Legal Records at Risk (LRAR) 1914-2014: The use of unpublished data in socio-legal research
Event date
25 April 2016
Event time
16:30 - 18:00
Oxford week
Venue
Manor Road Building - Seminar Room D
Speaker(s)
Various speakers
The aims of this workshop are:
- To inform the socio-legal community about LRAR and lesser known-search engines (e.g. Discovery)
- To raise awareness of possibilities of modern legal records
- To learn about good/bad experiences of socio-legal researchers re (or non-use of) unpublished documentary sources
- To stimulate a sequel to the Neil Rickman paper the_use_of_unpublished_data_in_socio-legal_research.pdf in William Twining and Emma Quick (eds) Legal Records in the Commonwealth (1994).
Participants will include:
- Clare Cowling (Director, LRAR) and William Twining (Associate, CSLS)
- Professor Peter Bartlett (Mental Health, Nottingham)
- Dr Michael Reynolds (Associate, CSLS)
- Professor Denis Galligan (Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, CSLS)
- Dr Bettina Lange (Associate Professor of Law and Regulation, CSLS - TBC)
Further details will be available in due course.