Teaching and research excellence
Manchester School of Law is a research-led teaching department. We received a top 5A rating in the 1996 and 2001 Research Assessment Exercises (RAE) and in the 2008 RAE 50% of research was judged to be internationally excellent or world-leading.
As an undergraduate or postgraduate coming to Manchester, you will be taught by staff who are acknowledged experts in their fields and reflect a variety of approaches to the study of law. There is a wide range of courses on offer in which we will encourage you to develop independent thinking about the role and functions of law, and the critical perspectives that appeal to you most. Please visit:
In the last Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) teaching assessment exercise, the School was rated 'excellent' for teaching and we regularly achieve top ratings in national rankings of university law schools. You can expect to graduate from one of the leading law schools in the UK, confident that your degree will be highly regarded by prospective employers.
Staff
The School of Law has a full time staff of about 70 academics. There are currently 17 professors and their areas of interest encompass such diverse subjects as:
- Tort Law
- Medical Law
- Bioethics
- Constitutional Law
- Public Law
- International Law
- Criminal Justice and Criminal Law
- Criminology
- Law and Economics
- Media Law
- Company and Commercial Law
- European Law
- Education Law
- Jurisprudence
These topics are supplemented by many other areas of expertise, including Family Law, Environmental Law, Employment Law and Human Rights.
Students also benefit from the work conducted by research units housed within the School: the Centre for Law and Business; Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies; Institute for Law, Economy and Global Governance; Regulation, Security and Justice Research Centre; Sustainability Policy and Regulation Research Centre; and the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, in collaboration with the Institute of Medicine, Law and Bioethics.