Rights and Freedoms Cluster

Description

The Rights and Freedoms research cluster is active in a variety of international, national and local projects producing excellent research.

Members are proud that Royal Holloway’s stunning main campus is located close to Runnymede, where the Magna Carta was signed in 1215. The Magna Carta is recognised as one of the foundation stones of justice and the international rights movements.

Building on this important heritage, the cluster engages in impactful research spanning a number of disciplines. The cluster comprises a mixture of academics from law, criminology, social work and social policy, researching:

• the role law, society and culture play in the creation and protection of personal freedoms and corresponding rights, globally and nationally, from theoretical, doctrinal and critical perspectives;
• access to justice and private law rights in their social context;
• the relationship between law and technology, both in terms of technologies used in support of legal services and the legal framework within which technologies are used, including intellectual property, laws against tech-based violence and digital crimes, and the regulation of drones and surveillance methods;
• human rights, in theoretical and practical perspective, with special focus on select age groups, genders and cultures; and
• foundational and philosophical perspectives on constitutional as well as private law matters.

The Cluster provides a forum for members to exchange ideas, share information and support one another's research through collaboration and peer review.

Currently active

Yes

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2018

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Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham