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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

We need to talk about sexbots

By Andrea Shieber | 14 July 2017

Commenting on the recent report by the Foundation for Responsible Robotics (FRR) that sex with robots is increasingly likely, ethics expert Professor Robin Mackenzie of … Read more

Grenfell Tower and the Hostile Environment

By drl | 03 July 2017

As part of a series of posts critically reflecting on the Grenfell Tower fire, Richard Warren of Kent Law Clinic details how some survivors may … Read more

The Grenfell Tower inquiry: learning from Hillsborough

By Andrea Shieber | 27 June 2017

As part of a series of posts critically reflecting on the Grenfell Tower fire, Phil Scraton, Professor Emeritus in Criminology at Queen’s University Belfast, calls … Read more

Grenfell Tower and the unravelling of forty years of housing ideology

By drl | 21 June 2017

As part of a series of posts critically reflecting on the Grenfell Tower fire, Prof Helen Carr argues that legal and policy burdens make tower … Read more

Inquiries, regulation and fire in the high rise

By drl | 16 June 2017

by Ed Kirton-Darling It is around 48 hours since the news of a fire at Grenfell Tower broke. My reactions in that time mirror those … Read more

Robert Knox: Imperialism, International Law and the Politics of Hypocrisy

By Andrea Shieber | 22 March 2017

A report by Eric Loefflad on a talk by Dr Robert Knox (University of Liverpool) for the Kent Centre for Critical International Law (CeCIL) The … Read more

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