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The School of Law Research Seminar Series - 2019/2020 In retrospect
Each academic year the School of Law organises and hosts a series of research seminars presented by prominent external researchers. The Research Seminar Series aims to foster and sustain the School’s excellent research environment. It provides an opportunity for the guest speakers to share, engage with, and build upon a...
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The Centre for Private International Law hosted the third POAM project management meeting
On 28 July 2020, our Dr Katarina Trimmings and Dr Onyoja Momoh hosted the POAM project management and co-ordination meeting, the third of its kind as the project marked 18 months. In keeping with the current times, the Aberdeen team employed the use of the University online platform Collaborate to...
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Dr. Cairns and Dr. Wilson appointed as the new Co-Directors of the Centre for Scots Law
Dr. Ilona Cairns and Dr. Adelyn Wilson have been appointed as the new Co-Directors of the Centre for Scots Law. The Centre was established in 2018 to support the enhancement of Scots law as an academic discipline with considerable practical relevance. Dr. Cairns’ expertise lies in criminal law, evidence, family law, and...
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Abbe Brown has a new publication in the Royal Society of Edinburgh journal
Our Prof Abbe Brown contributed to an article in the new issue of the ReSourcE newsletter, publication of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Prof Brown and Prof Jaspars (of the School of Natural and Computing Sciences) wrote about their work on the process of negotiation of the new international legally-binding instrument under the United...
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The POAM research team hosted the International Experts' Workshop
On 19 June 2020, the POAM research team hosted the International Experts’ Workshop ‘Rethinking the Protection of Abducting Mothers in Return Proceedings: Domestic Violence and Parental Child Abduction’. The workshop, which was originally due to be held in Milan on 27 March 2020 and hosted by Professor Costanza Honorati, was...
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Dr Thomas Muinzer is a guest editor for the International Journal of Global Energy Issues
Dr Thomas L Muinzer of the Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law is Guest Editor for a new Special Issue of the peer-reviewed academic journal International Journal of Global Energy Issues, on “Rethinking the Energy Agenda and Priorities for Fossil Fuels after Extreme Disruptions”. He will be Guest Editing the issue with...
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Dr Trimmings published a Project Report on the reform of the UK surrogacy laws
On 12 June 2020, Dr Katarina Trimmings (Centre for Private International Law) completed her Clark Foundation-funded research project titled 'UK Surrogacy Law Reform: Exploring the Application of Surrogacy Laws, Attitudes towards Surrogacy, and Attitudes towards the Reform of the Law Governing Surrogacy amongst Judges and Legal Practitioners in Scotland'. The...
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The Centre for Commercial Law welcomed Mr Karl Falkenberg, a leading international trade expert
On 4th June 2020, the Law School’s Centre for Commercial Law welcomed Mr Karl Falkenberg, a leading international trade expert and former trade negotiator, to give a guest lecture at the Professional Skills Summer School on International Trade Negotiation as part of LLM International Trade Law &Treaty Negotiation. Mr Falkenberg...
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Dr Daria Shapovalova published two blog entries on Arctic governance
Dr Daria Shapovalova provided commentary on the current events in the Arctic in two blog posts which were published this week. The first post is for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and discusses the Scottish Arctic Policy presented last year. The publication originated from an international symposium held in...
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Dr Muinzer of AUCEL provided a legal brief to the Legal Services Agency, Glasgow
On 4/6/2020 Dr Thomas L Muinzer of AUCEL provided in written form and presented verbally (over Zoom, online) a legal brief to the Legal Services Agency, Glasgow. The brief sets out his view that the Secretary of State’s failure to amend certain sections of the UK’s Climate Change Act 2008...