Event Archive

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

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,...

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

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,...

Guided AUCEL tour to Aberdeen Maritime Museum

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. 

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

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

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

AUCEL field trip to Udny Wind

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...

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

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.

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

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....

The Role of Climate and Energy Law in Sustainable Transition

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...

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

by Prof Elisa Morgera (University of Strathclyde)

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

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...

AUCEL Energy Seminars 2023/2024 - Local Communities, Environmental Justice and Just Transition: Reflections from The Bayelsa State Oil Commission Report

AUCEL Energy Seminars 2023/2024 welcomes Prof Engobo Emeseh   Local Communities, Environmental Justice and Just Transition: Reflections from The Bayelsa Sate Oil Commission Report The Bayelsa State Oil and Environment Commission Report, ‘An Environmental Genocide: The Human and Environmental Cost of Big Oil in Bayelsa, Nigeria, published in May 2023, provides one of...

Negotiation of International Wind Power Contract - a personal perspective

This lecture is rooted in my personal experience negotiating international wind power contracts. It starts with a short presentation of some useful negotiation theory before presenting some of the particularity of construction contracts and renewable energy execution contracts. Finally I will present some interesting “war stories” and share with the...

Are We Killing the Earth to Save the Climate?

AUCEL Energy Seminar Series 22/23

Volcanic Eruptions and International Law - Lessons from Iceland

Volcanic eruptions can have various consequences, including in the field of international law. In the seminar, two eruptions will be addressed that have impacted the baselines for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea and other maritime zones of Iceland: Mount Katla in 1918 and the sudden appearance of the...

Prof John Underhill, Director of the Centre for Energy Transition (CET) - Visit to the Law School

Information: The Law School is delighted to announce that Prof John Underhill, Director of the Centre for Energy Transition, will be visiting the Law School to update us directly on CET activities, and to meet and speak with staff members.  The visit will:    allow Prof Underhill to share latest developments around...

Rethinking Contractual Risk allocation in the Hydrocarbon Industry for Environmental Sustainability

AUCEL Energy Seminar Series 22/23

Colonisation of the Polar Regions: the Shifting Sands of Occupation in Theory and Practice

AUCEL Energy Seminar Series 2021-2022

AUCEL and Nova Green Lab: Sustainability and Energy Transition

AUCEL and Nova Green Lab are please to invite you to join an interactive panel discussion on sustainability in energy transition. This is the final event in the 2021-2022 series. The event will be moderated by Dr Tiago de Melo Cartaxo (University of Exeter). Speakers for this event will be: Professor...

An Overview of the Paris Agreement after COP26

AUCEL Energy Seminar Series 2021-2022: Professor Voigt will give a brief overview of the topics that were discussed at COP26 as well as their outcome.

Energy Transition and Communities (in collaboration with Nova Green Lab)

An interactive panel discussion on the role of communities in energy transition with Lea Diestelmeier (University of Groningen) and Tavis Potts (University of Aberdeen)

AUCEL COP26 Panel Discussion Series

Join us for critical overviews of COP26 negotiations in November 2021.

AIPN Students Club: Changing Trends in Petroleum Negotiation in Light of Energy Transition

Join us for the annual AIPN Students Club conference featuring presentations from Prof Dr Eduardo Pereira and Dr Victria Nalule.

The Role of Private Governance in the Energy Transition in the United States

AUCEL Energy Seminar Series 2021-2022

AUCEL Energy Seminars: Inevitable Convergence between EU Energy and ICT Sector Regulation: Security and Reliability of Electronic Communications as an Example

AUCEL Energy Seminar Series Winter-Spring 2021

AUCEL Energy Seminars: In Between State Sovereignty and Transnational Economic Integration: Article 194(2) TFEU and the Evolution of EU Competences in the Energy Sector

AUCEL Energy Seminar Series Winter-Spring 2021

AUCEL Energy Seminars: Managing the Transition: Meeting the Paris Climate Goals through an Orderly and Just Wind-down of Fossil Fuels

AUCEL Energy Seminar Series Winter-Spring 2021

AUCEL Energy Seminars: Fostering Active Private Sector Participation in the International Transfer of Low-carbon Technologies: The Legal Ramifications and Economic Prospects

AUCEL Energy Seminar Series Winter-Spring 2021

Hydrogen Talks

Hydrogen is considered to be one of the new technological tools that will help society to achieve net-zero. It provides a potential solution to decarbonization beyond the power sector, including industry, heating, shipping and aviation. “Hydrogen Talks” is a new initiative created by Dr Alvarez with the support of AUCEL to...

John Paterson will speak at the online seminar "Force Majeure: COVID-19 and the Energy Sector in Asia" hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong

On 7 May 2020, our Prof John Paterson will deliver an online presentation 'Force Maejure under Energy Contracts' at the seminat hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. For the description of the event, agenda, and registration link, please visit the CUHK website here:https://www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/en/event-page/20200507.php

John Paterson will speak at the online seminar "Force Majeure: COVID-19 and the Energy Sector in Asia" hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong

On 7 May 2020, our Prof John Paterson will deliver an online presentation 'Force Maejure under Energy Contracts' at the seminat hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. For the description of the event, agenda, and registration link, please visit the CUHK website here:https://www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/en/event-page/20200507.php

John Paterson will speak at the online seminar "Force Majeure: COVID-19 and the Energy Sector in Asia" hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong

On 7 May 2020, our Prof John Paterson will deliver an online presentation 'Force Maejure under Energy Contracts' at the seminar hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. For the description of the event, agenda, and registration link, please visit the CUHK website here:https://www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/en/event-page/20200507.php

John Paterson will speak at the online seminar "Force Majeure: COVID-19 and the Energy Sector in Asia" hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong

On 7 May 2020, our Prof John Paterson will deliver an online presentation 'Force Maejure under Energy Contracts' at the seminat hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. For the description of the event, agenda, and registration link, please visit the CUHK website here:https://www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/en/event-page/20200507.php

Iraq's Oil and Gas Industry

This presentation will be based on Janan’s book ‘Iraq’s Oil and Gas Industry’, providing a brief outline and overview of comparative contracts against the backdrop of those historically used in Iraq’s oil sector. Author of Iraq’s Oil and Gas Industry: The Legal and Contractual Framework, Routledge, 14 June 2019.   Janan is a...

'The Norwegian Offshore Wind Paradox'

Norway possesses one of the best wind resources in Europe and arguably the world, and it is a country that prides itself on a policy of renewable electricity generation through hydropower. Equinor is a world leaders in offshore wind electricity generation, with a strong presence in the UK and the...

The International Regulatory Framework for Genome Editing: Issues and Perspectives

Genome editing is often presented as a radical breakthrough in research and innovation that will be far reaching in its application and revolutionary in its consequences. The promotion of expectations triggers concerns in the general opinion and in the research community along the binary lines of too little regulation vs....

AIPN event: "The Norwegian Offshore Petroleum Province: Opportunities and Challenges"

Plese see more here: https://www.aipn.org/forms/meeting/Microsite/Europe30Jan2020 For any questions, please contact the leader of Aberden University AIPN Chapter - Solomon Obulor s.obulor.18@abdn.ac.uk Join the Europe Chapter in Aberdeen for an evening presentation on the current state of play in the Norwegian offshore petroleum sector. In his presentation, Thor Magnus Rovik will take us through the...

"It's a regulator, but not as we know it": the Oil and Gas Authority

Professor Terry Daintith will discuss his article, “Government Companies as Regulators” (2019 Modern Law Review, 1-28). Sectoral regulators in the United Kingdom, such as Ofgem for gas and electricity, or Ofcom for broadcasting and telecommunications, are normally statutory bodies organised under specific legislation. Exceptionally, the regulator recently (2015) established for the...

Oil and Minerals for Good: Conference

Curing the Resource Curse Moving the frontiers of Local Content, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Indigenous Peoples Rights and Impact & Benefits Sharing Agreement

Maritime Boundary Disputes and Energy Exploration: Recent Developments and Emerging Trends

Dr Constantinos Yiallourides, lecturer of the Aberdeen Law School, will present his latest research on maritime boundaries and energy exploration. What compels states to conclude maritime delimitation agreements is often their desire to avail themselves of the benefits accruing from offshore natural resources, especially oil, gas and other valuable minerals. Nevertheless,...

The Venezuelan Political and Petroleum Crisis - Recoverable?

Co-author of the recent article ‘Oil as Currency: The Venezuelan Petro, a new oil pattern’ and a native Venezuelan, Professor Herrera-Anchustegui will present an informal seminar on his observations on the current Venezuelan political and petroleum crisis. This seminar will examine both the historical issues that have led to the...

Energy and Natural Resource Conference 2019

This event was fully booked

The African Natural Resources and Energy Law Network presents the 2019 Energy and Natural Resource Conference. The theme of the conference is: Energy Crisis and Natural Resource Governance in Africa: Exploring the Missing Links. The objective of the event is to promote knowledge sharing and collaborations on critical issues amongst energy law researchers and...

AIPN Students Club, University of Aberdeen, hosts Seminar on Maximising Economic Recovery - An International Perspective

The University of Aberdeen's Student Association of International Petroleum Negotiators will welcome Uisdean Vass as their keynote speaker at the event on March 20th 2019.

IGC2 New York: 28 March 2019

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK will attend the UN Intergovernmental Conference on Marine Genetic Resources of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction in New York in 2019.

IGC2 New York: 28 March 2019

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK will attend the UN Intergovernmental Conference on Marine Genetic Resources of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction in New York in 2019. We are holding a lunchtime side event on March 28 "Mare Geneticum and an EcoSystem...

Pipelines and International Law Panel Discussion in London

Professor John Paterson will be speaking at an event hosted by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London on the theme: Pipelines and International Law.  Professor Paterson will be on a panel of experts discussing the international law implications of transporting oil and gas via pipelines. Further information about...

Dr Daria Shapovalova presents at: A vision for Ocean Law and Governance for 2020-2030 and Beyond Conference

The Law School's Dr Daria Shapovalova will give a presentation on the role of international law in preventing oil spills from upstream activities in the Arctic at 'A vision for Ocean Law and Governance for 2020-2030 and Beyond' Conference in Glasgow.

First Seminar of the Consortium CRENAME in Tomsk

Professor Tina Soliman Hunter is participating in CRENAME's first workshop as part of the on-going project looking at the behaviour of oil in Arctic conditions and its impact on the regulation of oil spill prevention and response.

Professor Tina Soliman Hunter to present at Third University Cities Forum in Tomsk

AUCEL's Professor Tina Soliman Hunter will present her paper 'British universities as the centres for training specialists for London and the other world' at the Third University Cities Forum, to be held at Tomsk State University on Friday 30th November.  Professor Soliman Hunter will be visiting the university in her capacity...

Oil and Mining Resources for Good Conference 2018

The Oil and Mining Resources for Good Conference 2018 will discuss: 'Curing The Resource Curse: Does Local Content Work?' University of Aberdeen postgraduate students will present their research work and innovative solutions to this subject. Moreover, this conference will be led by Dr Mark Igiehon, Professor Tina Hunter and Dr Sola...

Oil and Mineral Resources for Good, Development and Sustainable Development CPD Masterclass

Exclusively created for senior industry executives, government NGO and agency leaders; this dynamic two week Continuing Professional Development Masterclass builds on two established post- graduate courses taught by the University of Aberdeen, here in the Energy Capital of Europe.

Global Regulation of Climate Change: What's Wrong with It?

The University of Aberdeen's May Festival runs from Friday 25 to Sunday 27 May. Our Daria Shapovalova is participating in the Festival, as the speaker at a free event on Friday 25 May at 12:00 at King's College Conference Centre.

Energy Seminar Series: The Role of AIPN Model Contracts in the Petroleum Industry

Speaker: Eric Fry (Anadarko) Admission FREE, no booking required. Author's bio: Eric Fry is Director – International New Ventures for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation in The Woodlands, Texas.  Prior to his current position he led the International Negotiations Group,  responsible for non-U.S. negotiation activities within Anadarko’s international portfolio.  Previous to his experience at Anadarko,...

Energy Seminar Series: The UK's Climate Change Act 2008 as a Potential 'Test Case' for Progressive National and International Climate and Energy Governance

Speaker: Dr Thomas Muinzer (University of Stirling) Admission FREE, no booking required. Authors bio: Thomas is a Lecturer in Environmental Law and Public Law at Stirling Law School, Stirling University.  He is from Northern Ireland, and undertook his qualifying law degree and other legal qualifications at Queen's University Belfast, where he received his Doctorate....

Energy Seminar Series: Remediation, Reconciliation and Redress: Repairing Mining Landscapes and Healing Relationships in Northern Canada

Speaker: Prof Arn Keeling (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract:  Growing legal, regulatory, and scientific concern with the environmental legacies of past extractive industrial activities seeks to address and mitigate the often long-term consequences of such developments. Cleaning up and mitigating environmental damage may be seen as positive, yet remediation...

Energy Arbitration Seminar on Mining Arbitration in Africa and Latin America

Peter Hirst will be talking about his experience in mining arbitration in Africa and Latin America as well as career opportunities in international arbitration

Energy Seminar Series:Third Party Access and Ownership Unbundling in Electricity - A Comparative Analysis

Speaker: Dr Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui (University of Bergen) Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: The liberalisation of energy markets has been pursued across the as this would allegedly lead to more competitive and efficient markets. However, energy markets are characterised by the fact that they are – at least partially and in particular regarding...

Energy Seminar Series: Shale Gas in Europe - a Conflict Between Environmental Protection and Energy Security?

Speaker: Dr Ruven Fleming Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: The controversy about whether shale gas extraction in Europe presents a possibility to enhance security of energy supplies is rife and will become even more prominent with dwindling `conventional` reserves. However, critics are pointing to the potential environmental impacts that shale gas extraction could have in Europe. This lecture...

Energy Seminar Series:The Role of the Energy Charter Treaty in the EU-Russia Energy Relations

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Andrey A. Konoplyanik  Admission FREE, no booking required for University of Aberdeen staff and students. If you are an external guest, please email dshapovalova@abdn.ac.uk to facilitate issuing a pass for entering the venue building. Authors bio:  Prof. Dr. Andrey A. Konoplyanik is energy economist by background. Major professional areas - energy economics,...

Book Launch - THE BAKASSI DISPUTE AND THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE - CONTINUING CHALLENGES

The School of Law, University of Aberdeen is hosting a lunchtime event in partnership with AUCEL: Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law, PIL: Public International Law Research Group and NRG: Aberdeen Nigeria Research Group. The event is in support of the new Routledge publication - The Bakassi Dispute and...

Energy Seminar Series: Ethical Investment in Energy

Speaker: Tedd Moya Mose (Queen Mary University of London) Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: Global energy consumption and demand are rising astronomically. All stakeholders in the energy system grapple with complex issues to meet this demand in a sustainable way. Energy production, distribution and consumption create problems that raise fundamental questions about...

Energy Seminar Series: Don't Drill in My Backyard: Petroleum, Protest and Unilateralism in the Context of Territorial and Maritime Disputes

Speaker: Dr Constantinos Yiallourides (British Institute of International and Comparative Law) Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: Border disputes are nearly all across the globe. At least 124 States (or ‘would-be’ States) are involved in a territorial dispute of some kind, involving approximately 105 separate territories (continental or island). And, this picture would not...

Late in Life: MER, decommissioning and late life operations on the UK Continental Shelf

Admission FREE, no booking required. Speaker: Graham Dallas Bio:  Graham is a Business Development Manager with Aker Solutions since 2015, focusing on brownfield maintenance, modifications, operations and decommissioning. Graham has worked in engineering for over 25 years, with the last 20 in oil and gas. He started his career as a Mechanical Technician Apprentice...

Can innovation deliver energy justice? Why regulations and new technologies foster equitable energy systems

Speaker: Dr. Michael LaBelle Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: This presentation is topical because the US and other nations have loosened their guidelines on forward looking revenue statements for publicly traded corporations, particularly with regards to innovative technologies. This policy was originally intended to facilitate information to the market for industries from Silicon...

EU Renewable Energy Policy Post 2020

“EU Renewable Energy Policy post – 2020: can we promote renewable energy in Europe without the binding targets?” A discussion. Currently, under the 2009 Renewable Energy Directive, EU Member States have binding targets to meet for renewable energy development. These targets expire in 2020, and any further policy framework is non-binding...

Daria Shapovalova giving a lecture at Stirling University

GUEST LECTURE ON ENVIRONMENT & ENERGY GOVERNANCE IN THE ARCTIC TIME: 11AM-12AM, WEDNESDAY 18TH OCTOBER LOCATION: STIRLING UNIVERSITY, SCOTTRELL BUILDING, ROOM 3A142 SPEAKER: DR DARIA SHAPOVALOVA THE TOPIC – Treaties v Soft Law: The Effectiveness of International Environmental Governance in the Arctic “ The debate over the effectiveness of treaties and soft law instruments in international...

The structure of hydraulic fracturing regulations from four continents

Speaker: David Campin (University of Queensland, Australia) Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract Hydraulic fracturing is a process applied to the exploitation of hydrocarbon and other resources, to increase fluid conductivity to a production well. The process entails environmental risks which are aimed to be managed under specific rules in most jurisdictions where...

Inaugural Lecture of Professor Tina Hunter

On the 20th of January, the inaugural lecture of Professor Tina Hunter will be held in the Kings College Conference Centre at 6pm for a 6.30pm start.

Guest Lecture - Petroleum Regimes in Africa: From Bad to Worse

(lecture followed by discussion) By Nicolas Bonnefoy Managing Director of Africa Oil and Gas Ltd. Previously a partner in Ashurst LLP’s global energy team focussing on Africa.

Oil and Minerals for Good Conference 2016

The Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law (AUCEL) is leading innovative multidisciplinary studies and research into how oil, mining and other mineral resources could be used better by governments, industry and others, to produce development, equity and other positive outcomes. This is in contrast to the fabled “Resource Curse” -minerals...

Conference - Comparative Energy Law and Policy: UK/China

We are delighted to announce that four professors from the Research Institute for Environmental Law (RIEL) at Wuhan University, China will be visiting the School of Law this week. Our visitors will be participating in a conference with the Centre for Energy Law on the theme, Comparative Energy Law and Policy:...

Guest Lecture - Allocation of potentially catastrophic risk in the supply chain: A practical perspective

Speaker: Robbie Brown (Former General Counsel of Wood Group) This lecture will be followed by discussion with the audience and will last approx 2 hours. 

Guest Lecture - Dr Raphael Heffron

"A New Framework for Energy Law" This lecture will be followed by a discussion. Speaker:  Dr Raphael Heffron (Senior Lecturer in Energy and Natural Resources Law, at Queen Mary University of London) Abstract: Energy law as a sub-discipline in law is growing. This seminar explores this theme and examines the current issues in energy...

Marine Spatial Planning and Ecosystems Workshop

On 10 December 2015, the University of Aberdeen will host the 2nd Workshop of Scottish Universities Insight Institute on Marine Spatial Planning and Ecosystems. Reuniting speakers from Scottish Government (Marine Scotland), Technion Institute, the University of Aberdeen, the University of Dundee, Heriot Watt University, University of Northumbria and the University of...

Oil and Minerals for Good Conference

We are holding a conference focussed on "Oil and Minerals Producing Good & Development: The Prospects of new Legal Approaches and the UN Sustainable Development Goals". Conference is free and open to all!  More details about the conference can be found below.  The Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law (AUCEL) is leading...

Transitioning Scottish Energy Law PhD Graduates into Employment Workshop

On 29 October 2015 the Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law will host a one-day workshop at the University of Aberdeen on “Transitioning Scottish Energy Law PhD Graduates into Employment”. The workshop is organized jointly by the University of Aberdeen, the Robert Gordon University and the University of Dundee. Bringing...

All-Energy 2015, ACFEL Session on Legal Frameworks for Renewables

The Centre for Energy Law of the University of Aberdeen is organising a session at All-Energy 2015, the UK’s leading annual exhibition and conference for the renewable energy sector.  The session, Changing Legal Frameworks for Renewables, brings together leading academic commentators on law and the low carbon energy transition including...

Research Seminar - Dr Monica Waloszyk

This event was cancelled

"Beneficial Ownership and Control of Energy Transmission Systems"

Oil and Minerals for Good Conference

The Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law (AUCEL) is leading  dedicated and innovative multidisciplinary studies and research into how oil, mining and other minerals resources could be used by governments, industry and others, to produce development, equity and other positive outcomes. This is in contrast to the fabled “Resource Curse” – minerals resources...

Arctic Energy Workshop

The Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law are hosting a workshop on “Environmental and Security Aspects of Developing Russia’s Arctic Energy Resources” to discuss the environmental law implications of the recent oil and gas discoveries in the Russian Arctic, together with the impact of US/EU sanctions in the field. The...

Launch of LLM Energy and Environmental Law
and UKELA Seminar

The School of Law and the UK Environmental Law Association Scotland (UKELA), are hosting an evening seminar and wine reception at the Linklater Rooms, University of Aberdeen on Wednesday 10 September 2014, 6-8pm. This free event is coupled with the formal launch of the School of Law's new Masters programme, LLM Energy and...

WiRES (Women in Renewable Energy Scotland) Networking Event

We are pleased to announce the first free networking event in 2014 will be held at Linklater Rooms, Aberdeen University on Thursday 6 February 2014. Attending the event will give you the opportunity to meet other women working in renewables industries in a relaxed and informal atmosphere, enable you to broaden...

Centre for Energy Law Research Seminars 2013

9 December 2013 Prof Rachael Johnstone from the University of Akureyri gave a guest lecture on “State Responsibility for Environmental Injuries: Erga Omnes Obligations in International Environmental Law” 24 May 2013 David Haverbeke – partner and head of energy law practice at FieldFisherWaterhouse gave guest lecture on “Security of Supply in the Internal...

Centre for Energy Law External Talks 2013

Dr Anatole Boute "Promotion of Renewable Energy Sources in Russia's Isolated Regions", European-Russian expert roundtable on climate and sustainable energy policy organized by the European University St. Petersburg, in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 13 December 2013. “The Russian Perspective on the ECT Investment Protection Regime”, 24th Ministerial Meeting of the...

Centre for Energy Law Research Seminars 2012

3 May 2012 David Haverbeke, partner and head of Energy Law practice at the Brussels law firm Lydian, gave a guest lecture on the topic of "Nuclear Energy and Competition Law: An Analysis of the Phase-out and Prolongation of Nuclear Power Plants". 4 May 2012 Dr Andrei Belyi – Associate Professor at the...

Centre for Energy Law External Talks 2011-2012

Dr Anatole Boute “Financing Renewable Energy Investments in Russia”, International Finance Corporation, EU Sustainable Energy Week, July 2012, Brussels. “Legal and Policy Aspects of EU-Russia Renewable Energy Cooperation”, International Finance Corporation, Russian Energy Agency, INTER RAO, RUSTEC event at the EU Sustainable Energy Week, July 2012, Brussels. “Carbon Capture and Storage under International...