Top 10
in UoA 18: Law for Research Quality
Research Excellence Framework 2021, based on research rated 4*.
Research at Birmingham Law School
Global — Civic — Diverse
Birmingham Law School is home to 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.
- 87%
of research rated world-leading or internationally excellent.
Research Excellence Framework 2021
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Birmingham Law School Annual Lecture – Thursday 13 November 2025
Global health security: a blueprint for reform
Register for the annual lectureBirmingham Law School is launching a new series of high profile annual lectures which will begin with a lecture by Professor Lawrence O. Gostin of Georgetown University on Thursday 13 November 2025 (18:30 - 19:45).
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Research projects
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. - 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. - Family Law Reform Now
- 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? - Shaping the understanding and application of the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Pre-charge Bail
- The impact of Brexit: a linguistic perspective
- Psychedelics: Law, Ethics, and Society