Seminar Archive

Enforceability of Sustainable Development Goals in Global Value Chains: In search for Accountability and Balance?

80% of global trade is connected with the international production networks of transnational corporations (TNCs or MNCs). GVCs exist in national, regional, and transnational legal regimes, including soft law and other private mechanisms. The UN 2030 Agenda with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is part of that framework. The GVCs...

ACCPIL - Reading Seminar - Human Rights Act Reform: A Modern Bill Of Rights

Internal seminar organised by the Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law. The aim is for members to discuss the Human Rights Act Reform: A modern Bill of Rights - A consultation to reform the Human Rights Act 1998. 

White Hat Hackers: When is Hacking Legal and Ethical by Dr Sara Correia

This seminar will explore the international legal landscape with respect to protections for ‘white hat’ or ‘ethical’ hackers. White hat hackers are cybersecurity professionals who work to find vulnerabilities and prevent cyber-attacks. In this seminar, we will first examine a range of cybercrimes identified in the Council of Europe’s Convention...

The Nature of Cryptocurrency: Lessons from Banco de Portugal v Waterlow & Sons Ltd

As one can verify through the growing number of “cryptoassets” described and created, and the wide offer of forgeries that we can find in different testimonies and numismatic collections around the orb, the power to create money is a rather tempting one. Considering these sources, this research will take as...

Sustainable Finance and the Quest for Transparency

This paper aims at exploring the extent to which transparency is able to boost and safeguard asustainable financial system. Requiring disclosure from market participants is a recurring regulatorytechnique of financial law. Whether it is in relation to listing securities on the stock exchange, acquiringa significant proportion of shares or launching...

Transforming Perceptions: The Development of Pre-pack Regulations in England and Wales

The presentation will provide a systematical assessment of the extent to which the Administration (Restrictions on Disposal etc. to Connected Persons) Regulations 2021 achieve the goal of the government to quell the negative perceptions of pre-pack administration. The pre-pack has generated much criticism from disenfranchised groups who regard the practice...

Can the European Union Rescue Captured National Courts?

Professor Scheppele will discuss the domestic legal mechanisms through which the courts in Hungary and Poland have been captured and review the resources that exist in EU law to restore independent judiciaries. Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public...

Cyber attacks and the Law on the Use of Force

This seminar will discuss how the law on the non-use of force and the law on self-defence can apply to cyber attacks and identify any challenges that arise. In this regard it will also consider the problem of attribution of cyber attacks. 

Superior Bargaining Power in Digital Networks

Delivered by Dr Claudio Lombardi, Assistant professor and Director of the Eurasian Centre for Law, Innovation, and Development (ECLID), KIMEP University

Sovereignty of the Westminster Parliament versus Sovereignty of the Scots People

This seminar was cancelled

The current political situation in Scotland is essentially a clash between two different types of sovereignty: the legal sovereignty of the Westminster Parliament versus the political sovereignty of the Scots People. This raises issues about which form or sovereignty will prevail which is arguably in turn a question of the...