Research in Law
Global — Civic — Diverse
Birmingham Law School is home to a broad range of internationally excellent and world-leading legal academics, and a thriving postgraduate research community. The research expertise in the school spans a wide range of topics, from jurisprudence to justice, healthcare to human rights. Research proposals are welcomed from the full range of perspectives, including comparative, doctrinal, historical, international, theoretical, ethical, socio-legal and criminological approaches to law.
Our research themes
Care, Health, and Human Flourishing
Care, Health, and Human FlourishingEnvironment and Sustainability
Environment and SustainabilityEquality, Gender, and Feminist Law
Equality, Gender, and Feminist Legal StudiesGlobal Legal Studies
Global Legal StudiesHuman Rights, Power, and Accountabi
Human Rights, Power, and AccountabilityLaw, Ethics and Technological Inn
Law, Ethics and Technological InnovationLaw, Regulation and the Economy
Law, Regulation and the EconomyLegal Education and the Profession
Legal Education and the ProfessionLegal Theory, Language, and Methods
Legal Theory, Language, and MethodsViolence, Crime and Justice
Violence, Crime and JusticeResearch projects and impact
COVID-19 social care easements: removing rights from the vulnerable
Devised to ‘ease’ staffing pressures during the pandemic, how do emergency social care easements impact support for society’s most vulnerable?
The COVID-19 Review Observatory
The COVID Review Observatory (CVRO) is a resource that records, tracks, and assesses reviews of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic from a human rights perspective
Algorithmic Accountability
The governance of emerging technologies
Building Reproductive Justice with Indigenous Women in Northeast Brazil
Our project aims to consolidate reproductive justice by enhancing access to Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare of Indigenous women in accordance with their cultural practices.
COALITION - Co-Producing Accessible Legal Information
Everyday Cyborgs 2.0
Law’s boundary work and alternative legal futures
Law and Language at the European Court of Justice
A new understanding of the development of EU law by examining the process behind the production of the multilingual jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union
Counter-Terrorism Review
We aim to discover how CTR works, and to propose reforms where necessary for the purpose of ensuring the good governance of counter-terrorism in the UK.
Problem Solving in Criminal Law
What are the acceptable limits of the criminal law?