Posts in "Commercial Law"

The University of Aberdeen's Centre for Commercial Law launched “The Evolving Commercial Law Landscape” series during the 2024/25 academic session to unpack contemporary issues within its key areas of focus. The inaugural contribution to the series is by Davidson Oturu. Davidson Oturu is the Managing Partner at Nubia Capital, a…

Contemporary concerns in commercial law include the effects of new/emerging technologies, impacts of climate change and rise of economic nationalism. Each of these areas of concern present unique opportunities and challenges for commercial law. For example, while new/emerging technologies offer significant efficiencies, they raise questions such as how intellectual property…

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The second workshop of the University of Aberdeen’s research project ‘Digital Assets in Scots Private Law: Innovating for the Future’, funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), was held on 29 May 2024 at the Law Society of Scotland in Edinburgh. The purpose of this workshop was Mapping…

This is the first post in the blog posts series entitled Perspectives on Law in a Transnational Context. The idea behind the blog post series is to explore the transnational tendencies in the application of laws and rules of law and critically assess their purpose from different legal and ethical…

When Burna Boy, who is based in Lagos, negotiates a contract to perform at the Paris Stade de France, perhaps doing so from his second home in London; private international law (“PIL”) is unavoidably engaged.[1] All parties involved need certainty and predictability on the legal norms that govern any international…

Roundtable on Nigeria’s Creative Industries Development Bill 2023 (CIDB)

Nigeria’s Creative Industries Development Bill 2023 (CIDB) is designed to bridge the gap between the Nigerian Creative industries and the Federal Government of Nigeria.  If passed into law, the CIDB will become the Creative Industries Development Act (CIDA). CIDA aims…

Lake Chad is the fourth largest lake in Africa (by area). The significant shrinking of the Lake over the past decades has precipitated conflicts and crises in the Lake Chad Basin region. In this in-depth interview, Dr Titilayo Adebola, Associate Director, Centre for Commercial Law, University of Aberdeen, discusses historical…

In recent years, digital assets, including cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, have grown in significance and there are a number of legal challenges involved in accommodating them within any system. The term “digital assets” is usually understood to be an umbrella term referring to secured digital representations of value which can…

According to the General Comment No. 12 of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, “the right to adequate food is realized when every man, woman and child, alone or in community with others has physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for…

The decommissioning of offshore oil and gas installations has become a key issue for the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS) and is likely to acquire further prominence in the years ahead, as society transitions away from reliance on fossil fuels. In legal and economic terms, liability for decommissioning is a…