Centre for the Study of Law in Theory and Practice (LTAP)

Description

The Centre for the Study of Law in Theory and Practice provides a central hub for research and collaboration in several broadly defined areas of law across the university, enabling engagement with national and international partners for primary research, knowledge exchange activities, as well as practice-oriented work.

In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework results this Unit of Assessment significantly increased the volume and quality of submitted centre-hosted research from 2014, coming close to the top 50 Law Schools in terms of research power, and demonstrating examples of world-leading and internationally excellent research, as well as internationally recognised work. The Centre works with researchers and research institutions across the globe, and regularly secure funding from a variety of prestigious sources, including European and British funding streams, such as the Economic and Social Research Council and the British Academy.

The Centre hosts a number of research units which are the backbone of this platform for academic research and public engagement in its multiple forms, as well as doctoral and post-doctoral supervision and mentoring.

The research units are:

• Business, Corporate, Banking and Finance Law
• European and Comparative Public Law
• International Law and Human Rights
• Legal Practice

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

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Liverpool John Moores University
Merseyside

Partner Infrastructures

International Law Association (British Branch) (ILA)

The International Law Association was founded in Brussels in 1873. Its objectives, under its Constitution, are "the study, clarification and development of international law, both public and private, … read more about International Law Association (British Branch) (ILA)

London

Society of Legal Scholars (SLS)

The Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) is the learned society for those who teach law in a university or similar institution or who are otherwise engaged in legal scholarship. The SLS has over 2700 mem… read more about Society of Legal Scholars (SLS)

Bristol