Research Seminars

Wednesday 14th October 2026 1-2:30pm - Hybrid Event (C49) Frequent and Curious Among the English; But With Us... Little Accustomed to be Pursued: Actions Upon Injurious Words and Damnage and Means in Early Modern and Modern Scots Law by Dr Jonathan Brown

Thursday 15th October  1-2:30pm - Hybrid Event (C11) Putting the Human Back into Jurisprudence by Professor Lorenzo Zucca

Friday 16th October 1-2.30pm - Hybrid Event (C11) Why Should Commercial Actors Care How Regulation is Made? Maritime Safety Regulation and Private Law by Dr Madison Stevens

Wednesday 11th November 2026 1-2:30pm - Hybrid Event (C49) Scottish and Australian Approaches to Regulating Contract(s): Friend or False Friend? by Dr Jessica Viven-Wilksch

Wednesday 11th November 2026 2-4pm - Hybrid Event (KCF7) International Prosecutions and Transitional Justice: A Practical View by Martin Hackett

Wednesday 25th November 2026 1-2pm - Online Event (Teams) Contracting for the Green Shipping Transition: Rethinking the Environmental Role of Private Law by Dr Ali Ulvi Sahin, University of Southampton

Wednesday 25th November 2026 2-3:30pm - Hybrid Event (KCF7) The Pragmatic Case for International Human Rights: Constitutional Resilience in Domestic and International Legal Orders by Professor Katja Ziegler

Wednesday 17th March 2027 2-3:30pm - Hybrid Event (Old Senate Room): Beyond 'Concrete and Direct': The Expansion of Military Advantage and the Erosion of Proportionality in International Humanitarian Law by Dr Saeed Bagheri

Wednesday 8th October 2025 1-2pm - Hybrid Event (C11): FWS v Scottish Ministers: Reconciling the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and the Equality Act 2010 by Professor Kenneth Norrie

Wednesday 22nd October 2025 1-2pm - Hybrid Event (C11): Evaluating the Responsive Uses of Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Sentencing at the Criminal Law Court: A Comparative Perspective by Dr Ezeji Chiji Longinus

Wednesday 3rd December 2025 1-2pm - Hybrid Event (C11): Regulatory Sandboxes as a Means to Achieve Responsive Regulation? by Sophie Weerts

Wednesday 18th February 2026 3-4pm - Hybrid Event (CB009): Between Ambition and Realism - What to Expect from the Upcoming Reforms to the Rome II and Brussels Ia Regulation? by Professor Tobias Lutzi

Thursday 19th February 2026 1-2pm - Hybrid Event (C11): EU Sustainability Legislation and International Supply Chains by Professor Adolf Peter

Wednesday 25th February 2026 1-2pm - Hybrid Event (C11): Law and Communication Technology - Written, Printed and Digital Communication of Law in Legal History by Professor Jorn Sunde, University of Oslo

Wednesday 18th March 2026 1-2:30pm - Hybrid Event (C11): From Online Safety to Trust and Safety - Turning Commercial Goals into Legal Requirements by Professor Valere Ndior

Wednesday 25th March 2026 1-2pm - Hybrid Event (C11): Reforming reporting restrictions after the Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act: the unfinished business by Dr Andrew Tickell, Glasgow Caledonian University

Monday 27th April 2026 1-2pm - Hybrid Event (C11): Reimagining usages of international trade in the era of artificial intelligence (AI) by Dr Boris Prastalo, Brunel University

Thursday 30th April 2026 10-11am - Online Event: Crossroads in Private International Law // Problems in Determining the Proper Law of the Contract in Confirmed Letters of Credit by Liwen Leung

Friday 22nd May 2026 12-1pm - Online Event: Crossroads in Private International Law // Can the Hague Draft Convention on Parallel Proceedings Succeed? Rethinking Proceedings Succeed? Rethinking Coordination in a Plural Legal Order by Aygun Mammadzada

Wednesday, 16 October, 1.30 - 2.30pm - Hybrid Event (C11): Law and Legal Consciousness in Medieval Scotland by Professor Hector MacQueen

Wednesday, 16 October, 2.45 - 3.45pm - Hybrid Event (C11): Ideology of Justice: The ICTY as a site of knowledge production by Dr Marina Veličković

Wednesday, 13 Novemebr, 1.30 - 2.30pm - Hybrid Event (C11): Social Policy and Qualitative Research by Dr Claire Houghton

Wednesday, 13 Novemebr, 2.45 - 3.45pm - Hybrid Event (C11): Misleading information and investor protection in cross-border scenarios: the location of the financial loss by Dr Sara Sánchez Fernández

Wednesday, 22 January, 2 - 3pm - Hybrid Event (A21): Regime creation, raw data and intellectual property: holding power and opening doors  by Abbe Brown

Wednesday, 22 January, 3.15 - 4.15pm - Online Event: Canada’s journey with online harms legislation by Emily Laidlaw

Wednesday, 26 February, 1.15 - 2.15pm - Hybrid Event (A21): The Ownership of Carbon by Professor Jill Robbie

Wednesday, 26 February, 2.30 - 3.30pm - Hybrid Event (A21): The Cross-Border Recognition of Changes in the Legal Sex of Transgender Persons: The Landmark ECJ ruling in the Mirin case by Prof Alina Tryfonidou

Wednesday, 19 March, 1.15 - 2.15pm - Hybrid Event (A21): Trade Usages in the Context of and Beyond the CISG (Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods) by Dr Boris Praštalo

Wednesday, 19 March, 2.30 - 3.30pm - Hybrid Event (A21): Responsibility and Accountability for Conducts in Cyberspace by Dr François Delerue

Wednesday 16^th April 1-3:30pm – Seminar 1, Hybrid Event (A21): Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law by Chloe Kennedy

Wednesday 16^th April 2:30-3:30pm – Seminar 2, Hybrid Event (A21): Recent developments in the handling of scientific evidence before international courts and tribunals by Dr James Devaney

Thursday, 14 September, 12-1pm - On- Campus Event (NK14): 'Is Nordic Law a Legal Family? ' by Jaakko Husa

Wednesday, 18 October, 1-2.00pm - Hybrid Event (C11/Teams): 'The Purposes of Preambles in the History of Legislation in Europe ' by Brage Thunestvedt Hatløy

Wednesday, 18 October, 2-3.00pm - Hybrid Event (C11/Teams): ''Legal Doctrinal Scholarship and the Social Sciences ' by Matyas Bodig

Tuesday, 24 October, 3-4.30pm - Hybrid Event (A21/Teams): 'International Refugee Law in the Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities by Sandrine Turgis

Wednesday, 15 November, 1.10-2.10pm - Hybrid Event (C11/Teams): 'Climate Change and the European Convention on Human Rights ' by Erin Ferguson

Wednesday, 15 November, 2.20-3.20pm - Hybrid Event (C11/Teams): 'Entrenching Human Rights Protections in the UK's Devolved Nations '' by Kasey McCall-Smith

Wednesday, 15 November, 3.30-4.30pm - Hybrid Event (C11/Teams): 'Family Law Reform at the Scottish Law Commission: Civil Remedies for Domestic Abuse ' by Gillian Black

Wednesday, 20 March, 1.15 - 2.15pm, Hybrid Event: 'Law Reform in Scotland: Moveable Transactions as a Case Study ' by Professor Andrew Steven

Wednesday, 20 March, 2.30 - 3.30pm, Hybrid Event: 'Responsibility to Protect: Challenges and Opportunities '' by Professor Christina Binder

Wednesday, 21 February, 1.10-2.10pm, Hybrid Event: 'International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability: In the Court's Shadow ' by Patryk I. Labuda

Wednesday, 21 February, 2.20-3.20pm, Hybrid Event: 'A Court of Specialists: Judicial Behavior on the UK Supreme Court ' by Chris Hanretty

Wednesday, 21 February, 3.30-4.30pm, Hybrid Event: 'International Tax Law in a Changing Landscape ' by Xiaorong (Sharron) Li

Wednesday, 24 January, 1.15-2.15pm, Hybrid Event: Climate Change and the Limits of International Fisheries Law by Mitchell Lennan

Friday 14 October, 2-3.30pm - Teams Event: Self-defense in the Fight against Terrorism: The Enlargement of the Right of Self-defense by Dr Mélanie Dubuy

Monday 24 October, 2-3.30pm - Hybrid Event (On Campus Venue KCF7): Don't Worry About the Government- National Security and the Rule of Law by Ronald Clancy QC

Thursday 3 November, 1-2.30pm - Hybrid Event (On Campus Venue KCF7): From Validity to Valency by Professor Pauline Westerman

Thursday 17 November, 1-2:30pm - Hybrid Event (On Campus Venue OSR): A 'right to deepfake' in Europe? Assessing the regulation of deepfakes under the lens of Article 10 ECHR by Dr Mathilde Pavis & Dr Dimitrios Kagiaros

Monday 23 January, 1-3pm - Hybrid Event (On Campus Venue KCG11): Law and policies for the digital economy. The role of comparative law by Professor Guido Smorto

Wednesday 1 February, 2-3pm - Hybrid Event (On Campus Venue Taylor A21): Volcanic Eruptions and International Law - Lessons from Iceland by Professor Bjarni Már Magnússon

Thursday 9 February, 2-3.30pm - Hybrid Event (On Campus Venue New Kings NK1): Challenges Raised by International Cybercrimes by Ian Whitehurst

Thursday 16 February, 10-11:30am - Online Event: The Commercialisation of Your Physical Self - An Introduction to Personal Genomics by Dr Andelka M. Phillips

Tuesday 21 February, 1-2.30pm - Hybrid Event (On Campus Venue: C11): Promoting sustainable foreign direct investments through investment treaties: the long-awaited evolution of international investment law . by Dr. Lukas Vanhonnaeker

Friday, 17 March, 2-3.30pm - Online Event: Military Assistance to Ukraine: A Form of Collective Self-defence? by Professor Antonello Tancredi

Tuesday, 25 April, 3-4,30PM - Hybrid Event: Fair and Equitable Treatment and the Draft Code of Conduct for Adjudicators by Fahira Brodlija

Wednesday, 24 May, 2-3pm - Hybrid Event: The Short-Lived Hungarian Floating Security and the Scottish Experience with the Floating Charge by Professor Tibor Tajti

Friday 05 November, 1-2pm, Teams Event: Transforming Perceptions: The Development of Pre-pack Regulations in England and Wales by Dr Bolanle Adebola

Wednesday 08 December, 2-3pm, Teams Event: The Nature of Cryptocurrency: Lessons from Banco de Portugal v Waterlow & Sons Ltd by Dr Israel Cedillo Lazcano

Thursday 3 February, 3-4.30pm, Teams Event: White Hat Hackers: When is Hacking Legal and Ethical by Dr Sara Correia

Friday 11 March, 5-6.30pm, Teams Event: Hard Legal Problems and Comparative Legal Analysis: The case of parental child abduction in international and Islamic law by Professor Anver Emon

Wednesday 17 April, 3-4.30pm, Teams Event: International Tort Litigation in the Internet and Artificial Intelligence Era: An EU approach by Professor Guillermo Palao

Monday 2 May, 2-3.30pm, Teams Event: Concerning the Origins of the Scots Law Doctrine of Marriage by Cohabitation with Habit and Repute: Review post Requiem by Thomas M. Green

• Monday 26th October, 1-2,30pm, Teams Meeting: 'Comparative Law's Pyrrhic Victory? ' by Professor Jaakko Husa
• Monday 2nd November, 4-5,30pm, Teams Meeting: 'Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism ' by Professor Julie E. Cohen
• Thursday 19th November, 2-3,30pm, Teams Meeting: 'International Health Law: An Emerging Branch of International Law ' by Dr Pedro Villarrea
• Friday 27th November, 1-2pm, Teams Meeting: Creating a Multilateral Investment Court: why and how? by Colin M. Brown
• Tuesday 1st December, 5-6,30pm, Teams Meeting: Participation in policy making and the duty to consult by Professor Janet McLean (Professor of Law, The University of Auckland)
• Thursday 10th December, 10,30am-12pm, Teams Meeting: Is Private International Law a Pill that Courts Just Cannot Swallow? The Case of Matrimonial Property in Israel by Dr Sharon Shakargy (the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Law, Israel)
• Wednesday 16th December, 11am-12pm, Teams Meeting: International Investment Law and Developing Nations: the case of African countries by Dr Emilia Onyema (SOAS University of London)

• Friday 12th February, 11-12.00pm, Teams Meeting: 'The draft Data Governance Act and Digital Services Act: a digital constitution for Europe or just too much regulation? ' by Professor Alain Strowel
• Thursday 18th February, 3-4.30pm, Teams Meeting: 'Sovereignty of the Westminster Parliament versus Sovereignty of the Scots People ' by Mr Scott Styles (Cancelled)
• Thursday 4th March, 1-2pm, Teams Meetig: 'Superior Bargaining Power in Digital Networks by Dr Claudio Lombardi '
• Tuesdasy 27th April, 2-3.30pm, Teams Meeting: 'Cyber-attacks and the Law on the Use of Force by Professor Nicholas Tsagourias
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• Wednesday 2nd October, 1-2pm, Taylor Building C11: 'Strategic Litigation and Tobacco Control ' by Prof Fiona Smith (University of Leeds)
• Friday, 11th October, 4-5.30pm, Taylor Building C11: 'The evolution of land law: some French and Scottish perspectives ' by Dr David Richard (Layer and Founder of Lex Terra Avocat) and Mr Malcolm Combe (University of Aberdeen)
• Friday, 18th October, 4-5.30pm, Taylor Building C11: 'The Moral Conflict of Law and Neuroscience ' by Peter Alces (William and Mary Law School)
• Wednseday, 23rd October, 1-2.30pm, Taylor Building C11: 'Litigating Climate Change under UNCLOS ' by Prof Alan Boyle (University of Edinburgh)
• Thursday, 31st October, 4-5.30pm, Taylor Building C11: 'Environmental Rights in Cultural Context ' by Professor Dirk Hanschel (University of Halle-Wittenberg)
• Friday, 1st November, 4-5.30pm, Taylor Building C11: “It's a regulator, but not as we know it”: the Oil and Gas Authority by Prof Terry Daintith (University of London)
• Wednesday, 6th November 1-2.30pm, Taylor Building A21, 'Expedited Procedures in International Commercial Arbitration and Investment Arbitration ' by Rahul Donde
• Wednesday, 13th November, 1-2.30pm, 'The State Theory of Hugo Grotius: Lessons for our Time ?' by Prof Nehal Bhuta (University of Edinburgh)
• Wednesday, 20th November, 1-2.30pm, 'Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice ' by Professor Gregg Caruso
• Wednesday, 29th November 4-5.30pm, 'The prospects for an ambitious treaty on marine biodiversity for the high seas ' by Joanna Mossop (Edinburgh Law School)

• Wednesday 15th January, 1-2.30pm, Taylor Building C11: 'Climate Change and the Voiceless: Protecting Future Generations, Wildlife, and Natural Resources ' by Prof Randall S. Abate (Monmouth University)
• Tuesday 28th January, 2-3:30pm, Meeting Room 1, SDRL: 'It is all in EU law? - Remaining questions on investment protection and investor-state dispute settlement within the EU legal order' by Katariina Särkänne (UEF Law School)
• Friday 7th February 4-5.30pm, Taylor C11: 'The Fine Line between Collective Self-Defence and Intervention by Invitation' by Prof Claus Kreß (University of Cologne)
• Wednesday 19th February ,1-2.30pm, Taylor C11: 'Enforcement of heritable securities in Scotland: reforming the law ' by Dr Frankie McCarthy (University of Glasgow)
• Wednesday 4th March 1-2.30pm, Taylor C11: 'Iraq's Oil and Gas Industry ' by Janan Al-Asady
• Friday 20th March 4-5.30pm, Taylor C11: 'AI, Ethics and Global Governance: Reigning in Technology or Ethics-Washing ?' by Dr Angela Daly (Strathclyde Law School)

• Wednesday 3rd of October 2018 1-3pm, Taylor Building C11: 'Brexit and limping divorce statuses: A critical analysis of the ties that bind us to national law' by Dr Maebh Harding, Associate Professor, Warwick Law School
• Wednesday 10th of October 2018 1-3pm, Taylor Building C11. 'The Power(s) of Global Constitutionalism' by Professor Anthony Lang, University of St Andrews
• Wednesday 24th of October 2018 1-3pm, Taylor Building C11. 'Modern Energy Law ' by Professor Raphael Heffron, University of Dundee
• Wednesday 31st of October 2018 1-3pm, Taylor Building C11 'The Making Available Right: Realizing the Potential of Copyright's Dissemination Function in the Digital Age ' by Dr Cheryl Foong, Curtin University
• Friday 9th of November 2018 4-6pm, The Sir Duncan Rice Library Room 224, 'Kompetenz - Kompetenz in International Commercial Arbitration: Is It Time For Uniformity? ' by André Monteiro, Visiting Scholar at Queen Mary University of London
• Tuesday 20th of November 2018 4-6pm, The Old Senate Room, 'Joe Thomson and Contract Law in Scotland: Against Legal Nationalism? ' by Professor Hector MacQueen, University of Edinburgh
• Friday 30th of November 2018 1-3pm, New Kings NK7, 'Horizontal Censorship: Employers' Power to Regulate Socio-Political Speech ' by Professor Graeme Orr, University of Queensland

• Wednesday 16th January, 2:15pm, Old Senate Room: 'Feminism and the Limits of Law: Reflections from the Scottish Feminist Judgments Project ' by Dr Chloe Kennedy (University of Edinburgh) and Professor Sharon Cowan (University of Edinburgh)
• Thursday 7th February, 12-2pm, The Sir Duncan Rice Library meeting room 3: 'Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms in EU law ' by Dr Ignacio Herrera-Anchustegui (University of Bergen)
• Friday 22nd February, 4-5pm, Taylor Building C11: 'Regulating Campaign Spending in the Age of the Internet ' by Professor Lori Ringhand
• Friday 1st March, 4-5pm, Taylor Building C11: 'The Right to Self-Defence under International Law: Reading and Re-reading the Caroline Correspondence, 1838-1842 ' by Professor Dino Kritsiotis (University of Nottingham)
• Thursday 7th March 11am -12 noon, MR304 MacRobert Building: 'The South African Land Reform Programme And Expropriation Without Compensation: A Silver Bullet Or A (Calculated) Shot in The Dark? ' by Juanita Pienaar
• Wednesday 20th March 2-3pm, MacRobert Building MR310. 'Is the scope of damages for copyright infringement contrary to the rule of law?' by Dr Hayleigh Bosher (Brunel University London)
• Wednesday 27th March 1-2pm, Taylor Building C11. 'The Use of Blockchain Technology in Cross Border Legal Cooperation' by Dr Florian Heindler (Sigmund Freud University) and Dr Burcu Yüksel (University of Aberdeen)
• Friday 26th April, 4-5pm, Taylor Building C11: 'Cryptocurrencies in the English and Scots common law of property ' by Professor David Fox (University of Edinburgh)

• Friday 22nd September 2017 4-5pm, Taylor Building C11: Women in legal academia in Germany - Professor Phillip Hellwege , Professor for Private Law, Business Law, and Legal History at the University of Augsburg, Germany
• Friday 29th September 2017 4-5pm, Taylor Building C11: The role of Rawls and Dworkin in the regulation of oil and gas extraction: an exploratory study - Professor Tina Hunter , University of Aberdeen
• Friday 6th October 2017 4-5.30pm, Taylor Building C11: Critical issues in investment arbitration. Some considerations from recent cases under the ECT , Professor Maria Chiara Malaguti , Professor of International Law at Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore (Milan/Rome, Italy)
• Friday 13th October 2017 4-5pm, Taylor Building C11: Abandoning Principles: The Right (and Wrong) of Abandonment of Land in Scots Law - Malcolm Combe , University of Aberdeen
• *Cancelled* Wednesday 18th October 2017 1-2pm, Taylor Building C11: Cross-border portability of refugees' personal status - Bridging private international law and migration law - Professor Jinske Verhellen, Ghent University, Belgium
• Wednesday 1st November 2017 1-2pm, Taylor Building C11: Investment Arbitration in the EU? A song from the past or a new beat? - Gloria Alvarez , University of Aberdeen
• Wednesday 8th November 2017 1-2pm, Taylor Building C11: A Law & Economics Analysis in Support of Corporate Social Responsibility: Prevention of 'Accidental' Stock Market Over-Valuations for Innovative Corporations - Dr Roy Partain , University of Aberdeen
• Friday 17th November 2017 4-5.30pm, Taylor Building C11: Fact-Finding in International Law: The Role of Commissions of Inquiry - Professor Larissa van den Herik , Vice Dean, Professor of Public International Law, Leiden University, Netherlands
• Guest Lecture Wednesday 22nd November 2017 1-2.30pm, Regent Lecture Theatre: Changing lives and (occasionally) changing the law: An illustration of the work of University Law Clinics - Stephan van der Merwe , Senior Attorney, Notary Public and Lecturer, University of Stellenbosch Legal Aid Clinic
• Thursday 30th November 2017 12-1pm, Taylor Building A21: Property Theory Perspectives on the Community Right to Buy - Professor John Lovett , Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Louisiana, USA

• Friday 26th January 2018 4-5pm, Taylor Building C11: The Role of Standards of Review in Labour Law - David Cabrelli , Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law at The University of Edinburgh
• Wednesday 31 January 2018 2-4pm, Taylor Building A19:Values and Decisions: Division in the Supreme Court - Rachel Cahill-O'Callaghan , Senior lecturer at the University of Cardiff
• Friday 9th February 2018 4-5.30pm, New Kings NK1: Brexit trade negotiations - where is the UK heading? - Luis Gonzalez Garcia
• Friday 16th February 2018 4-5pm, Taylor Building C11: A Multi-Speed European Union, Brexit, and the Future of Judicial Cooperation - Eva Lein, Professor at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland
• Friday 23rd February 2018 4-5pm, Taylor Building C11: Cross-border portability of refugees' personal status - Bridging private international law and migration law - Professor Jinske Verhellen, Ghent University, Belgium
• Wednesday 28th February 2018 1-2pm, Taylor Building C11: Courting Environmental Justice: The Adjudicatory Dimensions of the National Green Tribunal India - Dr Gitanjali Nain Gill, Professor of Environmental Law at Northumbria Law School
• Friday 9th March 2018 4-5.30pm, Taylor Building C11: North Korea and the Use of Force - Matthias Hartwig, Senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany
• Friday 23rd March 2018 4-5pm, Taylor Building C11: The Right to Self-Determination and its Limitations - Scotland and Catalonia Compared - Professor Dirk Hanschel, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany