Research Centres

• Centre for Environmental Law and Sustainability
  The Centre for Environmental Law and Sustainability is an international centre of excellence for critical scholarship, teaching and public engagement with environmental law, sustainability studies, and interdisciplinary environmental research.
• Centre for Health, Law, and Society
  The Centre for Health, Law, and Society promotes trans-disciplinary and cross-sector perspectives on the impacts of law and governance on physical, mental, and social well-being.
• Human Rights Implementation Centre
  The Centre, based in the Law School, provides an international focus for developing expertise, advice and scholarship on the role of institutions, whether those are at the national, regional or international levels, in the implementation of human rights.
• Centre for Private and Commercial Law
  The Centre for Private and Commercial Law, based in the Law School, is an international centre of excellence for critical scholarship, teaching and public engagement with private and commercial law.
• Centre for Law at Work
  The Centre for Law at Work establishes Bristol as a centre of excellence in the study of law at work. Supported by world-leading academics, the Centre embraces a wide range of methodological approaches and a collaborative research and teaching environment.
• Centre for Law and History Research
  The Centre for Law and History Research highlights the need for historical perspectives in legal scholarship and promotes excellent research into the varied histories of law.
• Centre for Global Law and Innovation
  The Centre for Global Law and Innovation offers outstanding international legal expertise to support innovation, trade and development.
• Centre for International Law
  The Centre for International Law provides an interdisciplinary platform for collaboration, engagement with external institutions, and the dissemination of internationally-recognised research tackling some of the most pressing international challenges of our time.
• Centre for European and Public Law
  The Centre for European and Public Law is an international centre of excellence bringing together leading scholars based in the School of Law. It aims to foster collaboration and excellence in scholarship and teaching as well as provide a platform for public engagement across the broadly defined areas of European and public law.
• Centre for Crime, Law and Society
  The Centre for Crime, Law and Society is a centre of excellence and collaboration in the complex interface between crime, law and society. Uniting internationally recognised expertise and wide-ranging methodological approaches, the Centre promotes scholarly innovation and inspirational teaching.