{"id":3468,"date":"2018-10-04T14:23:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T13:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/?p=3468"},"modified":"2018-10-04T14:23:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T13:23:37","slug":"centre-for-critical-international-law-launches-autumn-term-programme-of-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/centre-for-critical-international-law-launches-autumn-term-programme-of-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre for Critical International Law launches autumn term programme of events"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kent\u2019s Centre for Critical International Law<\/a> (CeCIL) is launching its autumn term programme of events with a Speaker Night on international advocacy work by Dr Ioannis Kalpouzos of City University of London.<\/p>\n

Dr Kalpouzos will speak about ‘Critical transnational lawyering: the experience of the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)\u2019 at 6pm on Tuesday 9 October in the Moot Room (Wigoder Law Building). He will discuss advocacy work undertaken with GLAN, a recently created independent non-profit that aims to combine the expertise of legal academics and practitioners, as well as investigative journalists, to design innovative transnational legal actions.<\/p>\n

The talk will discuss the theory behind and the practical challenges of specific projects \u2013 for example a collaboration with the Stanford International Human Rights Clinic in developing a communication to the International Criminal Court in relation to Australia\u2019s practice of offshore detention of asylum seekers here and the development of a climate change human rights litigation. The talk will also discuss the challenges in the creation and development of an interdisciplinary non-profit and independent organisation and the links between practice and the impact of (critical and socio-legal) scholarship. It will also address the developing of sustained relationships of clinical education and the use of clinical education for specific projects and educational experience in relation to the mobilisation of critical scholarship and the establishment of contacts with critical practitioners.<\/p>\n

The purpose of CeCIL Speaker Nights (open to all staff and students) is to expose Kent LLM (Master\u2019s in Law) and PhD students of international law to a wide spectrum of ideas and opinions on a variety of topics in order to complement their critical thinking and to foster research links between Law School staff with overlapping areas of interest.<\/p>\n

Future CeCIL events include:<\/p>\n

CeCIL Speaker Nights (6pm Moot Room, Wigoder Law Building)<\/strong><\/p>\n