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The Anti-SLAPP Research Hub calls for global cooperation in tackling SLAPPs at the UN's expert seminar on the safety of journalists

On Tuesday 25 March 2023, Dr Francesca Farrington represented The Anti-SLAPP Research Hub at an expert seminar on legal and economic threats to the safety of journalists organised by the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). She was accompanied by Anti-SLAPP Hub Member Ms. Magdalena…

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

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…

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Victory for the Scottish Climate Emergency Legal Network's "Seventh Gas Campaign"

The Scottish Climate Emergency Legal Network (SCELN) has succeeded in its campaign to have the UK’s Climate Change Act amended, so that it no longer ignores the potent greenhouse gas nitrogen trifluoride (NF3).  This has been achieved by UK Parliament’s recent enactment of the Climate Change (Targeted Greenhouse Gases) Order…

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Some COP26 reflections

This blog post is part of the AUCEL COP26 series

 

I was honoured to attend COP26 in week 2 as part of the University of Aberdeen delegation.

On the final day, I shared my thoughts “live” at 4pm while protestors walked by, as part of the Aberdeen…

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Splitting the roles of Lord Advocate and Solicitor General into prosecutor and minister respectively

It is a long-standing but nevertheless unsatisfactory feature of Scots law that the Lord Advocate performs two quite incompatible roles. On the one hand, the Lord Advocate is the Head of the Scots state prosecution service, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) and yet he or she is…

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Russell Revisited: A Return to Russell's Paradox and the Principle of Parliamentary Sovereignty

My thanks to Prof Michael Beaney (Regius Chair of Logic, University of Aberdeen) and Prof Gavin McLeod Little (University of Stirling) for thoughtful review and discussion of these ideas, and to seminar students on University of Aberdeen, School of Law’s UK Constitutional Law module, who helped to spark my thoughts…

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Unravelling the US Presidential Election

One of the most perplexing things about US elections is the extent to which we litigate what in much of the rest of the world are routine nuts and bolts questions about how elections work. I had first-hand experience with this during the 2000 presidential election when I was living…

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Climate Case Ireland: The Good News and the Bad

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There are only two tragedies in life…

Oscar Wilde

I have talked multiple times in print[1] and in lectures of Ireland’s need to live up to the distinguished legacy of John Tyndall (1820–1893), the Irish scientist who made vital contributions to our understanding of the science behind climate change. 

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