The Law School contains a vibrant, collegiate and growing research community with diverse interests, objectives and methodologies. Some of our members are recognised as national or international leaders in their field.
Northumbria Law School has an established and ambitious research agenda encompassing theoretical, empirical, socio-legal and doctrinal approaches. Our long-standing strengths in criminal justice, expert evidence, legal education, and law and society scholarship have been further enhanced in recent years. Innovative and significant research notably in the areas of gender and sexuality, international human rights law, environmental law and development, and space law has further enriched our vibrant research environment and is reflected in the work both of our Faculty and our dynamic research student community. Global in outlook and ambitious in impact, a high proportion of our research is embedded in international and multi-disciplinary collaboration.
In the Research Excellence Framework 2014, Northumbria Law School was the most improved Law School in the UK in terms of Internationally Recognised research provision. In addition 99% of the Law School’s submitted research was recognised internationally for its originality, significance and academic rigour, with 50% of research outputs judged to be ‘internationally excellent’ or ‘world-leading’.
Research Roundup
Northumbria Legal Studies Working Paper Series
Paper: Hannah Margaret Newhall, Balancing Individual Needs with Public Interest: An Investigation into the Extent to Which Depressive Illness Can Provide Evidence for Diminished Responsibilities (Northumbria Legal Studies Working Paper No. 2017/01).
Paper: Romana Bruderer-Schwab, Reframing the Claim in BPAS through a Human Rights Lens: A Thought Experiment (Northumbria Legal Studies Working Paper No. 2017/02)
To learn more follow the individual links below to the School’s research centre and research interest groups:
The Northumbria Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies
The Northumbria Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies (NCECJS) undertakes research with UK and global legal and forensic academic and practitioner partners and contributes to the delivery of research rich teaching in the University.
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CLSE is a research outlet and a platform for China-related socio-legal research at Northumbria University.
Discover moreEmpirical Legal Studies Research Interest Group
The ELS Research Interest Group brings together academics who are broadly interested in Empirical Legal Studies on the law and the legal system.
Discover moreThe Financial Crime Compliance Research Interest Group
The FCC RIG brings together academics, lawyers and financial services professionals with a view to: Producing research outputs, designing and implemeting teaching materials, providing and hosting seminars, conferences and workshops, designing and providing tailored FCC awareness training consistent with stakeholder needs and international collaboration
Discover moreInternational and Comparative Law and Human Rights Research Interest Group
Discover moreLaw and the Humanities Research Interest Group
This is a new Research Interest Group founded in 2018. The group encourages, promotes, and produces research in law and the humanities with a focus on the cross-disciplinary fields of legal history, law and literature, law and film, law related art-visual imagery and legal architecture.
Discover moreMedical and Mental Health Law Research Interest Group (MELRIG)
MELRIG brings together academics, postgraduate researchers and practitioners who have a specialist interest in medical and mental health law, policy and practice. It builds upon the Law School’s international reputation for the provision of the highest quality training and research in medical and mental health law, with an excellent track record of working collaboratively with regional, national and international mental health and human rights organisations.
Discover moreProperty Law Research Interest Group
The group is concerned with land law, landlord and tenant, equity, planning, and environmental law but is also interested in deeper issues such as the nature of real property, cultural property, and an individual’s/group’s non-legal connection to property.
Discover moreScience and Justice Research Interest Group
The Science and Justice RIG 'sits' within the Law and Society Signature Interest Group (SIG). The RIG adopts a broad interpretation of ‘science’ including technology, as well as ‘justice’.
Discover moreThe Family Justice Research group
The Family Justice Research group was launched in 2018 and is based in the School of Law at Northumbria.
Discover moreGender, Sexuality and Law
The GSL group draws together established, early career academics and postgraduate students from a range of disciplines across the University aligned with the core theme of gender, sexuality and law.
Discover MoreNINSO The Northumbria Internet & Society Research Interest Group
NINSO The Northumbria Internet & Society Research Interest Group is a multidisciplinary team of researchers analysing the impact of the Internet and related technologies on society at large. We are currently carrying out research revolving around the theme of the ‘algorithmic society’.
Legal Education and Professional Skills
This is a collegiate group promoting and enhancing legal education. It hosts the International Journal of Clinical Legal Education and the annual international conference, national seminars and conferences and regular research group meetings.
Discover MoreLaw and Society
Northumbria Law School’s Law and Society Signature Research Area brings together a broad range of academics who adopt an interdisciplinary approach to the study of law, focusing on law in its social, cultural, historical and/or theoretical contexts.
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Northumbria Law School have a number of studentship opportunities, which provide full support for tuition fees. These are available in a number of interest areas.
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