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In celebration of World IP Day 2019 the Aberdeen Centre for Commercial Law arranged for a short series of informal presentations to discuss the interconnection of Intellectual Property with this year’s theme: sport.
Professor Abbe Brown blew the starting whistle, by serving up a discussion of…
The potential of the oceans’ raw materials, which scientific expertise can transform into invaluable products to benefit society, offers rich opportunities. As 64% of the surface of the oceans is beyond the control of states, questions result as to who benefits from product development and where responsibilities lie regarding Marine…
Copyright is an intellectual property right that protects the interests of those who originate creative works. In this post, our Dr Titi Adebola considers a controversial European Union reform of the law in this area.
On 26 March 2019, after over two years of debates, the European Parliament adopted the…
Chike Jude Emedosi is a current research student whose work seeks to examine the different legal solutions available for creating security interests for securitisations in England, Scotland, and France. Here he talks about the history of financial crises.
Introduction
Financial crisis has been an unfortunate part of financial history. It…
This blog report was inspired by a BBC News item on 12 February 2019 by Simon Armstrong entitled "Bluebird: What next for Donald Campbell's record-breaker?"
On 4 January 1967, Sir Donald Campbell died when his jet powered craft "Bluebird" somersaulted and sank to the depths of Coniston Water during an…
It isn’t good form to say this, but I’m delighted to report that the Centre for Private International Law’s workshop on Reform of EU Defamation Law was quite the success. We were joined in Aberdeen by “an all-star lineup of speakers”, eager to explore and address the mechanisms which some…
Lori Ringhand, Fulbright Scholar and visiting scholar here at the School of Law, University of Aberdeen has written a guest blog post for the Election Law blog.
A report issued by a UK Parliamentary committee generated headlines this week for its scathing takedown of Facebook’s data management practices. The report,…
Domestic violence is the most common form of violence against women. Domestic violence affects women disproportionately. Domestic violence may be present in about 70% of parental child abduction cases. Domestic violence remains a high priority for the EU.
The very timely and much needed POAM project gets on the…
I am delighted to be at the University of Aberdeen as a 2019 Fulbright Scotland Visiting Professor. In my regular life, I am a Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, working on constitutional and election law issues. My Fulbright project will look at election law changes…
On the 28 November 2018, The Faculty of Advocates hosted a debate on independent legal representation (ILR) for complainers in rape trials. This was informed to some extent (as indeed is this blog) by the excellent interim report by Sir John Gillen on the law and procedures relating to serious…
