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Welcome to our newest series of blogs which focus on the many people at our School of Law. Grab a cup of coffee and get to know some of your future lecturers starting with Professor Abbe Brown. Enjoy!
Q: What drew you to the discipline of law?
AB: I have…
This blog post is part of the AUCEL COP26 series
I was honoured to attend COP26 in week 2 as part of the University of Aberdeen delegation.
On the final day, I shared my thoughts “live” at 4pm while protestors walked by, as part of the Aberdeen…
Professor Abbe Brown (Law) and Professor Marcel Jaspars (Chemistry) were awarded an Institutional Strategy Support Fund Award via the Wellcome Trust. This was to support public engagement activity, with a health focus, to sit alongside their contributions (long standing in the case of Marcel) to the negotiation of a new…
This is the second in a series of posts being produced under the auspices of the Centre for Commercial Law in response to the coronavirus crisis. The first blog post is available here.
In the grip of a world pandemic of COVID-19 when scientists are racing to develop a cure,…
Addressing the conservation and sustainability of the oceans is an increasing need of society. The international community is responding to this through the ongoing negotiations, under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, for an internationally legally binding instrument on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological…
The potential of the oceans’ raw materials, which scientific expertise can transform into invaluable products to benefit society, offers rich opportunities. As 64% of the surface of the oceans is beyond the control of states, questions result as to who benefits from product development and where responsibilities lie regarding Marine…
[Revised extraction from delivery] See podcast here.
I am very honoured to be here today. I am also deeply touched that so many of you have come here on a Friday night, have made the journey north, or are listening to the live stream.
My academic career stems from…
The Law School of the University of Aberdeen will be hosting the 2018 BILETA conference on 9-11 April. BILETA is one of the leading scholarly associations in law, technology and education and its annual conference – with its opportunities for dissemination, publication and friendship – is for many one of…
The prospect of the UK leaving the EU has, as already explored elsewhere on this blog, significant legal implications. So too would the possible repeal of the Human Rights Act 1998, perhaps to be replaced by a Bill of Rights. One implication relates to proposals I put forward in my…
Introduction
Intellectual Property (“IP”) and climate change laws operate in different legal spaces.
For the former, the World Trade Organization’s TRIPS agreement imposes obligations on states to have IP laws. States pass IP laws which confer private rights, which are enforceable in national court.
For the latter, the UN’s Framework…
