The Research objectives are:
Set and steward a focused, distinctive institutional research agenda.
Build faculty research capability, ethical practice and recognition.
Expand research linkages, joint programmes, fellowships and mobility, and connect the law school’s centres through LENS to mobilise research funding.
Translate research into policy, law reform and practice.
Integrate student and graduate research into the research system.
The Analysis and Archives objectives are:
Run the JSW Law Archive and manage institutional records.
preserve research records, assets and data.
Collect, preserve and digitise Bhutan’s legal heritage.
Support analysis through archival access to legal, institutional and research records.
Open Bhutan’s legal heritage to the public through the JSW Law Museum of Law.
The Library and Legal Information objectives are:
Keep essential collections and global databases current through the annual acquisition cycle.
Deliver orientation, information literacy, reference and citation services, and assure their quality, stewardship and accountability.
Build, govern and sustain DLIN as Bhutan’s national legal database.
Make JSW Law scholarship and digitised collections discoverable through the Institutional Repository and the Digital Library.
Grow the GMC Corner into the JSW Diamond Strategy Hub for GMC research.
The Scholarship objectives are:
Deliver an annual RALS Convening Calendar built on the research forums and the annual research conference.
Reconstitute the editorial boards and run the JSW Law Publishing Series to the standards of the Research Centre Guideline.
Operate the Research Ethics Review Committee and the research integrity procedures.
Build editorial, citation and responsible AI competency at all levels.
Extend public scholarship through Legis Lumen, the “Beyond the Code” podcast and social media, and recognise student scholarship.