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ISSUE SEVEN, 1 MAY 2020 Despite having an empty campus, it is very much ‘business as usual’. This month has been especially exciting as, with TDAP award secured, we have launched 1 new postgraduate and 14 new undergraduate degrees this month, with further details on page 2. We will also be running our Accelerate Pre-University Programme in Law this July online, with details on Page 2. It is anticipated that College will be back to its normal operation in 19 Bedford Square and its environs for the start of the new academic year in September, and plans are being made in accordance with UK government guidelines and best-practice in the sector. There have also been a number of new staff arrivals in various teams: Shimon Agur (Facilities), Syed Zaidi (Recruitment), Pelumi Adekanmbi (Marketing), Lenka Hegedus (Finance), Scott Wildman (Apprenticeships) and Venessa Gordon (Apprenticeships). A big (virtual) welcome from us all! Finally, I wish all students the very best of luck in their end-of-year assessments in the coming weeks. This is certainly not how we envisaged Trinity Term 2019/20, but I hope we are all able to make the most of it! Rebecca Stewart This is the first issue of CruNCH to be fully collated, edited and published remotely and we hope it both updates and encourages you, as we continue to learn and work in these challenging times. Trinity Term at Home
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Despite having an empty campus,
it is very much ‘business as usual’.
This month has been especially
exciting as, with TDAP award secured,
we have launched 1 new postgraduate
and 14 new undergraduate degrees this
month, with further details on page 2.
We will also be running our Accelerate
Pre-University Programme in Law
this July online, with details on
Page 2.
It is anticipated that College will be back
to its normal operation in 19 Bedford
Square and its environs for the start of
the new academic year in September,
and plans are being made in accordance
with UK government guidelines and
best-practice in the sector.
There have also been a number of
new staff arrivals in various teams:
Shimon Agur (Facilities), Syed Zaidi
(Recruitment), Pelumi Adekanmbi
(Marketing), Lenka Hegedus (Finance), Scott Wildman (Apprenticeships) and Venessa Gordon (Apprenticeships). A big (virtual) welcome from us all!
Finally, I wish all students the very best of luck in their end-of-year assessments in the coming weeks. This is certainly not how we envisaged Trinity Term 2019/20, but I hope we are all able to make the most of it!
Rebecca Stewart
This is the first issue of CruNCH to be fully collated, edited and published remotely and we hope it both updates and encourages you, as we continue to learn and work in these challenging times.
Trinity Term at Home
CRUNCH | ISSUE 7 1 MAY 2020
Congratulations to Ursula Smartt, Lecturer and Careers Counsellor in Law, who currently has three forthcoming releases set for Autumn/Winter 2020.
New Degrees at NCH Following the announcement that we have successfully been awarded Taught Degree Awarding Powers (TDAP), we are pleased to announce our first wave of new degree programmes, which will be available for 2020 entry:
Minor in Data Science
Art History with Data Science BA
Economics with Data Science BSc
English with Data Science BA
History with Data Science BA
Law with Data Science LLB
Philosophy with Data Science BA
Politics & IR with Data Science BSc
Accelerate London 2020: Pre-University Programmes in LawRunning from Monday 20 July to Friday 24 July, the Pre-University Programme in Law is designed for talented students in their penultimate year of secondary education (Year 12 in the English education system) who want to try something new or give themselves an edge.
The 2020 Accelerate Law programme will be delivered online, to allow you to experience world-class collegiate learning from home during the period
of restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.In addition, although the usual fees for the course are £1,950, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and in order to allow all accepted students to participate, this year’s online course will be delivered at no cost.
If you know someone in their penultimate year of secondary education who might be interested in the Accelerate Pre-University Programme in
Law, full details can be found here.
Law Faculty Updates
Books
Media Law for Journalists, Routledge (23 September 2020)
This book is both an introductory text and reference guide to the main issues facing journalists today, including social media, fake news, and regulators. This book covers essential areas such as: privacy, confidentiality, freedom of expression and media freedom, defamation, contempt of court, regulation of the print press and broadcast regulation as well as discussions on fake news and how to regulate online harm.
Media Law for Journalists is available to pre-order now.
Journal Articles
Book Review: Joshua Rozenberg ‘Enemies of the People: How Judges Shape Society’ (2020), Entertainment Law Review
‘Are bloggers and YouTubers journalists?’, European Intellectual Property Review.
Bound by Stories First-year English students, Liza
Belozerova and Ashlyn Elder, have started
an NCH book club - Bound by Stories -
to bring together the NCH community
through a shared enjoyment of literature.
Email Liza to join:
Minor in Psychology
Art History with Psychology BA
Economics with Psychology BSc
English with Psychology BA
History with Psychology BA
Law with Psychology LLB
Philosophy with Psychology BA
Politics & IR with Psychology BSc
Philosophy & Artificial Intelligence MA
CRUNCH | ISSUE 7 1 MAY 2020
Joshua Rozenberg ‘Enemies of the People: How Judges Shape Society’ (2020) Book Review© Ursula Smartt, Faculty of Law, New College of the Humanities.
Do judges make law? Is usually one of the first essay questions new law students have to answer as part of their ‘legal systems’ syllabus. This is the overarching question Joshua Rozenberg’s book seeks to answer. This very readable concise paperback provides some of the answers: whether some of the most senior judges with their – at times – controversial judgments, have become more political after the introduction of the Human Rights Act 1998. The title, with its front-page newspaper headline is catching, reflecting the then editor of the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre’s opinion of the UK judiciary, following the Gina Miller (No 1) Supreme Court ‘Brexit’ judgment in 2016. The author notes the constitutional importance of this case at the start of his preface (p. vii) and devotes what is probably the strongest chapter in the book, Chapter 2 ‘The Miller Tale’, to the legal history of this case which he – as a legal journalist – clearly followed in person and in great detail. Case law is helpfully cited as endnotes to each chapter in line with OSCOLA referencing, aiding students and academics.
It was not the first time that the then editor of the Daily Mail had called the UK judiciary ‘enemies of the people’. The original statement was shortly after the
Max Mosley judgment in July 2008, when Paul Dacre first uttered this scathing remark, coupled with his comment that the judges were making privacy laws ‘via the backdoor’. In his famous speech to the Society of Editors in November 2008, Dacre launched a personal attack on Mr Justice Eady who had granted the then Formula 1 Boss, Max Mosley, his right to privacy under Art. 8(1) ECHR in his action against the (now defunct) Murdoch tabloid, News of the World, when Dacre said:
The law is not coming from Parliament – no, that would smack of democracy from the arrogant and amoral judgments – words I use very deliberately – of one man. I am referring, of course, to Justice David Eady who has, again and again, under the privacy clause of the Human Rights Act, found against newspapers and their age-old freedom to expose the moral shortcomings of those in high places. … But surely the greatest scandal is that while London boasts scores of eminent judges, one man is given a virtual monopoly of all cases against the media enabling him to bring in a privacy law by the back door.
Read the full article, in advance of it being published in Entertainment Law
Review, here.
History Faculty Updates
Dr Estelle Paranque, Lecturer in Early
Modern History, has featured in the
Tudors Dynasty podcast with Rebecca
Larson as they discuss Queen Elizabeth
I, her relationship with Robert Dudley,
her similarities to Anne Boleyn and her
connection to Thomas Seymour in her
earlier years.
Listen here.
On 13 May, Estelle will also be joining
Dan Snow for an instalment of History Hit
Live on YouTube, where they will discuss
the Valois Dynasty and the relationship
between the Valois kings and queens and
Elizabeth I.
Find the full details on YouTube and
History Hit on Twitter.
If you have any feedback, or would like to submit content for the next Newsletter, please contact [email protected]
The deadline for submissions for submissions has not yet been set but will be communicated closer to the time. Rebecca
AND FINALLY
NICHECongratulations to History with English student Victoria Comstock-Kershaw, who has set up the fantastic NCH ‘corozine’, Niche. In its first two issues, Niche has brought joy and laughter to the NCH community, through articles, poems, artwork and music.
Read Issue One – Isolation – here.
Read Issue Two – Home – here.
Marketing Team: Call for SubmissionsThank you to everyone who has shared their lockdown photos so far. As we continue our time at home, the Marketing Team is still in search of photos and blog articles, whether that is related to your time at home or from before lockdown.
If we use your submission, photos are paid at £5* and blog posts at £15*.
Email [email protected] with your submissions.
*non-visa students only.
