Dear members of the Kent LLM community,
We are delighted to announce that this year’s CeCIL annual lecture and workshop will take place on Friday 18th March, and we encourage you to take part in the workshop by presenting some of your writing or ideas toward a future research project. Last year we featured a panel of LLM students who presented based upon essays they had written for autumn term modules, and they all found it a very rewarding academic experience. For a description of the event (with comments from LLM participants), please see the following:
The workshop will be followed by the CeCIL annual lecture (at 6 pm), where all members of the KLS community are welcome. This year we are honoured that Professor Gerry Simpson of the London School of Economics will deliver the lecture, and we are delighted that he will also attend the workshop. Professor Simpson is a wonderful speaker, and his work and approach will speak to all of you not only interested in international law in its broadest sense, but also in critical approaches to law more generally. His work needs no introduction to many of you; he is the author of Great Powers and Outlaw States (Cambridge, 2004) and Law, War and Crime: War Crimes Trials and the Reinvention of International Law (Polity, 2007) and you can find out more at http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/staff/gerry-simpson.htm . His current research investigates the literary life of international law.
Should you wish to take part in the workshop, we invite you to submit an abstract in light of this year’s CeCIL theme, The Victims of International Law. We understand this theme broadly. It encompasses how international law and legal structures not only address but also produce various forms of victimhood. Please email me (s.kendall@kent.ac.uk) a short abstract of 100-300 words by 15 February (CALL EXTENDED UNTIL WEDNESDAY 17th FEBRUARY!!) if you would like to take part in the workshop. Even if you do not participate in a panel we hope that you will be able to attend all or part of the day. If you wish to discuss whether your ideas will fit the theme please do feel free to contact any one of us.
There will also be a reception with refreshments between the workshop and the lecture – please feel free to join!
With very best wishes,
Luis Eslava, Emily Haslam and Sara Kendall (Co-directors, Cecil)