About us

Brunel Law School is home to a vibrant and international research community of scholars who share a clear commitment to legal research.

Our research activity embraces doctrinal, theoretical, critical, contextual, empirical and comparative approaches to the study of law. It reaches from the local to the global, addressing important challenges in domestic law as well as universal legal, economic, and social issues.

The numbers of our staff who have been submitted for research quality assessment has risen rapidly in recent years. Brunel Law School proudly hosts two UN Special Rapporteurs (one former and one active) and several members of staff who advise governments and international organisations. 

The impact of our diversity within the Brunel Law School is evident in the breadth of our research activity, from family law to cultural rights and religious freedoms. We are particularly committed in assisting the development of high quality early career researchers for the legal academy and for the profession. We have, over the past years produced several new scholars from our PhD candidates who, upon completion, have taken up full-time academic positions.