Bracton Centre for Legal History Research (BCLHR)
Description
The Bracton Centre for Legal History Research is a prestigious research centre that specialises in legal history from the Middle Ages to the modern period. The centre conducts original and rigorous research employing both doctrinal and interdisciplinary approaches. It serves as a hub for major funded research projects and encourages postgraduate study in legal history, utilising the excellent research facilities in Exeter and South West England.
The Bracton Centre for Legal History Research also serves as a forum for public lectures, conferences, and seminars that are open to all with an interest in legal history, whether it is their primary focus or background to more contemporary research. The centre aims to engage the local community in the knowledge and relevance of legal history and acts as a valuable resource for scholars, members of the legal profession, judiciary, and local historians interested in the discipline.
The centre's areas of legal history expertise include:
- Comparative legal history
- Comparative legal systems
- Criminal justice
- European courts and legal systems
- French public law
- Legal methodologies
- Marriage, divorce, and bigamy
- Nineteenth-century trusts
- Parents and children
- Social history of the law
- Tax and tax administration
- Tribunals and the administration of justice
Offers funding
No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.
Contact details
Amory Building
Rennes Drive
Exeter
EX4 4RJ
United Kingdom
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University affiliation(s)
University of Exeter
Streatham Campus
Northcote House
Exeter
EX4 4QJ
Last modified:
2023-09-20 15:00:13