Due to a long-standing desire among Kent law students to establish a setting in which law students could argue, debate and share ideas freely, The Argument was conceived. The idea of the publication was initially conceived and floated to Kent Law School by Walker Syachalinga based on a an earlier publication he had initiated at the University of Kent’s Medway campus. This resulted in Kent Law School through Lesley Phippen (then Head of Legal Studies at the Medway campus) and Prof Joanne Conaghan (Head of Kent Law School) agreeing to support and fund the publication. Walker Sychalinga and co-founder Madelaine Power then came up with a framework which aimed to inspire students to question and challenge not just the learning of the law but the very ideas that the students believed in.

In November 2008 Walker and Madelaine led an editorial team which campaigned for and collected articles from students on any area of law and society. The response was phenomenal as Kent Law School financed the project and the publication went from strength to strength. The initial editorial team also included Claire Hunt, David Gethin, James McDonald and Josh Greenroyd as some of the key players. Over fourty articles were submitted by students for the first issue alone. Sunny Jassal, Matt Zhu and Daniel Thomas all played a huge part in the creation of Issue One. Walker built upon the success of Issue 1 by subsequently facilitating the publication of Issues 2 and 3 and enlisting the support of organisations including the Crown Prosecution Service, the College of Law and Herbert Smith LLP as well as commissioning and raising the funds needed to build the current website. The Argument has since been passed on to a subsequent editorial committee dedicated to building on the core principles of the publication.