Research

Research

Edinburgh Law School is Scotland’s leading legal research institution and has a reputation for research excellence in the United Kingdom, Europe and across the globe. Edinburgh Law School is committed to providing a creative, dynamic, diverse and inclusive research environment for researchers and students, and to producing world-leading research that contributes to scholarship and the wider community.

Current research themes

Cutting across the main research areas and centres at Edinburgh Law School is a series of research themes that represent our distinctive strengths and connect scholars at all career stages.

Research areas

Edinburgh Law School's research areas reflect the diverse and vibrant range of our interests and expertise, encompassing a broad spectrum of law, socio-legal studies, criminology and methodological approaches.

Research centres and networks

Edinburgh Law School's institutes, centres and networks act as hubs for researchers and students to engage on important areas of legal and socio-legal scholarship and play a key role in developing new collaborative and interdisciplinary projects.

Stacks of books by Edinburgh Law School scholars

Research projects

Edinburgh Law School has an outstanding research funding profile with over £20M awarded for a range of fellowships and projects over the last five years.

Impact and engagement

Edinburgh Law School produces world-leading impactful research that makes a difference both locally and globally.

Research opportunities

Edinburgh Law School is one of the largest communities of legal scholars in Europe and offers a range of opportunities for outstanding researchers at all stages of their career.

Research ethics and research resources

Edinburgh Law School promotes the values underpinning the open research agenda, progressing rigour and transparency as well as the availability and re-usability of our methods, data, findings and outputs.

Emily Postan's book in the Old College Quad

This book establishes the ethical imperative to take seriously the potential impacts on our identities of encountering bioinformation about ourselves.

Embodied Narratives: Protecting Interests through Ethical Governance of Bioinformation

By Emily Postan