Research centers at the Faculty of Law

With research units and research centres, the faculty sets institutional priorities in connection with research topics or entire research disciplines. The faculty members thus make an important contribution to the promotion of interfaculty research in the relevant areas of law.

The diversity of these institutions also reflects the broad research spectrum of all faculty members.

The members of all institutes and research centres contribute to providing students with a varied curriculum through lectures, tutorials and publications.

University research centres

Center for Information Technology, Society, and Law (ITSL)

Competence Center Medicine - Ethics - Law Helvetiae (MERH)

Centre for Human Rights (UZHR)

University research focus

URPP Center for Financial Market Regulation (FinReg)

URPP Human Reproduction Reloaded (H2R)

URPP Equality of Opportunity

Faculty institutes and research centres

Center for Animal Law and Ethics (CALE)

Center for Innovation, Risk and Responsiblity (CIRR)

Center for Intellectual Property & Competition Law (CIPCO)

Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Legal Studies (CIMELS)

Center for Legal Data Science (CLDS)

Center for Migration Law and Research Zurich (ZMZ)

Center for Regulation and Contract Law (CRCL)

Centre of Cognitive Science, Ethics and Law (CCSEL)

Institut für Völkerrecht und ausländisches Verfassungsrecht (IVR)

Kriminologisches Institut

Zentrum für liechtensteinisches Recht (ZLR)

Zentrum für Rechtsetzungslehre (ZfR)

Zentrum für rechtsgeschichtliche Forschung (ZrF)

Zentrum für Stiftungsrecht

Zentrum Kunst und Recht (ZKR)

Associated institutes

Europa Institut an der UZH (EIZ)

Zentrum für Demokratie Aarau (ZDA)

Centre for Research on Direct Democracy (c2d) des Zentrums für Demokratie Aarau (ZDA)

Weiterführende Informationen

The Centres of Competence at UZH are scientific networks in which university institutes or parts of institutes coordinate their work under strategic targets. Some of them are joint centres of the University and ETH Zurich.

Centres of Competence at UZH

In order to underpin its position among the world’s leading research institutions, the University of Zurich has established its University Research Priority Programs (URPP). The URPP create and promote interdisciplinary academic networks in selected focal areas and contribute to advancing knowledge in research fields that benefit society.