scholarly journals Milestones and Directions: Socio-Legal Studies in Germany and the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 1318-1331
Author(s):  
Stefan Machura
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
University Education ◽  
Sociology Of Law ◽  
Institutional Practice ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
Sociolegal Studies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Uk

AbstractUnder the headings of “Rechtssoziologie” in Germany and “sociolegal studies” in the UK, scholarly traditions have developed that relate law to its social environment. This Article identifies key stages in the development the subject took in both countries and the directions of travel. Comparable milestones were passed, and directions were taken in Germany and the UK. This includes the institutionalization of the subject along the lines of programmatic texts; becoming part of university education; and the establishment of research institutes, academic associations, and specialized journals. The development tells us something beyond sociology of law or sociolegal studies, namely about the relation of law and sociology, the parent disciplines themselves, as well as about academic studies and professional and institutional practice. However, in contrast to the UK, there is still more of a distance between the sociology of law and jurisprudence in Germany.

scholarly journals Inspection Reports in Turkey and United Kingdom: A Comparative Study of Inspections

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet E. Usta ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
School Inspection ◽  
National Education ◽  
Direct Training ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Training Activities ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Uk

This study aims to compare the school inspection reports prepared by educational inspectors in Turkey and the United Kingdom. In Turkey, educational inspection is carried out by the Educational Inspectors of the Ministry of National Education. On the other hand, educational inspection in the UK is carried out by Ofsted education inspectors. In both countries, it is compulsory to prepare an inspection report at the conclusion of an inspection, which sheds light on and evaluates the activities carried out at the school. The inspection reports are the subject of this study in terms of both form and content. The qualitative research method was used in the study and a document analysis was carried out. In this context, 10 inspection reports from both Turkey and the United Kingdom each were subjected to the inspection report review. A code was assigned to each inspection report. The reports originating from Turkey that were subjected to review were assigned the code TR, while the reports originating from the United Kingdom that were subjected to review were assigned the code UK. Titles of the inspection reports were determined and sample expressions related to each title were included in the text. As a result, although there are some similarities in the form of inspections, Ofsted reports were judged to be different, especially in terms of participation, evaluation of direct training activities, transparency and participation.

scholarly journals NATIONAL DATABASE OF METAL IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM & INDONESIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachma Puspitasari ◽  
Raldi Koestoer
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
National Database ◽  
Success Story ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
The Uk

The ocean is a source of mega-biodiversity that is supposed to perform optimally for current and future generations. The health of the ocean must be evaluated by measuring heavy metals in sediment because they can be accumulated and stored in long term. This metal can be released and absorbed by an organism, and affect the ecological risk and human health. The purpose of this article is to share viewpoints and those in a comparative study in terms of the metal database of both countries, the UK and Indonesia. The methodology used in this paper is critical review and analysis to compare a success story about compiling metal data into a national database in the United Kingdom (UK). Indonesia already has an open public access database issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. The further step is to strengthen collaboration between research institutes, universities, and government to assign a Standard Operational Procedure (SOP) to collect, analyze and report the data to a national depository. This database will be worthwhile to describe the pollution status in Indonesia and basic data for best practice decisions. 

Public opinion attitudes towards the European Union and its future in the United Kingdom. Study based on the results of Eurobarometer surveys in the UK and Poland

2014 ◽  
pp. 116-131
Author(s):  
Beata Słupek
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
British People ◽  
The Eu

The subject of this publication is the scepticism regarding the future of the European Union in the UK. The research is based on Eurobarometer surveys conducted over the period of five years. A purpose of the research is to show the relationship between the results of the Eurobarometer survey on the future of the EU, and the eurosceptic views in the UK. The main research questions is: is the UK sceptical about the future of the EU? Hypothesis of this publication is that the UK is sceptical about the future of the European Union. The reasons for such attitudes are not analysed here – the article is merely an attempt to present the societal attitudes. The research method employed is the comparative critical analysis of quantitative data. The conclusion is that Great Britain is not significantly eurosceptic. British people are, however, less enthusiastic about what is happening at present in the EU, and also are showing greater anxieties when it comes to the future of the EU.

The United Kingdom against Russia’s attempts to maintain the zones of influence on the example of the Ukrainian crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-124
Author(s):  
Łukasz Jureńczyk
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Structural Realism ◽  
Source Analysis ◽  
Military Policy ◽  
Main Section ◽  
Significant Deterioration ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Ukrainian Crisis ◽  
The Uk

The subject of the paper are the United Kingdom’s actions against Russia's attempts to maintain its zones of influence, based on the example of the Ukrainian crisis. The introduction consists of a synthetic outline of the geopolitical rivalry between Russia and Great Britain. The next section discusses the attitude of the United Kingdom towards Russia’s attempts to maintain its zones of influence in the 21st century. The main section of the paper focuses on the United Kingdom’s actions against Russia’s military policy in Ukraine. The main thesis of the paper assumes that during the Ukrainian crisis, the UK has taken the most far-reaching measures so far to oppose Russia’s attempts to maintain zones of influence. The consequence of this is a significant deterioration in Russian-British relations due to the Ukrainian crisis. The leading paradigm is structural realism. The method of text source analysis was used in the paper.

DISTANCE TEACHING OF LEGAL DISCIPLINES AT NON-LEGAL UNIVERSITIES. PANDEMIC COVID-19 ISSUES AND CHALLENGES FOR ACADEMICIANS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Sovova
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Private Life ◽  
University Education ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
Distance Teaching ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The Subject

The paper examines the specifics of teaching legal disciplines at public universities, emphasizing law education. The universities are not specialized in law education. Nevertheless, legal studies, especially public law, form a substantial part of their curricula. The pandemic brought a fundamental change of approach to university education of both parts students and academicians. The author presents the experience of two semesters of online legal teaching. The paper highlights the positives, including the possibility of interuniversity and cross-border education. The author points out the negatives of teaching in big groups, which disables the personal interaction and immediate modification of the subject matter according to the demands and needs of students. The author conducted a short survey about issues and challenges of online teaching among academicians. The author was interested in which methods they used online they would keep in the future contact teaching. The survey also examines how online teaching influenced academicians' private life. Based on its results and lessons from the pandemic university teaching, the paper concludes with practical proposals for online education of legal disciplines for non-lawyers.

scholarly journals Socio-Legal Studies in Germany and the UK: Theory and Methods

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 1309-1317
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hendry ◽  
Naomi Creutzfeldt ◽  
Christian Boulanger
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The Third ◽  
Academic Cultures ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThis Special Issue considers the situated and contextualized development of socio-legal, or law and society, scholarship within two materially different legal and academic cultures, namely Germany and the United Kingdom, with a view to achieving a better understanding of why and how such differences in understanding and practice have arisen. The contributions are grouped into three themes. The first reflects upon the influence of institutional contexts and scholarly traditions in terms of the development of those approaches that come under the banner of socio-legal studies. The second features contributions that adopt a comparative perspective in terms of selected areas of law, pointing to notably different approaches taken in Germany and the UK, and considering the development of these respective situations. The third looks at the key contemporary trends, theoretical applications, and methodological approaches taken within both countries’ socio-legal academic contexts.

scholarly journals Routine use of feeding jejunostomy in oesophageal cancer resections: results of a survey in England

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
J C Tham ◽  
G Dovell ◽  
R G Berrisford ◽  
M L Humphreys ◽  
T J Wheatley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Oesophageal Cancer ◽  
Enhanced Recovery ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
Feeding Jejunostomy ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Nutrition Supplementation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Feeding Regimen ◽  
The Uk

SUMMARY Nutrition and post-operative feeding in oesophageal cancer resections for enhanced recovery remain a controversial subject. Feeding jejunostomy tubes (FJT) have been used post-operatively to address the subject but evidence to support its routine use is contentious. There is currently no data on FJT use in England for oesophageal cancer resections. Knowledge regarding current FJT usage, and rationale for its use may provide a snapshot of the trend and current standing on FJT use by resectional units in England. A standardised survey was sent electronically to all oesophageal resectional units in the United Kingdom (UK) between October 2016 and January 2018. In summary, the questionnaire probes into current FJT use, rationale for its usage, consideration of cessation of its use, and rationale of cessation of its use for units not using FJT. The resectional units were identified using the National Oesophago-Gastric Cancer Audit (NOGCA) progress report 2016 and 1 selected resectional unit from Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, respectively. Performance data of those units were collected from the 2017 NOGCA report. Out of 40 units that were eligible, 32 (80.0%) centres responded. The responses show a heterogeneity of FJT use across the resectional centres. Most centres (56.3%) still place FJT routinely with 2 of 18 (11.1%) were considering stopping its routine use. FJT was considered a mandatory adjunct to chemotherapy in 3 (9.4%) centres. FJT was not routinely used in 9 (28.1%) of centres with 5 of 9 (55.6%) reported previous complications and 4 of 9 (44.4%) cited using other forms of nutrition supplementation as factors for discontinuing FJT use. There were 5 (15.6%) centres with divided practice among its consultants. Of those 2 of 5 (40.0%) were considering stopping FJT use, and hence, a total of 4 of 23 (17.4%) of units are now considering stopping routine FJT use. In conclusion, the wider practice of FJT use in the UK remains heterogenous. More research regarding the optimal post-operative feeding regimen needs to be undertaken.

Did a Corbyn-led Government Pose an “Existential Threat to Jewish Life” in the United Kingdom?

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3.1) ◽  
pp. 109-120
Author(s):  
Jack Staples-Butler
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Exact Nature ◽  
Institutional Response ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Uk

The 2019 General Election was preceded by several years of anxiety within the UK Jewish community and outside it, that the UK Labour Party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn posed an “Existential Threat” to British Jews and their community. As the debate over Labour and antisemitism focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the treatment of Jews within Labour, the activities of prominent Labour figures, and the Labour Party’s institutional response, the exact nature of an “Existential Threat” to British Jews and how it would manifest under a Corbyn-led government has been difficult to quantify. This article adopts a new approach to the subject, going beyond the familiar ground of Corbyn’s association with antisemitic groups and individuals, through a comparative analysis of three “revolutionary” states which have strongly influenced Corbyn and Corbynism: Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran. The article demonstrates how the “anti-racist” and “anti-imperialist” states celebrated by Corbyn and the wider British Left enacted social, economic, and foreign policies which destroyed Jewish communities without the methods of the traditional antisemitic Right, and the coalescence of antisemitic policy with both “antizionism” and the conspiratorial worldview espoused by Corbyn himself. Keywords: Corbynism, Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, forced migration, exodus, destruction, socialism, Castro, Chavez, antizionism

scholarly journals Can machine learning, as a RegTech compliance tool, lighten the regulatory burden for charitable organisations in the United Kingdom?

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charanjit Singh ◽  
Lei Zhao ◽  
Wangwei Lin ◽  
Zhen Ye
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Regulatory Compliance ◽  
International Regulation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Regulatory Burden ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Uk

Purpose Machine learning is having a major impact on banking, law and other organisations. The speed with which this technology is developing to undertake tasks that are not only complex and technical but also time-consuming and that are subject to constantly changing parameters is astounding. The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which machine learning can be used as a solution to lighten the compliance and regulatory burden on charitable organisations in the UK; so that they can comply with their regulatory duties and develop a coherent and streamlined action plan in relation to technological investment. Design/methodology/approach The subject is approached through the analysis of data, literature and domestic and international regulation. The first part of the study summarises the extent of current regulatory obligations faced by charities, these are then, in the second part, set against the potential technological solutions provided by machine learning as of July 2021. Findings It is suggested that charities can use machine learning as a smart technological solution to ease the regulatory burden they face in a growing and impactful sector. Originality/value The work is original because it is the first to specifically explore how machine learning as a technological advance can assist charities in meeting the regulatory compliance challenge.

Learning and Unlearning from School to College to University: Issues for Students and Teachers

Journal ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie Vandesteeg
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
University Education ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Student Perspective ◽  
Examination System ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Uk

This paper is based on research carried out on transitions in the educational lives of students. The paper will argue that the problem of transition is a challenging one: students have certain challenges in making the transition between stages of education, and educational institutions are not sufficiently aware of the need to address the question of �unlearning� involved in transitions. The word �transition� in this context indicates a process of unlearning what was known in the previous stage and learning what is required in order to be an effective student in the next stage. This is partly because of the nature of the examination system that frames pre-university education in the UK. The problem of transition is not just a question of telling students what was less effective about how they did things before and how they should now do things differently, but of understanding the student perspective holistically. Teachers need to understand that the students have been engaged in a number of activities that are not just intellectual, but also social and embodied. Unlearning and learning therefore is a much more complex process than might appear on the surface. Students of the new A- level in anthropology face these same challenges but anthropology provides the potential for meeting these challenges - partly because of the nature of the subject matter and how it needs to be taught, and partly because of the close relationship between the A-level and the wider anthropology community.

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