Members of Birmingham Law School are active in research and publication, and many of their books have become standard works on numerous areas of law. Academics working in the School are well known for carrying out important applied legal research, much of it commissioned by the government and other public bodies. Below are the areas of research supervision we offer, with links to our academic staff.
Birmingham Law School staff research supervision areas
- Commercial and company law
(include banking, international commercial law, corporate governance)
- Comparative law
(including civil law)
- Constitutional and administrative law
(including legal response to terrorism)
- Criminal law and criminal justice
(including international criminal law and evidence)
- Environmental law
- European Union law
- Family law
- Health and health care law
- Human rights and civil liberties
- International law and global legal studies
(to include conflicts, international economic law, International sale of goods, international trade law, transitional justice, law and development, international economic law, international criminal law)
- Jurisprudence and legal theory
- Law and society
(disability law, law and religion, gender and sexuality)
- Legal education and the legal profession
(legal education, judicial administration)
- Private law
(contract, tort, restitution and common law)
- Property law
(including intellectual property)