There are no prescribed areas of study for a postgraduate degree by research. Any law-based subject will be considered, as long as there are enough members of academic staff who could supervise this topic. Students are supervised by a team of at least two members of staff with expertise in their area and feedback and guidance are regularly provided. Applicants should refer to the research web pages for our research interests. Members of academic staff are pleased to be approached by prospective PhD candidates about the kinds of research they can supervise. For the contact details see here.
Applications are particularly welcomed in commercial law, media law, European and comparative law, and competition law. Students in competition will be invited to join the interdisciplinary ESRC Centre for Competition Policy.
We are also able to support research in most areas of core private law, human rights and constitutional law, employment law, family law, and criminal law. Applicants in family law may be co-supervised by members of the School of Social Work and Psychology involved in the Centre for Research on the Child and the Family. Similarly applicants in discrimination law may be co-supervised by members of the Centre for Diversity and Equality in Careers and Employment Research based in the Norwich Business School.
For the topics and adctivities of our past and current research students see here.
Indicative topics of future research students may, inter alia, be related to the following themes: 'The harmonisation of international commercial law and in particular its reception into, and impact on, national legal systems''; 'The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and in particular its use in practice, and its interpretation by national courts'. 'Laws protecting reputation, in particular the law of defamation'. 'The developing law protecting the misuse of private information and its relationship to / the overlap with the law of defamation'. 'Private enforcement of competition law in different European jurisdictions'. But, of course, potential applicants are also very welcome to suggest their own topics.
