Welcome

Welcome to the Centre for Legislative Studies, a research centre based at the University of Hull in the United Kingdom.

Our mission

To be an active and world-class centre of academic excellence at the forefront of research, publication and education about legislatures.

Our history

The Centre was founded in 1992. We act as a catalyst for international and inter-disciplinary research in the field of Legislative Studies, by bringing together world-class scholars with legislative specialists and legislators from across the globe.

Our activity

We offer a number of acclaimed undergraduate courses and postgraduate research. We also facilitate the latest country-specific and internationally-comparative research and disseminate the findings to the scholarly community and practitioners through a programme of international conferences, graduate workshops, seminars, publications and an international, refereed quarterly journal - The Journal of Legislative Studies.