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British Parliamentary Committee, Citing "Insidious Ability" to Mislead Online, Calls for Election Law Changes

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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,…

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Protection of Abducting Mothers in Return Proceedings: Intersection between Domestic Violence and Parental Child Abduction - 'POAM'

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…

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Visiting Aberdeen as a scholar

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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…

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Independent Representation And Systematic Reform

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…

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New Year, New Resolutions: Less Food Waste?

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The forthcoming Christmas and New Year celebrations usually include an abundance of food and drink. Such abundance is understandable at a time associated with hospitality, but it can also lead to waste. According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, food waste (and…

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Landlocked: the continuing separate treatment of moveable and immoveable property by the law of succession in Scotland

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In this blog post, Malcolm Combe (a senior lecturer in the School) and Malcolm Rudd (a graduate of the University of Aberdeen and recent research assistant, supported by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland) discuss the non-reform of the law of inheritance as it applies to land in…

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Is the UK heading towards regulation of cryptoassets? Findings from the UK Cryptoassets Taskforce Final Report

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There is no universally agreed definition of cryptoassets. Definitions vary from one jurisdiction to another and are revisited from time to time as the technology keeps evolving. A cryptoasset, as defined in the UK Cryptoassets Taskforce Report of October 2018, is “a cryptographically secured digital representation of value or contractual…

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Back to the Future? The Partial Reinstatement of the Crown Preference in Insolvency

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Deep within his budget speech delivered on 29 October 2018, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, announced: “We will make HMRC a preferred creditor in business insolvencies to ensure that tax which has been collected on behalf of HMRC – is actually paid to HMRC.”

In the context…

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