The University of Bristol Law School has signed a new 1+1 LLM partnership with Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University (SMU) allowing students to gain two LLM degrees from world-renowned law schools.
Law is one of several subjects at the University of Bristol which has been ranked among the top 10 in the UK in the latest Complete University Guide.
The University of Bristol Human Rights Implementation Centre (HRIC) is delighted to welcome Mrs Abiola Idowu-Ojo, Executive Secretary of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), as a Visiting Fellow.
A workshop examining how international law grapples with state responsibility in times of crisis was recently convened by the University of Bristol Law School Human Rights Implementation Centre and the Centre for International Law, with funding a British Academy and Leverhulme Trust Small Grant.
The University of Bristol Law School has signed a new 1+1 LLM partnership with Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University (SMU) allowing students to gain two LLM degrees from world-renowned law schools.
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The University of Bristol Law School is excited to announce a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) - Progression Pathway with Western University Faculty of Law, providing a unique opportunity for students to fast-track their legal education and career prospects in Canada and beyond. The agreement was signed on Tuesday 3rd March 2026 and will remain in effect for five years.
A new report, to be presented to policymakers today, uncovers a huge rise in official reports concerning deaths amongst homeless or precariously housed people in recent years.
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Hannah has been fighting for more than 15 years to help ensure her son receives the mental health care and help he needs.
The Centre for Crime, Law, and Society is pleased to share that a new article by its Director, Clare Torrible, has been published in Policing: An International Journal.
The Centre for Crime, Law, and Society is pleased to share that a new article by its Director, Clare Torrible, has been published in Legal Studies.
In response to numerous reports of various forms of racism, the Law School, through its Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, affirms that racism is unacceptable within the law school environment. As part of that effort, since 2024 we have regularly scheduled a number of activities every year especially in TB2. This is part of the Committee’s commitment to actively identify and oppose racism. These activities focus our attention on ways that racist ideas and actions may implicitly and explicitly be perpetuated in our school – and what we can do to stop them. While these activities are tailored mainly for law school students, all members of the University of Bristol are welcome.
Professor Sarah Green from Bristol Law School has played a pivotal role in the development of groundbreaking legislation that provides certainty of legal recognition for digital assets, marking a major milestone in commercial and property law.
Dr Boyd van Dijk delivers talk at the Human Rights Implementation Centre, jointly the Centre for International Law.
Dr Sylvanna Falcón delivers talk about her work with the Human Rights Investigations Lab - how the Lab came to be and how it operates.
A team of University of Bristol experts are poised to join the 30th United Nations Conference of the Parties, better known as COP30, which starts this week in Brazil and will push forward global climate solutions.
Ramy Abdelhady, a PhD candidate and HRIC administrator, attended the 85th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) in Banjul, The Gambia, which took place from 21 to 30 October 2025.
After 22 years, the University of Bristol has (tearfully) bid Professor Rachel Murray farewell. Professor Murray is leaving Bristol to take up a fantastic position as the Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford.
The University of Bristol Law Clinic, which offers free legal advice to some of the local area’s most vulnerable communities, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this month.
Dr Robert Greally, Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol Law School, has received a Fulbright Scholar Award to carry out research at the New York University School of Law (NYU Law) on one of the most well-regarded and impactful scholarship programmes in the world.
Twenty-seven subjects taught at the University of Bristol are in the top ten of UK universities, according to a new ranking.
Professor Catherine Kelly, Head of the University of Bristol Law School, recently visited New York to celebrate the launch of our partnership with Cardozo School of Law.
An expert report written by the Law School’s Professor Albert Sanchez-Graells sheds light on the way procurement was conducted by the government during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Professor Catherine Kelly, Head of the University of Bristol Law School, has been appointed to the Board of Governors of the International Association of Law Schools (IALS), a collaborative learned society dedicated to serving the worldwide legal education community.
The University of Bristol has risen to 68th place in The Times Higher Education (THE) World Reputation Rankings 2025, with the Law School leaping to 60th place in the THE World University Rankings by Subject 2025.
A national report has uncovered for the first time just how little people in England and Wales know about what the law says when it comes to dividing finances and property on divorce – including divorcees themselves.
A woman who was the first person in her family to go to school has graduated with a master’s in human rights law from the University of Bristol.
As we launch into the new year, we look back at some of the national and global issues the Law School's experts were tackling in 2024. The past year saw our academics being appointed to expert advisory positions, presenting at the UK Supreme Court and international courts, creating policy briefs for better health, hosting international conferences and launching new centres of research excellence.
The University of Bristol Law School is delighted to have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Cardozo School of Law in New York.
The Law School’s Professor Joanne Conaghan has been awarded the prestigious Socio-Legal Studies Association’s Prize for Contributions to the Legal Community in recognition of her outstanding contributions to scholarship and impact on the legal academy.
The Law School’s Professor Rachel Murray was invited to speak at the Justice and Human Rights Committee of the Pan-African Parliament on 6 November 2024, presenting on the development of a Model Law on the implementation of African human rights bodies' decisions.
The Law School’s Professor Paula Giliker was awarded the Legal Academic of the Year Award at the prestigious Next 100 Years’ Inspirational Women in Law Awards this week.
The Law School’s Professors Catherine Kelly and Gwen Seabourne have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of their outstanding contributions to historical scholarship.
Today on World Mental Health Day, Policy Bristol has published a new Research Briefing, ‘How to improve support for Nearest Relatives under the Mental Health Act’, by the Law School’s Judy Laing, Professor of Mental Health Law, Rights and Policy, together with Dr Jeremy Dixon (Cardiff University) and Dr Kevin Stone (University of Warwick).
The Law School is delighted to announce the launch of a new centre of research. The Centre for Crime, Law and Society (CCLAS) is a centre of excellence and collaboration in the complex interface between crime, law and society.
The Law School was delighted to host the 115th conference of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS), held at the University of Bristol on 3-5 September 2024. The conference welcomed an international audience of over 460 delegates.
A new book co-authored by Professor Devyani Prabhat, published by Edward Elgar Publishing, September 2024, examines issues of nationality rights and statelessness, emphasising the vulnerability of children in situations of war, conflict and radicalisation.
The University of Bristol has awarded Law School alumnus Sir Nicholas Mostyn (LLB 1979) an Honorary Degree, Doctor of Laws. Retiring from his position as a British High Court Judge in the Family Division last year, his career, spanning decades, saw him preside over some contentious and groundbreaking cases.
Expert voices from planning, health, government and consultants, including the University of Bristol Law School’s Dr Edward Kirton-Darling, share their insights into using Health Impact Assessments as a force for good in creating healthier new communities.
The Law Commission has published a Scoping Paper on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs). The paper, compiled by the Commercial and Common Law team, led by Commissioner Professor Sarah Green, looks into how DAOs can be characterised and how the law of England and Wales might accommodate them now and in the future. The research seeks to identify current issues around DAOs to inform any future law reform or innovations.
Cambridge University Press has published ‘The Functions of International Adjudication and International Environmental Litigation’ by the Law School’s Dr Joshua Paine. The book offers a timely, in-depth analysis of the law and practices of different international courts and tribunals, and of the key challenges they face in the settlement of environmental disputes.
Foluke Adebisi, Professor of Law at the University of Bristol Law School, was among the finalists celebrated at the prestigious Law Teacher of the Year 2024 awards, held last week at the Oxford University Press Celebrating Excellence in Law Teaching conference.
Melanie Pottle Iddon, PhD Candidate at the Law School, was among the University of Bristol staff thanked for their “brilliance and wonderful teaching” at the 2024 Bristol Teaching Awards.
The Law School's Dr Alice Venn is among three climate change experts from the University of Bristol set to champion inclusivity and ensuring a fair shift to a net zero economy at a major United Nations summit – the Bonn Climate Change Conference in Germany this week.
The Law School’s Professor Albert Sanchez-Graells has been appointed to the National Health Service England’s Independent Patient Choice and Procurement Panel, set up to ensure that procurement processes for healthcare services are transparent, fair and proportionate.
The University of Bristol Law Clinic has been awarded the ‘Best Contribution by a Law School Award’ in the prestigious LawWorks and Attorney General Student Pro Bono Awards 2024. The Awards celebrate the best pro bono activities undertaken by law students and law schools from across the UK, and the positive impact on those assisted.
Oxford University Press has published a new book by Professor of Economic Law Albert Sanchez-Graells. ‘Digital Technologies and Public Procurement: Gatekeeping and Experimentation in Digital Public Governance’ offers an in-depth assessment of public procurement digitalisation, challenging the emerging consensus that procurement is a useful tool of digital regulation - and proposes alternative methods of digital technology regulation.
A veterinary deal with the European Union could increase UK agricultural and food exports by more than a fifth, according to new research co-authored by the Law School’s Dr Greg Messenger and Aston University Centre for Business Prosperity’s Professor Jun Du and Dr Oleksandr Shepotylo.
The Law School’s Professor of Labour Law Alan Bogg appeared in the UK Supreme Court on Wednesday 17 April, as part of UNISON's legal team acting on behalf of a care worker in an important right to strike case.
The University of Bristol Law Clinic has been shortlisted for the ‘Best Contribution by a Law School Award’ in the prestigious LawWorks and Attorney General Student Pro Bono Awards 2024.
Patty Miranda, PhD student at the Law School, was awarded her LLM in Health, Law, and Society (HLS) with distinction in 2022 and received the Prize for Best Performance for achieving the highest marks in her cohort on the HLS pathway. We caught up with her about what sparked her journey into health law, the skills she developed through the LLM and how these have contributed to her current PhD degree, and her advice for students considering postgraduate studies.
The Law School’s Professor Margherita Pieraccini has been appointed to the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) College of Experts group.
The University of Bristol Law School is delighted to announce that our application for an Athena Swan Silver Award has been successful, seeing the Law School become the first non-STEMM School in the University to receive an Athena Swan Silver award.
This week the Law School celebrated student award winners who have achieved excellence in their studies, in a prize-giving ceremony held on Wednesday 14 February.
University of Bristol Law ranked third for legal research in the UK, with a remarkable 93% of its research assessed as world-leading or internationally excellent.
The Law School’s Professor John Coggon has been appointed to a World Health Organization technical advisory group on embedding ethics in health and climate change policy.
The University of Bristol Law School marked its 90th anniversary with a Gala Dinner held at the Wills Memorial Building on 18 November 2023. Following recent receptions in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, this formal event in the Great Hall was a fitting way to close these special celebrations with our alumni community.
The Law School’s Professor Sarah Green, current Commissioner for Commercial and Common Law, was recently recognised at the British Legal Technology Awards 2023, winning the Outstanding Individual Achievement Award. In our Q&A we asked Sarah about what the award means to her, her work at the Law Commission, and her advice for students starting on their journey into Law.
The Law School’s Rachel Murray, Professor of International Human Rights, was awarded the prestigious Economic and Social Research Council Celebrating Impact Prize 2023 at a ceremony held in the Royal Society in London yesterday, 15 November.
High-profile acrimonious divorce cases making news headlines have created the false impression court room showdowns and large financial settlements are commonplace. But a new report, led by the University of Bristol and funded by the Nuffield Foundation, exposes for the first time how most divorcees in England and Wales have surprisingly little to share.
Bristol University Press has published a new book by the Law School’s Professor of Law Joanne Conaghan and Associate Professor in Law and Feminist Theory Yvette Russell.
Dr Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, Associate Professor in the University of Bristol Law School, is among 30 extraordinary researchers, including two from the University, to win a national 2023 Philip Leverhulme Prize for his vital research in the field of international law and armed conflict.
With our International Internship Scholar Scheme (IISS) open until the end of October, we caught up with previous IISS award winner and recent Law graduate Aryan Mandal (LLB 2023). In this Q&A, we talked to Aryan about what the award meant to him, his favourite things about his studies, the extra-curricular activities he participated in and his advice for new law students.
Professor Paula Giliker, Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Bristol Law School, started her tenure as President of the Society of Legal Scholars 2023-24 on 1 October 2023.
UK fee-paying applicants to the September 2024 intake of the University of Bristol’s groundbreaking LLM in Health, Law, and Society are invited to apply to a scholarship scheme that is generously funded by the Wellcome Trust.
The Law School has risen two places in the latest university league table rankings, securing the School’s reputation as one of the leading law schools in the UK.
The Law School is delighted to announce the launch of a new centre of research. The Centre for Environmental Law and Sustainability (CELS) is an international centre of excellence for critical scholarship, teaching and public engagement with environmental law and sustainability research.
Cambridge University Press has published a new monograph by the Law School’s Professor Margherita Pieraccini. ‘Regulating the Sea’ (Cambridge University Press, 2022), the first book written on English marine conservation regulation from a socio-legal perspective, provides an in-depth analysis of key aspects of Marine Protected Areas regulation in England, offering access to an under-investigated field.
For World Youth Skills Day, we caught up with accomplished public speaker McKenzie-Kohl Tuckett, second-year LLB student and the first-ever Bermudian to give a speech at the House of Commons. In this Q&A she shared her thoughts on studying Law at Bristol, being awarded the International Intern Scholar Scheme prize, representing Bermuda's Youth Parliament, and her top tips for confidence in public speaking.
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Catherine Kelly as the incoming Head of the University of Bristol Law School.
Ahead of our Open Days coming up on June 16-17, we caught up with second-year Law student and Chair of the Volunteering and Fundraising Network Toby Ferris, in a Q&A about his law studies, extra-curricular activities and favourite things about Bristol.
Hart Publishing has published a new book by the Law School’s Dr Eleanore Hickman. ‘Diversity, Merit and Power in the C-Suite’ offers an in-depth assessment of the meaning of corporate power - and an essential consideration of how a more balanced distribution of power in the boardroom could and should be advanced.
The Law School’s Professor of Comparative Law, Paula Giliker, was cited in the UK Supreme Court’s recent decision of Trustees of Barry Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses v BXB.
Final-year Undergraduate Law student Lee Ling Chu was recognised for legal work experience undertaken overseas at the Law School’s International Internship Scheme Scholar (IISS) awards earlier this year. We caught up with her in a Q&A about her studies, her extra-curricular activities – including starting a business and entering the New Enterprise Competition – and her favourite things about Bristol.
On 3rd May Professor Rachel Murray delivered a statement on behalf of the Human Rights Implementation Centre to the 75th ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights.
The University of Bristol Law School is delighted to host the 26th British Legal History Conference, which will take place between 3 and 6 July 2024. Submissions are now open for abstracts on the conference theme: 'Insiders and Outsiders in the History of Law'.
The Law School’s Omar Madhloom, together with Marc Johnson (Cardiff Metropolitan University), was awarded The Chris Gale Memorial Prize at the Association of Law Teachers conference last week, 18 April 2023, where they presented their research in collaboration with University of Bristol Law Clinic students Husnaa Haaniyah Mohd Sahid and Shiyun Lee.
The Law School’s Dr Colin Nolden has been awarded £150,000 by the British Academy, through their Net Zero Policy Programme, to lead a 15-month project as Principal Investigator. The project - Implementing effective and just net zero policies (IMPERFECT) - starts on 1 May 2023.
The LawTech Industry Board brings together leading industry experts, practitioners and alumni to join the Law School’s academics in advancing legal tech research and education—two key components of our research-led LLM in Law, Innovation and Technology programme.
The latest QS World University Rankings by Subject have been released, confirming that subjects at the University of Bristol, including Law, are among the very best in the world.
Second-year MA Law student Yenli Nguyen was recognised for legal work experience undertaken overseas at the Law School’s recent International Internship Scheme Scholar (IISS) awards. We caught up with her in a Q&A about the MA and the transferable skills it pushes you to develop, her extra-curricular activities and her favourite things about Bristol. She also has some great advice for new students.
Bristol University Press has published a new book by University of Bristol Law School Associate Professor, Dr Foluke Adebisi. ‘Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility’ provides an essential examination of the meanings of decolonisation and explores how this examination can inform teaching, researching, and practising of law.
Ahead of our Postgraduate Open Day on 22 March, we caught up with recent graduate and winner of the prize for Best Performance in the LLM International Commercial Law, Matias Guarda, as he shared his inspiration for coming to Bristol, what he loved about the city, and his plans for the future.
This International Women’s Day we caught up with feminist activist and Law School alumna Sydney-Anne McAllister (LLB 2020), in a Q&A about her work in the charity sector, founding not-for-profit lobby-protest organisations, and her advice to students just starting their journey into Law at Bristol.
Each year, the University of Bristol recognises alumni who have made remarkable contributions to society through the Alumni Awards. Among the 2023 winners are Law School alumni politician The Rt Hon. the Lord Paul Boateng; international human rights lawyer Ben Emmerson CBE KC; and recent graduate and barrister Raeesa Rajmohamed.
Law students from underrepresented backgrounds will be offered exclusive access to a top UK law firm, Burges Salmon through a new mentoring partnership with the University of Bristol Law School.
This week the Law School celebrated students graduating from our postgraduate programmes, with particular congratulations to our prize winners who attended a ceremony in Bristol on Tuesday 14 February.
The Law School is delighted to announce the launch of a new centre of research. The Centre for Private and Commercial Law (CPCL) is an international centre of excellence for critical scholarship, teaching and public engagement with private and commercial law.
Today the House of Commons and House of Lords Joint Committee, appointed to consider the Government's draft Bill to reform the Mental Health Act 1983, published its report. With years of extensive research in the area of mental health law, policy and human rights, the Law School’s Professor Judy Laing has been active in shaping and responding to the Draft Mental Health Bill, which has important implications for the health and wellbeing of thousands of people in England and Wales.
Written evidence submitted by the Law School’s Dr Philippa Collins, Kit Fotheringham and Professor Albert Sanchez-Graells has been published by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee to its inquiry on 'Governance of artificial intelligence' (AI).
As we launch into the new year, we take a moment to look back at some of the national and global issues the Law School's experts were tackling in 2022 – a year that saw us rank #3 for legal research in the UK (THE analysis of REF 2021). Fighting for reproductive rights, supporting striking workers and responding to an illegal war are just a few examples that illustrate what research in action really looks like. Find out what else our academics were up to in 2022.
The University of Bristol Law School is delighted to announce that Dr Eleanore Hickman is among the first members of the new UK Young Academy – a network of early career researchers and professionals established to help tackle local and global issues and promote meaningful change.
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