Research Centres

The Law School is home to a number of very successful research centres. These formalise the research and reputational strengths of the School, attract high-calibre staff and students - and provide a community of scholarship that extends way beyond the walls of the university.

Centre for Environmental Law and Sustainability
The Centre for Environmental Law and Sustainability is an international centre of excellence for critical scholarship, teaching and public engagement with environmental law, sustainability studies, and interdisciplinary environmental research.
Centre for Health, Law, and Society
The Centre for Health, Law, and Society promotes trans-disciplinary and cross-sector perspectives on the impacts of law and governance on physical, mental, and social well-being.
Human Rights Implementation Centre
The Centre, based in the Law School, provides an international focus for developing expertise, advice and scholarship on the role of institutions, whether those are at the national, regional or international levels, in the implementation of human rights.
Centre for Private and Commercial Law
The Centre for Private and Commercial Law, based in the Law School, is an international centre of excellence for critical scholarship, teaching and public engagement with private and commercial law.
Centre for Law at Work
The Centre for Law at Work establishes Bristol as a centre of excellence in the study of law at work. Supported by world-leading academics, the Centre embraces a wide range of methodological approaches and a collaborative research and teaching environment.
Centre for Law and History Research
The Centre for Law and History Research highlights the need for historical perspectives in legal scholarship and promotes excellent research into the varied histories of law.
Centre for Global Law and Innovation
The Centre for Global Law and Innovation offers outstanding international legal expertise to support innovation, trade and development.
Centre for International Law
The Centre for International Law provides an interdisciplinary platform for collaboration, engagement with external institutions, and the dissemination of internationally-recognised research tackling some of the most pressing international challenges of our time.
Centre for European and Public Law
The Centre for European and Public Law is an international centre of excellence bringing together leading scholars based in the School of Law. It aims to foster collaboration and excellence in scholarship and teaching as well as provide a platform for public engagement across the broadly defined areas of European and public law.
Centre for Crime, Law and Society
The Centre for Crime, Law and Society is a centre of excellence and collaboration in the complex interface between crime, law and society. Uniting internationally recognised expertise and wide-ranging methodological approaches, the Centre promotes scholarly innovation and inspirational teaching.

Bristol Socio-Legal Centre
The Bristol Socio-Legal Centre (BSLC) creates a space for the development of scholarship concerning how the law interacts acutely with society, social change, and social justice and for the development of methodological approaches (e.g. empirical, critical, theoretical, doctrinal) to questions of law and society in a range of research areas.