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2023
November
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Family Law Reform at the Scottish Law Commission: Civil Remedies for Domestic Abuse
-The Scottish Law Commission is currently conducting a review of the law of civil remedies for domestic abuse. This will consider how the law in this area can be simplified, clarified, and updated. At the moment, civil remedies for domestic abuse are spread over many different statutes, which makes it...
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Law Research Seminar: Entrenching Human Rights Protections in the UK's Devolved Nations
-In her seminar, Dr McCall-Smith will examine the future of increasing human rights protections in the devolved nations of the UK in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Incorporation Reference decision of October 2021. Firstly, the presentation will consider the entrenchment of human rights standards through incorporation as a means for implementation...
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Law Research Seminar: Climate Change and the European Convention on Human Rights
-Can the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) be used to combat climate change? Although human rights-based climate litigation is on the rise globally and has been used successfully in other jurisdictions to hold governments to account for their failures to mitigate against climate change, the European Court of Human...
October
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Law Research Seminar: International Refugee Law in the Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities
-Digital technology is omnipresent in the refugee’s migration journey. Thus, biometric registration of refugees is resorted to by the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees in camps and drones are used to map the latter. In addition, artificial intelligence is mobilized at borders and by asylum qualification bodies. This situation...
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Law Research Seminar: Legal Doctrinal Scholarship and the Social Sciences
-Sorting out the exact relationship between legal scholarship and the social sciences has been a challenge ever since the establishment of sociology as a new type of academic discipline in the 19th century. It has raised questions about the very viability of the academic practices of legal scholars. The formulation...
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Law Research Seminar: The Purposes of Preambles in the History of Legislation in Europe'
-The legal history of preambles, prologues and introductions to legal texts stretches back to the very beginnings of civilization, and such introductory texts still raise questions of interpretation in modern law today. In this paper, I will present an overview of the long history of preambles and prologues to legal...
