Law & Government

The School of Law and Government has a highly ambitious research agenda. Most but, far from all, of our work is within the fields of law and society, international relations and comparative politics.  Fellow academics are the primary audience for much of our work, but we are also very active in policy research and advocacy for government and civil society. As you can see from our Staff Publications Page, we regularly publish in world-leading refereed journals, as well as turning out scholarly monographs and publishing in a plethora of other forms.

Much of our recent research is readily available through the DCU Online Research Access Service. Specific research interests, curricula vitae, datasets and a variety of other information can be found on the pages of individual staff members.  We are proud of the close supervision we give to research students, both as traditional PhD students in law and as part of our Structured PhD in Politics and International Relations.  The Centre for International Studies operates in close partnership with the School, especially in relation to research projects funded from outside the University. The School also hosts the Socio-Legal Research Centre which engages in empirical and theoretical research on both national and international levels.