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The Bentham Project operates as an independent department in the Faculty of Laws, University College London. The College and the Faculty provide support for a full-time Director and part-time Administrator of the Bentham Project, in addition to a grant towards running costs, accommodation, and other facilities.

The Bentham Project has received awards from the following external agencies:

  • The Arts and Humanities Research Council (Research Enhancement Scheme) for the production of a new online database of the Bentham Papers, which are deposited in University College London Library.

  • The Arts and Humanities Research Council for the preparation and publication of a new edition of Bentham's Rationale of Judicial Evidence in five volumes, and a new edition of Church-of-Englandism and its Catechism Examined in two volumes.

  • The Economic and Social Research Council for the preparation and publication of a new edition of Bentham's Political Fallacies.

  • The Wellcome Trust for the preparation and publication of Bentham's Writings on the Poor Laws: Volume II.

  • The British Academy for the transcription of Bentham's manuscripts on parliamentary reform.

  • The British Academy's Committee on Academy Research Projects (CARP) supported a pilot digitization project to produce digital images of a selection of Bentham's manuscripts.

  • The Bentham Project is recognized as a British Academy Research Project.