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Countercurrents: Critical Law at Kent
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Green-lighting the government’s will, or how a referendum might actually support democracy

By Andrea Shieber | 07 November 2016

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

By | 03 November 2016

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

By Andrea Shieber | 25 October 2016

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?

By | 21 October 2016

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

By | 12 October 2016

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

By Andrea Shieber | 07 October 2016

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

By Andrea Shieber | 03 August 2016

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

By drl | 08 July 2016

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

Three Brexit lessons from our work at Kent Law School

By drl | 06 July 2016

We are some of the staff who work at Kent Law School, one of the UK’s leading critical law schools. We value working in a … Read more

For democracy and freedom – vote Leave

By Andrea Shieber | 21 June 2016

  We will be clear about only one thing after the EU referendum on 23rd June.  Either we will be living in a more democratic … Read more

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