Event Archive

2023

March

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  Securing Energy in the Era of Uncertainty: The Role for International Investment Law?

  09 March 2023, 13:00 - 14:00

  Climate change and sustainable development goals (SDGs) are some of the most pressing issues of our era. The aftermath of the climate change mitigation agenda, especially the Paris Agreement and new COP27are under scrutiny, so yet to be explored. International norms and principles will need fundamental transformation in response to...

February

• Roundtable on Nigeria's Creative Industries Development Bill 2013 (CIDB).

  22 February 2023, 16:00 - 17:00

  The CIDB is a whole of government approach to championing an executive Bill designed to bridge the gap between the Nigerian Creative industries and the Nigerian Government to build a vibrant, profitable creative sector. When passed into law, the CIDB aims to accelerate the growth of Nigeria’s creative sector through...

January

• Funding research and innovative teaching practices

  25 January 2023, 12:30 - 14:00

  The talk provides an overview of the main EU programmes designed to fund transnational cooperation projects and to support research initiatives and innovation in teaching practices. Based on the personal experience gained in running EU projects over the past years, the analysis focuses on: 1) Erasmus+, the main EU programme...

2022

November

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  Carbon-free Shipping and Shipping Carbon - Contracts in Context

  16 November 2022, 11:00 - 12:30

  On 16th November, our Centre for Commercial Law is delighted to host Prof Stephen Girvin (Centre for Maritime Law, National University of Singapore) for his seminar on 'Carbon-free Shipping and Shipping Carbon - Contracts in Context'.

October

• 'Two-Track Pandemic' Indeed; Access to Covid-19 related Technologies and Justice

  25 October 2022, 13:00 - 14:00

  The requirement of providing patent protection to pharmaceutical products as a result of the TRIPS agreement has been debated since the agreement entered into force. After HIV/AIDS epidemic, Covid-19 has sparked controversy between access to medicine and property rights one more time. India and South Africa proposed a temporal waiver...

• Social, Legal, and Ethical Implications of Machines Learning about Our Emotions and Intentions

  12 October 2022, 13:00 - 14:00

  Speaker: Dr Patricia Živković Moderator: Dr Luci Carey

June

• Centre for Commercial Law Presents - PGR Students Spotlight: Sartika Lestari & Gabriel Emeasoba

  29 June 2022, 13:00 - 23:55

  The Centre of Commercial Law presents a spotlight series on PGR Research where our students get the opportunity to present their research and receive comments and feedback from members of staff and other research students in the Centre.  A Critical Analysis of Intellectual Property Rights in Indonesia: Towards Effective Traditional Knowledge and...

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  International Law and Technological Progress Conference

  23 - 24 June 2022

  The University of Aberdeen is organising a third conference in International Law, following the conferences in the same field hosted by the University of Edinburgh in April 2019 and the University of Glasgow in May 2021. We thereby continue a series of successful conferences that aim to strengthen the leadership...

2021

December

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  The Nature of Cryptocurrency: Lessons from Banco de Portugal v Waterlow & Sons Ltd

  08 December 2021, 14:00 - 15:00

  As one can verify through the growing number of “cryptoassets” described and created, and the wide offer of forgeries that we can find in different testimonies and numismatic collections around the orb, the power to create money is a rather tempting one. Considering these sources, this research will take as...

November

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  Sustainable Finance and the Quest for Transparency

  23 November 2021, 13:00 - 14:00

  This paper aims at exploring the extent to which transparency is able to boost and safeguard asustainable financial system. Requiring disclosure from market participants is a recurring regulatorytechnique of financial law. Whether it is in relation to listing securities on the stock exchange, acquiringa significant proportion of shares or launching...