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2016
February
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Research Seminar - The Criminal Responsibility of Psychopaths
-Speaker: Dr Elizabeth Shaw Abstract: Currently, in Scotland, psychopathic personality disorder is explicitly excluded from the mental disorder defence. This defence relieves individuals from criminal responsibility, if, as a result of mental disorder, they lack certain psychological capacities. The psychopathy exclusion is problematic, because individuals with severe psychopathy appear to lack one...
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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...
2015
November
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ELSA Energy Project
-"Maritime Boundary Disputes and Joint Petroleum Development" This seminar will be given by Constantinos Yiallourides (3rd year PhD Candidate) Mr Emre Usenmez will be a moderator for the discussion. Abstract The law of the sea is both a complex and fascinating subject. It is the area of law that makes it possible for states...
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Research Seminar - Mr Emre Usenmez
-Speaker: Mr Emre Usenmez Reforming the UK’s Petroleum Tax Abstract On 4 December 2014, the Treasury published its review of the oil and gas fiscal regime setting out the case for reform. The ensuing changes to the fiscal regime, however, were short of what was intended. This research seminar will first look at...
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Research Seminar - Dr Tamas Gyorfi
-The Debate about Due Deference
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Research Seminar - Professor Nieve Rubaja
-International child abduction in Argentina and in Latin America
October
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Research Seminar - Dr Kristoffer Svendsen
-Speaker: Dr Kristoffer Svendsen (University of Tromsø - the Arctic University) Legal aspects of oil spills from petroleum installations in the Arctic. The case of the Barents Sea. Abstract International regulation of compensation for petroleum spills from offshore rigs and installations is lacking. The consequence of an petroleum spill in the Arctic from...
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Research Seminar - Professor Pete Duff
-Scottish Criminal Evidence Law Adrift
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Freedom of Movement, Voluntary and Forced Immigration
-Looking back is the new way of looking forward. That is why the Romanian Union of Students (RoNUS) and the European Law Student's Association (ELSA Aberdeen) are introducing to you a new concept “EU seen from a 3D dimension”. We start doing this by bringing at the University of Aberdeen Dr...
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Research Seminar - Dr Eleonara Lamm
-Cross-border surrogacy arrangements in South America