Resources for researchers

On empirical research

John Baldwin and Gwynn Davis, ‘Empirical Research in Law’ in Peter Cane and Mark V Tushnet (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies (Oxford University Press, 2003) 880.

Hazel Genn, Martin Partington and Sally Wheeler, Law in the Real World - Improving Our Understanding of How Law Works: Final Report and Recommendations (Nuffield Foundation, 2006) https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Law-in-the-Real-World-full-report.pdf (‘Genn Report’).

Felicity Bell, ‘Empirical Research in Law’ (2016) 25(2) Griffith Law Review 262.

Dominique Allen and Alysia Blackham, ‘Using Empirical Research to Advance Workplace Equality Law Scholarship: Benefits, Pitfalls and Challenges’ (2018) 27(3) Griffith Law Review 337.

Kylie Burns and Terry Hutchinson, ‘The Impact of “Empirical Facts” on Legal Scholarship and Legal Research Training’ (2009) 43(2) The Law Teacher 153.

Alysia Blackham, ‘Legitimacy and Empirical Evidence in the UK Courts’ (2016) 25(3) Griffith Law Review 414.

Amy Ludlow and Alysia Blackham (eds), New Frontiers in Empirical Labour Law Research (Hart, 2015).

Alysia Blackham, Empirical Research and Workplace Discrimination Law (Brill, 2019).

Naomi Creudzfeldt, Marc Mason and Kirsten McConnachie, Routledge Handbook of Socio-Legal Theory and Methods (Routledge 2019).

Examples of extended empirical legal studies

Fiona Allison, ‘Cause for Hope or Despair? Evaluating Race Discrimination Law as an Access to Justice Mechanism for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People’ (PhD thesis, James Cook University, 2019) <https://doi.org/10.25903/5ebb247f12d94>.

Alysia Blackham, Reforming Age Discrimination Law: Beyond Individual Enforcement (Oxford University Press, 2022).

Alysia Blackham, Extending Working Life for Older Workers: Age Discrimination Law, Policy and Practice (Hart Publishing, 2016).

Catrina Denvir, Jacqueline Kinghan, Jessica Mant, and Daniel Newman, Legal Aid and the Future of Access to Justice (Hart, 2023).

Jessica Mant, Litigants in Person and the Family Justice System (Hart, 2022).

Amy Ludlow, Privatising Public Prisons: Labour Law and the Public Procurement Process (Hart, 2015).