Empirical Research Methods in Advancing Legal Knowledge Conference 2024
Northumbria Law School
invites registration for this free one-day event generously funded by the
Society of Legal Scholars Events Fund.
Empirical methods are a growing feature of legal research today and this event will explore the dynamic and multifarious ways empirical research can be harnessed across and beyond the legal discipline.
This event will be held at
Northumbria Law School and lunch and refreshments will be provided. Please
register your intention to attend by the 6th of September.
Programme
09.30-10.00 Registration
10.00– 10.15 Welcome from Northumbria
University’s Faculty of Business and Law
10.15-11.00 Keynote 1: Professor Caroline Derry, The Open University: Magpie
Methodologies: lore, law, and shiny things
11.00-11.15 BREAK
11.15-12.30 Paper Session 1: Ethical
and Methodological Considerations in Legal and Social Research
Why I Am Not Including Children
In My Research: The Participation Of Children & Young People In Criminal
Justice Research - Aine Manion (University College Cork)
Reflections on Empirical
Research in Delhi - Mini Saxena (SOAS)
Autoethnography and legal
research: possibilities and perils - Dr Elaine Gregerson (Northumbria
University)
12.30-1.15 LUNCH
1.15-2.30 Keynote 2: Professor Jose Pina-Sanchez, University of Leeds.
"The Need for an Empirical Revolution in Criminal Justice Research:
Examples from Research on Sentencing Disparities"
2.30-2.45 BREAK
2.45-3.30 Paper Session 2: Innovative
Methodologies and Empirical Approaches in Legal Research
Project FORTITUDE - Game-Based
Learning, Professor Dawn Watkins and Dr Ann George (University of
Sheffield)
Corpus Linguistics in Empirical
Legal Research, Lauren Devine and Stephen Parker (Lancaster University)
Judicial Perspectives in
Doctrinal Scholarship, Dr Charlotte Ellis (University of York)
3.30- 4.45 Roundtable Discussion
4.45 – 5.00 Closing remarks
Register below for this free event.
