University Of Aberdeen

The Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) has announced that Dr Thomas Muinzer, co-director of the Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law, and Dr Tabetha Kurtz-Shefford, senior lecturer in law (University of Swansea) have been re-elected as co-convenors of the energy law section of the SLS for another

University of Aberdeen law students have triumphed for a third consecutive year in the Scottish finals of an international competition that pits the country’s best budding negotiators against each other. Sulaiman Yusuf, 23, and Lilac Cabbad, 26, battled it out against teams from Edinburgh, Gla

The University of Aberdeen Law School has strengthened its long-standing reputation as a centre for space law with a new academic appointment. Dr Maria Manoli, who received her PhD from the Institute of Air and Space Law in the Faculty of Law at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, where she was als

Professor Donna McKenzie-Skene, of Aberdeen University's School of Law, has retired after 29 years of service. She joined the school as a lecturer in 1992 and was promoted first to senior lecturer in 1999 and to professor earlier this year. Before joining the university, she was a court lawyer for f

A student of law at the University of Aberdeen has become the first ever recipient of a new annual award in honour of a successful lawyer from the city who passed away last year.

Professor Margaret Ross will retire from the University of Aberdeen at the end of this month after 28 years of service. Professor Ross graduated from the university in 1979 and has spent her career there in various capacities. She became a part-time tutor in 1980 while she was working in legal pract

Oil and gas lawyer Martin Ewan has been appointed president of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen. The society promotes legal professional expertise in Aberdeen and the north east and its origins can be traced back to the 16th century. Its members include lawyers, members of the judiciary, su