Event Archive

2025

November

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  Crossroads in Private International Law Webinar on the EU Anti-SLAPP Directive

  28 November 2025, 13:30 - 14:30

  The EU Anti-SLAPP Directive - Comparative Perspectives on Implementation

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  Crossroads in Private International Law Webinar with Dr Kirsten Henckel

  19 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00

  The Digital Afterlife: Digital succession and private international law

May

• Platform Governance and Wikilegality, Seminar by Prof David Nelken

  21 May 2025, 10:30 - 12:00

  You are cordially invited to attend this seminar, which is co-organised by the Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law (ACCPIL) and Centre for Private International Law & Transnational Governance (CPILTG).

April

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  Crossroads in Private International Law Seminar Series

  23 April - 21 May 2025

  Upcoming Spring Seminars

2024

May

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  Book launch event in memory of the late Professor Jonathan Fitchen

  31 May 2024, 16:00 - 19:00

  On 31 May 2024, the Law School will be holding a book launch event in memory of the late Professor Jonathan Fitchen - a former Director of the Aberdeen Centre for Private International Law and a distinguished private international law scholar, who passed away after a brief illness on the 22nd...

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  Project Workshop: 'Laying the Foundations for a Restatement of Scots Private International Law'

  31 May 2024, 11:00 - 15:00

  On 31 May 2024, the Centre for Private International Law will be holding the second workshop in a series of workshops organised under the auspices of an RSE-funded research project titled 'Laying the Foundations for a Restatement of Scots Private International Law'. The aim of this collaborative project is to...

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  Second Postgraduate Law Conference of the Centre for Private International Law

  06 May 2024, 09:00 - 17:00

  Building on the success of its 1st Postgraduate Law Conference, the Centre for Private International Law (CPIL) of the University of Aberdeen is pleased to host the 2nd Postgraduate Law Conference, to be held on 6th May 2024 as a virtual event. The Conference will bring together early career scholars...

March

• AI and International Contracts: What law applies if your "smart fridge" takes over...?

  14 March 2024, 14:00 - 15:30

  Join our webinar with Prof Tim Dornis, Leibniz Universität Hannover. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere. It not only drives your car, operates your Google searches, organizes your Netflix movies and your Spotify music selection. Sooner or later, it will also take over your household: Some of us own an autonomous cleaning device...

February

• Settling the Accounts: allowing wealthy and developing countries to right the wrongs of the past through (private) international law

  16 February 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  Join our webinar with Prof Thalia Kruger, Ast. Prof. Gamze Erdem Türkelli and Begüm Kilimcioglu PhD Candidate, University of Antwerp. During the long years of colonisation, there was a constant flow of resources from colonies to colonisers. Today, these former colonies (largely aligned with the so-called ‘third world’, ‘developing countries’ or ‘global...

2023

December

• Reciprocating the return of abducted children Under The 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention with Muslim (Islamic Law) States

  06 December 2023, 13:00 - 14:00

  Join a webinar with Dr Nazia Yaqub ,University of Leeds. The focus of this seminar is on the practical application and the challenges of the Private International Law treaty, the 1980 Hague Abduction Convention and the research findings of Dr Yaqub’s study, published in her book, Parental Child Abduction to Islamic Law...