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Kent Law School has long pioneered a critical approach to the study of law, placing the study of the law within a wider social, economic and political context. This approach has contributed significantly to the thriving and active research culture at Kent Law School, the quality of which is evidenced in the RAE profile.
We have thriving centres including Critical International Law and Law, Gender and Sexuality.
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Publishing Success for Feminist Judgements Project
2nd November 2009
The Feminist Judgements Project, a dynamic and innovative research project in which a group of feminist socio-legal scholars have written alternative feminist judgments in a series of significant cases in English law, is to be published in a book by Hart publishing.
Feminist Judgments: From Theory to Practice, is expected to be out in August/September 2010.
The Feminist Judgements Project is an ESRC funded-project led by Rosemary Hunter (University of Kent) and Clare McGlynn and Erika Rackley (Durham University)
Feminist Legal Studies
16th February 2009
Head of Kent Law School Professor Joanne Conaghan has edited an authoritative reference guide containing seminal articles in the development of modern feminist legal theory.
Domestic Violence Law Reform
and Women’s Experience in Court
9th February 2009
Professor Rosemary Hunter has authored a book which examines the experiences of victims of domestic violence in the Civil Courts.
Guest Editorial
March 2009
Professor Sally Sheldon has been invited to write the guest editorial for Clinical Ethics. The piece, appearing in the March edition of the publication, is entitled “A Missed opportunity to reform an outdated law” and looks at the government blocking of the reforms on the Abortion Law, which Professor Sheldon asserts is a desperately outdated piece of legislation. To see this and Professor Sheldon’s other publications please see her staff profile page.
Ironies in Human Rights Protection
January 2009
Dr Anneli Albi has been researching the human rights protections in new EU member countries before and after joining the EU and the concerns raised by these changes. This research has recently been published in the European Law Journal entitled “Ironies in Human Rights Protection in the EU: Pre-Accession Conditionality and Post- Accession Conundrums. To see this and Dr Albi’s other publications please see her profile page.
SLSA Success
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Sally Sheldon is conducting a joint project, with Julie McCandless (Oxford Brookes University), regarding the understandings of parenthood which inform the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (2008). The first stage of this research, which will run from January to April 2009, will draw on a number of interviews with key actors involved in framing the parenthood provisions of the Act. This first part of the work is funded by the SLSA.
British Academy Award
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Sebastian Payne's project on "Parliamentary oversight of the intelligence and security services: a comparative study between the United Kingdom and Australia" is funded by a British Academy Small Grant worth almost £7000.