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Research Projects    
CITMODES is a British Academy funded project that provides a resource on citizenship acquisition and loss in Europe. It provides significant infrastructural support to the EUDO Citizenship Observatory, within which it is nested.
Friction and Overlap is a 24 month project which will evaluate the relationship between European Union free movement rules and United Kingdom immigration law, with a view to understanding how the relationship between these two systems is evolving.
The Empirical Legal Research Network was established in February 2009 and is convened by Professor Lesley McAra. It has three key functions: to provide a resource bank of methodological skills and legal expertise which can be drawn on by academics, policy-makers and practitioners; ; to facilitate trans-disciplinary research collaboration on topics relating to law in the real world and to disseminate the results of such research; ; to support a range of specialist training and knowledge exchange activities.
The Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN) is led by a team of academics from eight Universities in Scotland. It is a three year project funded jointly by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) as part of the ESRC Quantitative Methods Initiative.
The project "Obtaining, protecting and using essential environmental technologies: a holistic analysis" is led by Dr Abbe Brown, Lecturer in Information Technology Law and Associate, SCRIPT Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the University of Edinburgh. The project has been supported kindly by the British Academy, by SCRIPT and by the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh.

Study of the Legal Framework on Human Rights and the Environment Applicable to European Enterprises Operating Outside the European Union. This study conducted for the European Commission seeks to clarify the existing legal framework for human rights and the environment applicable to European enterprises operating outside the European Union. It will provide a basis for possible measures to further operationalise the UN 'Protect, Respect, Remedy' Framework put forward by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Business and Human Rights, Professor John Ruggie in the European Union and its Member States.

CITSEE - The Europeanisation of Citizenship in the Successor States of the Former Yugoslavia (CITSEE) is a study of the citizenship regimes of the seven successor states of the former Yugoslavia (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia). It is funded by an Advanced Investigator Award for basic research made to Jo Shaw by the European Research Council and runs for five years from 1 April 2009.

ESYTC The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime is a major study of adolescent development and offending in Scotland's capital city.
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