Oxbridge dominates but Essex and Queen Mary University of London make the top five
Oxford tops the table in the Research Professional News ranking for law, following the results of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.
Submissions to the REF are broken down across 34 topic areas, or units of assessment. While large universities with expertise dominate the rankings on the overall league table across a swathe of topics, smaller institutions can carry more weight when it comes to individual units of assessment.