Our research
Birkbeck School of Law is a leading international centre for research in critical legal theory and critically informed sociolegal research. The School has also recently welcomed the Institute for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR), which has moved from King's College to Birkbeck.
Research activity in the School
Since its foundation in 1992, our School has pioneered the application to legal scholarship of a variety of schools of thought, such as postmodernism; feminism; queer theory; critical race theory; literary approaches to law; psychoanalysis; law and the humanities; law and aesthetics, and post-colonialism. The Centre for Law and Humanities has been created to facilitate and promote this research.
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- Our research specialisms
- Our research events
- Our current research projects
- Staff research interests and supervision areas
- Current PhD students and their thesis topics
- Our MPhil/PhD degree programme
- Law School in the Media
- Centre for Law and the Humanities
Our publications
Our staff publish widely, and are regularly interviewed by the media. They actively support relevant publishing through Birkbeck Law Press; the journal, Law and Critique (Springerlink); and Writer in Residence programme.
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- Staff publications
- Birkbeck School of Law in the media
- Birkbeck Law Press
- Law and Critique
- Online Working Paper Series
- Writer in Residence Programme
Contact us
If you want to talk to us about any of our research activities, or if you are thinking of doing a PhD and want to find out more about potential research supervisors, please contact us:
