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Countercurrents: Critical Law at Kent
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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

Can States be progressive? On Re-imagining the state

By Andrea Shieber | 01 June 2016

The following article is authored by Tom Kemp, a PhD candidate in Law at Kent Law School. His work investigates the prefigurative thought within anti-immigration-detention … Read more

Zionisms …this is, in part, a plea to the left to stop saying ‘Zionist’

By Andrea Shieber | 05 May 2016

Two days ago, the news was full of Jeremy Corbyn’s recent decision to suspend Labour MP Naz Shah while her alleged antisemitism is investigated. Two … Read more

Hillsborough: Grief and the Inquest

By Andrea Shieber | 03 May 2016

One clear theme from the Hillsborough inquests is the ways in which inquests can act to frame who and what can be mourned. My Facebook … Read more

Review of Garbage Dreams

By Andrea Shieber | 04 April 2016

The following article is authored by Kent Law School PhD student Allison Lindner. If you are interested in first hand accounts of how privatisation affects … Read more

Sloper v Lloyds Bank – a salutory example of the difficulties faced by some mesothelioma victims

By Andrea Shieber | 14 March 2016

Reposted from Alan McKenna’s blog ‘almacblog: Life, law, academia and asbestos’ The decision in Sloper v Lloyds Bank this week is a stark reminder of … Read more

The message at Westgate Avenue through the eyes of a spatial detective

By Andrea Shieber | 09 March 2016

The following article is authored by Kent Law School PhD student Ahmed Memon On a bench at a stop by the road in a little … Read more

To be, or not to be, academically dislocated: or to converse upon the path less travelled?

By Andrea Shieber | 02 March 2016

The following article is authored by Kent Law School PhD student Steve Crawford One of the most common questions currently circulating around me as a … Read more

Julian Assange verdict: how this curious episode might be brought to an end

By Andrea Shieber | 08 February 2016

This article by Gbenga Oduntan was originally published on The Conversation.  The UN’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has decided that Julian Assange is being … Read more

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