Event Archive

2024

October

• AUCEL field trip to Udny Wind

  01 October 2024, 09:00 - 14:00

  We are inviting AUCEL members and the current students of Energy Transition LLM to join us for a field visit to a ommunity-owned Udny Wind turbine. We will leave the University shorlty after 9 am, travel to the site for a visit and after engage with the Udny Community Wind...

August

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  Anatole Boute book presentation 'Energy Dependence and Supply Security: Energy Law in the New Geopolitical Reality'

  15 August 2024, 14:00 - 16:00

  Professor Anatole Boute will present his book Energy Dependence and Supply Security: Energy Law in the New Geopolitical Reality (Oxford University Press 2023). The event will take place in hybrid format, link to booking page for online access is avaialble below.

July

• Giant Pylons: Why Here, Why Now in NE Scotland: a Workshop to Explore Law, Policy and the Bigger Picture

  18 July 2024, 10:00 - 16:00

  The aim of this workshop is to assess the position post election and identify questions on law and policy reform relating to infrastructure linked to renewable energy. This will be contextualised by consideration of just why ‘ giant pylons’ are such a hot button issue in the NE of Scotland....

March

• The Role of Climate and Energy Law in Sustainable Transition

  13 March 2024, 11:30 - 14:00

  Law plays a pivotal role in the pursuit of sustainable transitions. Highly ambitious sustainability goals, and the societal transformation they require, are unlikely to materialize in the desired timescale without law facilitating them. Law is, however, a complex societal system that can also entail significant barriers to sustainable transitions. Existing...

January

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  AUCEL Energy Seminars 2023/2024 - The Role of Environment-and-Human-Rights Law in Framing Inter- and Transdisciplinary Ocean Research

  26 January 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  by Prof Elisa Morgera (University of Strathclyde)

2023

November

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  AUCEL Energy Seminars 2023/2024/ACCPIL Seminar - Rising Seas and Retreating Coasts: Sea Level Rise Impacts on Maritime Baselines, Limits and Boundaries

  29 November 2023, 13:00 - 14:00

  AUCEL (Energy Seminars 2023/2024) and ACCPIL jointly welcome Prof Clive Schofield to Aberdeen   Abstract: The presentation outlines the causes and consequences of climate change induced sea level rise. It considers the sea level rise predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The legal framework for coastal baselines and insular features...

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  AUCEL Energy Seminars 2023/2024 - Local Communities, Environmental Justice and Just Transition: Reflections from The Bayelsa State Oil Commission Report

  08 November 2023, 13:00 - 14:00

  AUCEL Energy Seminars 2023/2024 welcomes Prof Engobo Emeseh   Local Communities, Environmental Justice and Just Transition: Reflections from The Bayelsa Sate Oil Commission Report The Bayelsa State Oil and Environment Commission Report, ‘An Environmental Genocide: The Human and Environmental Cost of Big Oil in Bayelsa, Nigeria, published in May 2023, provides one of...

March

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  Negotiation of International Wind Power Contract - a personal perspective

  13 March 2023, 13:00 - 15:00

  This lecture is rooted in my personal experience negotiating international wind power contracts. It starts with a short presentation of some useful negotiation theory before presenting some of the particularity of construction contracts and renewable energy execution contracts. Finally I will present some interesting “war stories” and share with the...

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  Are We Killing the Earth to Save the Climate?

  08 March 2023, 13:00 - 14:00

  AUCEL Energy Seminar Series 22/23

February

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  Volcanic Eruptions and International Law - Lessons from Iceland

  01 February 2023, 14:00 - 15:00

  Volcanic eruptions can have various consequences, including in the field of international law. In the seminar, two eruptions will be addressed that have impacted the baselines for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea and other maritime zones of Iceland: Mount Katla in 1918 and the sudden appearance of the...