Centre for Empirical Legal Studies

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The Centre for Empirical Legal Studies brings together experts across a range of social science disciplines to engage in interdisciplinary research with a bearing on law.

The Centre is a world leader of methodological innovation in empirical legal studies, and is helping to build research capacity in the United Kingdom and enable evidence led evolution of justice systems around the world. Through its current membership, the Centre is able to draw upon expertise in fields as diverse as law, sociology, criminology, statistics, psychology and political science, to bring new perspectives to bear upon the study of law and legal institutions.

Research projects currently being undertaken by members of the Centre for Empirical Legal Studies relate to access to justice, integration of legal and health services, judicial training and diversity, jury and tribunal decision-making, ethics in the legal profession, prison privatisation; prison therapeutic communities and women in prison.

Recently concluded studies include:

• Tribunals and Ethnic Diversity
• Diversity and Jury Fairness
• Understanding Individual Behaviour Exploratory Network on Decision Making
• Nuffield Inquiry on Empirical Legal Research
• Paths to Justice: A Past, Present and Future Roadmap
• The Authority and Legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights
• A Study of The Democratic Therapeutic Community at HMP Send
• Diversity and Juries
• Diversity and the Appointment of Deputy District Judges
• Fairness of Jury Decision-Making
• Judicial Diversity and Appointments
• Judicial Training in Other Jurisdictions
• Review of French Judicial Training and Education
• The Jury Experience in the Jubilee Line Case

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University College London (UCL)
London