UPDATE re Ticket Refunds
If you have purchased a ticket for the conference, please follow the advice and instructions below to be refunded:
- Each student who purchased a ticket will need to complete a reimbursement form that can be found online under ‘Key Documents’
- Send the completed form, together with your proof of purchase (ie the email confirmation) to the main KU mailbox kentunion@kent.ac.uk
- KU will pass it onto their Finance Team to process and refund via BACS – please allow time for the Union to process this request since, under the current circumstances, staff are dealing with a large volume of processing while working from home.
Friday 13 March: Covid 19
“The Organising Committee regrets that, due to global developments surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak, the Conference has been cancelled. We sincerely apologise for any disruption or disappointment that this may cause – we too share in this disappointment, having worked very hard to host the event. We are especially saddened to miss the opportunity to hear from our panellists, who were scheduled to present a range of exciting papers. We have not made this decision lightly and wish to assure all affected that we have made the safety and welfare of all guests, panellists and staff our utmost priority. If you have any queries, please contact the team at conferencekclsoc@kent.ac.uk and we will endeavour to respond as quickly as possible.”
Kent Critical Law Society will be exploring the theme of ‘Legal Paradoxes’ at its flagship annual conference in March.
The one-day conference, organised by students for students, will be held in the Grimond Building on Kent’s Canterbury campus on Saturday 14 March 2020. Keynote Speakers include Professor Maria Drakopoulou and Dr Luis Eslava.
If you are interested in attending the conference, the abstract offers further background to its theme. It includes examples of the paradoxical nature of law, specific paradoxes in legal fields, and the consequences of legal paradoxes, but potential contributors and participants are encouraged to go as far as their intended stream of discussion will take them in exploring this broad topic.
Papers with a broad interpretation of any of the following streams have been welcomed:
- From Asylum to Apathy: the state of emergency in humanitarian law
- Dissonance & Harmony in Human Rights
- Prisons of Justice: paradoxes of criminal law
- iLaw: technology and freedom
- Geopolitics and Globalisation
- International Law: between comity and enmity
- Philosophy of Law: the Analytical vs. Continental Debate
- Nurture and Rupture: a family environment?
- Traces of Jurisprudence
- Critical Law: politics aplenty in law
- The threat of extinction: Environmental Law in Crisis
- Law: the servant of Economy?
- The Gender of Law?
- Decolonisation of Law
- The end of Legal History?
- The Paradox of Constitutionalism”?
- Company Law: Crypto-Controlled?
- Labour and Employment Law: who does the law work for?
- Hippocratic or Hypocritical Oath? Paradoxes in Medical Law
- Equity and (Dis)Trusts
- Law of Obligations and the Culture of Compensation
- Intellectual property: Copyright or Copywrong?
- Star Laws: the common heritage of mankind?
- The Colour and Faith of Law: critical discussion on Law Race and Religion
Papers (including interdisciplinary papers) were invited from students across all stages (undergraduate and postgraduate). Contributors were asked to send a 250 word abstract together with a short biography to conferencekclsoc@kent.ac.uk by Friday 21 February.
Enquiries about the conference can be directed to presidentkclsoc@kent.ac.uk
Kent Critical Law Society (KCLS) is a student law organisation group at Kent Law School which promotes the aims of critical legal studies and critical legal thought. Each year it hosts a critical law conference that attracts academics, practitioners and students from across the UK and overseas.
In addition to providing critical engagement with the theme of Legal Paradoxes, the conference will offer the opportunity for lively discussion, networking and socialising.
For more information about KCLS, follow the society on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Internationalisation Funding
We are pleased to announce the availability of funding this year to facilitate attendance to the conference of international (non-UK) students.
We will consider applications on the close of the Call for Papers, and award funding to a set number of panelists to cover transport to Canterbury and accommodation before and after the conference. The funding is available to international (non-UK) students currently undertaking study at a university outside of the UK, but is also applicable to international (non-UK) students currently studying at a UK university. Students currently undertaking Undergraduate and Masters programmes will have priority when allocating funds.
If you wish to be considered for this funding, please indicate this when you send your abstract to conferencekclsoc@kent.ac.uk
If you have already submitted an abstract but would still like to be considered, please send an email to conferencekclsoc@kent.ac.uk confirming this.
When stating your intention to be considered for this funding, please also provide a statement in your email confirming the following:
- That you are an international student (non-UK)
- That you undertake to secure any necessary visa required to permit you to attend and participate at the conference
- That, should you be successful in your application, you will be able to provide a letter of support from a Faculty member at your home institution, indicating who that Faculty member will be, and confirming that we are able to contact that person in respect of your application.
Awards will be made at the discretion of the organising committee and their Academic Lead. Should you have any further questions, please direct them to conferencekclsoc@kent.ac.uk
