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Oil in the Amazon: A Case Study in Corporate Power and the Formation of Transnational Legal Norms

Introduction

Transnational law is typically understood as “all law which regulates actions or events that transcend national frontiers.”[i] This includes domestic laws that mediate among national systems, and international laws which set standards that governments must comply with or provide for through their domestic laws. Scholars of transnational law attempt…

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Transnational Women's Legal History: A Case Study

This blog explores transnational women’s legal history. More specifically, it looks at a problematic element of historical defamation law affecting women, and how common law jurisdictions around the world were spurred to create legislation tackling this issue throughout the course of the nineteenth century. Thus, while this blog discusses private…

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Aberdeen Women in Law Series: In Conversation with Nik Tait on intersectional feminism and being queer in the legal profession.

Background

Nik (she/her/they) practises as inhouse Senior Legal Counsel at international engineering and construction company, Laing O’Rourke. She advises on dispute resolution, risk mitigation, and the successful delivery of state-of-the art infrastructure and building projects across the UK. Prior to joining Laing O'Rourke, Nik was a Senior Associate within a…

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Ex Aequo et Bono as the Applicable Law in International Arbitration: A Transnational Perspective

What is Transnational Law?

National approaches to international arbitration are often seen with reluctance. If anything, international arbitration is a legal field which encourages less national and more ‘transnational’ attitudes. The aim of this short piece is to explore manifestations of the use of transnational law in the context of…

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Tracing the Transnational Evolution of Commercial Law from History to Modern Insights in International Commercial Arbitration

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…

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