牛津大学社会法律研究中心成立于1972年，以研究和监督早期职业学者的研究为工作重心。随着社会法律研究领域扩展，中心现在包括广泛的学科交叉点、理论和方法。在理论依据和实证研究、法律以及法律现象、方法论、区域法律社会以及其他学科的法律相关方面拥有特殊的专业知识，研究引导政策制定者、从业者和公众的接触。
       社会法律研究中心的研究考虑了当今一些最重要的全球问题，包括技术对法律生活经验的影响、全球环境危机、司法诉讼和移民。无论是单独工作还是小组工作，研究工作分为五个主要集群：诉诸民事和行政司法的机会，国家以外的法律，监管和治理，数字世界中的法律、比较媒体法律和政策的方案和人权经历。
       该中心的工作人员专门从事对行动中法律的理论知情研究，利用访谈、参与者观察、焦点小组、调查、话语分析和数据统计分析方面的专业知识，为广泛的学术活动方案作出贡献。研究中心的学生在英国的一个学术单位中构成了最大的社会法律学生集合，为研究集群带来了令人兴奋和新鲜的想法。

The Oxford Centre for Social and Legal Studies was established in 1972 to study and oversee the work of early career scholars. As the field of socio-legal research has expanded, the Centre now includes a wide range of disciplinary intersections, theories and methods. With special expertise in theoretical and empirical research, law and legal phenomena, methodology, regional legal society, and other disciplines related to law, research guides engagement with policy makers, practitioners, and the public.
       Research by the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies considers some of today's most important global issues, including the impact of technology on the legal life experience, the global environmental crisis, judicial proceedings and immigration. Whether working alone or in groups, the research work is divided into five main clusters: access to civil and administrative justice, law outside the state, regulation and governance, law in the digital world, programmes for comparative media law and policy, and human rights experiences.
       The centre's staff specialises in theoretically informed research on law in action, contributing to a broad programme of academic activities using expertise in interviews, participant observation, focus groups, surveys, discourse analysis and statistical analysis of data. Research Centre students constitute the largest collection of social law students in an academic unit in the UK, bringing exciting and fresh ideas to the research cluster.