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A visit to the Federal University of Minas Gerais: Inclusionary Debates and Inspiring Collaborations

By Andrea Shieber | 09 January 2018

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’

By Andrea Shieber | 09 January 2018

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

By Andrea Shieber | 08 December 2017

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)

By Andrea Shieber | 25 October 2017

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

By Andrea Shieber | 19 October 2017

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

By Andrea Shieber | 09 October 2017

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

By Andrea Shieber | 05 October 2017

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

By Andrea Shieber | 02 October 2017

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

By Andrea Shieber | 01 August 2017

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

By Andrea Shieber | 01 August 2017

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

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