Research Overview
The School of Law enjoys a long-standing reputation as one of the UK’s most distinguished centres of excellence for the study of law, legal processes and related issues.
We have more than seventy highly regarded academics and researchers working in areas of inquiry that cover most of the law together with social ethics and criminology. Many of them are leading experts in their fields. Our research and scholarship is both pure and applied, domestic and international. It reflects a diversity of approaches that range across the theoretical and empirical, the historical, doctrinal and socio-legal, and which draw on inter-disciplinary insights wherever appropriate.
In Research Assessment Exercises (RAE), the School of Law has consistently maintained high levels of national and international research excellence in various fields of scholarship.
We have a strong research culture that values high quality publications that engage with academics, practitioners and policy-makers. Practical support is provided through research workshops, work-in-progress groups and staff mentoring. Financial assistance is made available through a generous travel allowance and awards from School's research support funds.
Our particular areas of expertise include: Bioethics, Health & Medicine; Company & Commercial Law; Criminal Law & Criminal Justice, Criminology; Environmental Law; the European Union; Family Law; Human Rights; Intellectual Property; International Law; Law and economics; Land Law, Equity & Trusts; Legal Theory; Private Law (Contract, Tort & Restitution); Public Law; and Regulation.
The School also hosts a number of specialist research centres and a range of research events and seminars.
The School boasts a vibrant and diverse postgraduate research culture and welcomes MPhil and PhD applications in a wide variety of areas.