To help illustrate the extraordinary breadth of critical, socio-legal research being undertaken by doctoral scholars at Kent, we asked our PhD students to summarise the … Read more
Author: Andrea Shieber
Politics in the age of the double-bind: Anti-elitism and anti-populism
by Elena Paris[i], Christos Marneros[ii] with Dr Thanos Zartaloudis The workshop was generously supported and sponsored by the following research centres and groups to whom we … Read more
International Law’s Past, Present and Future: A Conversation with Antony Anghie
An internationally renowned scholar in the field of international law, Professor Anghie looks beyond traditional legal sources and doctrines in order to critique the enduring … Read more
Labour, Law, Control: Migrant Workers and Unfree Labour
My research project interrogates different legal frameworks addressing ‘unfree labour’ of migrant workers; it asks whether a ‘labour approach’ can better explain this phenomenon, and … Read more
Fire safety cannot wait: launch of Fire Safety Checklist
Fire safety cannot wait, that is why we are launching the Fire Safety Checklist One of the things that comes out of the terrible tragedies … Read more
Methodology and Methods Roundtable: At the Crossroads of Interdisciplinary Methods and Conversations
On Thursday 4 April 2019, the first Methods and Methodology Roundtable of the annual SLSA conference presented a thought-provoking and enlightening discussion hypothesising how varying legal … Read more
Financial Regulation and Social Reproduction
Even amongst critical scholars, there is a tendency to treat international regulation of money and finance as “strictly economic”, distinct from the “social” domains of … Read more
From #ClosingtheGap to #ShiftingtheGaze: Tackling institutional barriers to attainment
The recently published report #CLOSINGTHEGAP on Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Student Attainment at UK Universities by Universities UK (UUK) in collaboration with the … Read more
Response to Gender Recognition Act consultation
Kent Law School’s Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality (soon to be renamed: Centre for Sexuality, Race, and Gender Justice) has responded to the government’s … Read more
We need a new human right – to protect our freedom to live without threat from the skies
In little more than 100 years, humans have radically transformed the sky: chemically, territorially and militarily. In this increasingly contested space, technological developments are accelerating … Read more