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Law

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Our research spans a range of law areas including the relationship between law, policy and society. Other specialisms include insurance, maritime and commercial law and the legal issues around equality and discrimination.

Research highlights

A blue tent in a dark forest

Homelessness in the countryside: a hidden crisis

Future societies and communities
Health and wellbeing
Southampton research is helping uncover a hidden homelessness crisis in rural England.

Enriching public understanding and interest in the Law

Culture and creativity
Future societies and communities
Interdisciplinary approaches to law, through humanities and the arts.
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Making sense of data legislation

Digital
Future societies and communities
Southampton IT law expert helps organisations comply with data protection regulations while finding ways to innovate with anonymisation.
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Helping families affected by Imprisonment for Public Protection sentencing

Future societies and communities
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Research institutes, centres and groups

Centre for Global Constitutionalism

We explore the global constitutional triad of human rights, democracy and the rule of law as the basic principles of international politics.

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