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Trident and the Law: Will the Prime Minister and Defence Secretary be Prosecuted for Conspiracy to Commit a War Crime?

By Andrea Shieber | 30 November 2017

Kent Law School Professor Nick Grief delivered the first lecture of this academic year’s ‘CeCIL in Canterbury’ series with a fascinating talk on ‘Trident and … Read more

Jurisdictional Accumulation: Towards Non-Eurocentric Histories of Early Modern European Empire

By Andrea Shieber | 28 November 2017

CeCIL had the pleasure of hosting Dr Maïa Pal of Oxford Brookes University on Tuesday 21 November for a captivating lecture on ‘Jurisdictional Accumulation: Towards Non-Eurocentric … Read more

Living on the Frontline: Indeterminacy, Value and Military Waste in Postwar Bosnia Herzegovina

By Andrea Shieber | 28 November 2017

CeCIL began a new round of lectures on Tuesday 14 November, hosting a joint event with the Kent Interdisciplinary Centre for Spatial Studies (KISS) that … 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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