Private law research
Our research in this area covers many of the main areas of private law from a number of approaches, including theoretical, empirical, historical, comparative, and contextual perspectives.
Doctrinal devices (such as the trust, fiduciary relationships, contracts or tortious liability) have long been the subjects of narrow scholarship in private law. Instead our researchers aim to place these devices within social, economic, political and historical contexts or to view them in the context of colonial, postcolonial and decolonial relations both within the UK and globally. Viewing property or trusts law, for example, within historical context allows us to link them to broader issues of colonial power.
This research is designed to show the effect of private law in wider political governance, in the maintenance of late capitalist economies and to propose new directions in legal thinking and legal relations/associations.
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Our academic staff: Rob Amos, Guido Comparato, Adam Gearey, Piyel Haldar, Stewart Motha, Daniel Monk.
