Providing research leadership through education
Birmingham is a large research-driven law school, championing the pedagogic value of quality legal research. From writing and editing many of the leading legal textbooks used across UK Universities, through to our in- (and outside) classroom work with students, we harness our unique advantages in breadth and depth of research expertise.
We wrote the (text)book
Meet our academic authorsLegal textbooks are essential resources, defining the disciplinary field, and guiding readers through often complex materials. At Birmingham Law School, we boast an unprecedented array of textbook writers, writing the core texts used by universities across the UK and often internationally.
Reimagining research-driven education
Discover our curriculumBirmingham Law School is proud to deliver a research-driven curriculum, across both LLB and LLM courses, in which the content is shaped by the research expertise of our academic staff.
Students as researchers
Explore our student opportunitiesOur commitment to students as researchers includes all levels of undergraduate and taught masters studies, providing opportunities for students to engage with the cutting-edge academic research being undertaken within the School.
Our researchers working on this mission
Our researchers working on this mission
- Rehana Parveen is interested in English Family Law, Islamic Family Law, Muslim women, religious tribunals, decolonising the law and decolonising the curriculum.
- Frances Seabridge has a particular research interest in the curriculum design and the development of legal education, and the fusion of embedding employability skills.
- Linden Thomas' research focusses on clinical legal education, pro bono, public legal education and employability.
- Lisa Webley's research considers the regulation, education and ethicality and professionalism of the legal profession, and broader access to justice and rule of law concerns.
- Chen Zhu's research focuses on intellectual property law (especially music copyright), computational legal research methods and legal pedagogy.
Press and media
Press and media
Other projects
Other projects
- Birmingham Law School’s Centre for Employability, Professional Legal Education and Research (CEPLER) facilitates a wealth of activities that are linked to the law in practice, the legal profession and the development of students’ professional skills and attributes.
- In 2025-26, CEPLER launched a paid ‘Shadow an Academic’ work placement scheme to enable undergraduate students to gain an insight into the academic role by spending a day shadowing a member of the faculty.