Bracton Centre for Legal History Research (BCLHR)

Description

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.

Currently active

Yes

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2015

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University of Exeter
Exeter