Socio-legal research - National workshops at IALS
A series of Socio-legal research training days is organised collaboratively by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), the Socio-Legal Studies Association and the British Library. The one-day events offer insights and shared experience in research methods and sources relevant to particular socio-legal topics, with presentation materials, discussion on best practice and networking opportunities at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Selected recordings from the events and pre-prints of articles developed from the presentations are available below.
See also the Legal Biography album on IALS Facebook and Law, Gender and Sexuality album on IALS Facebook
Further details, are available from the Events listing on the IALS website or contact ials.events@sas.ac.uk
Previous Workshops
Legal Biography - Socio-legal research National workshop
Legal Biography - Socio-legal research National workshop
A national socio-legal training day on legal biography was organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, the British Library and the Socio-Legal Studies Association and held at IALS in May 2013. The national socio-legal training day proved to be very popular and successful with much discussion between the speakers and the attendees throughout the programme.
Journal of Law and Society Special Issue on Legal Life-Writing
Journal of Law and Society Special Issue on Legal Life-Writing developed from papers presented at the joint BL/IALS/SLSA socio-legal training day on Legal Biography is online at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jols.2015.42.issue-1/issuetoc
Access IALS Library copy at http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2134777~S6(Remote access is available via current IALS Library card for IALS staff, fellows and students, UofL postgraduate students , IALS Lib academic members on Wiley Online Library)
Guest editorial published in Legal Information Management - David Gee (Deputy Librarian, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)
Extracts from the Programme
- Whatever happened to Miss Bebb?: Filling in the gaps in women’s legal biography - Professor Rosemary Auchmuty (School of Law, University of Reading)
- Visual Jurisprudence: What can art tell law about itself? - Professor Linda Mulcahy (London School of Economics)
- The Oriental Jennings: An Archival Investigation of the Neglected Constitutional Legacy of Sir Ivor Jennings in South Asia - Dr Mara Malagodi (London School of Economics)
- Whose biography? The challenge of researching the judicial image - Professor Leslie J.Moran (School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London)
- The Good, the Bad and the Worthy: Alternative Visions of Legal Biography - Professor David Sugarman (Director of Centre for Law and Society - Emeritus, Lancaster University)
- IALS Sources for legal biography - Elizabeth Dawson (Archivist, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)
- Legal biography, oral history and the Cambridge Eminent Scholars Archive - Lesley Dingle (Foreign and International Law Librarian, Squire Law Library, Cambridge)
- Biographical Research and Institutional Archives: the Case of the Inns of Court - Guy Holborn (Librarian, Lincoln's Inn Library)
- An introduction to sources at the India Office Records and SOAS - Susannah Rayner (SOAS) and Antonia Moon (British Library).
- The Legal Biography Project at the LSE - Dr Kristen Rundle (London School of Economics).
- Legal Biography at the British Library - Jon Sims (The British Library)
Law, Gender and Sexuality: sources and methods in socio-legal research
This socio-legal research training day in May 2014 on Law, Gender and Sexuality: sources and methods in socio-legal research, organised collaboratively by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), the Socio-Legal Studies Association and the British Library, drew attention to archives and their content that newcomers to the field may not be aware of and to consider the methodological and practical issues involved in analysing sources.
Programme details
- Introduction - Professor Rosemary Hunter (University of Kent Law School)
- Audio recording of the session (MP3)
- Guest editorial - Jon Sims (British Library)
Feminism and the Law:
- Feminist Judgments - Professor Rosemary Hunter (University of Kent Law School)
- Audio recording of the session (MP3)
- Preprint of article developed from this paper published in Legal Information Management.
- Feminist approaches to sexuality and law scholarship - Professor Rosemary Auchmuty (University of Reading School of Law)
- Audio recording of the session (MP3)
- Preprint of article developed from this paper published in Legal Information Management.
Multi Collection Repositories:
- Sisterhood and after: an archive of social and legislative change? - Dr Polly Russell (British Library)
- Audio recording of the session (MP3)
- Preprint of article developed from this paper published in Legal Information Management.
- British Library collection highlights for research on law, gender and sexuality - Jon Sims (British Library)
- Audio recording of the session (MP3)
- Preprint of article developed from this paper published in Legal Information Management.
- Highlights from LSE library including Hall Carpenter Archives and specialist collections of the Women’s Library@lse - Heather Dawson (London School of Economics Library)
- Audio recording of the session (MP3)
- Preprint of article developed from this paper published in Legal Information Management.
Law and Same Sex Partnerships:
- Queering Genealogy through Wills - Daniel Monk (Reader in Law, Birkbeck, University of London )
- Popular culture as sources for research on law in lesbian and gay lives - Dr Rosie Harding (Birmingham Law School)
Legal Professions and Education:
- The IALS Archives of Legal Education - Elizabeth Dawson (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)
- Researching the UK's first female law professor: thinking about gender, method and sources - Professor Fiona Cownie (Keele University School of Law)
- On Researching Men, Masculinities and Law: The Examples of Fatherhood and the Legal profession - Professor Richard Collier (Professor of Law and Social Theory, Newcastle University)
Visual Sources & Methods in Law, Gender and Sexuality scholarship:
- The scene of the crime: police photographs, visual culture and sexuality - Dr Dominic Janes (Birkbeck, University of London)
- Legal treasures: on the shelf and online - Professor Amanda Perry-Kessaris (University of Kent Law School)
Sources and Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice
This socio-legal research training day in November 2015 on Sources and Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice, organised collaboratively by the British Library, the British Society of Criminology, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), and the Socio-Legal Studies Association drew attention to resources and research approaches that newcomers to the field may not be aware of and to consider the methodological and practical issues involved in analysing sources.
Programme details
- Introduction: Guest editorial published in Legal Information Management - David Gee (Deputy Librarian, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)
Collections / Theoretical Approaches:
- Finding Crime Data: The UK Data Service Collection - Sharon Bolton (UK Data Service)
- Collecting Criminology - Stuart Stone (Institute of Criminology, Cambridge)
- Whom can we trust? - David Nelken (Kings College London)
- Crime and Criminal Justice at the British Library - Jon Sims (British Library)
- Presentation (PDF)
- Access to Records of Crime at the National Archives - Nigel Taylor (The National Archives)
- Feminist Methods and Sources in Criminology and Criminal Justice - Adrian Howe (Queen Mary University London)
Official Records:
- The Official History of Criminal Justice and Record Management Procedures - Paul Rock (London School of Economics)
- Use of Police Data: An Inside Job - Paul Dawson (Evidence and Insight Unit, Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime)
- FOIs, the NHS, and Third Party Data Confidentiality - Lisa Dickson (University of Kent)
Crime Statistics and Quantitative Methods:
- Choosing and Using Statistical Sources in Criminology - Nick Tilley (University College London) and
- Possible Uses of the Crime Survey of England and Wales - Andromachi Tseloni (Loughborough University)
- Working with Transactions Data: Understanding Repeat Victims of Domestic Abuse from Police-Recorded Data - Allan Brimicombe (University of East London
Qualitative and Mixed Methods: Texts and Case Studies
- Discovering Sources for Researching Historical Public Reactions to the Death Penalty in Britain - Lizzie Seal (University of Sussex)
- Unicorns and Urinals: Foucauldian Methodology and the Apparently Unimportant Minutiae of the Court Design Guides - Linda Mulcahy (London School of Economics) and Emma Rowden (University of Technology Syndey)
- Quantity and Quality in Police Research: Making the Case for Case Studies - Ben Bowling (Kings College London)
Closing panel
- Interrelation between Socio-legal Studies and Criminology - Gethin Rees (Newcastle University), Marian Duggan (University of Kent) and other speakers
Socio-Legal Sources and Methods in International Law
Programme details
- Introduction: Guest editorial - David Gee (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)
Socio-Legal Methods in International Law
- Luis Eslava (University of Kent Law School) on “Ethnographic thinking in international Law”
- Isobel Roele (Queen Mary University of London Law School): “How does the UN Security Council work? Beyond paper and procedure”
- Emilie Cloatre (University of Kent Law School): “Actor-network theory, materialities and the study of international law”
Socio-Legal Sources of International Law
- Hester Swift (Foreign and International Law Librarian, IALS): “The international law collections of IALS Library”
- Yassin Brunger (University of Leicester Law School): “‘Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’. Revealing international legal cultures through empirical evidence”
- Lesley Dingle (Foreign and International Law Librarian, University of Cambridge): “The international law collections of the Squire Law Library, University of Cambridge”
Socio-Legal Histories of International Law
- Mira Siegelberg (Queen Mary University of London School of History/School of Law): “The archives of international legal history”
- Jeroen Vervliet (Director of the Peace Palace Library, The Hague): “The international law collections of the Peace Palace Library”
- Ruth Frendo (IALS Archivist and Records Manager): “The archive and records collections of the International Law Association (ILA)”
Objects of International Law
- Jessie Hohmann (Queen Mary University of London Law School): “Objects and material cultures of international law”
- Jonathan Sims (Content specialist for humanities and social sciences, British Library): “Looking beyond the sources of international law: inspiring and supporting research at the British Library”