Blog: Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

The Law’s Making of Work
In this week’s Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies, Francesca Barp (Hamburg) reviews Zoe Adams' book, The Legal Concept of Work (Oxford University Press, 2022). Read the full post here, which is published as part of the blog’s A Good Read 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.

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.

On aversion and empathy in research
Writing about people you don’t like
Marianne González Le Saux (University of Chile) reflects on aversion and empathy in research.
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