Blog: Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

Shifting Dynamics in Medical Law: Invitation to join a network and mailing list
In this week’s Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies, Bev Clough (Manchester Metropolitan) and Anna Nelson (Manchester) introduce a new research network which seeks to explore novel dynamics in - and approaches to - medical law. Read the full post here, which is published as part of the blog’s Borderlands section. If you would like to receive a summary of all of Frontiers’ latest posts, please sign up to receive our bi-monthly newsletter here.

The Law’s Making of Work
Francesca Barp (Hamburg) reviews Zoe Adams' book, The Legal Concept of Work (Oxford University Press, 2022).

Quasi-Experimental Methods
Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Karen Nokes (UCL) about quasi-experimental methods beyond the lab and how they can be used in Socio-Legal research.
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