Event Archive

2024

February

• Crimes against Women in Armed Conflicts: Recent Developments in International Humanitarian Law

  07 February 2024, 14:00 - 15:00

  The seminar will give an overview of the developments in the law on crimes against women in armed conflicts after World War II. It will cover both the statutory international law (Statutes of the Nuremberg/Tokyo Tribunals of 1945/46, Geneva Conventions of 1949, Statutes of the Former Yugoslavia/Rwanda ad-hoc Tribunals of...

2023

November

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  AUCEL Energy Seminars 2023/2024/ACCPIL Seminar - Rising Seas and Retreating Coasts: Sea Level Rise Impacts on Maritime Baselines, Limits and Boundaries

  29 November 2023, 13:00 - 14:00

  AUCEL (Energy Seminars 2023/2024) and ACCPIL jointly welcome Prof Clive Schofield to Aberdeen   Abstract: The presentation outlines the causes and consequences of climate change induced sea level rise. It considers the sea level rise predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The legal framework for coastal baselines and insular features...

June

• Citizenship and Borders: The Meaning and Cost of 'Belonging' through the Lenses of the 'Public' and 'Private'

  13 June 2023, 09:30 - 17:00

  Joint Seminar with a Guest Scholar Organised by the ACCPIL with the Support of CIRSUL

February

• Challenges Raised by International Cybercrimes

  09 February 2023, 14:00 - 15:30

  During this research seminar, the challenges faced by law enforcement, lawyers and justice systems when dealing with international cybercrimes will be addressed and solutions proposed. Furthermore, the seminar will seek to identify and address future cybercrime challenges that will face our increasingly digitised society.  Bio: Ian has over 25 years’ experience at...

2022

June

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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...

April

• ACCPIL Reading Seminar - Feminist Constitutionalism

  13 April 2022, 13:00 - 15:00

  The next Public Law Reading Seminar will discuss two chapters from Feminist Constitutionalism (edited by Baines, Barak-Erez, and Kahana. Available through the library as an e-book): Chapter 10 – On Parity, Interdependence and Women’s Democracy by Blanca Rodríguez-Ruiz and Ruth Rubio-Marín Chapter 13 – The Promise of Democratic Constitutionalism: Women, Constitutional Dialogue,...

March

• ACCPIL Seminar: Human Rights Reform and the Meaning of 'Public Authority' By Dr Erin Ferguson

  30 March 2022, 12:15 - 13:15

  Human Rights Reform and the Meaning of ‘Public Authority’ Erin Ferguson   In December 2021, the UK government published a consultation paper setting out its proposals to replace the Human Rights Act 1998 with a Bill of Rights. Amongst the questions it poses is whether a clearer definition of ‘public authority’ is needed...

• Reading Seminar: Allegations of Genocide under the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide (Ukraine vs Russian Federation)

  28 March 2022, 12:00 - 13:00

  The Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law is hosting a seminar for its memebers centred on Allegations of Genocide under the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide (Ukraine vs Russian Federation)

• ACCPIL Seminar - The legal foundations of a people in outer space

  18 March 2022, 13:00 - 14:00

  Within the framework of a colonisation of space, a physical distance could push the colonists to the refusal of any Earth legal order insofar as it would be difficult for the States on Earth to apply their sovereignty over these colonies. This factual situation could give rise to legal claims,...

February

• ACCPIL - Reading Seminar - Human Rights Act Reform: A Modern Bill Of Rights

  09 February 2022, 13:00 - 15:00

  Internal seminar organised by the Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law. The aim is for members to discuss the Human Rights Act Reform: A modern Bill of Rights - A consultation to reform the Human Rights Act 1998.