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28 November 2022University of Exeter success in national mooting competition!
LLB Law with Business students, Anastasia Uzor and Vahishta Jila, successfully represented the University of Exeter in the first round of the ICCA/OUP National Mooting Competition, securing a win against the University of Bangor’s team in a complex moot concerning liability for pure economic loss in professional negligence. The moot judge Mike Blitz (a practising barrister and Deputy District Judge) commended the mooters’ strong legal analysis and passionate submissions.
Anastasia and Vahishta now progress into the second round of the competition. We wish them the best of luck!
HaSS Cornwall in Westminster!
We are delighted to share that our very own Dr Tiago De Melo Cartaxo and Dr David Monciardini represented the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and the University of Exeter, Cornwall in Westminster, talking to MPs at Evidence Week in Parliament 2022 about ‘six lessons for local food strategies for big cities’.
You can find out more about their research here.
Law Mentors
Below is a list of professionals who you can applied to be mentored by. Click the link on their name to be taken the the Handshake website, where you can learn a bit more about their background and responsibilities – you can also apply to be mentored by them using the same link.
YEAR 1
Continuing our journey into British political structures, this week we take a close look at the Executive – the part of government that executes parliamentary decisions. We ask how much power the Prime Minister has, and consider the role of the cabinet and the civil service. We will see how the civil service helps to implement Parliamentary decisions, and explore the ways that other organisations of pluralist politics that we have discussed over earlier weeks, feed in to these implementation decisions.
In Political Communication … Your second Political Communication essay is due on Friday of this week (2nd December).
The first workshop this week look at at Public Speaking. Many of you will do some form of public speaking for your groupwork assignment and this is an opportunity to consider the basic principles and some of the fears and anxieties we all have, along with strategies to cope.
The second workshop is our third focused session helping you to develop your groupwork assignment.
YEAR 2
This week in Comparative Politics we dive into the literature on social movements. We have already hinted at how social movements matter for bottom-up transitions to democracy and politics from below in general. We now focus on three aspects of the social movements. First, we explore the contentious politics approach – a very instrumental and empirical approach – and its emphasis on visible collective actions. Second, we contrast the contentious politics approach with the cultural approach, which emphasises social change as the result of establishing different practices, ways of seeing, and lifestyles. Third, we look at social movements from a comparative perspective and assess their contribution to the consolidation of democratisation.
Wednesday 30th November – 5:00pm – DM Lecture A
The Politics department are pleased to present four films, which examine the politics of communication. Screenings will be followed by discussion. All politics students are welcome, it should be listed on your timetables. Free pizza will be supplied but bring your own beverage.
This week’s film as selected by Dr Shubranshu Mishra, is Haider. Haider is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language political action thriller. Based on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and set amidst the insurgency-hit Kashmir conflicts of 1995, Haider follows the story of a young student and a poet, who returns to Kashmir at the peak of the conflict to seek answers about his father’s disappearance and ends up being tugged into the politics of the state. Mike McCahill of the Guardian describes Haider as ‘a palpable hit, in any language’.
We are pleased to announce the launch of Earth Humanities – a new interdisciplinary project dealing with issues of extractives by bringing together a range of different perspectives from the arts, humanities, social and environmental sciences. Earth Humanities engages with urgent issues of climatic and environmental change. We are particularly interested in the challenges posed to Arts and Humanities researchers by the concept of the Anthropocene.
Originating in the European Enlightenment and now merged with modernity’s belief in continued progress and economic growth, many societies of the West and Global North have become distracted, disconnected if not ignorant of their roles in perpetuating colonial modalities of extraction.
We are open to ideas and contributions for the next chapter coming soon!
To find out more, click the link here or email Nicola Whyte (N.M.Whyte@exeter.ac.uk).