Law
Staff in the School of Law are actively engaged in world leading, innovative research covering a wide range of interests. You will be supervised by specialists in your area of research interest.
We offer the following research degrees:
- LLM by research
- MPhil
- PhD
Support
You can expect:
- Supervision from experts in the field, including joint supervision for interdisciplinary projects
- Exceptional grounding in research training and other essential skills through our research training programme
- The opportunity to participate in the work of our research groups
- To engage with the very latest research findings through our seminar series
- Training in research methods as well as more practical skills training, for example in presentation and thesis preparation
- A university-wide induction programme covering time and project management, the student/supervisor relationship, preparing for oral examination and career development.
Research centres and groups
Our Centre for Legal Research and Policy provides a focus for research and a bank of expertise for the application of the law in policy-related areas. It fosters relationships with outside agencies and other academic institutions as well as facilitating debate and promoting interdisciplinary research within the university. It is a forum for all law staff and students at Oxford Brookes who are engaged in research activities and comprises the following research groups:n Applied Study of Law and Religion
- Criminal Justice
- Critical Approaches to Law
- Human Rights
- Migration Research
- Public International Law.
Research Areas
Research degrees can be undertaken in the following areas:
- Access to justice
- Accountability
- Company law
- Comparative constitutions
- Criminal justice
- Family law
- Human rights
- Information law
- International economic law n International law and policy
- International trade and commercial law
- Law and religion
- Migration
- Workplace rights and employment law
- WTO law.
