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In commemoration of this year’s black history month, I have been invited to write this blogpost and I am pleased to do so. I am a qualified barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and an Energy Law Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. The focus of this…
I am delighted to present the next instalment of the Women in Law Conversation Series. I conducted my conversation with Joanne Wheeler MBE with continued support from the School of Law’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
BackgroundJoanne is a renowned satellite regulation and commercial contracts expert with specialist interests in…
When applying for an LL.M. in Law at the University of Aberdeen, you usually get to choose between two different routes: Professional Skills, which aims to teach students how to mobilise their knowledge in a work environment; and the Dissertation, which is an independent piece of academic research on a…
Special thanks to the Centre for Commercial Law at the University of Aberdeen for organising this conference which presented the platform to discuss contemporary legal issues with a focus on commercial law. The theme of the conference “Commercial Law in Times of Crises” reflects the current state of the world…
As the global economy and domestic economies seek to recover from the crises of Covid-19, different fields of human endeavour and knowledge are challenged to develop innovative solutions. Commercial law is a key factor in this regard, and it is important to examine how commercial law is responding to the…
Back in 2018, I applied and received my offer to study at the University of Aberdeen. While searching for postgraduate studies, I found this Silver City and University. It is a top-ranking School of Law in the UK, and one of the ancient universities, within a fascinating city. In September…
It is a long-standing but nevertheless unsatisfactory feature of Scots law that the Lord Advocate performs two quite incompatible roles. On the one hand, the Lord Advocate is the Head of the Scots state prosecution service, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) and yet he or she is…
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are the strength of most economies worldwide, making up about 90% of national and regional Gross Domestic Product (GDP).SMEs contribute to the national economic growth through tax, poverty alleviation, export generation, and sustainable economic development by creating a valuable source of employment. For instance, before…
On the 26th of April 2021, the Centre for Commercial Law at the University of Aberdeen organised a roundtable to commemorate the World Intellectual Property Day 2021, bringing together academics, practitioners, and postgraduate students. The aim of the roundtable was to discuss the relationship between intellectual property (IP) and small…
My thanks to Prof Michael Beaney (Regius Chair of Logic, University of Aberdeen) and Prof Gavin McLeod Little (University of Stirling) for thoughtful review and discussion of these ideas, and to seminar students on University of Aberdeen, School of Law’s UK Constitutional Law module, who helped to spark my thoughts…
