Kent Law School is delighted to announce the appointment of three new Professors of Law: Professor Erika Rackley, who took up her post earlier this month; and Professor Diamond Ashiagbor and Professor Rosemary Hunter, both of whom will join the School in October.

 Professor Ashiagbor was previously Professor of Law and Director of Research at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. She has research interests in labour/employment law; regional integration (the European Union and the African Union); labour law, trade and development; human rights, equality and multiculturalism; economic sociology of law; socio-legal studies; law and the humanities.

 Professor Hunter is re-joining Kent Law School after four years at Queen Mary University of London. Her areas of expertise are broadly in feminist legal studies and socio-legal studies, with a particular focus on family law, judging and the judiciary, and access to justice. She is well known as one of the founders of the Feminist Judgments Projects, in which participants rewrite judgments in existing cases from a feminist perspective, imagining how a feminist judge might have decided the case if she had been sitting on the bench at the same time as the original judges. She is also one of the editors of the online journal feminists@law.

 Professor Rackley joins Kent Law School from the University of Birmingham – twenty years after she first started at Kent as a postgraduate research student. Her research focuses law, gender and feminism, with a particular focus on judicial diversity and the nature of judging, feminist legal history and image-based sexual abuse (including ‘revenge porn’). Her scholarship has shaped legislation and policy in the UK and has been widely cited by senior members of the national and international judiciary