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Dr Eunice Pinn, a marine conservation expert with a rich academic and professional background, offers insight into her research on harbour porpoise conservation. Her journey, which includes an LLM by Research from the University of Aberdeen’s School of Law, highlights the complexities of balancing scientific and legal aspects of marine…
In the changing post-World War II global economic landscape, the UN Vienna Sales Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) emerged as a project of uniform law.[i] In a transnational context, it aimed to displace the localization of the law in favor of delocalization to remove the…
The EU instruments governing cross-border cooperation in civil matters extend to cases and legal relationships that are characterised by an international element. So does the Brussels Ia Regulation 1215/2012, which harmonises the law of international jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments. In the case of Inkreal (C-497/22), the…
Recent health and safety accidents in the offshore oil and gas industry have raised questions on the role of regulation, safety culture and overall management or risks in both established and emerging offshore energy industries. A second death was reported some weeks ago as a fatal fire broke out on…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sûrement, Dr. Aminata Touré n’est plus à presenter.[1] With an unapologetic track record of dedication to human rights, especially women’s rights, economic injustice and opposing corruption; she now stands in the running to become the next President of Senegal. Dr Touré was the country’s Justice Minister (2012-2013), Prime Minister (2013-2014),…
