Our staff are at the forefront of research in socio-legal studies, feminist legal studies, critical legal studies and decolonial legal studies, across a range of legal subjects.

Particular areas of focus and specialisation include:

European Union law, public international law, international economic law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, gender and development, international drugs regulation

Equity and trusts, tort law, contract law, land law, company law, succession and estate planning

The regulatory and administrative state, the (post)colonial state, national and transnational constitutionalism, environmental regulation

Access to justice, law reform and social movements, reproductive justice, historical injustices, violence against women, racial and gender justice, LGBTQ+ rights, social care and mental capacity, algorithmic justice

Tax law, banking law, labour law and international labour migration, feminist political economy, global value chains

Family justice, criminal justice, judging and the judiciary, regulation of surrogacy and reproductive technologies, technology and law

Law and religion; feminist, postcolonial and international legal history; law and time; creative writing and law; law and philosophy