Event Archive

2024

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...

November

• Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation (SLAPPs): How private international law rules are silencing public watchdogs

  02 November 2023, 13:00 - 14:00

  Join a webinar with Prof Justin Borg Barthet and Dr Francesca Farrington, University of Aberdeen. Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation or SLAPPs refers to legal actions or threats of legal action that are initiated to suppress communications on matters of public interest. The targets of SLAPPs are a broad range of public...

October

• Protection of international families post-Brexit through the Conventions of the Hague Conference on Private International Law: Online Workshop with Central Authorities

  25 October 2023, 11:00 - 13:00

  On 25th October 2023, members of the Centre for Private International Law (Prof Katarina Trimmings, Ms Konstantina Kalaitsoglou, and Mr Le Xuan Tung) will be holding an online workshop with Central Authorities, under the auspices of an RSE-funded research project titled ‘Protection of international families with links to the European...

March

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  Beyond the Civil - Common Law Divide: Islamic Shari'a Principles in Shari'a Based International Arbitration Disputes

  14 March 2023, 14:00 - 15:30

  The liberalisation of financial regulation, the globalisation of financial markets, the proliferation of innovative products and the technological advancement have transformed conventional banking and contributed to the growth of Islamic finance. The growth in Islamic finance markets and products has accelerated following the global financial crisis in 2008. With more...

February

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  Cross-Border Litigation in Central Europe: EU Private International Law Before National Courts

  23 February 2023, 13:00 - 15:00

  In this webinar, we will focus on the practical application and the challenges of EU Private International Law in the Member States and present the research findings of the multi-year EU-funded CEPIL project carried out by six universities and covering ten Central European Member States. The book presenting the project’s...

2022

December

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  Crossroads in Private International Law Webinar: The Private Side of Transforming our World: UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and the Role of Private International Law

  05 December 2022, 14:00 - 15:30

  Speaker: Prof Dr Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm, Chair of Private International Law, School of Law, University of Edinburgh Moderator: Prof Laura Carballo Piñeiro, Universida de Vigo In this webinar, we will focus on the role of private international law in implementing the sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. The edited volume The Private...

October

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  Private international law's contribution to the regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI): an EU perspective

  05 October 2022, 16:00 - 17:30

  *This event is part of the 'Crossroads in Private International Law' webinar series, organised by the Centre for Private International Law.

June

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  Webinar - Strategic Climate Change Litigation in the EU: Between Judicial Restraint and Proactive Judicial Policy

  01 June 2022, 16:00 - 17:00

  *This is the first event in our new Crossroads in Private International Law webinar series, organised by the Centre for Private International Law. Nevena Jevremović, Honorary Lecturer, School of Law, University of Aberdeen Moderated by Professor Guillaume Laganière, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) The overall passivity of the individual states to take meaningful action...

April

• International Tort Litigation in the Internet and Artificial Intelligence Era: An EU approach by Professor Guillermo Palao

  27 April 2022, 15:00 - 16:30

  The emergence and consolidation of the 3rd and the 4th Industrial Revolutions have amounted to several complex legal risks. From a Private International Law perspective, those challenges often and directly affect the question of determining international jurisdiction in situations where the case enjoys an international character, due to the connection...