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Our PhD in Law aims to train the next generation of legal thinkers, law reformers, policy advisors, political activists, and academics. You’ll benefit from stimulating roundtables seminars, workshops and lectures delivered by distinguished academics, eminent judges and law practitioners.

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What we are researching

  • Artificial intelligence and law
  • Chinese comparative law
  • Criminal law and neuroscience
  • European Union law
  • European Union law and healthcare law
  • Health sciences and law
  • Human rights law
  • International economic law
  • Kantian legal philosophy and other intellectual historical approaches to legal problems, such as terrorism, human rights and refugee law
  • Language and law
  • Mental health law and neuroscience
  • Methodology of intellectual legal history
  • Philosophy of constitutional law
  • Philosophy of contract law
  • Philosophy of criminal law
  • Philosophy of humanitarian law
  • Philosophy of neuroscience and law
  • Philosophy of tort law
  • Philosophy of the World Trade Organization
  • Public international law
  • Roman legal history and private law
  • Rule of law and transnational law
  • Rule of law in China
  • Socio-legal approaches to mental health and law, sex crimes, sentencing
  • Technology and law
  • Terrorism and law
  • The logic of war
  • The nature of law
  • The normativity of law
  • The philosophy of law and economics
  • Topics in international public law, such as state succession

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Studentships

Techne studentship 2024

Funding information:

This competition funded studentship is available to UK and International students. Studentships are awarded on the basis of the academic excellence of both the candidate and the research proposal.Full UK or International fee waiver and stipend at UKRI rates (currently £18,622).
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Expert support

Our Doctoral College supports the academic and professional development of postgraduate researchers to ensure our world-leading research continues to grow. There is also an extensive Researcher Development Programme run at university level.

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What our students say

Read our student profiles to discover first-hand what it's like to study with us.

The skills I have developed and memories I have made will remain with me for the rest of my life. All this is thanks to the people – the teaching and PhD colleagues, supervisors and support staff – and the facilities available that make the campus such a great place to be. Walters Nsoh, Law PhD
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Research news

Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholar 2023, Joel Francis

08 AUG 2023

Student awarded coveted place on Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholarship Scheme

Law graduate, Tom Andrews-Faulkner

31 JUL 2023

Alumnus wins medal for Chartered Institute of Taxation exams

Middle Temple Lane, London

18 JUL 2023

Surrey Law alumni win distinguished barrister training scholarships 

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