LHub's Law and the Humanities Infrastructure Map

About the Map

This interactive map allows users to explore various collaborative research infrastructures related to Law and the Humanities across the UK. Use the filters on the left to refine your search and uncover new intersections across disciplines.

The map is meant to be a tool that comprehensively shows the scope, spread, and interconnections of infrastructures shaping the Law and the Humanities research landscape, but it is not exhaustive. Rather, we see it as a launchpad, a starting point. It is maintained by the community, and it is for the community: a shared resource to support visibility, collaboration, and advocacy across institutions and initiatives.

💡 Whether you’re a researcher, policymaker, student, or simply curious — this map is here to help you navigate the growing field of Law and the Humanities research.

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The map keeps growing: Our Law dataset has expanded by around 18% since launch (from 796 to 940 infrastructures) and the community has contributed more than 700 keywords describing what each one really works on. Explore them in the new Keyword word cloud and filters! June 29, 2026
New ways to explore the map: We’ve added three new tools — interactive Project Tag & Keyword word clouds (click any word to see exactly where it appears), a browsable infrastructure list with an on-the-map / not-on-the-map toggle, and a new “Type” filter (Centre, Group, Institute, Network…). Everything updates together as you filter. June 26, 2026
The Law and the Humanities Map at the British Legal History Conference! The LHub and MAHP teams are heading to the 27th British Legal History Conference at the University of Nottingham (1–4 July 2026), this year themed “Law and Governance”, where we’ll be demoing the map live at our stand — come and explore it with us! July 1–4, 2026
Law and the Humanities Map at SLSA 2026: The LHub and MAHP teams are at the Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference at the University of Sussex until 1st April. We'll be exploring the resource with researchers and delegates — come say hello and help us shape what the map becomes next! March 30, 2026
New Blog and Podcast Series: Dive into "Law and the Humanities in Practice: Voices from the Sector" a new series spotlighting the expanding conversations between legal scholars and the wider humanities. December 17, 2025
New Law Entanglement Slider: We’ve recently introduced a new slider to sit alongside the existing humanities entanglement slider, helping reflect the degrees of thematic involvement.
New Project Tag Added: Following community discussions, we’ve also added “Critical legal studies” as a project tag to improve the visibility of work in this important area.

IDENTIFYING ACTIVE AND INACTIVE INFRASTRUCTURES: We're adding filters to distinguish between active and inactive infrastructures. This will improve searchability and help trace the legacies of long-running initiatives -- it's a living archive!
BEYOND ACADEMIA: Soon you'll see enhanced visibility of non-academic collaborations, reflecting the vital role of charities, community partners, NGOs, and the GLAM sector.

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* Some infrastructures aren’t tied to a physical location and won’t appear on the map — but they’re still included in our visualisations and in the relationship network.

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Data Visualisations

Tag & Keyword Clouds

Which subjects appear most — and least — alongside Law? Toggle between the views below to see where themes concentrate and where gaps may signal opportunities for new work. Click any word to see the matching infrastructures.

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Potential Gaps & Opportunities

Co-occurrence with "Law"

This bar chart quantifies how often specific tags appear alongside "Law" across the infrastructure database. Please note: it only shows the top 15 tags that co-occur with Law.

Distribution of A&H Entanglement Scores

This pie chart shows how strongly infrastructures are entangled with Arts & Humanities, based on title, description, and tags.

Tag Relationship Network

This network diagram visualises relationships between different tags that co-occur with "Law". Each node represents a tag, and edges indicate that these tags frequently appear together within the same infrastructure.

Please note that it is interactive. Try dragging nodes, hovering over edges, or zooming in and out. It's designed for exploration! Play around to surface unexpected connections or question why some tags might appear isolated. Patterns (and gaps) can often emerge through movement.

Infrastructure Relationship Graph

This graph shows how research infrastructures themselves are connected — through formal relationships like collaborations, host organisations, and child-parent structures.

Please note that it's an interactive graph. Click, drag, zoom, spotlight a single infrastructre to trace its collaborations and lineage, or reset to explore the broader network.

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