Event Archive

2022

November

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  Carbon-free Shipping and Shipping Carbon - Contracts in Context

  16 November 2022, 11:00 - 12:30

  On 16th November, our Centre for Commercial Law is delighted to host Prof Stephen Girvin (Centre for Maritime Law, National University of Singapore) for his seminar on 'Carbon-free Shipping and Shipping Carbon - Contracts in Context'.

October

• 'Two-Track Pandemic' Indeed; Access to Covid-19 related Technologies and Justice

  25 October 2022, 13:00 - 14:00

  The requirement of providing patent protection to pharmaceutical products as a result of the TRIPS agreement has been debated since the agreement entered into force. After HIV/AIDS epidemic, Covid-19 has sparked controversy between access to medicine and property rights one more time. India and South Africa proposed a temporal waiver...

• Social, Legal, and Ethical Implications of Machines Learning about Our Emotions and Intentions

  12 October 2022, 13:00 - 14:00

  Speaker: Dr Patricia Živković Moderator: Dr Luci Carey

June

• Centre for Commercial Law Presents - PGR Students Spotlight: Sartika Lestari & Gabriel Emeasoba

  29 June 2022, 13:00 - 23:55

  The Centre of Commercial Law presents a spotlight series on PGR Research where our students get the opportunity to present their research and receive comments and feedback from members of staff and other research students in the Centre.  A Critical Analysis of Intellectual Property Rights in Indonesia: Towards Effective Traditional Knowledge and...

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  International Law and Technological Progress Conference

  23 - 24 June 2022

  The University of Aberdeen is organising a third conference in International Law, following the conferences in the same field hosted by the University of Edinburgh in April 2019 and the University of Glasgow in May 2021. We thereby continue a series of successful conferences that aim to strengthen the leadership...

2021

December

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

  08 December 2021, 14:00 - 15:00

  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...

November

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  Sustainable Finance and the Quest for Transparency

  23 November 2021, 13:00 - 14:00

  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...

• Building a Successful Career in Corporate Law by Hammad Akhtar

  12 November 2021, 13:00 - 14:00

  Hammad is a senior corporate partner at Pinsent Masons. He is based in the firm’s London office and is the Global Head of the firm’s Transaction Services Group which comprises its Corporate, Commercial, Tax, Competition and Employment & Reward practices. Hammad sponsors the firm’s multicultural network, FREE, and leads the...

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

  05 November 2021, 13:00 - 14:00

  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...

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  JSCAN Special Issue on Dispute, Claims and Conflict Management

  04 November 2021, 12:00 - 13:30

  "From Dispute Prevention to an Arbitral Award - Main Points on Diversity in the DR Community and the Applicability of the Proactive Approach"