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
Three Brexit lessons from our work at Kent Law School
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
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









