The Law School's research has impact in numerous policy areas. Members of faculty proactively engage with end users at an early stage of their research, in order to produce internationally excellent and world leading collaborative research grounded in practical application, and the needs of, for example, government departments and industry bodies.

The ESRC funded Centre for Competition Policy organises responses to consultations by public bodies such as OfCom, OFT, BIS, HM Treasury, European Commission and the UK Competition Commission. Members of CCP have presented findings to organisations such as the OFT, Competition Commission and HM Treasury. Other collaborations include Monitor, Which!, Ofwat, Ofgem and the Legal Services Board. Senior members of the BBC, Centre on Regulation in Europe, Consumer Focus, the African Forum for Utility Regulators, and the Competition Commission of South Africa have all visited the Centre.

The Centre for Creativity, Regulation, Enterprise & Technology (CREATe) is an RCUK research centre focussing on copyright and new business models in the creative economy. Numerous industry and charity partners including Google, Hewlett Packard, the FA Premier League, PRS for Music, TATE, BBC Research, Creative England, Consumer Focus and Creative Commons were consulted in the development of the multidisciplinary centre which links research across UEA in with a consortium of seven universities.

The following examples highlight some of the impact of our research.

In Competition Law the work of Andreas Stephan has been instrumental in shaping UK and Australian government policy to the inclusion of a dishonesty element in the cartel offence. His research suggests that there should be no such element as it tends to dissuade juries from conviction – the dishonesty element has been dropped from the Australian and UK proposals.

In media law, Professor Alastair Mullis' work on defamation has been instrumental in shaping the debate about and around the Defamation Bill; he was for example cited extensively by the Joint Select Committee on Defamation in 2011 which took up many of his suggestions concerning the single publication rule, and remedies of public corrections and apology which the Joint Committee felt might be the remedy most valued by a claimant.

In public law, Professor David Mead's work on protest and peaceful demonstrations, particularly his book, The New Law of Public Protest has been referenced and used extensively in the Joint Committee on Human Rights' Report Demonstrating Respect for Rights - A Human Rights Approach to Policing Protest in the 2008/9 Parliamentary session and the OSCE/ODIHR Venice Guidelines on Peaceful Assembly.

Several members of the School have been cited in higher courts in the UK and abroad eg, Dr Stathis Banakas (British Columbia v Zastowny [2008] 1 SCR 27 (Canada), Gray v Thames Trains [2009] UKHL 33 (England)); Professor Alastair Mullis, (Flood v Times Newspapers [2012] UKSC 11 (England), Citation Plc v Ellis Whittam Ltd [2012] EWHC 549 (England), Adelson v Anderson  [2011] EWHC 2497 (England), KJO v XIM [2011] EWHC 1768 (England) and CTB v Newsgroup Newspapers [2011] EWHC 1232(England)); Professor Rosemary Pattenden (Kissel v HKSAR [2010] 2 HKC 367; Kissel v Hong Kong [2010] HKCU 355 (Hong Kong)), and Professor Chris Wadlow (Novelty Pte Ltd v Amanresorts [2009] SGCA 13 (Singapore)).