Approaches Kent Law School is committed to embracing a range of ideas and approaches in its teaching and research. Using a variety of different perspectives, many of our modules do not treat law not as an autonomous and politically neutral institution, but as something that can only be properly understood in the social, economic and political context in which it operates. We encourage students to develop an independent intellectual position of their own and offer an education which is of value to both those who intend to practise law and to those who have other, non-legal, careers in mind. The clinical component to our education has a long history and owes a very great deal to the activities of students, who have traditionally taken the lead and organised most of the work themselves. Further, the clinical work has always been informed by a genuinely critical and social spirit, with students being prepared to study, research and campaign about the law as well as practise it.
More information is available on the work of the law clinic.