International and European Law Projects

At the Sheffield Centre for International and European Law we welcome proposals for joint research projects from other universities.

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Sheffield Centre for International and European Law (SCIEL) encourages collaborative research projects within its membership, and also inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional projects with other disciplines and other universities and organisations.


FemTech Surveillance: Gendered Digital Harms and Regulatory Approaches

Maria Tzanou & Tsachi Keren-Paz

The project was awarded a Leverhulme Research Project Grant funding and commenced on September 2022 for 24 months. It explores regulatory and remedial responses to FemTech surveillance which reflect: (1) the nature of the harm as gendered; (2) harms potentially undermining bodily integrity, in case of FemTech wearables; and (3) surveillance as performed by private, profit-seeking actors. 


Cybersecurity regulation and governance

Professor Nicholas Tsagourias's work focuses on cyberspace and international law with a specific focus on cybersecurity, and the regulation of cyber attacks under the law regulating the use of force and under the law of armed conflict.


Health Governance after Brexit: Law, Language and Legitimacy

Professor Tamara Hervey, from the University of Sheffield’s School of Law, is co-leading a project with Queen’s University Belfast looking at post-Brexit governance in an area that was critical in the referendum debates: health and the NHS.


International Law Textbooks - a Brazilian perspective

Luiza Pereira

Categorised under: Sheffield Centre for International and European Law (SCIEL) 


'THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PROFESSION', in The Oxford Handbook on International Law and the Americas

Luiza Pereira

Categorised under: Sheffield Centre for International and European Law (SCIEL) 


Juri-Policy. Improving Judicial Councils in Europe through Evidenced-Based Policy-Making

Pablo Castillo-Ortiz

Categorised under: Sheffield Centre for International and European Law (SCIEL) and Impact on Society


AUTONOMOUS CYBER CAPABILITIES UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW, NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, 2019-2020

Nicholas Tsagourias, Russell Buchan

Categorised under: Sheffield Centre for International and European Law (SCIEL) 


Protecting Civilian Institutions and Infrastructure from Cyber Operations: Designing International Law and Organizations

Nicholas Tsagourias

Categorised under: Sheffield Centre for International and European Law (SCIEL) 


The Peaceful Settlement of Cyber Disputes

Russell Buchan, Daniel Franchini and Nicholas Tsagourias

Categorised under: Sheffield Centre for International and European Law (SCIEL) and Impact on Society


The Rights to Privacy and Data Protection in Times of Armed Conflict

Russell Buchan and Asaf Lubin

Categorised under: Sheffield Centre for International and European Law (SCIEL) and Impact on Society


Overall assessment of the EU Law of Geographical Indications (October 2018 - September 2021)

Andrea Zappalaglio

Categorised under: Sheffield Centre for International and European Law (SCIEL) 


'Study on the Control and Enforcement Rules for Geographical Indication (GI) protection for non-agricultural products in the EU (January - August 2021)

Andrea Zappalaglio

Categorised under: Sheffield Centre for International and European Law (SCIEL) and Impact on Society


The Changing Character of International Dispute Settlement: Prospects and Challenges

Daniel Franchini


Global Rulemaking and Regionalism in a Post-Neoliberal World Trade System

Rafael Sakr


Project Archive 

The Impact of Brexit on the Protection of Democracy in Europe

Dr. Pablo Castillo is collaborating with Elcano Royal Institute through a Strategic Secondment. He will study the impact of Brexit on the protection of democracy in Europe.

Categorised under: Impact on Society and Sheffield Centre for International and European Law (SCIEL)

Brexit and Legal Education

5 July 2018

One of Tamara Hervey’s current projects is on the effects of Brexit on Law Schools and Legal Education. She will be bringing together leading Legal Education researchers to enable our legal education providers and students are prepared for the future of EU Law.

Doing Law Beyond the State

Doing Law Beyond the State: Research Methodologies in Comparative, EU and Public and Private International Law

What is it we "do" as lawyers, when we are looking at law ‘beyond the state’? Interest in the theoretical foundations of, and disciplinary methods within EU, comparative and international legal scholarship (both public and private) is on the rise. Practitioners and academics alike are pausing to think more about what it is that they take for granted, and what they might be able to do with law if they challenged what was taken as given within their respective (sub-)disciplines.

PRIVWAR

PRIVWAR (FP7)

Launched in January 2008, the project was concluded in August 2011. The project assessed the impact of the increasing use of private military companies and security companies on situations of armed conflict. It examined the regulatory framework at national, European and international levels, with a view to ensuring improved complience with international humanitarian law and human rights. The project was a collaborative research project carried out by a consortium of seven European partners.

Find out more about the PRIV WAR project

Autonomy of International Organisations

Completed in April 2011 this research project aimed to engage with the idea of international organisations as autonomous entities, both in terms of control and influence over their membership and as independent actors in the international legal system.

Global Justice and Sustainable Development

Global Justice and Sustainable Development Conference

This two-day conference considered the role of international law in the achievement of global justice. Hosted by SCIEL it was held on 26 - 27th August 2009 here in association with International Law Association (ILA) The conference was also partially funded by the Modern Law Review.

Legal Research Methodologies

Legal Research Methodologies in European Union and International Law

This was an AHRC funded collaborative doctoral training project aimed at enhancing the methodological understandings and capabilities of PhD students and enabling students to present their work and develop this networks with a wide range of scholars. This project led to a publication that is now available.

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