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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…
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…
