Graduate students will explore the question of who needs law at Kent Law School’s fourth annual\u00a0interdisciplinary Graduate Research Conference in June.<\/p>\n
Kent LLM students and postgraduate research students from across the humanities and social sciences faculties, will meet over two days on Monday 6 and Tuesday 7 June to discuss how law is embedded in other fields and how its interaction with other disciplines opens up new perspectives on who needs law.<\/p>\n
As well as exploring whether the positioning of law is interconnected or isolated, the conference hopes to consider further questions such as:<\/p>\n
The Law School\u2019s Deputy Director of Graduate Studies Sin\u00e9ad Ring said: \u2018The conference brings all postgraduate\u00a0students together in a sprit of supportive intellectual\u00a0engagement. For Kent LLM students in particular, the conference\u00a0is an important opportunity\u00a0to gain feedback on their\u00a0dissertation research.\u00a0\u00a0This year, the Graduate Conference Committee have put together a couple of sessions aimed solely at allowing Kent LLM students to present short papers of approx. 10 minutes, in which they will discuss their dissertation plans.\u2019<\/p>\n
All students are welcome to attend the conference which will be held in Eliot College on Kent’s Canterbury campus. Further details are available on the conference’s\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0page and via the@KLSPGConference<\/a>\u00a0Twitter account.<\/p>\n Register for your free tickets\u00a0online\u00a0or direct any enquiries to\u00a0lawgradconference@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n It is hoped that papers from the Conference will be compiled into a special edition of the Kent Student Law Review.<\/p>\n