Event Archive

2025

February

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  AUCEL seminar: Energy Policy Making: A Practitioner's Perspective

  24 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00

  We will have coffees/sandwiched in the room for 12.30 so please do come early. We are pleased to welcome back to Aberdeen, our LLM alumna, Anca Mihalache, who is now the Head of Smart Energy Policy at DESNZ. The presentation will provide an overview of the energy policy-making process in Great Britain,...

2024

November

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  AUCEL seminar - Annalisa Savaresi - A Just Transition? The Role of Litigation in the Transition towards Net Zero Societies

  22 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  Abstract The transition to net-zero societies necessitates significant changes that may exacerbate existing social inequalities and injustices. The term ‘just transition’ is employed to emphasise the justice implications of decarbonisation and its societal impacts. This concept has expanded from its original focus on labour issues to include broader considerations of procedural,...

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  Guided AUCEL tour to Aberdeen Maritime Museum

  19 November 2024, 09:55 - 11:00

  AUCEL members are invited to join the guided tour of Aberdeen Maritime Museum. The museum holds a unique collection covering Aberden's maritime legacy shipbuilding, fast sailing ships, fishing, port history, oil and gas - and now renewable energy industry. 

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  UKELA Annual Garner Lecture (livestreaming): Richard Macrory, CBE, Hon KC "Confessions of a Tunneller - Lawyers and the Environment"

  14 November 2024, 17:30 - 19:00

  Thursday 14 November 2024   When: 17.30-19.00   Where: Taylor A31   Join us for a live streaming of this year's annual Garner Lecture. We are delighted to welcome Richard Macrory, CBE, Hon KC, as our distinguished speaker. Richard is one of the leading environmental lawyers of his generation, and has had a significant influence of...

• AUCEL seminar - Matthew Jeans (Vattenfall) - Consenting System for Offshore Renewable Energy

  07 November 2024, 11:30 - 12:30

  We will be joined by Matthew Jeans, the offshore consents manager at Vattenfall for a discussion on  Consenting System for Offshore Renewable Energy.

October

• AUCEL field trip to Udny Wind

  01 October 2024, 09:00 - 14:00

  We are inviting AUCEL members and the current students of Energy Transition LLM to join us for a field visit to a ommunity-owned Udny Wind turbine. We will leave the University shorlty after 9 am, travel to the site for a visit and after engage with the Udny Community Wind...

August

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  Anatole Boute book presentation 'Energy Dependence and Supply Security: Energy Law in the New Geopolitical Reality'

  15 August 2024, 14:00 - 16:00

  Professor Anatole Boute will present his book Energy Dependence and Supply Security: Energy Law in the New Geopolitical Reality (Oxford University Press 2023). The event will take place in hybrid format, link to booking page for online access is avaialble below.

July

• Giant Pylons: Why Here, Why Now in NE Scotland: a Workshop to Explore Law, Policy and the Bigger Picture

  18 July 2024, 10:00 - 16:00

  The aim of this workshop is to assess the position post election and identify questions on law and policy reform relating to infrastructure linked to renewable energy. This will be contextualised by consideration of just why ‘ giant pylons’ are such a hot button issue in the NE of Scotland....

March

• The Role of Climate and Energy Law in Sustainable Transition

  13 March 2024, 11:30 - 14:00

  Law plays a pivotal role in the pursuit of sustainable transitions. Highly ambitious sustainability goals, and the societal transformation they require, are unlikely to materialize in the desired timescale without law facilitating them. Law is, however, a complex societal system that can also entail significant barriers to sustainable transitions. Existing...

January

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  AUCEL Energy Seminars 2023/2024 - The Role of Environment-and-Human-Rights Law in Framing Inter- and Transdisciplinary Ocean Research

  26 January 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  by Prof Elisa Morgera (University of Strathclyde)