Here’s a list of suggested resources that will be helpful for you to prepare and everything listed here is optional – simply dip in and out whenever you want to.
We do encourage you, however, to develop an open and engaged mind. All of this will help you develop your critical, cultural and political awareness (and will help you get a lot more out of the study of law at Kent).
Podcast
Summer of Law webinar series: open to anyone interested in studying law, this free programme offers a taste of the legal topics you can study as part of a law degree at the University of Kent.
Develop your skills
- Birrell Ivory S, Becoming a Critical Thinker, For Your University Studies and Beyond (Oxford University Press 2021) <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/becoming-a-critical-thinker-9780198841531>
- Hean Read S, Academic Writing Skills for International Students (Bloomsbury Publishing 2018)
- Lammasniemi L, Law Dissertations, A Step-by-Step Guide (2d edn, Routledge 2021) <https://www.routledge.com/Law-Dissertations-A-Step-by-Step-Guide/Lammasniemi/p/book/9780367568771>
International Criminal Justice
- Arendt Eichmann in Jerusalem A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin, 1994)
- Franko, Globalisation and Crime (Sage, 2020)
- Clarke et al, Africa and the ICC (CUP, 2016)
- Schwöbel-Patel, Marketing global justice: the political economy of international criminal law (CUP, 2021)
- Mansell and Openshaw, International Law: a critical introduction (Bloomsbury, 2nd edition 2019). (if new to international law)
International Commercial Law
- 50 things that made the modern economy. Podcast. Limited series. BBC Radio Four.
- Containers. Podcast. Limited series. Flexport.
- Empire. Podcast. Ongoing series. Goalhanger.
- Planet Money. Podcast. Ongoing series. National Public Radio.
- WTO explainers. Video. Ongoing series. World Trade Organisation.
- Linarelli J, Salomon ME and Sornarajah M, The Misery of International Law, Confrontations with Injustice in the Global Economy (Oxford University Press 2018)
- Koram, K Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire (John Murray, 2022)
- Pistor, K the Code of Capital (Princeton University Press, 2019)
Public International Law and Public International Law with International Relations
- Anghie A, Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law (Cambridge University Press 2005) <https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/imperialism-sovereignty-and-the-making-of-international-law/8AFA91E6F502B2C4996BB14E1A548E7A>
- Linarelli J, Salomon ME and Sornarajah M, The Misery of International Law, Confrontations with Injustice in the Global Economy (Oxford University Press 2018) <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-misery-of-international-law-9780198753957>
International Environmental Law
General background
- Carson R, Silent Spring (1961)
- Franklin-Wells O, Wasteland: The dirty truth about what we throw away, where it goes and why it matters (2024)
- Lerner, Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor (MIT Press 2006).
- Thunberg G (ed), The Climate Book (2022 Fischer)
- Tree I, Wilding (2018)
General on international environmental law
- Arias-Maldonado M/Trachtenberg Z, Rethinking the Environment for the Anthropocene: Political Theory and Socio-natural Relations in the New Geological Epoch (2019 Routledge)
- Gillespie A, International Environmental Law, Policy and Ethics (Oxford 1997, 2002)
- Higgins P, Eradicating ecocide: laws and governance to prevent the destruction of our planet (2011 Shepheard-Walwyn)
- Koivura T, Introduction to International Environmental Law (Routledge 2014)
- Kotzé L, Global Environmental Constitutionalism in the Anthropocene (Hart 2016)
- Tigre M, Gaps in International Environmental Law: Toward a Global Pact for the Environment (2020 Environmental Law Institute)
Policy-related
- Guha and Martinez (eds), Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays North and South (Earthscan 1997)
- Clapp/Dauvergne, Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment 2nd ed (MIT Press 2011)
- Davergne P (ed), Environmental Politics (2017)
- O’Neill, The Environment and International Relations (2017)
Law and Health
- Birthrights, Systemic racism, not broken bodies. An inquiry into racial injustice and human rights in UK maternity care: Executive Summary (birthrights, 2022)
- Bramble, B, Pandemic Ethics: 8 Big Questions of Covid-19 (Bartelby Books, 2020)
- Coggon, J, What Is Public Health? (London: Faculty of Public
Health, 2023) - Jackson E, Medical Law : Text, Cases, and Materials (6th edn, Oxford University Press 2022) NOTE: this is the recommended pathway text-book
- Kay, A, This is Going to Hurt (Picador, 2018)
- Mezrich J, When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon (Harper, 2019)