Last Wednesday, the first images began to circulate online from the fires in Moria, the large and infamous refugee camp on the Greek island of … Read more
Category: Law
Thinking between words and traditions
Earlier this year Thanos Zartaloudis kindly accepted my request to ask him some questions about his recent book The Birth of Nomos; a book I … 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
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
Closing gaps – the problem with common parts
As the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill makes its way through Parliament – in the metaphorical shadow of Grenfell Tower – there is a … Read more