James Hand, University of Portsmouth The UK’s higher education funding bodies announced initial decisions for the operation of REF2028 on 15 June 2023, thirteen months after the REF2021 results were announced. In some respects, we are already over 40% through the likely new cycle, with REF2028 submission due in 2027 (and guidance and criteria due [...]
By: Anonymous PhD Researcher and Associate Lecturer Image by Camilla via https://www.flickr.com/photos/camillaen/6325164180 The recent SLSA Precarious Employment Survey Report has found that the trends towards precarious employment practices in higher education are a particular concern for PGRs and ECRs. This is not news for those of us affected, but it is a huge [...]
Russell Sandberg, Cardiff University In a previous blog post entitled ‘Why the Past is the Future’, I argued that the study of legal history ought to be at the beating heart of what Law Schools do. Summarising the arguments of my book Subversive Legal History: A Manifesto for the Future of Legal Education, I contended [...]
Dr Benjamin Thorne, Lecturer in Law, Kent Law School & Dr Sean Mulcahy, Research Officer, Gender, Law and Drugs Program, La Trobe University Arts, particularly performance, have been used as mode of enquiry, analysis, empowerment, healing, and agency to explore law. Law and performance is a rich but complex terrain of research, and for this [...]
Dr Rosie Fox and Dr James Greenwood-Reeves, University of Leeds R.Fox@leeds.ac.uk; J.R.H.Greenwood@leeds.ac.uk "Still from Dragula TV show" by The Boulet Brothers is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. We are obsessed with drag and the law. In our SLSA conference paper in 2021, our drag alter egos Mercy Killing and Alice Aforethought demonstrated how [...]
Foluke Adebisi, The Law School, University of Bristol Introduction Since 2015 and the #RhodesMustFall movement in Cape Town, South Africa, as well as its counterpart student movement at Oxford University in the UK, the question of the relevance of decolonisation to higher education has become quite prominent across Global North universities. Before this upsurge of [...]
By Dr Sharon Thompson, Reader in Law, Cardiff University “A little while ago I was asked to speak at some big organisation…might have been Women’s Institute. I gave half an hour’s talk, I get one or two questions and it’s over. I think that’s simply amazing. It affects all of them, and yet they’re so [...]
By Arletta Gorecka, PhD Candidate, University of Strathclyde, UK. Introduction Traditionally, competition law and privacy have been seen as separate. The influence of Google, Apple, Meta (Facebook), Amazon, and Microsoft has blurred the divide between privacy and competition law. This post provides a brief overview of the debate, with an attempt to map out the blurry [...]
Aleydis Nissen In June 2017, I followed the Socio-Legal Residential Masterclass on the politics of socio-legal scholarship. Five months later, it was time to put those insights in practice and to find out for myself what the ‘“cracks and dysfunctions” in existing legal systems’ are. These insights will be published by Cambridge University Press in [...]