Research degrees in Law
All supervisors are qualified members of staff with their own major research projects and publications. Our large and thriving community of postgraduate research students numbers around 120 at any one time. The School of Law is part of both the LISS and LAHP Doctoral Training Programmes, so can accept applications for both doctoral awards, as well as offering a number of other funding opportunities.
The School of Law can supervise PhD projects in most fields of law. However, the major research activity is broadly defined by the following research groups:
- Aviation and Shipping Law
- Banking and Finance Law
- Competition Law and Policy
- Criminal Justice Law
- Economics and Finance
- Energy and Natural Resources Law
- Ethics and Equality
- EU Law
- Global Law and Governance
- Human Rights Law
- Information Technology, Media
and Communications Law
- Insurance and Tax Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- International Commercial Law
- International State Crime
- Legal Theory and Legal Humanities
- Public International Law
- Regulation and Compliance
Applicants are advised that, prior to making their application, they should view the information provided about the School of Law PhD programme and its application process, entry requirements and application documentation required for entry on the School of Law PhD home-web-page. This web-page also includes a portal to the on-line application system.