Overview

About the programme

This international doctoral programme in Law and Social Change Birkbeck, University of London aims at studying and better understanding the impact of social changes arising from the increasing exposure of national legal systems to transnational influences.

The main focus of the programme is on the governance of transnational markets and on the interplay between transnational regulation and European law. Increases in global trade and investment flows, the opening of new markets, the development of new technologies (in particular ICTs and biotechnologies), have led in many areas to significant shifts in the axis of regulation: from the domestic to the transnational; from the public to the private; from the formal to the informal.

Such developments in the regulatory arena raise a set of important questions, which deserve careful analysis. They may be grouped along two major dimensions: (a) phenomenology, features, and consequences of transnational private and public regulation; and (b) impact of transnational regulation on national legal systems.

Programme Structure

Research areas include:

Access to law
Company law
Constitutional theory and national identity
Criminal justice
Criminology
European law
Feminist legal theory
Human rights
Insurance law
Intellectual property
International economic law
International refugee law
Legal aesthetics
Legal history
Legal theory
Medical law and ethics
Postcolonial theory
Public law
Socio-legal studies

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months
Part-time
- 84 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2025-09-30 00:00:00
- Apply before 2025-08-15 00:00:00
Starting 2026-01-13 00:00:00
- Apply before 2025-11-15 00:00:00

Language

English

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Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

London, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Legal Studies Social Policy View 44 other PhDs in Legal Studies in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Entry requirements:

Good honours degree in law.

You will have to find a potential supervisor for your PhD research and prepare a research proposal.

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Accidents
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Tuition Fee

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International

14885 GBP/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 14885 GBP per year during 48 months.
National

4786 GBP/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 4786 GBP per year during 48 months.

Living costs for London

1137 - 2157 GBP /month

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