Professor Amanda Perry-Kessaris >> I think International Commercial Law at Kent is really unique in many ways but primarily because it goes beyond just technical understandings of international commercial law. >> So we're really excited about opening students' eyes to critical possibilities. So to be able to see what the law is, fine, but also what could the law be and why. >> So those are the things that make it really distinctive. Muigai Githu, International Commercial Law >> The course doesn't teach you in a vacuum. It's very contextualised and I enjoy that. Christelle Chidiac, International Commercial Law with Human Rights Law >> I chose Kent because of its critical approach and its reputation around this critical approach to law which was recommended to me very highly by my professors during my first postgraduate year that I did in Paris. Muigai Githu, International Commercial Law >> I worked as an associate in a commercial law firm. I think it'll allow me to do the same things that I had done before but do it from a different perspective. >> Allow me to engage the same matters but also engage new matters of the same sort of nature but with a greater complexity. Christelle Chidiac >> I chose to take the double pathway in International Commercial Law and Human Rights. >> I chose this combination because I wanted to break with a typical way of approaching human rights only within the field of humanitarian law and study international commercial law as a completely separate field. >> And I wanted to find a way to actually connect the two and find the already-existing connections between them. Professor Amanda Perry-Kessaris >> I think when you take an approach to international commercial law that appreciates that law is not just something that's on a shelf in a book but is actually something that's live and present all around us then you're much more likely to appreciate the extraordinary range and diversity of interests and values that are at stake. >> So, for example, you'll be much more attuned to the possibility that an international commercial law may be constructed by or affect ranges of actors such as civil society actors, governments, consumers, employees. >> All sorts of people that you wouldn't necessarily have thought of if you solely thought about law as something that’s on the books. Muigai Githu >> I'd encourage the students to to enjoy the course, to engage with it and engage the lecturers. >> Network with the students first and foremost and network with the various opportunities, the various guest lecturers, the staff members. Christelle Chidiac >> In the future I want to use my LLM and probably do some further research work and maybe also apply for a PhD. Professor Amanda Perry-Kessaris >> I think the International Commercial Law LLM pathway is really useful to any student who's going to have anything to do with an international commercial setting, and that's not restricted to somebody who intends to work in an international law firm, for example. >> It can be people who are intending to work in the public sector, in international organisations for example, in a non-governmental organisation. Anybody who's going to be working in relation to international commercial issues both from the inside and also from the outside. >> I think if I were to describe International Commercial Law at Kent in three words it would be to say it's critical and creative and also practical.