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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.

The seminar critically examines the “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) in the context of the growing role of the individual in the United Nations. It argues that R2P illustrates a paradigm shift in international relations, from a state centred security concept to a more human security centred one. However, as will...

Professor Steven’s discussion will have a twofold focus. He will firstly discuss law reform in Scotland, drawing on his experience as a Scottish law commissioner, with particular focus on the various ways that academic staff can contribute to and participate in the law reform process. Professor Steven will illustrate the...

The international tax legal system has seen huge changes since the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project was launched in 2013. In recent years, the issue of addressing tax challenges arising from digitalisation has been hotly debated under the auspices of the OECD. Among various proposals that have been...

Christopher Hanretty will present his monograph ‘A Court of Specialists: Judicial Behavior on the UK Supreme Court’ published with Oxford University Press in 2020. https://academic.oup.com/book/36761   Christoper Hanretty is Professor of Politics at the University of London. See his curriculum vitae here: http://chrishanretty.co.uk/cv.html

Patryk's first book ‘International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability: In the Court's Shadow' (Oxford University Press) was published in 2023. His work has featured in the Leiden Journal of International Law, the Yale Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law and the Journal of International Criminal Justice....

by Prof Elisa Morgera (University of Strathclyde)

Centre for Commercial Law (CCL) Seminar Series

The Scottish Law Commission is currently conducting a review of the law of civil remedies for domestic abuse. This will consider how the law in this area can be simplified, clarified, and updated. At the moment, civil remedies for domestic abuse are spread over many different statutes, which makes it...

In her seminar, Dr McCall-Smith will examine the future of increasing human rights protections in the devolved nations of the UK in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Incorporation Reference decision of October 2021. Firstly, the presentation will consider the entrenchment of human rights standards through incorporation as a means for implementation...