Centre of Law and Society

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The Centre of Law and Society encourages and provides an institutional framework for the support of socio-legal, sociological, theoretical and interdisciplinary research and education.

Closely linked to the Journal of Law and Society and its activities, it aims to enable and raise the profile of high quality socio-legal scholarship and education at Cardiff University.

The Centre promotes and encourages innovative research of international quality focusing on socio-legal, empirical and theoretical analysis of legal institutions and processes and the impact of social, political, economic and scientific influences on law, legal professions and legal activities. It will specifically promote sociological and socio-legal methodology including empirical research methods in legal science.

The Centre maintains strong connections with other schools and faculties within the Cardiff University, with other universities and similar research centres in the United Kingdom and internationally.

The Centre's mission is to build on existing research and cooperate with other Centres within the School in particular to address themes in the fields of:

• sociology and social theory of law
• legal cultures
• legal anthropology
• legal education
• legal professions and ethics
• comparative sociology of criminal justice
• family law
• law and religion
• law and medicine
• law and environment
• law and business regulation
• socio-legal studies of EU integration.

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Cardiff University
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