Resources & materials

This area of the website is devoted to the gathering of resources and materials of interest to those conducting empirical research in law. It can never be comprehensive but it is hoped that it will grow into a valuable starting point for those embarking on this type of research and a useful place to dip into for those already experienced. Its usefulness relies on input from the research community and therefore you are warmly invited to contribute material of all kinds. Please contact Dr Liz Oliver at the University of Liverpool. The resource links below have been divided into the following topics:

journals
key texts
databases
websites & blogs

Journals

Center for Law, Justice and Society: Breaking it Down Abstracting Service

International Journal of Law in Context

Journal of Empirical Legal StudiesJournal of Law and Society See in particular June 2008 – Vol. 35 s1, Law’s Reality: Case Studies in Empirical Research on Law

Social and Legal Studies

Key texts

Online publications

Brownsword, Roger An Introduction to Legal Research, published on the Wellcome Trust website

Israel, Mark and Hay, Iain Ethical Practice in Empirical Research on Law, published on the UKCLE website

Leighton, Pat Using Empirical Research Methods in Legal Education, published on the UKCLE website

Nuffield Inquiry on Empirical Legal Research Law in the Real World: Improving our understanding of how law works, published on the UCL website

Bibliographies

Empirical Legal Research Bibliography – (US) University of California

Books and articles

Banakar, Reza and Travers, Max (eds) Theory and Method in Socio-legal Research (2005) Onati International Series in Law & Society (Paperback), Hart Publishing

Partington, Martin ‘Back to the future: the success and challenge of socio-legal scholarship’ (2008) Bracton Law Journal (ISSN 0308 4574) 40:27–46. This article is based on the plenary lecture at the SLSA’s 2007 conference at the University of Kent.