Postgraduate Module Descriptor


LAWM687: Socio-Legal Research Skills

This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

• Eppstein and Martin (2014) An Introduction to Empirical Legal Research (OUP)
• Banakar, R. and Travers M. (eds.) Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research (Hart, 2005).
• Clark et al, Bryman ‘s Social Research Methods, 6th ed, 2021
• Catrina Denvir, ‘Online and in the Know? Public Legal Education, Young People and the Internet’ (2016) 92 Computers & Education 204;
• Eyal Zamir and Ilana Ritov, ‘Notions of Fairness and Contingent Fees’ (2011) 74 Law & Contemporary Problems.
• Mitu Gulati and Robert E Scott, The Three and a Half Minute Transaction: Boilerplate and the Limits of Contract Design (University of Chicago Press 2013).
• Richard Moorhead, Avrom Sherr and Alan Paterson, ‘Contesting Professionalism: Legal Aid and Non Lawyers in England and Wales’ (2003) 37 Law and Society Review 765;
• Tamara Goriely, ‘Evaluating the Scottish Public Defence Solicitors ’ Office’ (2003) 30 Journal of Law and Society 84.
• Theodore W Ruger and others, ‘The Supreme Court Forecasting Project: Legal and Political Science Approaches to Predicting Supreme Court Decision making’ [2004] Columbia Law Review 1150;
• EW Wright M. P. Ellinghaus, ‘The Common Law of Contracts: Are Broad Principles Better than Detailed Rules?’ (2005) 11 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 399.
• Constantine Boussalis, Yuval Feldman and Henry E Smith, ‘Experimental Analysis of the Effect of Standards on Compliance and Performance’ (2017) 12 Regulation & Governance 277;
• Howard Raiffa, The Art and Science of Negotiation (Harvard University Press 1985)
• Socio-Legal Studies Association, Statement of Ethical Practice, 2002