School of Law - Current and Upcoming Seminars

Research Seminar Series 25/26 and the Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law "From online safety to trust and safety - turning commercial goals into legal requirements?" - Professor Valère Ndior

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000

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...

Research Seminar Series 2026/2026 and Centre for Scots Law "Reforming reporting restrictions after the Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act: the unfinished business." - Dr Andrew Tickell, Glasgow Caledonian University

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000

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...

Research Seminar Series 2025/2026 "Reimagining usages of international trade in the era of artificial intelligence (AI)" - Dr Boris Prastalo

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0100

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...