Edinburgh Centre for Legal Theory (ECLT)

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The Edinburgh Centre for Legal Theory (ECLT) combines an openness to diverse areas and styles of theoretical research with a deeply collegiate atmosphere in which staff, students, and visitors collaborate closely to further both personal and shared research agendas.

The Centre’s research themes are:

• Virtue Jurisprudence
• Legal Reasoning
• Philosophy of Private Law
• Global Law and Global Legal Theory

The ECLT, in close collaboration with the student-run Legal Theory Research Group, organises a series of events, including a dedicated seminar series and the annual Legal Theory Festival.

Within the Law School ECLT retains close ties with various other Centres – in particular, the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law, the Centre for Legal History, the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law and the Europa Institute. Beyond the Law School, members also collaborate intensely with other researchers and research outfits within the University of Edinburgh (such as Eidyn and the Political Theory Research Group) and beyond.

The ECLT is a nodal point of various global research networks in legal theory and legal argumentation and is proud of its role in shaping the future of the field.

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University of Edinburgh
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