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Research Seminars

The School of Law Research Seminar Series aims to foster and sustain the School's excellent research environment. They are delivered on campus and/or online by guest speakers from other universities in the UK or abroad, or members of staff on a wide range of topics. They provide an opportunity to share, engage with, and build upon a research piece, whether at an advanced or final stage of development. Research seminars usually last for approximately 60 minutes, including a 40 minute presentation followed by a 20 minute discussion. Everyone, staff and students, are welcome and there is no need to register.

The Convenor of the Research Seminar Series is Dr Onyoja Momoh

Seminar Timetable 2026-27

First Half-Session

Wednesday 14th October 2026 1-2:30pm - Hybrid Event (C49) Frequent and Curious Among the English; But With Us... Little Accustomed to be Pursued: Actions Upon Injurious Words and Damnage and Means in Early Modern and Modern Scots Law by Dr Jonathan Brown

Thursday 15th October  1-2:30pm - Hybrid Event (C11) Putting the Human Back into Jurisprudence by Professor Lorenzo Zucca

Friday 16th October 1-2.30pm - Hybrid Event (C11) Why Should Commercial Actors Care How Regulation is Made? Maritime Safety Regulation and Private Law by Dr Madison Stevens

Wednesday 11th November 2026 1-2:30pm - Hybrid Event (C49) Scottish and Australian Approaches to Regulating Contract(s): Friend or False Friend? by Dr Jessica Viven-Wilksch

Wednesday 11th November 2026 2-4pm - Hybrid Event (KCF7) International Prosecutions and Transitional Justice: A Practical View by Martin Hackett

Wednesday 25th November 2026 1-2pm - Online Event (Teams) Contracting for the Green Shipping Transition: Rethinking the Environmental Role of Private Law by Dr Ali Ulvi Sahin, University of Southampton

Wednesday 25th November 2026 2-3:30pm - Hybrid Event (KCF7) by Professor Katja Ziegler

Second Half-Session

Wednesday 17th March 2027 2-3:30pm - Hybrid Event (Old Senate Room): Beyond 'Concrete and Direct': The Expansion of Military Advantage and the Erosion of Proportionality in International Humanitarian Law by Dr Saeed Bagheri

Seminar Timetable 2025-26

First Half-Session

Wednesday 8th October 2025 1-2pm - Hybrid Event (C11): FWS v Scottish Ministers: Reconciling the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and the Equality Act 2010 by Professor Kenneth Norrie

Wednesday 22nd October 2025 1-2pm - Hybrid Event (C11): Evaluating the Responsive Uses of Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Sentencing at the Criminal Law Court: A Comparative Perspective by Dr Ezeji Chiji Longinus

Wednesday 3rd December 2025 1-2pm - Hybrid Event (C11): Regulatory Sandboxes as a Means to Achieve Responsive Regulation? by Sophie Weerts

Second Half-Session

Wednesday 18th February 2026 3-4pm - Hybrid Event (CB009): Between Ambition and Realism - What to Expect from the Upcoming Reforms to the Rome II and Brussels Ia Regulation? by Professor Tobias Lutzi

Thursday 19th February 2026 1-2pm - Hybrid Event (C11): EU Sustainability Legislation and International Supply Chains by Professor Adolf Peter

Wednesday 25th February 2026 1-2pm - Hybrid Event (C11): Law and Communication Technology - Written, Printed and Digital Communication of Law in Legal History by Professor Jorn Sunde, University of Oslo

Wednesday 18th March 2026 1-2:30pm - Hybrid Event (C11): From Online Safety to Trust and Safety - Turning Commercial Goals into Legal Requirements by Professor Valere Ndior

Wednesday 25th March 2026 1-2pm - Hybrid Event (C11): Reforming reporting restrictions after the Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act: the unfinished business by Dr Andrew Tickell, Glasgow Caledonian University

Monday 27th April 2026 1-2pm - Hybrid Event (C11): Reimagining usages of international trade in the era of artificial intelligence (AI) by Dr Boris Prastalo, Brunel University

Thursday 30th April 2026 10-11am - Online Event: Crossroads in Private International Law // Problems in Determining the Proper Law of the Contract in Confirmed Letters of Credit by Liwen Leung

Friday 22nd May 2026 12-1pm - Online Event: Crossroads in Private International Law // Can the Hague Draft Convention on Parallel Proceedings Succeed? Rethinking Proceedings Succeed? Rethinking Coordination in a Plural Legal Order by Aygun Mammadzada

Seminar Timetable 2024-25

First Half-Session

Wednesday, 16 October, 1.30 - 2.30pm - Hybrid Event (C11): Law and Legal Consciousness in Medieval Scotland by

Wednesday, 16 October, 2.45 - 3.45pm - Hybrid Event (C11): Ideology of Justice: The ICTY as a site of knowledge production by

Wednesday, 13 Novemebr, 1.30 - 2.30pm - Hybrid Event (C11): Social Policy and Qualitative Research by

Wednesday, 13 Novemebr, 2.45 - 3.45pm - Hybrid Event (C11): Misleading information and investor protection in cross-border scenarios: the location of the financial loss by

Second Half-Session

Wednesday, 22 January, 2 - 3pm - Hybrid Event (A21): Regime creation, raw data and intellectual property: holding power and opening doors  by Abbe Brown

Wednesday, 22 January, 3.15 - 4.15pm - Online Event: Canada’s journey with online harms legislation by

Wednesday, 26 February, 1.15 - 2.15pm - Hybrid Event (A21): The Ownership of Carbon by

Wednesday, 26 February, 2.30 - 3.30pm - Hybrid Event (A21): The Cross-Border Recognition of Changes in the Legal Sex of Transgender Persons: The Landmark ECJ ruling in the Mirin case by

Wednesday, 19 March, 1.15 - 2.15pm - Hybrid Event (A21): Trade Usages in the Context of and Beyond the CISG (Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods) by

Wednesday, 19 March, 2.30 - 3.30pm - Hybrid Event (A21): Responsibility and Accountability for Conducts in Cyberspace by

Wednesday 16th April 1-3:30pm – Seminar 1, Hybrid Event (A21): Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law by Chloe Kennedy

Wednesday 16th April 2:30-3:30pm – Seminar 2, Hybrid Event (A21): Recent developments in the handling of scientific evidence before international courts and tribunals by Dr James Devaney

 

Seminar Timetable 2023-24

First Half-Session

Thursday, 14 September, 12-1pm - On- Campus Event (NK14): 'Is Nordic Law a Legal Family? ' by Jaakko Husa

Wednesday, 18 October, 1-2.00pm - Hybrid Event (C11/Teams): 'The Purposes of Preambles in the History of Legislation in Europe ' by Brage Thunestvedt Hatløy

Wednesday, 18 October, 2-3.00pm - Hybrid Event (C11/Teams): ''Legal Doctrinal Scholarship and the Social Sciences ' by Matyas Bodig

Tuesday, 24 October, 3-4.30pm - Hybrid Event (A21/Teams): 'International Refugee Law in the Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities by Sandrine Turgis

Wednesday, 15 November, 1.10-2.10pm - Hybrid Event (C11/Teams): 'Climate Change and the European Convention on Human Rights ' by Erin Ferguson

Wednesday, 15 November, 2.20-3.20pm - Hybrid Event (C11/Teams): 'Entrenching Human Rights Protections in the UK's Devolved Nations '' by Kasey McCall-Smith

Wednesday, 15 November, 3.30-4.30pm - Hybrid Event (C11/Teams): 'Family Law Reform at the Scottish Law Commission: Civil Remedies for Domestic Abuse ' by Gillian Black

Second Half-Session

Wednesday, 20 March, 1.15 - 2.15pm, Hybrid Event: 'Law Reform in Scotland: Moveable Transactions as a Case Study ' by Professor Andrew Steven

Wednesday, 20 March, 2.30 - 3.30pm, Hybrid Event: 'Responsibility to Protect: Challenges and Opportunities '' by Professor Christina Binder

Wednesday, 21 February, 1.10-2.10pm, Hybrid Event: 'International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability: In the Court's Shadow ' by Patryk I. Labuda

Wednesday, 21 February, 2.20-3.20pm, Hybrid Event: 'A Court of Specialists: Judicial Behavior on the UK Supreme Court ' by Chris Hanretty

Wednesday, 21 February, 3.30-4.30pm, Hybrid Event: 'International Tax Law in a Changing Landscape ' by Xiaorong (Sharron) Li

Wednesday, 24 January, 1.15-2.15pm, Hybrid Event: Climate Change and the Limits of International Fisheries Law by Mitchell Lennan

Seminar Timetable 2022-23

First Half-Session

Friday 14 October, 2-3.30pm - Teams Event: Self-defense in the Fight against Terrorism: The Enlargement of the Right of Self-defense by Dr Mélanie Dubuy

Monday 24 October, 2-3.30pm - Hybrid Event (On Campus Venue KCF7): Don't Worry ºÚÁÏÍø the Government- National Security and the Rule of Law by Ronald Clancy QC

Thursday 3 November, 1-2.30pm - Hybrid Event (On Campus Venue KCF7): From Validity to Valency by

Thursday 17 November, 1-2:30pm - Hybrid Event (On Campus Venue OSR): A 'right to deepfake' in Europe? Assessing the regulation of deepfakes under the lens of Article 10 ECHR by Dr Mathilde Pavis & Dr Dimitrios Kagiaros

Second Half-Session

Monday 23 January, 1-3pm - Hybrid Event (On Campus Venue KCG11): Law and policies for the digital economy. The role of comparative law by Professor Guido Smorto

Wednesday 1 February, 2-3pm - Hybrid Event (On Campus Venue Taylor A21): Volcanic Eruptions and International Law - Lessons from Iceland by Professor Bjarni Már Magnússon

Thursday 9 February, 2-3.30pm - Hybrid Event (On Campus Venue New Kings NK1): Challenges Raised by International Cybercrimes by

Thursday 16 February, 10-11:30am - Online Event: The Commercialisation of Your Physical Self - An Introduction to Personal Genomics by

Tuesday 21 February, 1-2.30pm - Hybrid Event (On Campus Venue: C11): Promoting sustainable foreign direct investments through investment treaties: the long-awaited evolution of international investment law . by

Friday, 17 March, 2-3.30pm - Online Event: Military Assistance to Ukraine: A Form of Collective Self-defence? by

Tuesday, 25 April, 3-4,30PM - Hybrid Event: Fair and Equitable Treatment and the Draft Code of Conduct for Adjudicators by

Wednesday, 24 May, 2-3pm - Hybrid Event: The Short-Lived Hungarian Floating Security and the Scottish Experience with the Floating Charge by

Seminar Timetable 2020-21*

*Please note that the 20/21 School of Law Research seminars will take place online via Microsoft Teams. Links will be provided closer to the date and time on our webpage and social media.

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Seminar Timetable 2019-20

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Seminar Timetable 2018-19

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Seminar Timetable 2017-18

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