Law and Society Research Group
The Law in Society research group encompasses various areas of legal and criminological research which deal with the establishment of law, the application and upholding of the relevant legal principles within the context of justice, society and commerce as well as the development of law in the future.
Research to-date by group members has included publications in the fields of: information law, in particular the data protection and freedom of information; heritage preservation and management, including the restitution of works of art taken during the Holocaust and the repatriation of human remains from museum collections; psychological issues in the criminal justice process, specialising in the interviewing of suspects by non-police agencies; comparative law, in particular the concept of convergence; mental health law; with a focus on mental capacity and the role of legal education.
Types of research we do:
- Comparative Law
- Law Reform
- Legal Sociology
- Banking Law (Negotiable Instruments, Letters of Credit)
- Company Law and Insolvency
- Intellectual Property Law
- National and International Commercial Arbitration
- Interviewing of suspects of crime
- Interviewing witnesses
- Victims of sexual violence.
We're commissioned to undertake significant legal and criminological research to underpin major initiatives in the legal sector.
