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We currently do not offer any postgraduate taught programmes.
If you are interested in studying Law at postgraduate level, we recommend reviewing our Postgraduate Research section as a great alternative way to get a postgraduate qualification.
Please see below for the our areas of research focus in this Division.
Or, if you are looking for something specific, visit the full list of research opportunities in our course list.
The Law Division has a research profile that looks both at law as an academic discipline, searching for justice, fairness, clarity and consistency across most areas of human activity, and as a means of interacting with the wider economic, political and social world. In particular, it focusses on the reconciliation of technological developments with societal norms.
Our research portfolio is focused on a range of jurisdictions including Scottish, EU, non-European and Overseas Development Aid countries.
We engage with a range of regional, national and transnational stakeholders to achieve impact, through changes to policy, practice and laws.
Law contributes to the Security, Equality & Social Justice Challenge Space.
Focus is on transnational law enforcement generally, and trafficking in human beings in particular. Post-Brexit, the focus has shifted to the changing legal relationship of the UK/Scotland with the EU in the policy area, and the responses of the UK/Scotland to this changing situation. A particular focus is on trafficking in human beings from a transnational, EU and UK perspective. These are concerns shared not just in the UK but elsewhere in the developed world, and international agreements and co-operation is required to minimise the potential for criminality in this area. Research has resulted in publications, external engagement, knowledge exchange and consultancy. Research outputs include for example, ‘Constructivism, constitutionalism and the EU's area of freedom security and justice post-Lisbon’.
Focus is on in intellectual property (IP) law and its impact on access rights for people with disabilities, medical law, bioethics and reproductive rights, which has led to nascent synergies in the area of ethical reproductive rights and employment law research.
For Job Openings, including Research Fellowships, in our School view the job search section on our website.
For PhD Studentships in any of our Subject areas, check out the Funded research projects and Postgraduate Research Funding sections.