The Law Department has decades of experience in applied research in social sciences, in the formation of researchers and in postgraduate training.

The Law Department has around 200 researchers and it also has 13 research groups that aspire to provide legal practitioners with instruments to improve our institutions in favor of greater citizen welfare. The 14 fields of knowledge that have traditionally belonged to the Faculty of Law are represented in these research groups and constitute the main lines of research of the Department.

The scientific research potential of these groups has been recognized through the funding obtained in competitive research calls and has led to an extensive scientific output. The Law Department also has a serious commitment to Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), which essentially focuses on the adoption of the gender perspective, the promotion of open access publications and the opening to the general society of all the activities that it organizes.

Finally, the Law Department has always encouraged the empowerment of human resources. To this end, it promotes highly innovative Master’s programmes with a marked international profile. Likewise, it manages a PhD Programme that was distinguished in 2011 with a Mention towards Excellence by the Ministry of Education and that, in the last five years, has accumulated more than 70 PhD theses.