Event Archive

2022

March

• Hard Legal Problems and Comparative Legal Analysis: The case of parental child abduction in international and Islamic law

  11 March 2022, 17:00 - 18:30

  The seminar will draw on Professor Emon’s recent book, Jurisdictional Exceptionalisms, where he and co-author Urfan Khaliq integrate their respective research on private international law and Islamic law to address the contemporary legal challenges surrounding parental child abduction.  The Hague Abduction Convention, 1980, remains a cornerstone convention that redresses the harm to...

2021

December

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  PhD Book Club - European Private International Law in a Digital World

  08 December 2021, 10:00 - 14:00

  The event is organized under the auspices of the Digital in Law project, co-funded by Erasmus-plus Programme of the European Union.The objectives of the events are to: 1) stimulate the PhD students’ critical thinking and to 2) extend and redefine their existing knowledge considering digital technologies in law. The event will bring together...

November

• 1st Postgraduate Law Conference of the Centre for Private International Law

  17 November 2021

  The Centre for Private International Law (CPIL) of the University of Aberdeen is pleased to host its first online student conference, to be held on 17th November 2021. The Postgraduate Law Conference aims at bringing together early career scholars working in the private international law field or at the intersection...

September

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  Reproductive Health Care and Policy Concerns: Regulation of Surrogacy Arrangements in Sri Lanka and Lessons Learned from the United Kingdom (online workshop)

  17 September 2021, 10:00 - 12:00

  Organized by Dr Katarina Trimmings & Ms Ziyana Nazeemudeen under the auspices a British Council-funded research project titled 'Reproductive Health Care and Policy Concerns: Regulation of Surrogacy Arrangements in Sri Lanka and Lessons Learned from the United Kingdom'

2020

June

• POAM Project International Experts' Workshop on Rethinking the Protection of Abducting Mothers in Return Proceedings: Domestic Violence and Parental Child Abduction

  19 June 2020

  On 19 June 2020, the Centre for Private International Law, represented by the Aberdeen POAM research team, hosted the International Experts’ Workshop on Rethinking the Protection of Abducting Mothers in Return Proceedings: Domestic Violence and Parental Child Abduction. The workshop, which was originally due to be held in Milan on 27 March...

2019

September

• Building Families Through Surrogacy: a stakeholder event on the reform of UK law at the University of Aberdeen with the Law Commissions

  10 September 2019

  The Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission are undertaking a joint legislative project, the objective of which is to reform the UK laws on surrogacy, including taking account of cross-border surrogacy cases. As part of this law reform project the Commissions are seeking to consult relevant stakeholders, including interested academics...

May

• Protection of Abducting Mothers in Return Proceedings: Intersection between Domestic Violence and Parental Child Abduction - POAM Project Workshops

  28 - 29 May 2019

  On 28 May and 29 May 2019, the Centre for Private International Law hosted two one-day workshops on domestic violence and parental child abduction, as part of the EU-funded POAM project. The workshops were organised by Dr Katarina Trimmings (Principal Investigator), Dr Isla Callander (Co-Investigator) and Dr Onyoja Momoh (Research Assistant)....

March

• The Use of Blockchain Technology in Cross-Border Legal Cooperation

  27 March 2019, 13:00 - 14:00

  Admission is free, all are welcome to attend

• Workshop: Reform of EU Law on Defamation

  04 March 2019, 10:00 - 16:00

  This workshop will bring together global press freedom NGOs, journalists, representatives of EU institutions, and legal scholars, with a view to highlighting and addressing the weaknesses in defamation law which allow powerful entities to suppress freedom of expression. The research underpinning the event was prompted by the redaction and deletion of...

February

• Unity in Diversity in Private International Law Workshop

  27 February 2019

  The Centre for Private International Law hosted a workshop entitled ‘Unity in Diversity in Private International law’ on Monday 27th February in C49 from 11am until 4pm. The keynote address was given by Professor Ralf Michaels from Duke University, with additional speakers Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm, University of Edinburgh, Maria Blanca Noodt...