Research projects

Our staff are currently investigating the following areas:

Dates: 2009-2011
Funded by: British Academy Research Development Award
Awarded to: Dr Amanda Perry-Kessaris
Description: A combination of independent study, taught study and writing focused on the following questions: What values and interests are central to, and privileged by, the theory and practice of development economics? How does development economics address law, positively and normatively? What effect does the economic approach to law and development have upon law’s ability to act as a communal resource?

The EHRAC project was founded six years ago by Professor Bill Bowring and has contributed £6,000 a year to the Law School since 2006 in consideration of his work for the project.

Awarded to: Dr Adam Gearey
Funded by: British Academy Research Grant
Description: This projects concerns establishing links between forms of radical legal thought in the United States and post colonial and radical currents in European and African philosophy and activism in the period between 1900-1960.
Outputs: Papers on WEB Dubois and Kwame Nkrumah; the context of CLS in international student radicalism; a book on materialist theories of justice.

The Open Society Institute AFP has granted funds to Professor Bill Bowring to provide teaching, supervision, curriculum review and library development over two years at Ukraine’s top university, the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. The grant commenced in October 2008.

Funded by: HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) Joint Research Programme
Awarded to: Professor Fiona Macmillan
Description: Professor Macmillan's research project will form part of an interdisciplinary collaborative Research Project: Copyrighting Creativity: Creative Values, Cultural Heritage Institutions and Systems of Intellectual Property, led by Professor Helle Porsdam of the University of Copenhagen).
Start date: March 2010 (for three years)

Funded by: World Health Organization (Europe) and AIDS Action Europe
Awarded to: Dr Matthew Weait
Description: This pilot project involves an evaluation of the communicable disease legislation of seven European countries (France, Hungary, Switzerland, Sweden, UK, Ukraine and The Netherlands). The data gathered is being subjected to a human rights audit. The draft report is being presented at a meeting in Stockholm in November 2009 and it is hoped that this will lead to a more comprehensive survey.

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