26 11, 2024

ICPR Guest Edited Blog 5: Lived Experiences of the Law: Collecting stories about encounters with the law

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By Gill Hunter, Amy Kirby,  Nicola Campbell and Zahra Wynne In earlier blogs for this series, we have introduced our project – lived experience of the law, funded by the Nuffield Foundation – and outlined its aim to explore people’s experiences of the family and criminal courts in the context of their wider encounters with [...]

26 06, 2024

Empirical teaching in law: Building an empirical legal revolution

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Alysia Blackham, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia and Kylie Burns, Griffith Law School, Griffith University, Australia There is a growing need – and desire – for empirical legal research, and for lawyers who are empirically literate, that is, able to use, evaluate and deploy empirical evidence in their work. Politicians, regulators and policy-makers [...]