Bracton Centre for Legal History Research (BCLHR)

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Established as a beacon for internationally excellent legal history scholarship, the work of the Bracton Centre for Legal History Research spans the last five centuries and employing doctrinal, theoretical, comparative, socio-legal and interdisciplinary approaches. It is a hub for major funded research projects, a centre for postgraduate study encouraging use of the excellent facilities for legal history research in Exeter and South West England, and a forum for public lectures, conferences and seminars open to all sharing an interest in legal history.

The centre's areas of legal history expertise include:

·       Criminal law and criminal justice;

·       Family law, with a focus on marriage, divorce, cohabitation;

·       Tax law and administration;

·       Comparative legal history and comparative legal systems, including Scots law and French law;

·       Critical legal history and legal/political theory.

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University of Exeter
Exeter