Research Culture
The Dickson Poon School of Law’s research culture is committed to the examination of law in all its variety. We have two, mutually supporting and overlapping perspectives, each of which draws upon a classic impulse in legal scholarship to investigate fresh possibilities for the place of law in the communities it serves.
The first perspective, rooted in our long commitment to the philosophy of law, asks what is right and good in global justice, medical ethics, public law and criminal law. The second probes the internal structure of law as it operates in practice, so as to expose the ways in which law fall short of what it promises, particularly in settings such as competition law, banking and commercial law, the laws of property and intellectual property and the law of obligations.
The first of these perspectives explores the ways in which law might be part of the solution, the second explores the ways in which law has become part of the problem. At King’s theoretical enquiry has its feet firmly planted on the ground, while our analysis of legal practice draws upon theoretical and comparative expertise for insights.