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It is with our deepest sorrow that we inform you of the passing of our dear colleague, Dr Alex Magaisa. We feel his loss immediately and join with Alex's friends and admirers around the world in recognising his powerful legacy and impact at Kent.
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“…warm, gentle, kind and charming – a true gentleman – yet passionate and sharp minded, a considerable intellect…” Poignant words from our Head of School in our announcement today of Dr Alex Magaisa’s untimely passing:
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Three amazing final-year Law LLB students
@unikent
, three amazing
@middletemple
scholarships! Congratulations to aspiring barristers Queenet Awesu, Beronique Addington & Beatrice Fatungase!
Read their stories on our news blog & prepare to be inspired!
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We are delighted to announce a brilliant
#REF2021
result for the
@UniKent
Kent Law School – 2nd in the UK for overall research quality
@timeshighered
#ResearchAtKent
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My Africa is Political: Navigating Democracy in
#Zimbabwe
@Wamagaisa
@unikent
& Film Director Camilla Nielsson invited to deliver a Poynter Fellowship in Journalism lecture
@yale
at 1.30pm on Saturday 10 November
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Dr
@wamagaisa
@unikent
(former adviser to former
#Zimbabwe
PM & to constitution-writing team) is quoted in Bloomberg
@bpolitics
article addressing questions over the legitimacy of Zimbabwe’s first election since Mugabe quit:
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Congratulations to
@suhraiyajivraj
on winning the
@UniKentSocSci
Faculty Teaching Award 2019 for her leadership of
@DecoloniseUKC
, a project which aims to support BAME students
@unikent
in becoming change actors and co-producers of knowledge
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Watch
@Wamagaisa
's interview on yesterday's
@BBCWorld
about the situation in
#Zimbabwe
He begins by addressing a question about whether the MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) has incited some of the violence (2m 55 into clip)
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Congratulations to Professor Emily Grabham
@RegulatingTime
@unikent
on the award of a £100k Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law
@LeverhulmeTrust
! Professor Grabham champions an influential new field of scholarship on the relationship between law and time.
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Enormously proud that Professors Toni Williams &
@d_ashiagbor
@unikent
are among 40 'Phenomenal Women' whose portraits by
@williamjlknight
are to feature in an exhibition celebrating Britain's Black Female Professors at London's City Hall from 18 March
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A personal tribute to Zimbabwean politician Morgan Tsvangirai, the country’s Prime Minister in 2012 when
@UniKent
Lecturer
@Wamagaisa
began working with him - Alex was helping to write a new constitution for Zimbabwe when he got a call to meet Tsvangirai
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Expert comment from
@Wamagaisa
(former adviser to former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai) on current situation in
#Zimbabwe
Dr Magaisa is also a member of the team that drafted the Constitution of Zimbabwe
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Kent Law School supports the rights of students to engage in peaceful protest on campus and is gravely concerned about security staff ‘over-policing’ protest by students, in particular that by black and minority ethnic students.
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In the wake of a decision by the Constitutional Court of
#Zimbabwe
to uphold the election of Emmerson Mnangagwa as the duly elected president of Zimbabwe,
@Wamagaisa
@unikent
writes about the standard of proof in election challenges in this post for the Oxford Human Rights Hub
New blog post from Alex T. Magaisa: Zimbabwe’s Presidential Petition: The Standard of Proof
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A new documentary produced by
@KMTV_Kent
about
@l_eslava
’s
@Ruptures_21
New Constitutional Futures project to help draft a new
#ChileanConstitution
is released today.
Watch the pivotal film in our latest news blog:
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Our congratulations to
@suhraiyajivraj
@klsresearch
@unikent
who has been been recognised as a Senior Fellow
@AdvanceHE
(formerly the Higher Education Academy)!
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We're enormously proud of these eight students, all aspiring barristers
@unikent
, who've proved their intellectual ability, advocacy potential & motivation to succeed after winning scholarships from
@middletemple
&
@HonSocGraysInn
- congratulations to all!
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Delighted that law
@unikent
is ranked 11th in the UK in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019 (up three places from last year)!
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A huge & happy 'Hello and welcome!' to our new cohort of postgrad taught students who've joined us this week from all over the world to study our Kent
#LLM
#MastersinLaw
. We wish them all the very best as they begin their critical explorations of the law!
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2020 applicants: if you're a main cycle applicant who now meets the conditions of our offer for law
@unikent
with your teacher assessed grades, we want to assure you that we will accept you.
More info will follow as soon as we have it.
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Amazing! Congratulations Gabrielle, Shalom & Yolanda! We love to see our
@unikent
Law students winning over judges! Best of luck as your journey on
@thevoiceuk
continues!
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It is with great sadness that the Law School has learnt of the death of Professor Peter Fitzpatrick who taught law
@uniKent
from 1977 - 1996. He was made an Honorary Professor in 2005. We share our condolences with Professor Fitzpatrick's family.
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Congratulations to Professor Diamond Ashiagbor who has been conferred the award of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the representative body of the social sciences in the UK!
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The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2021 is just out and we're delighted to be ranked 13th for law in the UK out of 101 law schools (8th for research quality)!
A fantastic way to begin the new Autumn term
@unikent
!
#GoodUniGuide
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Our
@unikent
campus is aflame with autumn colour as the sun goes down - a welcome distraction from work & legal study!
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Read about our exceptional researcher & new
#UKRIFLF
@ConnalParsley
who’s been awarded a sizeable sum of money to conduct research into an evolutionary approach to human-AI government administrative decision-making:
#Research
#AlgorithmicDecisionMaking
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Our congratulations to Professor Nick Grief
@unikent
, member of legal team nominated for
#NobelPeacePrize
!
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Calling all UK
#lawschool
teachers! Download 'Towards Anti-racist Legal Pedagogy: A Resource' - a free resource by
@suhraiyajivraj
@uniKent
that's designed to help you develop anti-racist curricula & classrooms & embrace/reflect diversity of
#BME
students
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Prof Donatella Alessandrini
@unikent
@klsresearch
awarded £162k
@BritishAcademy_
Mid-Career Fellowship for unique research project analysing the role of world trade law in the generation & distribution of economic rewards between & within countries
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Congratulations to Prof Donatella Alessandrini on the award of the 2018
@unikent
Graduate School Prize for School Director of Graduate Studies - made in recognition of her work in creating a supportive, stimulating & inspirational research environment
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Another beautiful start to the day on our gorgeous
@unikent
campus as the sun rises over the city of
#Canterbury
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Congratulations to
@unikent
Law LLB student Queenet Awesu who's been awarded a £13k
@middletemple
scholarship! Aspiring barrister Queenet, says the “art of being critical” has helped her succeed...
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Decolonising the Curriculum: the revolutionary
@DecoloniseUKC
project to empower BAME students, supported by
@suhraiyajivraj
@DaveThomasOT
& Sheree Palmer, has inspired a chain reaction of events
@unikent
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We're delighted to maintain a top 20 position in all three national league tables for law after being ranked 17th in The Times Good University Guide 2020. Within the latest ranking of 101 law schools,
@uniKent
is 6th for the quality of its research :)
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Congratulations to
@d_ashiagbor
@unikent
@klsresearch
who has been appointed to the
@ahrcpress
Advisory Board for a three-year term!
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@l_eslava
, Reader in international law, has been working in Chile on the drafting of a new Chilean constitution. Read all about it in our latest news blog:
#Chile
#Constitution
@UniKentResearch
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Join
@CeCIL_UniKent
on 18 Oct for a discussion with
@benjamin_thorne
, Dr Marina Velickovic & Dr Mwangi Wanjiru on their research and pedagogy. This is part two of this year’s 'Critical International Law Conversations’ series.
#InternationalLaw
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We're really delighted to be ranked 45th in the world for law in today’s 2021
@timeshighered
(THE)
#WorldUniversityRankings
This welcome news is a further boost to our world-leading reputation for teaching and critical, socio-legal research
@UniKent
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Congratulations to
@g_sullivan
on the award of a prestigious £1.2 million
@UKRI_News
#FutureLeadersFellowship
! He will lead an interdisciplinary team exploring 'Infra-Legalities: Global Security Infrastructures, Artificial Intelligence & International Law'
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We're proud to be part of the UK's European University
@unikent
#WeAreEuropean
#WeAreInternational
#diversity
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Join
@CeCIL_UniKent
on 15 November at 6pm for their talk by
@OhioOmiunu
on 'Scholar-Activism and the decolonisation of International Economic Law in Africa: A Focus on the
@afronomicslaw
Academic Forum'.
Find out more about the presentation here:
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One year after winning a £100k Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law, we're delighted to see Professor Emily Grabham
@unikent
@RegulatingTime
receiving her award from Sir Keith Thomas CH FBA at the
@LeverhulmeTrust
Gala Dinner held in London last month!
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Delighted that the Law Clinic
@unikent
has been shortlisted this week in the LawWorks 2018 Annual Pro Bono Awards for its 'Outstanding Contribution to Access to Justice' over the last ten years! Congratulations to all involved with the work of the Clinic!
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Professor Rosemary Hunter
@unikent
is the lead author of a
@MoJGovUK
report - Assessing Risk of Harm to Children and Parents in Private Law Children Cases - published today, that's prompted the government to announce a major overhaul of
#familycourts
.
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Just in case you're missing all the long-eared wildlife on our
@unikent
campus, KLS Admin Manager Chris Barron found some Easter bunnies to help (rabbit)jump-start your week...
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Very grateful thanks to
@BarristerSecret
for making Welcome Week so special (and sooo secret!) for our new Stage 1 students - a wonderfully inspiring & insightful beginning to a new academic year at Law School! 👏👏👏
@jaimerh354
And on that note, I think we've reached our finale.
Thank you all for your questions. I hope there has been something vaguely useful in amongst all the guff.
And very best of luck. Being a lawyer rocks. You're making good choices.
Have a great night x
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Congratulations to
@d_ashiagbor
, Professor of Law
@unikent
, on her election yesterday as an Honorary Bencher of
@MiddleTemple
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Virtual vivas: During the lockdown, 4 (so far) of our PhD legal scholars
@unikent
have successfully defended their doctoral thesis online! Our warmest congratulations to
Dr Edward Fairhead
Dr Philemon Iko-Ojo Omede
Dr Carina Lamont
Dr Antony Starza-Allen
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A book co-edited by
@l_eslava
@unikent
@klsresearch
has been cited by Brazilian Judge Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade in his Separate Opinion to the
@CIJ_ICJ
’s recent
#Chagos
Advisory Opinion
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Our Centre for Law, Gender & Sexuality
@unikent
has a new name – it is now the Centre for Sexuality, Race & Gender Justice or 'SeRGJ' (pronounced 'surge') with Co-Directors
@suhraiyajivraj
&
@sineadring
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Thanks to our Admin Manager Chris Barron, we're getting fab daily pics from
@UniKent
's Canterbury campus as he takes his morning walk...
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The
#COVID19
pandemic has precipitated a new international research collaboration between
@l_eslava
& Donatella Alessandrini
@klsresearch
,
@EssexLawSchool
, &
@URosario
in Colombia, that will address the precarity of people working in the informal economy
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Funding awarded by
@BritishAcademy_
for a project to examine structural gender norms and how they affect the lives of women and LGBTQ+ people.
Project leads
@FloraRenz
& postdoc, Lila Braunschweig, will begin work at the beginning of July.
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Delighted to be ranked 13th in UK for law in the
#GdnUniGuide2019
- our highest ever ranking!
Within this year's subject table for law,
@unikent
is 10th for course satisfaction, 13th for satisfaction with teaching quality & 14th for career progression
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*NEW* Kent Success Scholarships for International Undergraduate Students: £2,000 for first year of study. Apply by 23:59 on Weds 4 Aug ▶️
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We're absolutely thrilled that our strong international character and world-leading reputation for research sees us ranked 51st in today’s prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2020 for law
#THEunirankings
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PhD in Law student
@unikent
Maayan Niezna awarded
@ModernLRev
scholarship in recognition of the quality of her scholarship - for her thesis, she is interrogating different legal frameworks that address
#unfreelabour
of
#migrantworkers
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Congrats to Kent Law Clinic Solicitor Vivien Gambling and
@unikent
law students Mehin Abdullayeva, Constantin McGill & Oliver Pope, who have helped an elderly client (Mr William Jarvis) recover £15,000 compensation from a mobile home park
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Congratulations to
@unikent
Professor (& Dean for Medway) Nick Grief who's been recognised as a Senior Fellow of the
@HEAcademy
(SFHEA)
@UKMstudent
@UniKentStaff
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Delighted to announce
@d_ashiagbor
has been awarded a
@BritishAcademy_
Senior Research Fellowship alongside ten other outstanding academics working in the
#SHAPE
disciplines:
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Congrats to Dr Eric Loefflad on passing his PhD viva! Eric’s thesis on 'Popular Will & International Law: The Expansion of Capitalism, the Question of Legitimate Authority & the Universalisation of the Nation-State' was supervised by
@l_eslava
, Dr Sara Kendall &
@VigneronSophie
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Congratulations to Rohini Majumdar who's secured a
@lincolnsinn
#BarCourse
scholarship! Rohini made the most of opportunities to develop advocacy skills through
#mooting
& network with
@UniKentAlumni
during her
#LLB
studies - read her story on our blog!
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Applications are now open for scholarships for our PhD in Law & PhD in Socio-legal Studies beginning
@unikent
’s Canterbury campus Sept 2019!
We particularly welcome research proposals in socio-legal studies, law & the humanities, & critical legal studies
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Professors
@ErikaRackley
& Rosemary Hunter
@unikent
awarded £11k by SLS
@LegalScholars
to celebrate the legal life & jurisprudence of Lady Hale
@UKSupremeCourt
as one of the Society’s flagship Annual Seminars in 2020
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Int law scholar Prof Anne Orford
@lpilmelb
to give
@CeCIL_UniKent
Annual Lecture
@unikent
6pm Thurs 30 Nov in GLT3
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As a Law School community, we want to express solidarity with our Black students & colleagues.
And for anyone seeking to understand recent events within a broader pattern of institutionalised racism in the US, these pedagogical resources may be helpful:
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Kent students launched their
#DecoloniseUKC
manifesto at the
@DecoloniseUKC
conference
@unikent
last week. Project leader Dr Suhraiya Jivraj said the
#DecoloniseUKC
project has been "crucial in empowering students of colour."
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Congratulations to Beronique, Queenet, Beatrice, Cara, Milly, Xavier & Tayla
@unikent
, all of whom have scooped awards from three of the four Inns of Court this summer, taking them one big step closer to achieving their dream of becoming a barrister!
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We are delighted to welcome three new Professors of Law to
@unikent
this term -
@erikarackley
,
@d_ashiagbor
& Rosemary Hunter
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Law students Gabrielle Danso, Shalom Ozua & Yolanda Pikitayi
@unikent
have been wowing judges of a different kind - as gospel group Equip to Overcome, the girls won over Jennifer Hudson, Tom Jones & during wk 5 of ITV's
@thevoiceuk
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Researchers
@khorsey
@DrKatherineWade
&
@surrogacyreform
have published findings from their project ‘Children’s Voices in
#Surrogacy
#Law
’. This is the first time children’s views of surrogacy have been included in a study.
Read the full story here:
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Professor Emily Grabham
@unikent
awarded £2.9k for first systematic empirical study of its kind to analyse legal & technical expertise of legislative drafters. The research will explore impact of their expertise on effectiveness of legislative texts.
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Congratulations to Prof Emily Grabham
@RegulatingTime
@unikent
whose article 'Time and technique: the legal lives of the 26-week qualifying period’ has been shortlisted for
@SLSA_UK
Article Prize 2018
Winners will be announced
@SLSA2018
in March
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Thrilled to announce that a Fulbright future in the US awaits
@unikent
law student & aspiring barrister
@AmakaWrites
who has secured a prestigious
@USUKFulbright
postgraduate scholarship to study her LLM
@IUMaurerLaw
@IUBloomington
. Congratulations Amaka!
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Wonderful to see our Head of School, Pof Rosemary Hunter KC Hon., at today’s appointment ceremony, presided by The Lord Chancellor 👏
Delighted & very proud to have attended the KC ceremony this morning for my good friend Rosemary Hunter. Well deserved!
@KentLawSchool
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'The Slave Trade, Abolition and the Long History of International Criminal Law'
Dr Emily Haslam's new book offers a close and critical examination of litigation that arose from British efforts to capture slave ships in the nineteenth century.
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Congratulations to our Director of Lawyering Skills
@unibarrister
Darren Weir who's been honoured with a 'COVID Hero Award' by
@kentlawsociety
in recognition of his work in directing our innovative Lawyering Skills Programme
@unikent
!
#CovidHeroes
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A misty morning view of
@No1Cathedral
from the hill
@unikent
- have a great Friday! We're looking forward to welcoming all our students back to our lovely campus on Monday ;)
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Congratulations to Kent Law School alumna Chipokota Mwanawasa on being appointed a Special Assistant to the President of Zambia!
@Chipokota
graduated from
@unikent
with an LLB in English and French Law in 2013
PRESIDENT HICHILEMA HAS APPOINTED CHIPOKOTA MWANAWASA AS SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR PUBLIC POLICY
Congratulations
@Chipokota
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1 week to go until
@OhioOmiunu
’s talk on 'Scholar-Activism and the decolonisation of International Economic Law in Africa: A Focus on the
@afronomicslaw
Academic Forum'. The event's at 6pm, Moot Court, Wigoder building. Find out more:
@CeCIL_UniKent
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Congratulations to recent graduate Nazari Woods, another
@Conyers
award winner, securing $15,0000 to support his legal studies.
Nazari credits
@AllisonMHolmes
and Dr Robert De Vries, for helping distinguish him from other applicants!
#Law
#LawSchool
#LawStudent
#StudyLaw
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Proud to be placed (for the second consecutive year) amongst the top 100 law schools in the world in this year’s
@ShanghaiRanking
- Law
@unikent
is one of only 12 UK law schools to feature in the top 100
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Interested in the history of intellectual property? This collection of essays is now out! Intellectual Property and the Design of Nature edited by Bellido and Sherman (Oxford University Press 2023).
@ISHTIP_org
@passimproject
@ijalexander2002
@BE4COPY
@UKCopyrightLit
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We're delighted to report that the world-class quality & strength of research publication output
@unikent
Law School has been recognised in the
@ShanghaiRanking
with a 2020 global ranking among the top 150 & a national ranking among the top 11!
#hellokls
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