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Research degrees in Law

About the PhD programme

All supervisors are qualified members of staff with their own major research projects and publications. Our large and thriving community of postgraduate research students numbers around 120 at any one time.  The School of Law is part of both the LISS and LAHP Doctoral Training Programmes, so can accept applications for both doctoral awards, as well as offering a number of other funding opportunities.

Research Areas

The School of Law can supervise PhD projects in most fields of law. However, the major research activity is broadly defined by the following research groups:
  • Aviation and Shipping Law
  • Banking and Finance Law
  • Competition Law and Policy
  • Criminal Justice Law
  • Economics and Finance
  • Energy and Natural Resources Law
  • Ethics and Equality
  • EU Law
  • Global Law and Governance
  • Human Rights Law
  • Information Technology, Media and Communications Law
  • Insurance and Tax Law
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • International Commercial Law
  • International State Crime
  • Legal Theory and Legal Humanities
  • Public International Law
  • Regulation and Compliance
  • Socio-legal studies

The application process

The PhD programme has one entry point per year, in September.  The deadline for submitting applications is normally at the beginning of June each year.

Before making a formal application to our PhD programme you must identify and contact an academic with research interests related to your proposed area of research to discuss your proposal and gain their agreement to act as your doctoral supervisor.  You can do this by viewing the individual research interests listed on our academic staff page.   As mentioned, you can also find information by viewing our Research Centre pages.

Contact

For more information please contact the PhD Programme Administrator, at: ccls-law-phd@qmul.ac.uk

Further information

Applicants are advised that, prior to making their application, they should view the information provided about the School of Law PhD programme and its application process, entry requirements and application documentation required for entry on the School of Law PhD home-web-page. This web-page also includes a portal to the on-line application system.

Applicants are also welcome to visit the School’s PhD funding information web-page Fees and funding - School of Law.  To be considered for funding, applicants must have organised supervision and submitted their formal application (with supporting documents) by the time of the funding deadline date.

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