Research areas
A summary of our main areas of research activity is provided here. The Law research webpages provide more comprehensive details about current research projects. Details on individual staff research interests and publications can be found on the Law staff profiles pages.
Research in the School is arranged into three key groups:
- Family law
- International and human rights law
- Legal history
Research centres
Centre for European Legal Studies
The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), one of the oldest of its kind in the UK, provides a focus for the teaching and research of both European Union and comparative law. CELS has close ties with the Centre for European Governance in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Centre for Legal History Research
The Bracton Centre for Legal History Research (CLHR) is a beacon for internationally excellent, original and rigorous legal history scholarship spanning the Middle Ages to the the modern period and employing both doctrinal and interdisciplinary approaches. It provides postgraduate study with access to excellent facilites for legal history research in Exeter and South West England, including records of the Exeter City Courts in the Devon Record Office and early law books in the University Special Collection.
