-
Students from the School of Law argue in favour of tougher penalties for animal abuse.
Having responded to an earlier public consultation, Mike Radford and three Honours students, Anna Connelly, Savannah Coull and Molly O'Donoghue attended a meeting of the Scottish Parliament's Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee at Holyrood earlier this week as part of the Committee's Stage 1 consideration of the Animals...
-
New research publication from Dr Constantinos Yiallourides and Prof Roy A Partain
"Offshore Methane Hydrates in Japan: Prospects, Challenges and the Law"
-
PhD student wins Anglo-Thai Society's "Education Award for Excellence" in Law.
Yada Dejchai, a PhD student at the Law School, has recently achieved the Anglo-Thai Society's "Education Award for Excellence" in Law. This award recognises the exceptional academic achievements of Thai post-graduate scholars in the UK, and the achievements of post-graduate scholars whose studies benefit Thailand. Yada is is curently writing a thesis titled 'Reforming...
-
International law expert will lecture on a century of war crimes
One of the world's top scholars on international law will give a public lecture at the University of Aberdeen next month.
-
Dr Shapovalova gives a research seminar in Oulu, Finland
Dr Daria Shapovalova is just back from her visit to Oulu, Finland. On her research trip, Dr Shapovalova has met with her colleagues at the anthropology department of the University of Oulu for the planning workshop of her Cold Connections project. She has also given a research seminar on indigenous rights...
-
Justin Borg-Barthet gives a keynote address at the European Parliament
On 12 November, Justin gave the keynote address at an 'Expert talk on Anti-SLAPP solutions' at the European Parliament in Brussels. The event, which was a follow-up from a workshop held in Aberdeen in March, was hosted by members of 3 political groupings at the European Parliament, and organised by...
-
Professor Tina Soliman Hunter interviewed for BBC Brazil
Last week, our Professor Tina Soliman Hunter was interviewed for BBC Brazil on issues relating to the development and direction of Petrobras, the Brazilian state oil company. The full text is available in Portuguese here - https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/geral-49743153
-
Prof Greg Gordon gave talk at the North Sea Energy Law Programme in Copenhagen'
Last week, our Prof Greg Gordon was in Copenhagen teaching Carbon Capture and Storage on the North Sea Energy Law Programme. The NSELP is a joint LLM programme between four universities: Groningen (The Netherlands), Oslo (Norway), Aberdeen (United Kingdom) and Copenhagen (Denmark). It is a part-time degree programme offering advanced...
-
Dr Yiallourides gave a paper at the conference "Republic of Cyprus and International Law"
Last week, Dr Constantinos Yiallourides gave a paper at the international conference “Republic of Cyprus and International Law”, organised by the University of Cyprus together with the Hellenic Society of International Law. Dr Yiallourides’ paper examined the interaction between the rules on the use of force and the law of...
-
Prof Soliman Hunter is providing a keynote address for the IECCA meeting in Moscow
Professor Tina Soliman Hunter is providing a keynote address for the 7th Annual Meeting of the International Expert Council for Cooperation in the Arctic (IECCA) on 7 November 2019 in Moscow. The theme of the meeting is ‘Information technologies in the Arctic: navigation, communication and management’. She is also giving...