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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

3 years

Pleased to say I accepted a lectureship in law at the @aberdeenuni today. Looking forward to working in a great city and meeting my new students (hopefully in person, insofar as possible).

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Jonathan Ainslie

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8 months

@hannahchrstina I think most university law lecturers prefer people not to do an A level (or equivalent) in law. We have our own curriculum which builds from the ground up. It's like teaching equestrian skills to someone who did a bit of riding as a teen. Bad habits often need to be unlearned.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

2 years

Today is the first ever Scottish Universities Roman Law Moot, taking place at the University of Glasgow. The competing teams are Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen and the final will be judged by David Johnston KC. The Aberdeen team are on a very early train!

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

2 years

I don't think students always realise how much their grades are improved by really good, clear, fluid writing. It's not about pedantry or even presenting ideas better; it actually expands the range of ideas that you are able to present at all.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

3 years

Preparing to teach the first years Roman law next week and I'm wondering how many intensely fought debates in property law can be traced to an offhand comment Gaius made one lazy summer afternoon after too much wine at lunch.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

8 months

The University of Aberdeen have won the Lord Jones Mooting Competition 2024!

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

2 years

Scottish Legal History is coming back to Aberdeen at sub-Honours level this autumn. I'm teaching a tutorial on moral sense philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment and its influence on attitudes to legal authority, with particular focus on Adam Smith and his patron, Lord Kames.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

2 years

We are well underway at the Scottish Universities Roman Law Moot. Here Edinburgh and Aberdeen appear before "His Excellency" Dr Graeme Cunningham.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

10 months

I've had a paper accepted to the British Legal History Conference at Bristol next year. I'll be talking about jus quaesitum tertio in Stair, Grotius, Vinnius and Voet, looking particularly at how Stair responded to the formulation of JQT that he found in the Dutch-Roman authors.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

10 months

One of my students channeling Jane Austen in their exam paper: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that attempts to implement voluntary non-possessory securities over corporeal moveable property have been a long and arduous process"

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

4 years

Sebastian and I are pleased to release Volume 4, Issue 1 (2020) of the Edinburgh Student Law Review, now available to read on our website. This will also be available very shortly via HeinOnline, followed by a hard copy release in September.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

2 years

And the winning team is the University of Glasgow! The Best Orator prize goes to Beatrice Bru from Edinburgh.

Dr Lorren Eldridge

@loreldridge

2 years

Team Edinburgh is into the final, the trophies have appeared, the clerk has become an eminent personage @JSAinslie , and the judge has become the even more eminent David Johnston KC. Some very serious #Romanlaw going on here.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

3 years

The Cambridge-Edinburgh Roman Law Moot was today! Organisers: Ben Spagnolo, me. Judges: Paul du Plessis, Helen Scott, David Ibbetson. Edinburgh's mooters: Killian Dockrell, Mary Legge, Kaitlin Letter, Philip Abramson. In the audience: John Cairns, Peter Candy, Ben Cohen-Murison.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

3 months

@frjonathanbish I can see 6-8 books and a dozen journal articles being listed on an old-fashioned weekly reading list, but students were never expected to read all of that cover-to-cover. They were expected to learn how to discriminate. The skill of not-reading, as Schopenhauer would say.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

4 years

I wrote up Borwick v Clear Water Fisheries for the Edinburgh Private Law Blog. An interesting dialogue between Roman law and English precedents on proprietary interests in ferae naturae.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

2 years

Holding LLB dissertation meetings today has cheered me right up. I have students comparing actiones adiecticiae qualitatis to modern AI contracts, examining remoteness in light of climate related loss, critiquing interaction of unjust enrichment with illegality. A bright bunch.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

2 years

We're in the Scottish Legal News today!

Glasgow prevails in first Scottish Universities Roman Law Moot

Glasgow University has won the first Scottish Universities Roman Law Moot, which took place at the University of Glasgow on 25 March. The competition was based on a problem set in the time of the...

www.scottishlegal.com

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

3 years

We are a go!🎉🎉🎉

EdinSLReview

@EdinSLR

3 years

The Edinburgh Student Law Review is delighted to announce the online release of our 2021 edition, which is now available to read here: The 2021 edition will also shortly be available via HeinOnline. Thanks once again to our sponsors Turcan Connell.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

8 months

@hannahchrstina I don't want to be critical. Joy in academia for its own sake is great (and too often scorned). Mainstream school systems do severely under-cater for the needs of children like that. But I don't think she'll find what she's looking for by stretching that system to breaking point.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

6 months

I have new hearing aids for the first time since 2014. For people with hearing loss this is akin to getting a new car. These ones can even stream music from my phone.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

3 months

Aberdeen (staff and graduates) very much holding the fort for Scotland at the BLHC this year.

Stair Society

@StairSociety

3 months

Scottish legal history was ably represented at the 26th British Legal History Conference, held at University of Bristol last week. Pictured are 3 of the 4 speakers who contributed a paper on Scottish legal history. Follow this thread for a description of all 4 papers ....

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

10 months

For those who may be interested, I have an article on intrusion of privacy and the actio iniuriarum in Scotland (and South Africa) in this month's issue of the Juridical Review, which is now available on Westlaw.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

5 years

I have put together a little walking tour of early modern aristocratic houses on or around the Royal Mile, which I think(?) is lockdown friendly for anyone who lives locally in Edinburgh city centre and has ever wondered about the history of these places.

Early Modern Aristocratic Houses on the Royal Mile.pdf

drive.google.com

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

11 months

I have been nominated for an Excellence Award for Best Postgraduate Taught Lecturer. Which is lovely, except I haven't done any postgrad teaching this semester! Unless the accelerated LLBs count for this purpose? If so, then it was very kind of one of them to nominate me.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

2 years

Visited Drum Castle with @ElizaBechtold today. Occupied by the Irvines of Drum and their ancestors from the reign of Robert the Bruce until 1975. The Irvines were, for many generations, lawyers and the library at Drum is stocked primarily with books on Scots law.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

1 year

So it begins...

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

3 months

I've been in Bristol with @alice_krzanich for the British Legal History Conference. In between some great presentations, I visited the SS Great Britain and the Clifton Suspension Bridge, two of Brunel's projects. We also had a reception on a replica of a 15th century ship!

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

4 months

Spending the weekend in Glasgow and Fife for my 30th. I've somehow managed not to visit the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery at the University of Glasgow before. It's a treasure trove. Lunch on the beach at Aberdour tomorrow.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

4 years

Vaccinated. ✅

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

4 months

Summer graduations at the UoA Law School today! The ceremonies are back in Old Aberdeen for the first time since Covid. Quite a few Edinburgh gowns and hoods to be seen on the procession!

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

9 months

@MattCalcara @dieworkwear I was in Milan in February 2020 (a very bad time to be in Milan as it turned out, but I digress) and every man on the metro was impeccably, gorgeously put together. It didn't even look as though it took them any effort, although I'm sure it did.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

2 years

I'm lecturing on land registration next week. Rather than launch right away into instruments of sasine etc and watch 200 pairs of eyes slowly glaze in front of me, I'm looking for historical/literary anecdotes that underline how life-and-death publicity of title really can be...

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

8 months

I've had the pleasure of co-teaching with Neil Curtis, our head of museums & special collections, on LS55UU for the past two weeks. It has got me thinking what a shame it is that neither Marischal Museum nor Kings Museum (which was meant to replace it) remain open to the public.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

1 year

Thoroughly enjoyed book launch for @stephen_bogle at UoG yesterday. If anyone were in any doubt about the scale of the book's achievement, they would only need to look at the roll call of scholars the launch attracted from across Scotland and beyond. And such a gorgeous day!

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

3 years

Cheers for that mate.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

3 years

Farewell Robertson's Close. Not always the easiest hall in the world for a warden to manage, but allowed me to live in the heart of one of the world's greatest cities for four years and to serve my students the way scholars are meant to.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

6 months

I am quoted in this piece about the university collections at Marischal College, by @TomPizCut in the Press and Journal, which tentatively puts forward the idea of an independent charity that could work to put the collection back on public display.

Opinion | Use Belmont Cinema approach to save forgotten museum

Marischal Museum and Mitchell Hall belong not just to the University of Aberdeen but to the people, writes Tomás Pizarro-Escuti.

www.pressandjournal.co.uk

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

8 months

It was a great pleasure to have Lord Woolman with us and to see the level of skill on display at the mooting competition final.

S Styles

@DunsPitcus

8 months

Aberdeen alumnus Lord Woolman was presiding judge at the Aberdeen Mooting Society internal final. The imaginary problem McQueen v Thomson was in error and undue influence. After the moot Lord Woolman participated in a Q&A @AberdeenUniLaw

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

8 months

I'm writing my contract remedies lectures at the moment and getting strong Jarvis v Swan Tours vibes from the Willy Wonka Experience. A case for solatium perhaps?

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

1 year

Some thoughts from me on recent pre-legislative proposals to redesign aspects of the children's hearings system.

Aberdeen Law School

@AberdeenUniLaw

1 year

Our latest blog post, written by Dr Jonathan Ainslie ( @JSAinslie ), has now been published. The blog provides in-depth comments on the Hearing System Working Group Report and can be accessed on our webpage here:

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

10 months

(Might give an extra mark just for the reference)

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

2 years

One remarkable feature of the empirical Scottish Enlightenment, unlike its more rationalist cousins in France and elsewhere, is the premium it placed on the moral sense of judges and its corresponding skepticism of legislation and codified law (in the looser sense of that term).

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

8 months

@hazr198 Aberdeen, hilariously, has a train station (Dyce) adjoining the airport...on the opposite side from the entrance! An hour's walk and no public transport, so people have to get taxis.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

1 year

Heraldry-based politics in Scotland has an inauspicious history. In 2014 the chained unicorn was claimed to symbolise Scottish subjection. It actually refers to the Hunt of the Unicorn fable, used by Stuart kings to express religious piety and their claim to divine legitimacy.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

2 years

@legalstyleblog A bit of a shortage of togas in the Stair Building...and advocate's robes were deemed to be anachronistic. I can see a case for academic robes! Especially since undergrad robes at most Scottish unis are a beautiful scarlet.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

2 years

Moral sense jurisprudence also generated a conception of equity that was distinct in important ways from how that term had previously been understood in Scotland (and very different from the technical concept which goes by that name in modern English law).

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

8 months

@legalstyleblog English law is more "Roman" than one might suppose, since both jurisdictions developed through forms of action. E.g. Roman had a plural law of delicts. It's the scholar-driven civil law that is different. But if an English uni can do French law it can definitely do Scots law.

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Jonathan Ainslie

@JSAinslie

5 months

I set an exam question on almost exactly this issue last year. Res merae facultatis in the case of a peninsula. To be honest I thought it was an interesting thought experiment and didn't seriously expect it to be in issue before the courts!