specifically, about 1.2 billion persons have no access to an electricity connection , while 2.9 billion persons still rely on solid fuels, such...
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Land and ornament in English and Scots Law
-Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: This seminar will examine the development of English law on the classification of ornamental objects by comparative reference to Scots law. It will seek to account for the difference between the ‘mere’ ornament and the ornament that is, or becomes, ‘land’ by canvassing a number of...
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Federalism by Conventions: The Constitutional Implications of Brexit on the Union
-Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: On 23rd June 2016, a majority of the British electorate decided to leave the European Union against all expectations, and the constitutional impact of this historic decision, particularly on the Union, remains shrouded in uncertainty. Despite being a UK-wide referendum, the Union was left very much...
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Disregarding the Salomon Principle: An Empirical Analysis, 1885-2014
-Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: Much of modern Britain’s corporate economy hinges on the principle established by the House of Lords in Salomon v Salomon [1897] that a corporation is a separate legal entity. From this Salomon principle flows a protective investment structure for shareholders and corporate groups with an array...
January
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Four Inconvenient Truths About Copyright
-Admission FREE, no booking required. This talk will explore the links between copyright, independence and dignity of the artists; creative re-use and consumption of works; non use of works, private control and the impact on cultural heritage; and that copyright lacks an independent evidence base. It will also explore the developing...
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Origins of the Scottish Forum Non Conveniens
-On the 25th January the Centre for Private International Law looks forward to welcoming Dr Ardavan Arzandeh from the University of Bristol to speak at our monthly meeting. Abstract: For at least 150 years, forum non conveniens has been one of the main components of the national jurisdiction rules in Scotland. The...
2016
December
November
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Why Hitler saved the judges - on judicial resistance to authoritarian regimes
-Although most judges continue as loyal servants to authoritarian masters and forgo their rule of law values, not all do. Surprisingly, there was a scope for judicial resistance during the Nazi and fascist regimes in the twentieth century. How is it that these repressive regimes tolerated opposition from the bench,...
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Pride, Prejudice and Public Order? An examination of Scots Law's approach to balancing freedom of expression with expressions/acts of intolerance
-Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: Scottish Justice Secretary Michael Mathieson recently disclosed that the Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC had written to him to highlight a potential gap in the law arising from the somewhat perplexing decision by senior Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) counsel that the circumstances of...
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Guest Lecture - Petroleum Regimes in Africa: From Bad to Worse
-(lecture followed by discussion) By Nicolas Bonnefoy Managing Director of Africa Oil and Gas Ltd. Previously a partner in Ashurst LLP’s global energy team focussing on Africa.
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Guest Lecture - How will Brexit Happen? Legal Questions Faced by the UK
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A free public lecture.
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Guest Lecture - The Permanent Court of Arbitration and its Contribution to International Dispute Settlement
-Speaker: Brooks Daly Abstract: The lecture will examine the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA)’s historical and modern role in the resolution of sensitive international disputes. Examples will be drawn from recent cases administered by the PCA, including investor-state and interstate arbitrations with an oil and gas component. PCA procedural innovations in arbitrator...
October
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Compact Fusion Reactors: Robust Rules of Civil Liability and Efficient Regulatory Frameworks
-Speaker: Dr Roy Partain Abstract: The world is in need of renewable energy resources, and the technology of nuclear fusion, not nuclear fission, has long been identified as a potential solution. Nuclear fusion converts forms of hydrogen into helium, with a by-product of heat, which can then be used to create steam...
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The Invention of New Law in the Poetry of Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington (ca.1496-1586)
-Speaker: Dr Andrew Simpson Abstract: Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington (ca.1496-1586) is perhaps best remembered today as a collector of late-medieval Scots vernacular poetry, particularly that written by William Dunbar. Yet Maitland was also an accomplished poet and indeed a historian in his own right. In his work, he explored various legal themes,...
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Guest Lecture - Scotland's Options for Brexit
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A free public lecture.
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Legality of the Self-Defence Action against the "Islamic State" in Syria
-Speaker: Dr Irène Couzigou Abstract: The use of armed force by a State on the territory of another State is prohibited under international law, unless the territorial State gave its consent to the resort to force. Iraq agreed with the military action against the ‘Islamic State’ on its territory. Contrary to...
September
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Old Wine in a New Bottle: Rhetoric and the Study of Law and Emotion
-Abstract: The study of law and emotion is seen as a comparatively new discipline, yet the use of what would now be called ‘emotional intelligence’ in the practice of law has a very long history, as the famous Judgment of Solomon shows. This is particularly true of rhetoric, or the art...
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Guest Lecture - The outer limit of Bangladesh's continental shelf after the delimitation of its boundaries with its neighbours: Is there still any role for the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf?
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Abstract Bangladesh, located between India and Myanmar, has had its continental shelf boundaries fully delimited by the combined effect of the 2014 award of the tribunal formed under Annex VII to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea in the Bay of Bengal Maritime Boundary Arbitration (People’s Republic of...
May
April
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Guest Lecture - Allocation of potentially catastrophic risk in the supply chain: A practical perspective
-Speaker: Robbie Brown (Former General Counsel of Wood Group) This lecture will be followed by discussion with the audience and will last approx 2 hours.
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Who's to blame for youth crime: the teenage brain or the teenage offender? A field experiment at a London theatre
-Research Seminar Speaker: Robert Blakey Abstract: The capabilities of brain imaging technology are advancing, together with the novelty of its applications to increasingly complex behaviours, such as offending. This field experiment tested the effects of public engagement in neuroscience on attitudes towards young offenders. Brainstorm is a play about teenage brain development, televised...
March
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Anti-libidinal interventions in sex offenders: medical or correctional?
-Speaker: Lisa Forsberg Abstract: Sex offenders are sometimes offered or required to undergo pharmacological interventions intended to diminish their sex drive (anti-libidinal interventions or ALIs). In this paper, we argue that much of the debate regarding the moral permissibility of ALIs has been founded on an inaccurate assumption regarding their intended purpose...
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Is the Political Constitution Deliberative?
-Research Seminar To ask whether ‘the political constitution’ is deliberative might seem odd. After all, every conceivable constitutional model with normative appeal will envisage a large measure of debate aimed at securing wide-ranging, reasoned and well-evidenced opinions, where participants are willing to reflect on their own viewsafter hearing those of others....
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The Public Interest Defence to claims for Copyright Infringement
-Research Seminar Abstract The fundamental issue that is considered by the presentation is whether there are good explanations for the state of the public interest defence to claims for copyright infringement.
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Guest Lecture - Legal Issues on War Reparations
-This seminar was cancelled
Speaker: Professor Pierre d'Argent Abstract: War reparations represent a particular challenge and test for the rules relating to the International responsibility of States. After having recalled the major historical instances when war reparations were claimed, this lecture will address some salient recurring legal issues. Beyond those legal technicalities, economic and moral issues...
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Honour-based abuse, forced marriage and female genital mutilation: the challenges for law enforcement in bringing offenders to justice
-Abstract: "This lecture will highlight the cultural and societal pressures on victims to conform to the behaviour codes set within the communities they live in. It will also highlight the challenges for law enforcement and the risks that victims face in coming forward to report matters to the police. Three case...
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Article 59 of EU Regulation 650/2012 and researching the evidentiary effects of authentic instruments in the context of the succession laws of 25 Member State
-Research Seminar Abstract: I will speak about my involvement in a study funded by the EU Parliament that is directed towards the objective of compiling a reliable and comprehensive information resource for practitioners concerning the evidentiary effects of authentic instruments in the 25 EU Member States that are bound by European Union...
February
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The Contribution of Local and Regional Authorities to a 'Good' System of Governance within the EU
-Research Seminar Speaker: Dr Carlo Panara Abstract: The participation of local and regional authorities in EU processes should be promoted and enhanced by the EU, the Member States and the same local/regional authorities. These should perform a stronger role in the constitutional architecture of the EU. In this way they would contribute more...
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Research Seminar - Municipal Crises, Politics and Conducts in Contemporary Global Society: The Case of Ethnic-based Crises in Nigeria
-Speaker: Dr Edward Bristol-Alagbariya Municipal Crises, Politics and Conducts in Contemporary Global Society: The Case of Ethnic-based Crises in Nigeria. Abstract: This seminar will describe the ethnic conflicts that currently exist in Nigeria, endangering order and security in the country and even threatening international peace and security. It will then examine how...
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Guest Lecture - The Climate Change Regime after the Paris Conference - Status Quo and Prospects
-This lecture will be followed by a discussion. Abstract: The talk will examine to what extent the Paris talks have helped to build a more effective international climate regime and how the outcome may be assessed from an international law perspective.
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EU as a Global Actor: The Role of EU Sanctions in Helping Striving Democracies
-ELSA Aberdeen are organising the below seminar in cooperation with Europe Direct. EU as a Global Actor: The Role of EU Sanctions in Helping Striving Democracies In the recent years the European Union has been gaining strength as a global actor: it has been a participant of the peace processes in Middle East,...
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Research Seminar - The Criminal Responsibility of Psychopaths
-Speaker: Dr Elizabeth Shaw Abstract: Currently, in Scotland, psychopathic personality disorder is explicitly excluded from the mental disorder defence. This defence relieves individuals from criminal responsibility, if, as a result of mental disorder, they lack certain psychological capacities. The psychopathy exclusion is problematic, because individuals with severe psychopathy appear to lack one...
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Guest Lecture - Dr Raphael Heffron
-"A New Framework for Energy Law" This lecture will be followed by a discussion. Speaker: Dr Raphael Heffron (Senior Lecturer in Energy and Natural Resources Law, at Queen Mary University of London) Abstract: Energy law as a sub-discipline in law is growing. This seminar explores this theme and examines the current issues in energy...
2015
November
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ELSA Energy Project
-"Maritime Boundary Disputes and Joint Petroleum Development" This seminar will be given by Constantinos Yiallourides (3rd year PhD Candidate) Mr Emre Usenmez will be a moderator for the discussion. Abstract The law of the sea is both a complex and fascinating subject. It is the area of law that makes it possible for states...
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Research Seminar - Mr Emre Usenmez
-Speaker: Mr Emre Usenmez Reforming the UK’s Petroleum Tax Abstract On 4 December 2014, the Treasury published its review of the oil and gas fiscal regime setting out the case for reform. The ensuing changes to the fiscal regime, however, were short of what was intended. This research seminar will first look at...
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Research Seminar - Dr Tamas Gyorfi
-The Debate about Due Deference
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Research Seminar - Professor Nieve Rubaja
-International child abduction in Argentina and in Latin America
October
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Research Seminar - Dr Kristoffer Svendsen
-Speaker: Dr Kristoffer Svendsen (University of Tromsø - the Arctic University) Legal aspects of oil spills from petroleum installations in the Arctic. The case of the Barents Sea. Abstract International regulation of compensation for petroleum spills from offshore rigs and installations is lacking. The consequence of an petroleum spill in the Arctic from...
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Research Seminar - Professor Pete Duff
-Scottish Criminal Evidence Law Adrift
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Freedom of Movement, Voluntary and Forced Immigration
-Looking back is the new way of looking forward. That is why the Romanian Union of Students (RoNUS) and the European Law Student's Association (ELSA Aberdeen) are introducing to you a new concept “EU seen from a 3D dimension”. We start doing this by bringing at the University of Aberdeen Dr...
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Research Seminar - Dr Eleonara Lamm
-Cross-border surrogacy arrangements in South America
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Research Seminar - Professor Fiona Leverick
-Criminal Law's Legitimacy Problem
September
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Research Seminar - Professor Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde
-From skeyting bréf to schound bill - The Destiny of Norwegian Law at Shetland in the 16th and 17th Century
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Research Seminar - Sir Anthony Colman
-International Arbitration Awards: Enforceability and Public Policy: a Recipe for Uncertainty?
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Research Seminar - Professor Sharya Scharenguivel
-Divorce Reform in Colonial and Post-Colonial Sri Lanka: A Critical Assessment
May
April
March
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Research Seminar - Dr Tom Burns
-Credit Rating Agencies and their conflicts of interest: causes, consequences and cure
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Public Law and Legal Theory Research Group Seminar - Andras L. Pap
-An Illiberal Democracy in the Making: Biases and Preferences in the New Hungarian Constitution
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Guest Lecture - Hon Michael Fysh
-'Does IP litigation have to cost so much? Problems and solutions'
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Research Seminar - Dr Zeray Yihdego
-The Legality of Arming Non-state Actors: International Law at Cross Roads
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Research Seminar - Ilona Cairns
-Does Form Matter? Feminisim and the 'Legislative Modernisation' of Scots Criminal Law and Procedure
February
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Research Seminar - Dr Christian Henderson
-The International Legal Framework Governing the Use of Force against Islamic State
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Research Seminar - Scott Styles
-"Scots Legal Nationalism and Scottish Nationalism."
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Research Seminar - Dr Monica Waloszyk
-Beneficial Ownership and Control of Energy Transmission System
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Research Seminar - Professor Peter Kunzlik
-Regulating the Award of Public Contracts - The New European Approach
