Seminar Archive

Research Seminar Series 2025/2026 "Regulatory Sandboxes as a Means to Achieve Responsive Regulation?" - Sophie Weerts

The integration of AI systems into various products and services raises uncertainties regarding fundamental rights, democracy, the environment, and the free market. At the same time, these technological advances are characterised by rapid change. In this dual context, recent regulations, such as the EU AI Act, propose or require the...

Law School seminar with visiting scholar Dr. Ezeji Chiji Longinus

On 22 October, the School of Law and the Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law will host a guest seminar with ACCPIL's visiting researcher Dr. Ezeji Chiji Longinus (University of Johanessburg). All staff and students are very welcome to join in Taylor C11 from 1:00-2:00pm. Title: Evaluating the Responsive Uses of Artificial...

Research Seminar Series 2025/2026 "FWS v Scottish Ministers: Reconciling the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and the Equality Act 2010" - Professor Kenneth Norrie

Professor Norrie will speak on a recent decision of the Uk Supreme Court, in which it was asked to determine whether a person with a full gender recognition certificate (GRC) recognising that their gender is female is a “woman” for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010 (EA 2010). Building...

Platform Governance and Wikilegality, Seminar by Prof David Nelken

You are cordially invited to attend this seminar, which is co-organised by the Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law (ACCPIL) and Centre for Private International Law & Transnational Governance (CPILTG).

Recent developments in the handling of scientific evidence before international courts and tribunals

It is the task of international courts and tribunals to establish the facts from which to draw normative conclusions in all cases that come before them. This task, however, is complicated where those facts necessitate engagement with specialised epistemic fields other than law such as science. Cases that require engagement...

Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law

Chloë Kennedy's talk will focus on her new book - Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law - published with Cambridge University Press. Chloë will present some of the main findings and core arguments of her book.

The Right of Publicity in Japan

The recent rapid development of AI technology has led to problems of unauthorized use of human voice and portrait, such as AI cover and deepfakes. The legal mechanism for the protection of human voice and portrait varies widely among jurisdictions, such as the state right of publicity in the US,...

Responsibility and Accountability for Conducts in Cyberspace

The applicability of international law to cyber operations is nowadays consensual. States, scholars and other actors are now discussing questions pertaining to the interpretation of the rules and principles of international law in this specific context. While some States have developed, together with an increasing number of non-state actors such...

Trade Usages in the Context of and Beyond the CISG (Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods)

This seminar was cancelled

The presentation explores the concept of trade usages, the attitude of developing states during the drafting process of the CISG to trade usages, and the extent to which the concerns of developing states in relation to trade usages have materialised. Namely, the delegates from the developed states were mostly in...

Power Contestations in the Use of Agri-food Data: Towards a Sustainability Governance Approach

Law is intrinsically embedded in politics. Prevailing dynamics and norms can significantly impact new legal rules; hence, there is a need to interrogate the spectrum of engagements of any given subject or phenomenon with the law. In the context of global governance of food and agricultural data, this paper examines...