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.

Covid-19 research and engagement

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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.

Research projects

Edinburgh Law School has an outstanding research funding profile with over £12M 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 resources

Edinburgh Law School offers a range of resources, comparative materials and datasets to enable high quality research.

Photograph of Jo Shaw's book, The People in Question

This incisive appraisal is the first sustained treatment of the relationship between citizenship and constitutional law in a comparative and transnational perspective.

The People in Question: Citizens and Constitutions in Uncertain Times

By Jo Shaw