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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...

With national legal systems called upon to apply local laws to a global phenomenon, competition in the digital realm concerns regulatory powers, competencies, and jurisdictional boundaries. This is why legal comparison plays a fundamental role in the fight for digital sovereignty. Against this backdrop, the talk ponders on the function...

Artificial intelligence (AI) brings great benefits to all sectors of society and strengthens progress, social well-being and economic competitiveness via automatisation of the respective human activities. At the same time, however, it poses risks to a variety of human rights and fundamental freedoms, be it due to the intrinsic technological...

AUCEL Energy Seminar Series 22/23

Much has been written about deepfakes and other forms of manipulated or synthetic media from the viewpoint of policing and sanction (i.e. protecting against or preventing the harm caused by deepfakes). These analyses have raised legitimate concerns as to how deepfake technology can be used to produce image-based sexual abuse,...

The United Kingdom Government frequently invokes national security in a variety of ways which conflict with the public interest in open government, with the rights and duties of citizens and with the operation of the rule of law. In cases in which these conflicts have arisen the Courts have traditionally...

The development of international and European law challenges the familiar concept of law as an edifice erected on the solid foundations of a Kelsenian basic norm. In this contribution Westerman analyses the shortcomings of the still persistent building-metaphor and suggests that an alternative network-metaphor is to be preferred. If we...

Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the right of self-defence has been particularly impacted by “hyperterrorism”. The use of force in the fight against terrorism is one of the thorniest questions in public international law, precisely jus ad bellum which is dedicated to the study of the legal foundations of recourse to armed...

In c.1990 the Scottish Law Commission opened a consultation on the reform of Scots family law, as part of which the question ‘Should marriage by cohabitation with habit and repute be retained or abolished?’ was posed. The question produced a very full consideration of the doctrine of marriage by cohabitation...

The emergence and consolidation of the 3rd and the 4th Industrial Revolutions have amounted to several complex legal risks. From a Private International Law perspective, those challenges often and directly affect the question of determining international jurisdiction in situations where the case enjoys an international character, due to the connection...