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Publication on cybersecurity by Nurullah Benli, PhD student
Muhammed Nurullah Benli, PhD student at the Law School and member of the Aberdeen University Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law (ACCPL), published a book chapter at the end of 2025. The publication originates from Nurullah’s participation in the 13th Summer School in International and European Law, which he...
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Contribution to the UN Marine Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) landscape
ACCPIL member and Professor in Intellectual Property (IP) Law Abbe Brown has continued her contribution to the UN Marine Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) landscape. Abbe has partnered with Professor Marcel Jaspars (University of Aberdeen, Chemistry), the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative...
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Presentations at the International Astronautical Congress in Sydney
Hallam Burnapp, a doctoral researcher at the Law School and Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law who is specialising in space and cybersecurity law, recently attended and presented at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2025 in Sydney, Australia — the world’s largest annual gathering of space professionals, policymakers,...
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Paper presentation at a conference in Belgium
PhD student Lizeth Moreno Marquez, an ACCPIL member, delivered a presentation at the 6th Young Legal Researchers Conference, held in Hasselt, Belgium in December 2025. The conference brought together early-career researchers to share perspectives and foster dialogue on Quarter-Century Milestones: The Next Generation's Reflections on Legal Breakthroughs and Drawbacks. In...
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Workshop funded by the Scottish Council on Global Affairs
In December 2025, Dr Erin Ferguson and Dr Clare Frances Moran received funding from the Scottish Council on Global Affairs to run a 'State of the World' workshop, entitled 'Outlier or Leader? Scotland's Approach to Human Rights and International Law.' The workshop will run in early 2026 under the auspices...
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Invitation to give evidence
Dr Clare Frances Moran was invited this November to give evidence on the Ecocide (Scotland) Bill to the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee, based on the written evidence she, Dr Erin Ferguson and Dr Mitchell Lennan had submitted earlier to the Committee.
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Rosa Villar at an international conference in The Hague
One of our members, PhD student Rosa Villar, presented her first paper conference, “The Illusion of Legitimacy: AI-Decision Support Systems (AI-DSS) in Targeting and the Unresolved Debate on Meaningful Human Judgment from LAWS", at the Early Career Conference on Emerging Disruptive Technology and Arms Control that took place this November...
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Dr Erin Ferguson gives evidence to the Scottish Parliament
On 6 November, Dr Erin Ferguson gave evidence at the Scottish Parliament’s Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee’s scrutiny of the Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Bill. The Bill was introduced by Katy Clark MSP and aims to modernise Scotland’s legal framework for freedom of information by, inter alia, introducing a...
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Collective responses to calls for evidence
Five ACCPIL members (Dr Erin Ferguson, Dr Clare Frances Moran, Professor Irene Couzigou, Professor Abbe Brown and PhD student Nurullah Benli) responded to the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) call for evidence on Human Rights and the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence. Members of the ACCPIL (Dr Erin Ferguson, Dr Mitchell...
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Doctoral and Postgraduate Researchers Attend Comparative Law Course in Norway
In September, doctoral and postgraduate researchers Lizeth Moreno Marquez, Tayo Gbemi, Andrew Walters, James Dodge, and Pierre de Gioia Carabellese from the Law School participated in the PhD Course in Comparative Law and Comparative Legal Methods, hosted by the University of Bergen in Norway. The course welcomed participants from diverse...