Countercurrents: Critical Law at Kent
Engage with the diversity of research, writing and thinking at Kent Law School

Thinking between words and traditions

By Andrea Shieber | 14 January 2020

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

Insight into extraordinary breadth of critical, socio-legal research undertaken by doctoral scholars at Kent

By Andrea Shieber | 12 September 2019

To help illustrate the extraordinary breadth of critical, socio-legal research being undertaken by doctoral scholars at Kent, we asked our PhD students to summarise the … Read more

Politics in the age of the double-bind: Anti-elitism and anti-populism

By Andrea Shieber | 18 July 2019

by Elena Paris[i], Christos Marneros[ii] with Dr Thanos Zartaloudis The workshop was generously supported and sponsored by the following research centres and groups to whom we … Read more

International Law’s Past, Present and Future: A Conversation with Antony Anghie

By Andrea Shieber | 15 July 2019

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

By Andrea Shieber | 08 July 2019

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

By Andrea Shieber | 21 June 2019

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

By Andrea Shieber | 28 May 2019

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

By Andrea Shieber | 23 May 2019

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

From #ClosingtheGap to #ShiftingtheGaze: Tackling institutional barriers to attainment

By Andrea Shieber | 16 May 2019

The recently published report #CLOSINGTHEGAP on Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Student Attainment at UK Universities by Universities UK (UUK) in collaboration with the … Read more

Response to Gender Recognition Act consultation

By Andrea Shieber | 24 October 2018

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

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