Birmingham Law School

Our research projects

• 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.

• Everyday Cyborgs 2.0

  Law’s boundary work and alternative legal futures

• Legal and mental capacity in everyday life

  How should the law respect and support the autonomy of persons with intellectual disabilities?

• Healthy Brexit

  ESRC-funded research into Health Law Outside the EU: immediate, intermediate and long-term impacts

• 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

• EUTIP

  We foster interdisciplinary research into the evolving international trade policy of the European Union (EU)

• 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?

• Shaping the understanding and application of the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment