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Category: Law
The future of law clinics: bringing about social change and promoting human rights?
It was clear from an excellent workshop in Tel Aviv University last month[1] that an impressive number and variety of innovative projects are operating in … Read more
What does the ECJ’s decision on Uber say about the social role of digital platforms?
Just before the holiday break the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) in its first ruling on the gig economy decided that the … Read more
A visit to the Federal University of Minas Gerais: Inclusionary Debates and Inspiring Collaborations
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
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