Fleur Johns challenged the common ways we think about and discuss international law during a talk this month on ‘Data Territories’, delivered as part of … Read more
Author: Andrea Shieber
Carlos Bernal: Transitional Constitutionalism and the Colombian Peace Process
CeCIL began the new semester with a fascinating talk on 24 January by Dr Carols Bernal of Macquarie University entitled ‘Transitional Constitutionalism and the Colombian … Read more
John Strawson: ‘International Law and the Making of Palestine’
[Note: while the events discussed here are extremely controversial and a full explanation certainly exceeds the scope of this blog post, for those interested I … Read more
Green-lighting the government’s will, or how a referendum might actually support democracy
A fight has been raging since Brexit over whether the people’s will has expressed itself; and if it has, what did it say? Now in … Read more
Obama’s Targeted Killing Legacy
Eight years ago, Barack Obama was elected as president on the back of a campaign driven by the principle of change. Obama positioned himself as … Read more
Colombia: Counter/Revolution in Present Tense
This article, authored by Senior Lecturer in International Law Dr Luis Eslava, was originally published on the Critical Legal Thinking blog Facing the negative results … Read more
The Capital Markets Union: new limits on a democratic Europe
The following article is authored by Kent Law School Teaching Assistant Jasper van Dooren. It was originally published as an expert opinion piece for The … Read more
For democracy and freedom – vote Leave
We will be clear about only one thing after the EU referendum on 23rd June. Either we will be living in a more democratic … Read more
Can States be progressive? On Re-imagining the state
The following article is authored by Tom Kemp, a PhD candidate in Law at Kent Law School. His work investigates the prefigurative thought within anti-immigration-detention … Read more
Zionisms …this is, in part, a plea to the left to stop saying ‘Zionist’
Two days ago, the news was full of Jeremy Corbyn’s recent decision to suspend Labour MP Naz Shah while her alleged antisemitism is investigated. Two … Read more