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AUCEL Energy Seminar Series 22/23

Presentation summary: Modern international investment law, as a set of bilateral and multilateral agreements on foreign direct investment, was initially developed as a corollary of globalization but also as a response to the need to resolve the uncertainties and inadequacies of customary international law concerning the responsibility of states for damage...

We are living in the age of Big Data and a world of ever increasing surveillance, where a wide range of data about individuals are being collected, shared, and linked with other datasets by an increasingly diverse range of entities. The amount of tracking to which the ordinary individual citizen...

During this research seminar, the challenges faced by law enforcement, lawyers and justice systems when dealing with international cybercrimes will be addressed and solutions proposed. Furthermore, the seminar will seek to identify and address future cybercrime challenges that will face our increasingly digitised society.  Bio: Ian has over 25 years’ experience at...

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...