Event Archive

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...

The next Public Law Reading Seminar will discuss two chapters from Feminist Constitutionalism (edited by Baines, Barak-Erez, and Kahana. Available through the library as an e-book): Chapter 10 – On Parity, Interdependence and Women’s Democracy by Blanca Rodríguez-Ruiz and Ruth Rubio-Marín Chapter 13 – The Promise of Democratic Constitutionalism: Women, Constitutional Dialogue,...

Human Rights Reform and the Meaning of ‘Public Authority’ Erin Ferguson   In December 2021, the UK government published a consultation paper setting out its proposals to replace the Human Rights Act 1998 with a Bill of Rights. Amongst the questions it poses is whether a clearer definition of ‘public authority’ is needed...

The Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law is hosting a seminar for its memebers centred on Allegations of Genocide under the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide (Ukraine vs Russian Federation)

Within the framework of a colonisation of space, a physical distance could push the colonists to the refusal of any Earth legal order insofar as it would be difficult for the States on Earth to apply their sovereignty over these colonies. This factual situation could give rise to legal claims,...

Internal seminar organised by the Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law. The aim is for members to discuss the Human Rights Act Reform: A modern Bill of Rights - A consultation to reform the Human Rights Act 1998. 

Wednesday 06 December 2021 1-2pm, Teams Seminar: 'US-Taliban Agreement and International Law Issues’ by Dr Azin Tadjdini

Wednesday 26 May, 1-2pm, Teams Seminar: 'Recent US Strikes in Syria: Broader Legal Issues' by Professor Christian Henderson

Professor Scheppele will discuss the domestic legal mechanisms through which the courts in Hungary and Poland have been captured and review the resources that exist in EU law to restore independent judiciaries. Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public...

This seminar will discuss how the law on the non-use of force and the law on self-defence can apply to cyber attacks and identify any challenges that arise. In this regard it will also consider the problem of attribution of cyber attacks.