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Law Research
|MPhil/PhD
|Full Time
RESEARCH PROFILE
- Current number of academic staff: 60 full time members of academic staff, including 33 Professors and other visiting academics. Teaching is also supported by part-time tutors
- Current number of Graduate research students: 100
- Recent publications: • The Right to Damages in European Law. • Rights, Regulation and the Technological Revolution. • Commercial Confidences after the Human Rights Act. • Coercion to Compromise: Plea Bargaining, the Courts and the Making of Political Authority. • From Law to the Beautiful Soul
- Current research projects: • Artists' Rights, Public Interests and the Law: Resolving the Public Art Dilemma in the United Kingdom and the United States (funded by ORSAS and the School of Law) • Peace and Unquiet: The Pursuit of Peace and Justice in Sierra Leone (funded by ORSAS and Modern law Review). • Doing Right in Difficult Settings: the Management of Moral Quandaries in Medical Leadership Roles (Wellcome Trust funded). • The European Union Rule of Law in the 'War on Terrorism' (funded by AHRC). • Settling antitrust investigations with the European Commission: the protection of fundamental rights vs. administrative efficiency and settlement procedures (funded Centre of European Law)
- International recognition: The diversity and excellence of the School's research is recognised internationally both within and outside the academic world and staff have been involved with a wide range of international and national projects.
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Dr Cian Murphy
Duration
MPhil: two years full-time; PhD: three years full-time. Students are expected to enrol in September/October when the College offers a full induction programme but January enrolment may be permitted for this programme in exceptional circumstances.
Location
Strand Campus.
Student destinations
Graduates commonly take up academic careers. Others return to legal practice with a greater ability to specialise or they may enter management and the public sector.
Year of entry 2012
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