Queen Mary University of London Studentships in Law

The School of Law is offering a number of studentships for the 2011-12 academic year. We are now open to accept new applications for these awards. Please read the instructions below carefully before submitting your funding application and your main PhD application.

The Department of Law is particularly keen to support studentship applications in the following areas:

• Criminal Law & Criminal Justice
• Public Law
• Equality, Diversity and the Law (joint studentship with the Queen Mary Centre for Equality and Diversity).

This specific Studentship is for candidates wishing to develop a PhD of their own devising relating to the overlapping interests of the Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity (CRED) at the School of Business and Management, and the School of Law, which include new developments in equality and diversity legislation, law enforcement, and organisational policy-making, and how they impact on a plethora of organisation stakeholders, including line-management, non-management employees, equality activists, diversity managers, and trade uni0ns; equality and diversity in the legal profession. Read more about the Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity.

The Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) is particularly keen to support studentship applications in the following areas:

• Creative Media & Commercial Law - a joint award offered with the School of Electronic Engineering & Computer Science (EECS). Research should focus on the legal implications of collaborative work in creative media, such as free sharing, open source and user generated content (UGC)
• Risk Assessment & Decision Analysis in the Legal Context – a Joint award offered with the School of EECS. Research should focus on the potential application of models of uncertainty or risk assessment and decision analysis in the legal context, including the areas of dispute resolution, finance and banking, intellectual property, tax and information technology law.
  Read more about the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science.

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