Centre for Law and Society

Established in 2006, the Centre for Law & Society is committed to facilitating and enhancing inter-disciplinary work on issues relating to law and society.

The Centre for Law and Society (CLS) at Lancaster Law School is a collaborative network that provides a platform for interdisciplinary work on our focus Strands of Environmental and Land Law; Healthcare Law; and Technology and Intellectual Property Law. We aim to facilitate cooperation and research amongst specialists in the legal field and from other disciplines to explore issues in Law and Society, focused on these core areas. We are expanding our scope of activities, including seminar hosting and research environment enhancement, including postgraduate researcher support. Please feel free to contact the Centre Director, Dr Megan Rae Blakely with any enquiries.

Strands

Environmental and Land Law

Members of the Environment and Land Law Strand have expertise in the following areas: access to the countryside, regulatory theory, planning law, green crimes, national infrastructure developments, climate change, sentimental attachments to land, co-ownership and cohabitation, and leases. This Strand is also concerned with corporate governance for sustainability and corporate social responsibility. Current projects include research-related policy developments in environmental law and sustainable development goals.

Healthcare Law

The Healthcare Law Strand aims to facilitate and promote scholarship and scientific debate relating to health (broadly interpreted to encompass a diversity of topics including bioethics, mental health and national and international health law and policy). The Strand is committed to supporting collaborative research between academics from a wide range of disciplines, including health economics, history, linguistics, medicine, philosophy, politics, and sociology, as well as law and criminology. We aim to develop projects between multiple academic departments and institutions, as well as with non-academic partners.

Technology and Intellectual Property Law

Members of the Technology and Intellectual Property Law Strand have expertise in areas of law including technology policy related to AI, data protection, and competition. Intellectual property research interests cover copyright, patents, and trademarks, alongside perspectives on social and cultural implications. We are especially interested in contemporary developments in this area and interdisciplinary approaches to and collaborations on these subjects.

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Projects

Impact of Changes to Dishonesty Test on the Cartel Offence
01/01/2018 → …
Research

OUP Public Law Teaching Related Outputs
01/10/2017 → …
Other

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Sustaining Peace: Developing New Insights into Peacebuilding
01/12/2016 → 31/10/2018
Research

Essential Cases: Public Law
03/10/2016 → 03/10/2017
Other

Evaluation on the application of Directive 79/7/EEC on the progressive implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security
18/01/2016 → 07/04/2016
Other

Hacktivism and the State
21/10/2015 → 17/10/2017
Other

OUP Public Law Updates
01/10/2015 → …
Other

Funded by the FASS Faculty Research Fund: The Power of Images: photography, law and the East German political trials
07/09/2015 → …
Research

Grass Roots Opinions Matter: Exploring the Attitudes, Challenges and Obstacles to the use of Economic and Social Rights as a Tool for Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland
28/06/2015 → …
Research

Funded by the Law School's Research Seed-Corn Fund: The Power of Images: photography, law and the Albanian and Polish political trials
04/05/2015 → …
Research

The Power of Images: law, aesthetics and memory regimes
02/05/2015 → …
Other

The Potentials of the SDGs and post-2015 Agenda for Implementing the Right to Development
01/05/2015 → 30/09/2015
Other

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Conflict Transformation
01/04/2015 → …
Other

Challenges to the Implementation of Economic and Social Rights in Times of Austerity
01/03/2015 → 01/01/2016
Other

The Co-production of Weapons & Law
01/03/2015 → 01/03/2016
Other

Understanding Human Rights Obligations of States Engaged in Public Activity Overseas: the Case of Transnational Education.
01/08/2014 → 01/11/2015
Other

The ENIGMA Project
10/07/2014 → …
Other

Lancaster University Knowledge Exchange Fellowship: Discrimination Issues in SME's
12/05/2014 → 31/07/2015
Other

Digital Lancaster
01/01/2014 → …
Other

FIRB: Mixture and latent variable model for causal inference and analysis of socio-economic data
01/10/2013 → 30/09/2016
Research

Future of International Law and Cyber Warfare (Funded by SECURITY FUTURES)
17/07/2013 → 19/07/2013
Research

Project MAYHEM
02/07/2013 → 02/07/2013
Other

In Search of Musine Kokalari: history, memory and law
21/04/2013 → …
Research

ESRC centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science - CASS
31/03/2013 → 30/03/2018
Research

Human rights and boundaries
01/03/2013 → …
Research

Tackling child sexual exploitation: Offences and victims
01/02/2013 → 31/12/2013
Research

New technology and tort
05/12/2012 → …
Other

Funded by FASS Research Fund: Transitional Criminal Justice Measures in Albania
01/10/2012 → 31/05/2013
Research

Monograph International Child Relocation Law: Competing Interests; Competing Human Rights
30/07/2012 → 31/12/2013
Other

Cyberterrorism, cyberwarfare and international law
05/07/2012 → …
Other

Lawfulness of Scottish Minimum Alcohol Pricing
01/03/2012 → …
Research

New models and analyses for social networks and criminological careers
01/03/2012 → 31/12/2016
Research

Analysing BCS and SCJS data on equality, good relations and human rights.
06/02/2012 → 30/03/2012
Research

fEC Code - Criminal Careers Within Organised Crime
01/02/2012 → …
Research

Exploitation in the doctor-patient relationship
01/11/2011 → 31/07/2021
Other

Maladministration of Justice
28/09/2011 → …
Research

Alcohol Related Deaths in North Lancashire (Confidential Inquiries Audit)
17/09/2011 → 14/09/2012
Research

Battlegrounds of Memory and Justice
01/09/2011 → 28/02/2015
Research

SANDPIT: Disruption: the raw material for low carbon Change
01/09/2011 → 31/08/2014
Research

Law and Systems Theory Network
02/05/2011 → 02/05/2014
Research

Closing the door on Veteran Impunity
21/03/2011 → 20/03/2012
Research

Rehabilitation of targeted/hate crime offenders research dissemination
21/03/2011 → 31/03/2011
Research

The development of a toolkit to measure social and economic impact of new casinos in the local areas respective to each of the 16 local authorities represented in the C.A.S.I.N.O Network
10/03/2011 → 25/11/2011
Research

Secondary analysis of the British crime survey to inform EHRC paper on harassment
02/02/2011 → 30/11/2011
Research

De-Communisation Measures in Poland
01/11/2010 → 30/11/2010
Research

Prevent - community projects
06/01/2010 → 31/03/2011
Research

Criminalisation of Cartels
02/02/2009 → …
Other

Conceptualising the professions in the 21st century
01/01/2009 → 30/04/2009
Research

Professional education, global professional service firms and the cultures of professional work in europe
01/12/2008 → 28/02/2010
Research

Social Impact Assessment - Blackpool Super Casino
01/05/2008 → 01/11/2008
Research

The Impact of the Criminal Process on Health Care Ethics and Practice
01/01/2008 → 31/07/2011
Other

Universal Human Rights in Practice
01/10/2007 → 31/12/2010
Other

Vulnerable Households Multi-Intervention Project
14/09/2007 → 22/08/2008
Research

Offender Problem Gambling Reduction Programme
08/09/2007 → 13/08/2008
Research

The experience of complainants in rape trials
01/09/2007 → …
Other

Paradise of Knaces? Commercial fraud in Britain 1825-1914
01/08/2007 → 31/03/2008
Research

Changing Trax Pilot (Newcastle)
10/07/2007 → 14/08/2008
Research

Daring to Damage
01/12/2006 → 01/05/2007
Research

Enterprise Gateway - an evaluation of a social enterprise project for young offenders.
01/11/2006 → 01/09/2008
Research

Barrow-in-Furness Social Enterprise Network
01/09/2006 → 01/03/2008
Research

Developing a shared assessment framework for the commissioning of learning disability services
16/08/2006 → 10/08/2007
Research

Scoping Study for a UK Gambling Act, 2005 Impact Assessment Framework
16/08/2006 → 19/04/2007
Research

Evaluation of SHCF Programme
07/08/2006 → 14/03/2007
Research

Child Pornography and Sexual Grooming: Legal and Societal Responses
01/05/2006 → 31/12/2009
Other

Drug Related Deaths and Near Misses (Confidential Inquiries Audit)
23/09/2005 → 14/08/2015
Research

Youth Inclusion and Support Panel (YISP) - evaluation
05/09/2005 → 31/10/2008
Research

Evaluation of Children' Fund Projects
19/08/2005 → 13/08/2009
Research

Evaluation of Special Studies Projects
12/08/2005 → 17/04/2008
Research

An Evaluation of the Use of Lay Assessors in Social Care Inspection.
01/08/2005 → 31/12/2006
Research

Implied Terms
01/08/2005 → …
Other

Outlook - an evaluation of a substance misuse service.
01/04/2005 → 31/12/2008
Research

Active Living for All - ALFA - an evaluation.
01/04/2004 → 31/12/2004
Research

Evaluation of Children's Fund Projects - Blackburn with Darwen
01/04/2004 → 31/12/2008
Research

National Reassurance Policing Programme - a local, in-depth evaluation of a national programme.
01/04/2004 → 31/12/2006
Research

Barrow (in Furness) Multicultural Centre.
01/04/2003 → 31/03/2004
Research

Evaluation of Ribbleton Sure Start (Preston) Provision.
01/04/2003 → 31/12/2008
Research

Evaluation of the Fishwick and St Matthews (Preston) Sure Start Provision
01/04/2003 → 31/12/2008
Research

National Evaluation of the Millennium Awards
01/04/2003 → 01/11/2003
Research

National Evaluation of the Learning Alliance Programme.
03/06/2002 → 31/05/2003
Research

Racism among the under 25s in Pennine Division.
01/04/2002 → 31/01/2003
Research

Evaluation of the Cognative Behavioural Programme MOVES
03/04/2000 → 31/03/2002
Research

Blackpool Bail Support scheme - an evaluation
15/12/1999 → 01/12/2002
Research

Evaluation of the Persistent Young Offenders Programme in Manchester and Bury.
15/12/1999 → 31/12/2002
Research

Review of the current support, care and treatment surrounding alcohol dependency in Blackpool
15/12/1999 → 31/12/2000
Research