Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law

The Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law promotes research and teaching of the highest standard in the fields of international shipping and trade law; and also fosters co-operation with other academic institutions and professional, commercial, shipping, insurance and business information organisations. Beyond supporting the expansive taught LLM programmes in International Shipping and Trade Law offered by the School of Law and supervising research students, the Institute organises seminars and conferences, offers consultancy services and training programmes for lawyers and commercial, insurance and financial institutions, and the shipping industry. It also liaises with national and international policy making organisations and collaborates with commercial information organisations in putting on courses and distance learning programmes.

Centre for Environmental and Energy Law and Policy

The  Centre for Environmental and Energy Law and Policy (CEELP) promotes excellence in research and teaching in environmental and energy law. CEELP is affiliated to the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, and is part of the C3W Climate Change Research Consortium for Wales, a collaborative multidisciplinary initiative involving Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff and Swansea Universities, supported by the Reconfiguration and Collaboration Fund of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW).

Centre members welcome applications from potential research students across the broad range of environmental energy and sustainability law to join our growing community of scholars. In addition, CEELP further seeks to foster links in its areas of expertise between academia and local and national governments, the community, industry and the professions.

Centre for Criminal Justice and Criminology

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Criminology is a focus for criminological research and teaching in the School of Law and for collaboration with other Schools, Universities and other partners.  It promotes, conducts and disseminates criminal justice and criminological research of international significance in Wales and other member States of the European Community utilizing an inter-disciplinary and intercollegiate approach.  Particular research interests include: offender rehabilitation; crime prevention; youth justice; anti-social behaviour; sex work and sex offenders; children’s rights; corporate regulation; and devolution.  The Centre has an active community of postgraduate research students, and welcomes enquiries from potential applicants.

Hywel Dda Institute – Sefydliad Hywel Dda

The Hywel Dda Institute provides leadership, direction, coordination and visibility for research within the School which falls under the broad heading of ‘Legal Wales’. With a commitment to interdisciplinary and cross-institutional research, its intellectual remit includes constitutional law and devolution, the statutory output of the National Assembly of Wales within its fields of competence, bilingualism and language rights, law and policy, legal history, the application of international, European and UK domestic law in Wales. Its mission is to contribute to the maintenance and development of Legal Wales by promoting and facilitating research and scholarship which reaches levels of excellence measured against the highest international standards.

Prif swyddogaeth Sefydliad Hywel Dda yw hyrwyddo ymchwil ac iddo ragoriaeth ryngwladol sydd yn ymwneud â dimensiwn Cymreig y gyfraith, a thrwy hynny gyfrannu tuag at gynnal a datblygu ‘Cymru’r Gyfraith’. Bydd gan y Sefydliad rôl arbennig wrth ddatblygu ysgolheictod cyfrwng-Cymraeg o fewn Prifysgol Abertawe ac yn genedlaethol.

Richard Price Centre   

The Richard Price Centre for the Study of International and European Law is one of flagship University Research Centres within the School of Law. The Centre deals with public international law, European Union law, international commercial law and comparative law as well as the legal theory and international relations theory pertaining to these areas. It focuses on innovative and original approaches that illuminate these areas within the context of globalisation. The Centre operates as a research forum, ensuring exchange between its members leading to high quality publications, running innovative academic events, and attracting visiting scholars and postgraduate research students.  The Centre cooperates closely with the Welsh Centre for International Affairs (located in the Temple of Peace, Cardiff), and is currently engaged, in  a consortium formed by the universities of Aberystwyth, Bristol, Cardiff, and Swansea and the WCIA, to set up the Welsh Forum of International Law and Policy.