Proposal for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Edinburgh Law School

Please complete all of the following sections. Write succinctly and please do not delete the italicised questions.

Name:

Date:

Proposal Title:

Have you contacted anyone in Edinburgh Law School to discuss your proposal?

☐Yes

☐No

If yes, please list who you have been in contact with:

PATHWAY
Please indicate your PRIMARY field of study
Commercial Law
☐International Banking and Finance Law
☐Company Law
☐Insurance Law
☐International Trade
☐Commercial Arbitration
☐Corporate Governance
☐Debt and Insolvency
☐Private International Law
☐Other Commercial Law / Private Law
☐ General private law; comparative private law
☐ Law of obligations (including contract, delict/tort, unjustified enrichment)
☐ Law of property
☐ Law of trusts or succession
☐ Law of persons or family
☐ Private international law
☐ Tax law
☐ Private law theory
☐ Other Private Law
Criminology
☐Criminal Justice Institutions
☐Youth Crime
☐Theories of crime, harm and justice
☐Policing and Security
☐Surveillance and Security
☐Cybercrime
☐Sociology of punishment
☐Youth justice and policing
☐Penal Politics
☐Other Criminology / Criminal Law
☐Legal responses to organised crime
☐Criminalisation
☐Sexual offending and the law
☐Criminal process
☐Gender and Sexuality
☐Other Criminal Law
Legal Theory
☐Legal decision-making
☐Jurisprudence
☐Other Legal Theory
Public Law
☐Comparative constitutional law and theory
☐Peace agreements and human rights
☐Legal accommodation of national identity
☐Electoral Law
☐Climate change law
☐UK Constitutional law
☐Post-state law and constitutionalism
☐Asylum and immigration law
☐Other Public Law / Legal History
☐Scottish legal history
☐European legal history
☐Eighteenth-century legal studies
☐slavery and law
☐Roman Law
☐Civil Law
☐Other Legal History
EU Law
☐UK devolution and European policy-process
☐EU’s multilevel relations with other legal orders
☐EU and domestic competition law
☐constitutional and administrative law of EU
☐EU free movement
☐EU constitution and institutions
☐EU environmental law
☐Other EU Law / IP, Media and Technology Law
☐Media Law
☐IP Rights
☐Copyright Law
☐Law, science and computer technology
☐Digital media and IT Law
☐Online privacy and surveillance
☐Other IP, Media or Technology Law
Public International Law
☐General international law
☐International environmental law
☐International criminal law
☐History of international law
☐International dispute settlement
☐International law of the sea
☐International human rights law
☐WTO Law
☐Diplomatic Law
☐International investment law
☐Other public international law / Medical Law
☐Medical law and ethics
☐Health research regulation
☐Governance of new technologies
☐Regulation of life sciences
☐Medical jurisprudence
☐Other Medical law
Other (please specify)
If you feel you would benefit from additional supervision outside the department, please indicate in which department you think this would lie:
YOUR PROPOSAL
WORKING TITLE
What title, or title and subtitle, succinctly encapsulates your whole research topic?
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
What are the key questions that drive your research proposal?
CONTEXT OF YOUR RESEARCH (up to 750 words)
What is the theoretical and/or practical context of your research proposal? What problems does your research proposal try to address? How will you position your research in relation to existing research in this field? What are the opportunities to make a significant and original contribution to the field of research?
PROPOSED METHODOLOGY (up to 250 words)
How do you intend to go about your research? Is your research predominantly doctrinal, theoretical, or empirical? What types of sources (primary or secondary) do you intend to employ in your research? Is your proposed research largely desk-based or do you need to engage initially in some form of field research, such as observing and interviewing practitioners or conducting practical experiments?
RESEARCH TRAINING (up to 250 words)
Above and beyond the basic training that we will provide in generic research methods, do you need specialised training in practical and/or theoretical skills in order to carry out your research? For instance, do you need training in methods of qualitative analysis or in the use of digital technologies?
RESOURCES AND IMPLICATIONS (up to 250 words)
Do you need access to specialist literature? Do you need to engage in archival research or field work, and if so where, for how long and at what cost? If you cannot study without a scholarship or bursary, what sources of funding have you identified where you might be successful?
PROVISIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
What, in alphabetical order, are the full bibliographical details of any references you have made above?