Event Archive

Wednesday 27th May 2020, 12-1pm, Teams Meeting: 'Recent German Constitutional Court Decisions' by Tamas Gyorfi; Professor Dirk Hanschel joined the disucssion

The Aberdeen University Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law (CCCPIL) is pleased to host this expert conference on international refugee law: comparative policy perspectives from Asia and Europe. Featuring three world-leading experts in the field, the aim of this conference is to stimulate interest in current, real-world, challenges and...

This seminar will show that the use of force against ‘IS’ in Syria has refined the line between the right of collective self-defence in reaction to a non-State armed attack and the legal title to military intervention by invitation of the territorial State.MR. CLAUS KRESS Professor and Director Institute of...

Wednesday 29th January 2020, 12-1pm, Taylor Building A36: ‘Global Administrative Law and Cities: The Perfect Couple that Never Was’ by Edouard Fromageau

Future generations, wildlife, and natural resources – collectively referred to as “the voiceless” in this presentation – are the most vulnerable and least equipped populations to protect themselves from the impacts of global climate change. Domestic and international law protections are beginning to recognize rights and responsibilities that apply to...

In this talk Joanna Mossop will describe the current state of negotiations for a new UN treaty on conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction. She will highlight some key points of contention in the negotiations and evaluate whether states are on track to achieve...

Grotius is not generally considered a state theorist, but a theorist and jurist of natural law. But his accounts of natural right, sociability and sovereign power – all building blocks of his carapace of a natural legal order – generate also an exoskeleton of political order that leans upon but is not reducible to the legal order...

Wednesday 6th November 2020, 12-1pm, Old Senate Room: ‘Implementing International Watercourses Law Through the WEF Nexus and SDGS: An Integrated Approach Illustrated in the Zambesi River Basin’ by Professor Zeray Yihdego and Julie Gibson

The seminar serves to discuss the Environmental Rights in Cultural Context (ERCC) project that Dirk Hanschel is currently conducting as a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. This project looks at laws in several countries of the Global South which have combined environmental protection...

This seminar will discuss the role that litigation under Part XII of UNCLOS could play in enforcing states’ obligations to protect and preserve the marine environment from the effects of climate change. Inter-state litigation is a weapon employed by weaker states with limited diplomatic leverage over their bigger, more powerful...