Event Archive

Genome editing is often presented as a radical breakthrough in research and innovation that will be far reaching in its application and revolutionary in its consequences. The promotion of expectations triggers concerns in the general opinion and in the research community along the binary lines of too little regulation vs....

Plese see more here: https://www.aipn.org/forms/meeting/Microsite/Europe30Jan2020 For any questions, please contact the leader of Aberden University AIPN Chapter - Solomon Obulor s.obulor.18@abdn.ac.uk Join the Europe Chapter in Aberdeen for an evening presentation on the current state of play in the Norwegian offshore petroleum sector. In his presentation, Thor Magnus Rovik will take us through the...

Professor Terry Daintith will discuss his article, “Government Companies as Regulators” (2019 Modern Law Review, 1-28). Sectoral regulators in the United Kingdom, such as Ofgem for gas and electricity, or Ofcom for broadcasting and telecommunications, are normally statutory bodies organised under specific legislation. Exceptionally, the regulator recently (2015) established for the...

Curing the Resource Curse Moving the frontiers of Local Content, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Indigenous Peoples Rights and Impact & Benefits Sharing Agreement

Dr Constantinos Yiallourides, lecturer of the Aberdeen Law School, will present his latest research on maritime boundaries and energy exploration. What compels states to conclude maritime delimitation agreements is often their desire to avail themselves of the benefits accruing from offshore natural resources, especially oil, gas and other valuable minerals. Nevertheless,...

Co-author of the recent article ‘Oil as Currency: The Venezuelan Petro, a new oil pattern’ and a native Venezuelan, Professor Herrera-Anchustegui will present an informal seminar on his observations on the current Venezuelan political and petroleum crisis. This seminar will examine both the historical issues that have led to the...

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The African Natural Resources and Energy Law Network presents the 2019 Energy and Natural Resource Conference. The theme of the conference is: Energy Crisis and Natural Resource Governance in Africa: Exploring the Missing Links. The objective of the event is to promote knowledge sharing and collaborations on critical issues amongst energy law researchers and...

The University of Aberdeen's Student Association of International Petroleum Negotiators will welcome Uisdean Vass as their keynote speaker at the event on March 20th 2019.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK will attend the UN Intergovernmental Conference on Marine Genetic Resources of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction in New York in 2019.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK will attend the UN Intergovernmental Conference on Marine Genetic Resources of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction in New York in 2019. We are holding a lunchtime side event on March 28 "Mare Geneticum and an EcoSystem...