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We are interested in how law functions in society, and in law as a social institution. We currently have four substantive areas of interest: family justice;administrative justice; mental disability and other vulnerabilities; andwider legal system design. Prior to 2014, family … Continue reading →

Art & Law: Art in Peril An Interdisciplinary Conference 23 June 2015, University of Cambridge “Art & Law: Art in Peril” is an interdisciplinary conference convened to discuss varying perspectives on questions of art and law and to break down … Continue reading →

The Centre for Critical Thought and Kent Law School are delighted to announce the forthcoming lecture: “Sovereignty and Property: some thoughts about the history of the law of nations”  Prof. Martti Koskenniemi University of Helsinki, Director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and … Continue reading →

  Many of the defining features of the modern law of tort can be traced to the first half of the twentieth century, but, until now, developments in that period have never received a dedicated historical examination. This book examines … Continue reading →

The Kent Summer School in Critical Theory will run for the first time in Paris next July. The website has just gone liveL  www.kssct.org. This new summer school for early career researchers and doctoral students aims to create a unique pedagogical experience, enabling … Continue reading →

The BBKLR welcomes submissions from legal practitioners, policy makers, students and academics. Papers should be approximately 5,000 words and conform to the OSCOLA citation method (note, papers that do not follow the OSCOLA method will be returned to the authors … Continue reading →

Conference of the Munich Doctoral Program for Literature and the Arts MIMESIS Centre for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich 29-31 October 2015 Fakes, forgeries and counterfeits are omnipresent as works of art,branded products, biographies, satellite pictures, documents, news,research results, testimonies. They … Continue reading →

    Cicero demands of historians, first, that we tell true stories. Paul David (1985)

          The 2015 conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) will take place at the University of Kent, Canterbury, England from 15th-18th July 2015. The theme of this year’s conference will be Creative Style, and the … Continue reading →

The second International Workshop on Law & Ideology will be devoted to “Memories of Struggles, Struggles of Memories” and will be hosted by the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Workshop will take place on May 28-29, 2015 in the city of Sarajevo. The … Continue reading →