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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),…

The seminar was held on the 13^th June 2023 with the two speakers leading the two sessions and eight panels - Magdalena Zabrocka and Shahab Saqib. The event focused on the concept of citizenship, its different faces, meaning and places within various areas of law, as well as relevance to…

Mrs Susan Gordon, Petitioner, [2023] SC ABE 26

Sheriff Philip Mann sitting in Aberdeen Sheriff Court has just handed down a landmark decision which, if followed by other courts, will open a new door in commissary practice across Scotland. 

The deceased, Mr Thomas Nicol Rae, left a Will providing that…

In June 2022, I was accepted into the University of Aberdeen Student Ambassador Network. I worked as a student ambassador all throughout my final year, and my only regret is not having joined the scheme earlier. It was, without a shadow of a doubt, the absolute highlight of my university…

Earlier this year I had the honour of being part of the School of Law’s mediation team, achieving second place amongst 18 teams at the highly competitive UK Student Mediation Competition.

This rewarding journey began with a unique opportunity to shadow Scotland’s best female commercial mediator, providing me with an…

The final report of the Hearings System Working Group (HSWG) was published on 25^th May. The report proposes a significant redesign of the existing children’s hearings system in Scotland. Dr Alyson Evans of the University of Strathclyde, an academic specialist in the children’s hearings system, has recently blogged on two…

It was my very first week at the University of Aberdeen. I, along with the rest of my cohort, was attending one of various induction events hosted by the Law School during Freshers’ Week. We were tightly packed in Regent lecture theatre, all 300 or so of us, eagerly taking…