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

• Resilience in Survivors of War Rape and Sexual Violence

  A comparative project aimed at understanding the factors that enable and impede expressions of resilience in survivors of conflict-related rape and sexual violence

• 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