Aileen McHarg @[email protected]
@AileenMcHarg
Professor (so-called) of Public Law and Human Rights, Durham University. Scots & UK public law; energy regulation. Joint General Editor, Public Law.
My piece out in Public Law examines one of the biggest barriers to claimants challenging an unfair automated decision which is the lack of transparency surrounding their use in government. Thank you to Public Law and in particular @AileenMcHarg and @RogerMasterman
@PL_PublicLaw's January 2025 issue now available on @WestlawUK. Analysis pieces from: @DTsarapatsanis on Legal Realism in British Public Law; @alexandrasinc10 on Automated Decision Making and Governmental Opacity; @mariaosulliv on the Role of Electoral Commissions in ...
January 2025 issue of Public Law now on Westlaw.
@PL_PublicLaw's January 2025 issue now available on @WestlawUK. Analysis pieces from: @DTsarapatsanis on Legal Realism in British Public Law; @alexandrasinc10 on Automated Decision Making and Governmental Opacity; @mariaosulliv on the Role of Electoral Commissions in ...
Reminder to get your abstracts in for this workshop. Please share with your PGRs and ECR colleagues.
Call for papers for an ICON-S GBIE PGR/ECR workshop @LSELaw on 30 April. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 6 December. lselaw.events/event/internat…
Informed critique of the weaknesses of private member bill procedures at Westminster. It really does sound like this is a bad way to take forward something as controversial/complex as assisted dying, even though it might seem to be an appealing route for a matter of conscience.
Where to start... Perspective is as former No 10 Director of Legislative Affairs and seeing how the PMB process really worked. Govt uses PMB process for 'handouts' - issues that are typically NOT controversial because it knows they won't get much scrutiny. Departments have to…
I will be talking about the problematic nature of judicial approaches to interpretation of the Scotland Act - and what can be done to improve matters.
Our chair for the event will be Lady Wolffe, Professor of Practice at the University of Strathclyde. Last few tickets available via the link below!
Insightful piece from my colleague @BYMYong, once again shining a light on the bits of the constitution that most of us ignore.
Ben Yong: The quiet demise of constitutional boilerplate: or How special advisers can get their groove back ukconstitutionallaw.org/?p=26199
MPs back end of House of Lords hereditary peers bbc.com/news/articles/…
TFW someone recommends that you read an 80-page American law review article. Looking at you @Scott_Wortley
Apocalyptic. Shameful to have let this happen. Even more so to have defended it.
Today entering Gaza City. The ruins of life. A donkey laying dead attached to a cart with someone’s possessions. Clusters of people crossing to the South, with too much to walk with under the sun and given the length of the journey. A man carrying a white flag in front of his…
More than "interesting".
Today entering Gaza City. The ruins of life. A donkey laying dead attached to a cart with someone’s possessions. Clusters of people crossing to the South, with too much to walk with under the sun and given the length of the journey. A man carrying a white flag in front of his…
Four tutorials down and already I'm at the 'did we already discuss this point in this group?' stage.
Absolutely mind-boggling that this sort of warning should be considered necessary.
Philadelphia’s District Attorney has a warning to anyone who tries to intimidate voters: “F*ck around and find out.”
"When taken together these developments [...] mark a concerning continuation in trends which have weakened the UK’s uncodified constitution." – Important reading in the latest report form the United Kingdom Constitution Monitoring Group out today: consoc.org.uk/publications/t…
Sad news. A very funny woman who bore her terminal diagnosis with impressive fortitude.
BREAKING: Scottish comedian Janey Godley dies in hospice aged 63 bbc.in/4htlRMd
My wifi has been playing up all day. Now worried that I may have inadvertently endorsed Donald Trump for president.
lol
Our committee is pleased @scotparl has this evening agreed to our recommendations for a ‘root and branch’ review of the Commissioners' landscape, carried out by a dedicated committee, and that a moratorium should be put in place while the review is undertaken.
The Democratic Consent Mechanism has been triggered: Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has given notification under Schedule 6A Northern Ireland Act 1998 - GOV.UK 1/2 gov.uk/government/pub…