[Note: while the events discussed here are extremely controversial and a full explanation certainly exceeds the scope of this blog post, for those interested I … Read more
Dr Marina Lostal presents on The Al-Mahdi Case at the International Criminal Court: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
CeCIL and the Centre for Cultural Heritage were delighted to welcome Dr Marina Lostal (The Hague University) for a joint seminar on international law and … Read more
Green-lighting the government’s will, or how a referendum might actually support democracy
A fight has been raging since Brexit over whether the people’s will has expressed itself; and if it has, what did it say? Now in … Read more
CeCIL in Canterbury lecture series begins with Dr Sophie Vigneron’s talk on the destruction of cultural heritage
Kent Law School’s Dr Sophie Vigneron delivered a public lecture on ‘The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: From Byzantine Iconoclasm to Daesh’ in Canterbury city centre … Read more
Obama’s Targeted Killing Legacy
Eight years ago, Barack Obama was elected as president on the back of a campaign driven by the principle of change. Obama positioned himself as … Read more
The 1951 Refugee Convention 65 years on – still relevant to today’s crisis?
On Tuesday 18 October, CeCIL’s exploration of vulnerability and resistance in contemporary international law was greatly enriched by an engaging and insightful talk by Alan … Read more
Investigating Genocide?: ISIS Crimes against the Yazidis law lecture
On Tuesday 2 October 2016, Kent Law School’s Centre for Critical International Law (‘CeCIL’) kicked off the 2016-17 academic year with an incredibly articulate and … Read more
Colombia: Counter/Revolution in Present Tense
This article, authored by Senior Lecturer in International Law Dr Luis Eslava, was originally published on the Critical Legal Thinking blog Facing the negative results … Read more
The Capital Markets Union: new limits on a democratic Europe
The following article is authored by Kent Law School Teaching Assistant Jasper van Dooren. It was originally published as an expert opinion piece for The … Read more
Brexit: Why Poorer Voters Will Pay a Price for ‘Sovereignty’ they Cannot Afford
This article was originally published under a different title on InformED One week after Britain’s majority vote to leave the European Union, the legal and political … Read more









