Seminar Archive 2016-17

Timetable 2016-17

Second Half Session

January - April 2017

• Friday 27th January 2017 4-5.30pm, New King's NK11: Four Inconvenient Truths About Copyright - Professor Martin Kretschmer, Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Glasgow
• Friday 3rd February 2017 4-5.30pm, The Old Senate Room: Disregarding the Salomon Principle: An Empirical Analysis, 1885-2014 - Professor Alan Dignam, Professor of Corporate Law at the Queen Mary University of London
• Friday 10th February 2017 4-5.30pm, New King's NK11: Federalism by Conventions: The Constitutional Implications of Brexit on the Union - Dr Robert Taylor, University of Aberdeen
• Friday 17th February 2017 4-5.30pm, New King's NK11: Land and ornament in English and Scots Law - Dr Marta Iljadica, University of Aberdeen
• Friday 24th February 2017 4-5.30pm, New King's NK10: The Contours of a Human Right to Affordable, Reliable, and Modern Energy Access - Marlies Hesselman, Lecturer in Public International Law at the University of Groningen
• Friday 3rd March 2017 4-5.30pm, New King's NK1: Resolving Energy/ Natural Resource Conflicts in the Far North: Conflict, Compromise and Continuity - Professor Larry Bakken
• Friday 10th March 2017 4-5.30pm, New King's NK11: Prohibition of the Use of Force by Terrorist Armed Groups - Dr Mohamad Janaby, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen
• Friday 17th March 2017 4-5.30pm, New King's NK1: Rape and Sexual Assault in Virtual and Augmented Reality - Dr John Danaher, National University of Ireland, Galway
• Guest Lecture - Tuesday 21st March 2017 6-7.30pm, The Old Senate Room: Legal Issues on War Reparations - Professor Pierre d’Argent, Professor of Public International Law, University of Leuven, Belgium. Poster can be found here.
• Wednesday 31st May 2017 1-2pm, New King's NK3: The application of Brussels IIa Regulation in the Italian legal order - Professor Baruffi, University of Verona, Italy

First Half Session

September - November 2016

• Friday 23rd September 2016 4-5.30pm, New King's NK3: Old Wine in a New Bottle: Rhetoric and the Study of Law and Emotion - Dr John Stannard, Queen's University Belfast
• Friday 7th October 2016 4-5.30pm, New King's NK3: Legality of the Self-Defence Action against the "Islamic State" in Syria - Dr Irène Couzigou, University of Aberdeen
• Guest Lecture - Thursday 13th October 6-8pm, Regent Lecture Theatre: Scotland's Options for Brexit - Professor Sir David Edward, University of Edinburgh and prior Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities.  Poster can be viewed here.
• Friday 21st October 2016 4-5.30pm, New King's NK3:  The Invention of New Law in the Poetry of Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington (ca.1496-1586) - Dr Andrew Simpson, University of Aberdeen
• Friday 28th October 2016 4-5.30pm, New King's NK3: Compact Fusion Reactors: Robust Rules of Civil Liability and Efficient Regulatory Frameworks - Dr Roy Partain, University of Aberdeen
• Guest Lecture - Thursday 3rd November 2016 6-8pm, New King's NK10: The Permanent Court of Arbitration and its Contribution to International Dispute Settlement - Brooks Daly, Deputy Secretary-General and Principal Legal Counsel, Permanent Court of Arbitration (The Netherlands) Poster can be viewed here.
• Guest Lecture - Tuesday 8th November 2016 6-8pm, New King's NK1: How will Brexit Happen? Legal Questions Faced by the UK - Dr Holger Hestermeyer, Reader at King’s College London.  Poster can be viewed here.
• Friday 18th November 2016 4-5.30pm, New King's NK3: Pride, Prejudice and Public Order? An examination of Scots Law's approach to balancing freedom of expression with expressions/acts of intolerance - Dr Philip Glover, University of Aberdeen
• Wednesday, 23rd November 2016 1-3pm, Taylor A37: Why Hitler saved the judges – on judicial resistance to authoritarian regimes - Hans Petter Graver(Professor, Department of Private Law University of Oslo; Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Durham)
• Friday, 2nd December 2016 4-5.30pm, New King's NK3: Conceptual Confusion in the Construction of Contracts - Scott Styles, University of Aberdeen