Research Centres
Our Centres provide a variety of multi-disciplinary research.
The School hosts a number of specialist research centres in both traditional law and socio-legal scholarship, in addition to its informal groupings.
The School has always supported collaborative work, whether between colleagues working together within the School or across institutions, and it enjoys formal links with distinguished research institutions and other overseas law schools.
The Centre for Social Ethics and Policy Studies (CSEP)
The Centre for Social Ethics and Policy is one of Europe's leading institutions, undertaking research and teaching in bioethics and biolaw.
Institute for Law, Economy and Global Governance (InLEGGo)
This innovative and forward-looking research institute studies international relationships, structures and governance (including in the field of European and international commercial and company law). InLEGGo is distinctive in its methods, developing and promoting interdisciplinary research, in integrating theoretical with 'problem based' research and in its strong orientation towards global issues and challenges, global institutions and frameworks of governance that transcend the nation-state.
Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation (iSEI)
Bringing together researchers in ethics, medical jurisprudence (the theory and philosophy of law), science and medicine, the overall purpose of the Institute's research agenda is to examine how the social and ethical consequences of science and technology can be managed in a way that protects people and makes their lives better.
Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice (CCCJ)
The Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice brings together leading criminologists and socio-legal scholars interested in the the study of crime and criminal justice. Members apply the insights and methods of sociology, psychology, law, social anthropology, economics and political science to criminological problems.
ManReg: The Manchester Centre for Regulation, Governance & Security
This new centre is a multidisciplinary group which seeks to advance knowledge and understanding of regulation, governance and security through scholarship of the highest international standards.
The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence
Established in 2002, the Centre brings together the School of Law and four Schools in the Faculty of Humanities as well as two research institutes at Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Salford with a shared interest in European studies.
In addition, a large core of scholarship both traditional law and socio-legal is advanced through informal groupings in a number of core research areas: company law and commercial law; European Union Law; intellectual property law; international law; land law, equity and trust; legal theory, private law - contract, tort and unjust enrichment; public law; regulation.