Aileen McHarg

@aileenmcharg.bsky.social

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Professor of Public Law and Human Rights, Durham University. Joint General Editor, Public Law.

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Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 3h

Look, if the NE of England doesn't count, NI might as well not exist. #knowyourplace

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Aileen McHarg, Andrew Livingstone

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 5h

I'm in conversation with Timothy Garton Ash in the new issue of BBC History magazine and podcast.
We're discussing the history of policing protest and public order legislation.

Reposted by Martin Paul Eve, Aileen McHarg, Melanie Simms , and 1 more Martin Paul Eve, Aileen McHarg, Melanie Simms, Björn Heile

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5h

'The University of Dundee has been told it cannot make any compulsory redundancies until it has a three-year recovery strategy in place as part of conditions placed on its bailout from the Scottish government.' 1/3

Bailout conditions restrict compulsory redundancies at Dundee

University told to come up with a plan for financial recovery before it enforces more job losses

www.timeshighereducation.com

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 14h

Some London public lawyers practise at the bar. The odd person elsewhere. I knew/know some people in Bristol who practice(d), but I don't think it's widespread (unless including people who do bits and pieces of consultancy - but that's often not motivated primarily by money).

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 14h

So - at best - your initial universal claim is true of a subset of a geographic subset of a specialist subset of academic lawyers?

Can see why your skills are in such high demand.

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 15h

Most horrifically, I even live with one of those lesser beings.

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 15h

Oddly enough, the four universities I have worked in do not exclusively employ public lawyers. Being an ecumenical type of person, I am even prepared to talk to some of them now and again.

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 15h

In more than 3 decades as an academic lawyer I've known (of) no more than a handful of people who combine academia with legal practice. So either this is not true or my colleagues are keeping their side hustles very quiet.

SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 16h

Unfortunately, exactly the opposite is true. 30 years ago, academic lawyers could afford to sit and philosophise about law. Now, in general they're so poorly paid that if they have opportunity to do so they work in practice too. I do.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 16h

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 1d

Just hadn't noticed before. Seems very pork-barrelly

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 1d

Are all these shout outs to people who suggested spending ideas normal?

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 1d

There have been 2 attempts recently in Scotland to get rid of jury trials for non-financial reasons: on a temporary basis during Covid, then a pilot project in rape cases. Both were seen off by the legal profession. So I'm surprised that there hasn't been more of a stushie about these proposals.

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 2d

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 2d

Worrying.

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 2d

AI is always offering to provide summaries of articles though ...

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 2d

Something very much frowned upon, these days.

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 2d

When I was a UG at Edinburgh, English lit had a certain reputation ... I wonder if that is still the same too?

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah - 3 lectures a week was the norm when I was a UG at Edinburgh and when I started teaching at Bristol. But before I left, it went down to 2 lectures per week, and the same thing happened shortly after I joined Glasgow.

Semesterisation was then another excuse for cutting contact hours.

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 2d

My institution is a bit obsessed with the QS rankings for that reason - research counts for that too, but in a different way.

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 2d

Things have changed a bit recently.

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 2d

Really? It's been a phenomenon everywhere I've taught.

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 2d

The reduction in contact hours is partly about reduced contact full stop, but partly about reduced contact with permanent academic staff. This is partly about coping with larger student numbers, but it's also driven by prioritisation of time for research.

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 2d

More concern for quality (understood as consistency across modules); better facilities; more professional teaching; more focus on employability, etc. These things are probably taken for granted, though. 2/2

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 2d

Current students aren't getting the same deal that their parents got, certainly. Contact hours are about 2/3 of what they used to be; module content has been cut; there is less purely formative assessment; bigger numbers make the whole experience less personal.

OTOH some things are better. 1/2

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 3d

'overly hate'? Just a bit?

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 4d

Or even a tin of tomatoes.

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 4d

I'd rather have that for Christmas than a ton of tomatoes.

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 4d

Good to see the Guardian living up to expectations with its Christmas present suggestions.

A catering size tin of chopped tomatoes.

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 4d

5 requests in 10 days would have me hyperventilating.

Reposted by Aileen McHarg

Dr Adam Evans @a-b-evans.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - I love the smell of a freshly printed journal article in the evening… #senedd #devolution

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