The idea of a public university in the state of Minas Gerais was conceived by the ‘inconfidentes’, a Brazilian social movement who rebelled against Portuguese … Read more
Category: Law
Professor Anne Orford delivers spell-binding talk for CeCIL Annual Lecture on ‘surplus population’
Professor Anne Orford of Melbourne Law School, one of international law’s greatest visionaries, delivered a spell-binding talk on surplus population and the history of international … Read more
Bermuda should abolish marriage for all, not just same-sex couples
Dr Barker has published extensively on same-sex marriage and is currently writing about the Bermuda Constitution. Bermuda, a British Overseas Territory, began issuing marriage licences … Read more
Articulated Security: The Rise (and Fall of the Machine)
A report by Eric Loefflad on a talk by Dr Isobel Roele of Queen Mary University London for the Kent Centre for Critical International Law … Read more
The Ideal of International Criminal Justice: Subjectivity, Geography, Ethics
A report by Eric Loefflad on a talk by Dr Nesam McMillan of the University of Melbourne for the Kent Centre for Critical International Law … Read more
Immunities and Global Governance
A report by Eric Loefflad on a talk by Barrister Paul Clark of Garden Court Chambers for the Kent Centre for Critical International Law (CeCIL) … Read more
Media reactions to Lavinia Woodward’s sentence have wrongly amplified class, race and gender bias in the judiciary
According to one tabloid newspaper, Lavinia Woodward is the ‘Oxford University Slasher’ who was spared imprisonment for assaulting her boyfriend with a knife because she … Read more
Africa wins in the Ghana v Côte d’Ivoire Case: Personal take homes from UNECA, Report-Review Meeting on Transboundary disputes in Africa
On Saturday 23 September 2017, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) gave a decision in support of Ghana in its case against Cote … Read more
CeCIL lecture by Dr Darren Dinsmore on Turkey’s Gülenist Purge and the Defence of Human Rights
A report by Eric Loefflad on a talk by Dr Darren Dinsmore for the Kent Centre for Critical International Law (CeCIL) CeCIL hosted its final … Read more
Immigration legal aid mess
The following is a copy of a letter written by Kent Law Clinic Solicitor, and Reader in Law, Sheona York. The letter was published in … Read more