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The Programme and Abstracts for the 5th CASS Postgraduate Conference are now available at the Conference website . The Conference will be held at the University of Aberdeen on June 11-12. Jernej Letnar Cernic, the Law Section Coordinator, explains that this year's Law Section is the largest yet. The Law Section features participants from four continents, and will address a wide range of topics including Human Rights, International Law, International Criminal Law, European Law, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law and Arbitration Law. Many thanks and congratulations to the Organising Committee , particularly the Law Section organisers: Jernej Letnar Cernic, Gerd Koehler and Alessia Vacca.

The Law Section of the Organising Committee of College of Arts & Social Sciences Postgraduate Conference, at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland invites graduate students undertaking legal research to submit abstracts for consideration. The Conference will take place over two days (11-12 June) in the beautiful surroundings of King's College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Please click here for further information.

On behalf of Jernej I would like to thank everybody who came along and took part in the Law Section of the CASS conference this year. It was a fun event largely because the presentations were excellent. We had a lot of interesting topics to discuss on things such as soft law and human rights, so if folks want to continue the discussion, the comments here are a great place to do that.

MOVING FORWARD CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Wednesday 13 June 2007 08:45 - 09:15 Registration, tea & coffee ( Linklater Rooms, Elphinstone Hall ) 09:15 – 10.30 Opening Plenary Session 1 The PhD Experience 10.30 – 11.00 Tea & Coffee (Linklater Rooms, Elphinstone Hall) 11:00 Start of Law Sessions Welcome address, prof. Christopher W. Gane , Vice-principal of University of Aberdeen 11:20 - 13:00 Morning Panel Law 1 Session (New Kings Lecture Room 10) – Trademarks and Trade in Europe , Moderator: Gerd Koehler, University of Aberdeen Jamil Ammar , University of Edinburgh ( Scotland ) Trademarks Efficiency or Economic Efficiency? The Interaction between Law and Technology Iona Marinova , University of Aberdeen ( Scotland ) Bifurcation of parallel trade regulation in the European community. The legal status of parallel trade from a trademark point of view and the proposition for a move to a rule...

4 th Annual College of Arts & Social Sciences Postgraduate Conference, at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland Law Section Call For Papers The Law Section of the Organising Committee of College of Arts & Social Sciences Postgraduate Conference, at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland invites graduate students undertaking legal research to submit abstracts for consideration. The Conference will take place over two days (13-14 June) in the beautiful surroundings of King's College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. The aim of the Conference is to give graduate students in law from across Scotland, the United Kingdom, Europe and the world the opportunity to present papers reflecting excellence in legal research. This event aims to bring together PhD students with an interest in all aspects of legal research, but particularly those interested in Comparative, European, International, Intellectual Property or Art Law. Our goal is to encourage all areas of legal resea...