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Author: Andrea Shieber

Fleur Johns: Data Territories: Changing Architectures of Association in International Law

By Andrea Shieber | 10 February 2017

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

Carlos Bernal: Transitional Constitutionalism and the Colombian Peace Process

By Andrea Shieber | 30 January 2017

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’

By Andrea Shieber | 06 December 2016

[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

By Andrea Shieber | 07 November 2016

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

By Andrea Shieber | 25 October 2016

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

By Andrea Shieber | 07 October 2016

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

By Andrea Shieber | 03 August 2016

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

By Andrea Shieber | 21 June 2016

  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

By Andrea Shieber | 01 June 2016

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’

By Andrea Shieber | 05 May 2016

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

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