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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...
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ACCPIL members speak at '25 Years of the Human Rights Act' conference
On 18 September, ACCPIL Co-Director Dr Erin Ferguson and PGR member Magdalena Zabrocka presented their research at a conference to mark the 25th anniversary of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA), hosted by the University of Leeds. Erin presented her research on the impact of privatisation on the HRA, arguing that...
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Two staff members at the European Society of International Law (ESIL) conference in Berlin this Sept
Irene Couzigou, elected convenor of the ESIL Interest Group on Peace and Security, organised a workshop where the Interest Group members discussed the following topic ‘Reconstructing Peace: (Mis)Uses of International Law’. She also chaired a panel that analysed how peace can be reconstructed in and through International Law. Edouard Fromageau, elected...
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Participation of Liliyana to an international doctoral Summer School
Dr Liliyana Kalinova, a former PhD student, participated in an international doctoral Summer School at the University Milano-Bicocca at the beginning of September. She was invited by Professor Irene Couzigou to deliver the following paper: 'Efficiency through Transparency and Exchange of Information between International Organisations: The Case of International Organisations...