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In a captivating seminar hosted by the Global South Law Research Network on August 21^st, 2024, attendees had the privilege of hearing from Ms. Wendelyn Chijioke-Ibekwe, a seasoned professional in the energy industry. As the Global Policy and Advocacy Adviser for Upstream Decarbonisation at Shell International, Wendelyn shared her…

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…

28 September is the International Day for Universal Access to Information (aka International Right to Know Day). This is a day to commemorate the development of freedom of information (FOI) laws and to take stock of the work still to be done to strengthen open government and transparency around the…

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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 blog piece is based on a conference held in Ljubljana on 26 April 2024. This seminar was co-organised by the Centre for Private International Law of the University of Aberdeen, the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana and the Pax Project (co-funded by the European Commission). The…

I.          Introduction 

I was privileged to moderate a panel at the Pax Moot Private International Law Conference held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on April 26, 2024, and sponsored by the Centre for Private International Law at the University of Aberdeen Faculty of Law. My fellow panelists were Dr. Tsvetelina Dimitrova, a…

The second stream of the 2024 PAX Moot Court Half-Day Conference focused on business and human rights litigation and private international law. The two presentations in this panel, moderated by Dr Uglješa Grušić from University College London, were given by Dr Jachin Van Doninck from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and…

Rules of private international law are most often considered in the dispute resolution (mostly litigation) context. But those rules are of fundamental importance to the transaction planner (the contract drafter). Particularly when considering how rules of private international law relate to jurisdiction based upon consent, whether in…

Carbon market players would once again be disappointed that parties seem no closer to agreeing the rules needed to fully operationalise the two market instruments established by the Paris Agreement. Nine years on from adoption of the Paris Agreement, Article 6 is yet to see the light of day, due…