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 Flourishing

Environment and Sustainability

Environment and Sustainability

Equality, Gender, and Feminist Law

Equality, Gender, and Feminist Legal Studies

Global Legal Studies

Global Legal Studies

Human Rights, Power, Accountability

Human Rights, Power, and Accountability

Law, Ethics and Technological Inn

Law, Ethics and Technological Innovation

Law, Regulation and the Economy

Law, Regulation and the Economy

Legal Education and the Profession

Legal Education and the Profession

Legal Theory, Language, and Methods

Legal Theory, Language, and Methods

Violence, Crime and Justice

Violence, Crime and Justice

Research 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

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