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Edinburgh Law School ranked 3rd in the UK by Research Professional

Fri 20 May 2022

3rd in the UK: We harness legal, sociolegal and criminological research to realise a more just and equitable society.

Edinburgh Law School has been ranked 3rd in the UK by Research Professional for the breadth and quality of its research as part of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the UK's system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions, and is undertaken approximately every 6 – 7 years.

Read more about the Law Top Ten on Research Professional

Edinburgh Law School deeply values the remarkable range of ideas and influences that a research community of our scale produces; not least through collaboration with researchers and research users, and through service to the discipline and wider society.

This ethos underpinned the entirety of our REF2021 submission and, as a result, we are delighted that Edinburgh Law School has proven its extraordinary strength in every area of assessment – from our research environment to our research outputs to the difference that we make in the world.

Learn more about Edinburgh Law School's REF2021 submission

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