Edinburgh Law School has an enduring legacy of diverse and world-leading research projects.
The Applied Quantitative Methods Network improved the understanding of UK social issues by providing independent research-based evidence.
The Artificial Intelligence and the International Rule of Law Workshop Series explored fundamental questions about the relationship between international legal obligations and emerging applications of AI that bear upon the laws of war, human rights and refugee law.
The Europeanisation of Citizenship in the Successor States of the Former Yugoslavia (CITSEE) was a study of the citizenship regimes of the seven successor states of the former Yugoslavia (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia).
The Emotional AI in cities project sought to answer how UK and Japanese societies can best live with technologies that sense, profile, learn and interact with people's feelings, emotions and moods.
The 'Ethics review in Scottish universities: how can we do better?' project aimed to investigate the regulatory nature of ethics review in Scottish universities.
This research project was motivated by the concern that law and regulation fail to adequately protect users of ‘femtech’.
This Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship project investigated the often overlooked factors of the emotional life and perceptual judgments of those who are expected to enact law in a time of war.
The project, 'Identity Deception: A Critical History' asked when, if ever, it is appropriate to punish a person who engages in identity deception (pretending to be someone they are not).
The Infrastructuring Democracy project asks how digital infrastructures of democracy might be regulated – and might also shape their own regulation.
The aim of the Legal Transplants project was to explore the political and legislative processes surrounding the development of opt out (or ‘deemed consent’) systems for organ donation in the context of devolution.
Liminal Spaces was a six-year Wellcome-funded project at Edinburgh Law School, which ended in March 2021 and scrutinised regulatory systems that support human health research.
The MobilitySafe project aimed to develop a map-based tool to help individuals navigate cities in times of pandemic and conflict.
The Policing the Pandemic in Scotland project investigated the role of police enforcement in securing compliance with the Health Protection Regulations in Scotland, and the factors associated with non-compliance.
Private International Law and Integrated Markets (PILIM) was a cross-regional research project that aimed to enhance the role and contribution of Private International Law in to market growth and integration.
This aim of the Public Health, Ethics and Law Research Network (PHELN) was to promote cross-disciplinary research in public health, ethics and law in the UK and Ireland.
The Scottish Feminist Judgments Project re-imagined the processes and outcomes of judging from feminist perspectives.
This project 'Smart regulation of antibiotic use in India: Understanding, innovating and improving compliance' sought to better understand the various problems surrounding the regulation of antimicrobial resistance containment in India.
UK-REACH was an interdisciplinary, multi-centre study that aimed to investigate if, how, and why ethnicity affects COVID-19 outcomes in healthcare workers.
Understanding Inequalities was an ESRC-funded project that aimed to provide robust research evidence to help reduce inequalities in Scottish society and beyond.
This project, ‘Vulnerability and justice in global health emergency regulation: developing future ethical models’, looked at crises that affect health and are of international concern.
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