Goldsmiths, University of London
MPhil/PhD Law
London, United Kingdom
PhD
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: Goldsmiths' MPhil/PhD in Law supports doctoral research on legal phenomena in socio-political, cultural, and economic contexts. It examines disruptive events like new technologies, climate change, shifting geopolitics, and changing domestic and transnational priorities. The programme emphasizes interdisciplinary perspectives, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and public engagement. Located in London at a university ranked 63rd in the UK and among the world’s top 500 universities, it offers a cosmopolitan, close-knit academic environment.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can enter academia, legal research, policy analysis, public law, or NGOs. Training builds expertise in legal theory, socio-legal methods, interdisciplinary research and public engagement, preparing candidates for roles: academic researcher, policy analyst, legal consultant, advocate.
Goldsmiths Law PhD candidates are given outstanding opportunities to explore modern legal phenomena in their rapidly changing socio-political, cultural, and economic context.
This PhD programme focusses on the opportunities and challenges that emerge from disruptive events (such as the expansive use of new technologies or the rising threat of climate change), new political priorities at domestic and trans-national levels, and shifting global Geo-politics. The programme also emphasises interdisciplinary perspectives.
Our forward-looking, cosmopolitan, and distinctive Law department draws on, and has further strengthened, Goldsmiths’ rich heritage of social awareness and engagement, and its unique ability to foster radical, critical, and creative thinking, facilitated by cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaboration.
Goldsmiths is known for its academic strengths in the creative arts, humanities, and social sciences; its unique focus on public and community engagement; the outstanding alumni from every generation of students; and its ground-breaking multi-disciplinary research. Our PhD programme follows this tradition.