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Birkbeck School of Law is a leading international centre for research in critical legal theory and critically informed sociolegal research.

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 Law School is an international leader in the following fields of advanced research:

• Critical Jurisprudence
• Law and Aesthetics
• Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights
• International Economic Law, Justice and Development
• Constitutional Governance
• Critical Criminal Justice
• Law, Gender and Sexuality

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