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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

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

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