Event Archive

Guest Lecture - Petroleum Regimes in Africa: From Bad to Worse

(lecture followed by discussion) By Nicolas Bonnefoy Managing Director of Africa Oil and Gas Ltd. Previously a partner in Ashurst LLP’s global energy team focussing on Africa.

Oil and Minerals for Good Conference 2016

The Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law (AUCEL) is leading innovative multidisciplinary studies and research into how oil, mining and other mineral resources could be used better by governments, industry and others, to produce development, equity and other positive outcomes. This is in contrast to the fabled “Resource Curse” -minerals...

Conference - Comparative Energy Law and Policy: UK/China

We are delighted to announce that four professors from the Research Institute for Environmental Law (RIEL) at Wuhan University, China will be visiting the School of Law this week. Our visitors will be participating in a conference with the Centre for Energy Law on the theme, Comparative Energy Law and Policy:...

Guest Lecture - Allocation of potentially catastrophic risk in the supply chain: A practical perspective

Speaker: Robbie Brown (Former General Counsel of Wood Group) This lecture will be followed by discussion with the audience and will last approx 2 hours. 

Guest Lecture - Dr Raphael Heffron

"A New Framework for Energy Law" This lecture will be followed by a discussion. Speaker:  Dr Raphael Heffron (Senior Lecturer in Energy and Natural Resources Law, at Queen Mary University of London) Abstract: Energy law as a sub-discipline in law is growing. This seminar explores this theme and examines the current issues in energy...

Marine Spatial Planning and Ecosystems Workshop

On 10 December 2015, the University of Aberdeen will host the 2nd Workshop of Scottish Universities Insight Institute on Marine Spatial Planning and Ecosystems. Reuniting speakers from Scottish Government (Marine Scotland), Technion Institute, the University of Aberdeen, the University of Dundee, Heriot Watt University, University of Northumbria and the University of...

Oil and Minerals for Good Conference

We are holding a conference focussed on "Oil and Minerals Producing Good & Development: The Prospects of new Legal Approaches and the UN Sustainable Development Goals". Conference is free and open to all!  More details about the conference can be found below.  The Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law (AUCEL) is leading...

Transitioning Scottish Energy Law PhD Graduates into Employment Workshop

On 29 October 2015 the Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law will host a one-day workshop at the University of Aberdeen on “Transitioning Scottish Energy Law PhD Graduates into Employment”. The workshop is organized jointly by the University of Aberdeen, the Robert Gordon University and the University of Dundee. Bringing...

All-Energy 2015, ACFEL Session on Legal Frameworks for Renewables

The Centre for Energy Law of the University of Aberdeen is organising a session at All-Energy 2015, the UK’s leading annual exhibition and conference for the renewable energy sector.  The session, Changing Legal Frameworks for Renewables, brings together leading academic commentators on law and the low carbon energy transition including...

Research Seminar - Dr Monica Waloszyk

This event was cancelled

"Beneficial Ownership and Control of Energy Transmission Systems"