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The Future of Justice:
Harnessing the Power of Empirical Research
Monday 14 & Tuesday 15 May 2018
at UCL Faculty of Laws
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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The England and Wales justice system is What new skills, methods and approaches
undergoing rapid change in an ambitious are needed to properly understand the
CONFERENCE ESSENTIALS:
reform programme designed to transform impact of justice system reforms?
processes in criminal, civil and family
Network: UCLGuest
courts, and tribunals. This international symposium, jointly
Event Code: justice
convened by UCL Faculty of Laws, the
The move to online determination of Nuffield Foundation and The Legal
Venue:
disputes and court closures represents Education Foundation brings together
Gideon Schreier Lecture Theatre
a shift away from the model through leading researchers, judiciary, funders and
UCL Faculty of Laws
which the principles of public justice have practitioners to explore these issues and
Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens
traditionally been advanced. These changes learn from existing best practice.
London WC1H 0EG
have implications for citizens, the judiciary,
the legal profession, and court staff as they The aim of the symposium is to develop
adapt to new mechanisms for delivering a sense of the emerging priorities for
justice. The reforms also create important research and a consensus on the level of
opportunities for generating robust data commitment needed to build capacity to
on court processes, the individuals that use deliver this research agenda.
them and case outcomes.
The wide-ranging nature of the reform
programme represents a challenge to the
existing community of justice system
researchers and funders.
The Future of Justice: Harnessing the Power of Empirical Research - May 2018
3ABOUT THE ORGANISERS
use of public resources. In order to achieve
this, we must ensure that court and other
data that are vital for the conduct of empirical
research are collected routinely and made
available for research. We must also support
The Legal Education Foundation’s vision is of the development and expansion of a multi-
In 2004, the Foundation funded the Nuffield
a society where everyone understands the role disciplinary research community with the
Inquiry on Empirical Legal Research, which
and value of the law and has the capability and methodological skills and expert knowledge
examined both the UK’s capacity to carry
opportunity to use it. In the UK and overseas, the of the legal system necessary to deliver the
out empirical research, and how the law was
ways in which citizens engage with the law and empirical work required. And we need to
working in practice. Led by Professor Dame
legal systems are changing rapidly, creating both strengthen the commitment to evidence-led
Hazel Genn, the Inquiry concluded that
challenges and opportunities for access to justice. approaches in designing and delivering legal
although legal research was highly valued
The nature and the scale of change, exemplified services and legal education. These tasks
by those working in the justice system, there
by the reforms being delivered by the HM Courts demonstrate the pressing need to work together
was evidence of insufficient capacity within
and Tribunal Service Transformation Programme, to develop a coherent agenda for empirical
UK universities to undertake empirical legal
underscore the urgent need to harness the power research and the will and resources to deliver
research.
of empirical research to understand what works it. TLEF is delighted to be supporting this
in enabling individuals to secure their rights, event, which we hope will serve as a catalyst for
Since then, the Nuffield Foundation has funded
protections and fair treatment. this effort. We welcome the partnership with
research projects in the justice domain totalling
the Nuffield Foundation and UCL Faculty of
almost £20 million, and supported initiatives
Supporting the creation of robust evidence is Laws, and look forward to meeting you at the
to improve research capacity. Most recently,
critical to TLEF’s mission. Empirical research is conference.
we have established the Nuffield Family Justice
vital: to improve understanding of the ways in
Observatory to support the best possible
which citizens engage with the justice system;
decisions for children by improving the use of
to understand the impacts on outcomes of the
Matthew Smerdon data and research evidence in the family justice
move from traditional to new court processes;
Chief Executive, The Legal Education Foundation system.
and to understand how to make the most effective
4However, as the justice system undergoes empirical research on law more than a decade
fundamental reform in a time of austerity, ago, and in keeping with the Faculty’s mission
the ‘justice research gap’ has opened further, to promote and facilitate rigorous empirical
and we find ourselves without the necessary research on law, we are conscious of the need
empirical research to inform the design and to revisit the conclusions of the Inquiry and the
operation of a transformed justice system. recommended interventions. This conference
This symposium aims to help close the gap, UCL Laws has long been a centre of excellence presents that opportunity in the context of an
by articulating the priority questions for the for high impact empirical research on law and exciting new justice system research agenda.
justice research agenda, and identifying ways the justice system. Home to world-leading
we might build capacity to deliver it. The research centres on Access to Justice, Empirical A significant body of the Faculty’s empirical
symposium will also inform our own funding Legal Studies, Judicial Studies, and Professional research has been supported by the Nuffield
priorities, and we will continue to work with Ethics, the Faculty’s research has had global Foundation and the Legal Education Foun-
The Legal Education Foundation and UCL influence on policy and practice across a wide dation and it is therefore a pleasure to have
Faculty of Laws to harness the power of range of legal fields. As jurisdictions around the opportunity to collaborate with them in
empirical research within the justice system the world respond to technological develop- organizing this international conference on The
ment and undergo transformative changes in Future of Justice.
the design and delivery of state justice systems,
this conference is a timely opportunity to
reflect on critical research questions that arise,
Tim Gardam and to begin shaping an international research
Chief Executive, Nuffield Foundation agenda. This important research agenda will
require co-operation between government, Professor Dame Hazel Genn
the judiciary, academia and practice. It will Director, UCL Centre for Access to Justice
also require advanced empirical research
skills. Having led on the Nuffield Founda-
tion’s Inquiry into UK capacity to undertake
The Future of Justice: Harnessing the Power of Empirical Research - May 2018
5PROGRAMME - Monday 14 May 2018
12:00 Registration and Lunch
Welcome and Introduction
1.30pm Professor Dame Hazel Genn
(Director UCL Centre for Access to Justice)
Keynote address
1.40pm
Professor Richard Susskind OBE (President, Society for Computers and Law) ‘The Case for Online Courts’
PANEL DISCUSSION
What’s happening in justice? The view from England and Wales
2.00pm The Rt Hon Sir Ernest Ryder (Senior President of Tribunals)
Susan Acland-Hood (CEO of HM Courts & Tribunals Service)
Joshua Rozenberg QC (Hon) (Commentator and broadcaster)
3.30pm Refreshment Break
6PROGRAMME - Monday 14 May 2018
What’s happening in justice? The view from overseas
4.00pm
5.30pm Conference guests walk to UCL Darwin Buidling for Nuffield Foundation 75th Anniversary Lecture
The Nuffield Foundation 75th Anniversary Lecture
The Rt Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE
6.15pm President of the United Kingdom Supreme Court
‘Challenges in the justice system and the contribution of empirical research’
Introduced by Professor David Rhind (Chairman, Nuffield Foundation)
Refreshments and canapé reception
7.30pm
in the South Cloisters
The Future of Justice: Harnessing the Power of Empirical Research - May 2018
7PROGRAMME - Tuesday 15 May 2018
9.00am Registration and Refreshments
PANEL DISCUSSION
Open justice, transparency and accountability
Professor Judith Resnik (Yale Law School),
9.30am
Antoine Garapon (Secretary General of the Institute of Higher Studies on Justice)
Joshua Rozenberg QC (Hon) (Commentator and broadcaster)
Professor Karen Broadhurst (Centre Child and Family Justice Research)
11.00am Refreshment break
Citizen experience of justice and the connection between this and trust and confidence
Professor Tom Tyler (Yale Law School)
11.30am
Dr Ayelet Sela (Bar Ilan University)
Professor David Abrams (Penn Law Faculty)
1.00pm Lunch
8PROGRAMME - Tuesday 15 May 2018
What do the reforms mean for the judiciary and legal profession?
His Honour Judge John Aitken (President Social Entitlement Chamber)
2.00pm Shannon Salter (Chair BC Civil Resolution Tribunal)
Dory Reiling (Senior Judge, Amsterdam District Court)
District Judge Chris Lethem (Judicial Advisor to the Online Court)
3.45pm Refreshment break
Capacity building - creating an environment conducive to the conduct of robust empirical research
Professor Dame Hazel Genn (UCL Laws)
Professor Jim Greiner (Harvard Law School)
4.15pm
Dr Natalie Byrom (Legal Education Foundation)
Professor Michael Heise (Cornell Law School)
Suzie Forell (Research Director, Health Justice Australia)
6.15pm Conclusion and reception
The Future of Justice: Harnessing the Power of Empirical Research - May 2018
9THE SPEAKERS
DAVID ABRAMS SUSAN ACLAND-HOOD
Pennsylvania Law School HMCTS
David S. Abrams American Association of Law Schools. Susan Acland-
is Professor of His research interests include the Law Hood joined
Law, Business and Economics of Crime, Intellectual HMCTS as
Economics and Property, Corporate Finance, and Health Chief Executive
Public Policy at Economics. Recent research topics include in November
the University the use of machine learning to improve 2016. She is
of Pennsylvania fairness in criminal justice, the impact of responsible for
Law School and non-practicing entities on innovation, and the day-to-day
the Wharton improving methods for measuring and operations and
School. He joined the Penn faculty in 2008 valuing innovation. His work has appeared management of the courts and tribunals in
after serving as the Olin Fellow in Law and in a number of top peer-reviewed journals England and Wales (and reserved tribunals
Economics at the University of Chicago. and law reviews including the Stanford Law in Scotland and Northern Ireland). She
He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Review, University of Chicago Law Review, is also responsible for the £1bn reform
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in University of Pennsylvania Law Review, programme which will upgrade the best
2006, his Master’s in Physics from Stanford American Economic Journal: Applied justice system in the world using modern
in 2001 and his Bachelor’s in Physics from Economics, and the Journal of Legal Studies. technology and ways of working.
Harvard in 1998. He is a Board Member
and past-President of the Society for Susan was previously the Director of
Empirical Legal Studies, and former chair Enterprise and Growth at HM Treasury
of the Law and Economics section of the where she was responsible for policies
10JUDGE JOHN AITKEN
Social Entitlement Chamber
on productivity, growth, business, John has been Entitlement Chamber. SEC is the largest
infrastructure, exports, competition and Chamber Tribunal with around 100 full time Judges
markets, and for energy and transport President of and 2500 fee paid Judges, Doctors and
spending. Before that, she spent two years the Social Disability Qualified Members dealing
as Director of Education Funding at the Entitlement with around 250,000 appeals each year but
Department for Education, overseeing Chamber since up to 500,000 in busy periods. There are
the comprehensive reform of the capital 2014. His three jurisdictions covering Social Security
programme. Susan has also worked background is Appeals, and Criminal Injuries appeals on
extensively on home affairs and justice the Criminal a Great Britain basis and Asylum support
policy, both at Number 10 and in the Home Bar which he left in 2002 to become an throughout the United Kingdom. SEC has
Office. She has also had senior roles in the Immigration judge. He then became a an important role in the reform program
London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and in Designated Immigration Judge in effect seeking to develop an accessible, user
the Social Exclusion Unit. a team leader. He was Acting Regional friendly and efficient method of dealing
Judge for the North East in Immigration with cases online where appropriate.
from 2003 to 2006 then became Deputy
President at Health Education and Social
Care responsible for Special Educational
Needs, Care Standards and Appeals from
the NHS all on a national basis. In 2014 he
became Chamber President of the Social
The Future of Justice: Harnessing the Power of Empirical Research - May 2018
11THE SPEAKERS
KAREN BROADHURST NATALIE BYROM
Lancaster University The Legal Education Foundation
Professor Karen recently the impact of child removal on Natalie is
Broadhurst is women appearing before the family courts. Director of
based in the Karen’s work has catalysed major new Research and
Department prevention initiatives both in England but Learning at The
of Sociology also a number of international contexts. Legal Education
at Lancaster Foundation- an
University. She Karen is currently leading the development independent
founded and of the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory, grant making
Co-Directs to enable the launch of a new organisation foundation with
the Centre for Child and Family Justice in 2019. Karen’s personal investment in a portfolio of over 200 grants – where
Research at Lancaster University, co-hosted this initiative reflects her interest in the she leads work to better understand the
by the Departments of Law and Sociology potential contribution of social science to ways in which people can be assisted to
with the Data Science Institute. Karen has social justice and practice innovation. Her understand and use the justice system to
served as Principal or Co-Investigator on work is extensively published in range of secure their rights, protections and fair
number of applied research studies funded social work, social science, health and law treatment. She recently completed a PhD
by the Nuffield Foundation, the ESRC, journals. She regularly sits on government exploring the impact of cuts to civil legal
the Australian Research Council, as well advisory/expert groups related to both aid on vulnerable individuals, focusing
as local and national Government. She child and family social work and the family on the experience of Law Centres. Natalie
has a long-standing interest in the impact courts. is passionate about improving public
of State intervention in family life, most
12DAWN CHUTKOW
Cornell Law School
understanding of the legal system- in Dawn Chutkow Before entering academia, Professor
2017 she was appointed to the BBC is a Visiting Chutkow practiced law in Chicago,
Expert Women Network and her research Professor of specializing in mergers and acquisitions.
and writing have been featured in The Law at Cornell She earned an A.B. from Duke University,
Guardian, the New Statesman and the legal Law School, a J.D. from the University of Chicago, and a
press. Natalie sits on the Administrative Executive Editor Ph.D. from Cornell University.
Justice Council and the Civil Justice of the Journal
Council’s Litigant in Person Engagement of Empirical
Group. Legal Studies,
and Executive Director of the Society for
Empirical Legal Studies. Her research
uses empirical, qualitative, and legal
analyses to explore the administrative
function of courts, interactions among
political institutions, and justice system
processes. Her teaching includes courses
on the politics of judicial decision making,
empirical legal methods, and the nature,
functions, and limits of law.
The Future of Justice: Harnessing the Power of Empirical Research - May 2018
13THE SPEAKERS
SUZIE FORELL ANTOINE GARAPON
Health Justice Australia Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice
With more family law duty services, collaborative Born in 1952,
than 25 years’ partnerships, community legal education Antoine
experience in and summary crime services. Suzie is Garapon, Ph.D,
justice sector an author of Reshaping legal assistance is Secretary-
research, services: building on the evidence base General of the
Suzie recently and has a particular interest in integrating Institut des
commenced as evaluative thinking into practice, to build Hautes Etudes sur
Research Director the evidence-base. In 2016-17, Suzie co- la Justice (IHEJ).
for Health Justice led a team of researchers analysing the Prior to his
Australia. In this role Suzie will be leading administrative data of all NSW civil court appointment to the IHEJ, Antoine Garapon
the development of a national evaluation and tribunals, to investigate its utility to served as a juvenile judge for many years.
framework for health justice partnerships. inform policy. Previously, Suzie was a He is editor for the journal Esprit and has
Previously Suzie was a Principal Researcher principal policy analyst with NSW Police, written widely on legal, cultural, historical
at the Law and Justice Foundation of NSW, implementing and evaluating national drug and political themes. Its last book (with
where she led the ‘what works’ research strategy initiatives, and a researcher at the Jean Lassègue): Justice digitale. Révolution
strategy and managed research alliances NSW Independent Commission Against graphique et rupture anthropologique
with Legal Aid Commissions to evaluate Corruption. Suzie has a BA (hons) from (Presses universitaires de France, 2018). He
legal assistance strategies and build Melbourne University and research M also manages the collection Bien commun
evaluation capability. Suzie evaluated legal Crim (hons) from Sydney. at Michalon Publishing co. and has a
assistance strategies including outreach, weekly programme on France-culture.
14DAME HAZEL GENN DBE QC (Hon)
UCL Centre for Access to Justice
He has published more than thirty books, Dame Hazel its activities into an innovative ‘Health
all of them concerned with law and justice. Genn is Professor Justice Partnership’ with a GP practice
Notable among his works are Imaginer la of Socio-Legal in Stratford delivering free social welfare
loi: le droit dans la littérature (Michalon, Studies in the legal advice to patients within the practice.
Paris 2008); Juger en Amérique et en France: Faculty of Laws Dame Hazel is interested in the access to
culture juridique française et common law at UCL. She justice implications of online courts and
(O. Jacob, Paris 2003); Des crimes qu’on ne was Dean of the in October 2017 delivered the Annual
peut ni punir ni pardonner: pour une justice Faculty 2008- Birkenhead Lecture entitled ‘Online Courts
internationale (O. Jacob, Paris: 2002); Et 2017 and is and the Future of Justice’ -
ce sera justice: punir en démocratie (O. currently Director of the UCL Centre for https://bit.ly/2I3TS89.
Jacob, Paris 2001) and, in Spanish, Juez Access to Justice and Co-director of the
y democracia. Una reflexión muy actual UCL Judicial Institute. Dame Hazel is a
(Judge and Democracy: A Most Up-to-Date leading authority on access to civil and
Reflection – Flor del Viento, 1998). administrative justice. She has conducted
numerous empirical studies of public
access to the justice system, including
the seminal Paths to Justice: What People
Do and Think About Going to Law. In
2013 she established the UCL Centre for
Access to Justice, and in 2016 developed
The Future of Justice: Harnessing the Power of Empirical Research - May 2018
15THE SPEAKERS
JIM GREINER MICHAEL HEISE
Harvard Law School Cornell Law School
Jim Greiner is in statistics at Harvard University. His work Michael Heise,
the Honorable S. has been published in a variety of venues Professor of
William Green including the Harvard Law Review, the Law at Cornell
Professor of Yale Law Journal, the Journal of the Royal Law School,
Public Law at Statistical Society (Series B), the Annals of specializes in
Harvard Law Applied Statistics, and Jurimetrics. empirical legal
School, where scholarship
he teaches and bridging
courses on civil empirical
procedure, expert witnesses, and voting methodologies, legal theory, and policy
regulation. He is the founder and Faculty analysis. He writes in public and private
Director of the Access to Justice Lab, which law areas, including law and education
implements randomized field experiments policy, civil justice reform, and judicial
to find out what works for individuals decisionmaking. Professor Heise’s
and families who cannot afford to hire teaching areas include education law, torts,
lawyers. Before coming to HLS in 2007, constitutional law, empirical methods for
Jim practiced law for six years (three for lawyers, insurance law, and law and social
the U.S. Department of Justice, three for science. In 1991-92 Heise served in the
Jenner & Block, LLC), followed by a Ph.D. Bush Administration as Deputy Chief of
16DISTRICT JUDGE CHRISTOPHER LETHAM
Judicial Advisor, Online Courts
Staff to the U.S. Secretary of Education. Chris Lethem the development of rules for digital courts
Professor Heise has received numerous is on part across the entire civil, family and tribunal
awards for his scholarship and teaching, secondment as jurisdictions. He is a member of the Civil
including the Law & Society Association’s the judicial lead Judicial Engagement Group who advise
Best Article Prize in 1999. Professor Heise to the HMCTS and monitor the civil aspects of HMCTS’
has co-edited the Journal of Empirical Legal Civil Money court reform project.
Studies since 2005. Claims project
charged with Chris Lethem has a long standing
developing the involvement in supporting access to justice
Online Court. He was formerly a member for Litigants in Person and is a Litigant in
of Lord Justice Brigg’s Hard Working Person Liaison Judge and a member of the
Group that formulated the Report on the Judicial Working Group advising JEB on
Civil Courts Structure Review Group McKenzie Friends. He is a member of the
and which provided a blueprint for the Judicial Working Group on Litigants in
modernisation of the civil courts. He is Person and a member of the Asplin Judicial
a member of the Civil Procedure Rule Working Group on McKenzie Friends.
Committee and is charged with supporting He continues to sit as a judge.
the development of rules for the Online
Court. He is also a member of the Online
Procedure Advisory Group who consider
The Future of Justice: Harnessing the Power of Empirical Research - May 2018
17THE SPEAKERS
DORY REILING JUDITH RESNIK
Amsterdam District Court Yale Law School
Dory Reiling Judges (Council of Europe) Opinion 14 on Judith Resnik is
Ph.D. Mag.Iur. information technologies and the courts. the Arthur Liman
(1950) is a se- Her 2009 book Technology for Justice, How Professor of Law at
nior judge at Information Technology can Support Judicial Yale Law School,
the Amsterdam Reform, is widely available in print, on line and holds a term
District Court. and as an e-book. appointment as an
She is involved Honorary Visiting
in designing the Her publications can be found on www. Professor, UCL
digital procedures doryreiling.com, her tweets are on www. Faculty of Laws.
in the civil courts in the Netherlands. She twitter.com/doryontour and her Technol- Her teaching and scholarship focuses on the
was a senior judicial reform specialist at ogy for Justice blog is on www.doryreiling. impact of democratic, egalitarian principles
the World Bank and IT program manager blogspot.nl on government services, from courts and
for the Netherlands judiciary. She regularly prisons to post offices; on the relationships of
lectures on court IT at universities, judi- states to citizens and non-citizens’ the forms
cial academies and postgraduate schools and norms of federalism; and on equality
and works as an IT adviser to judiciaries and gender. Professor Resnik’s books include
Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy,
around the world. She is also a co-author of
and Rights in City-States and Democratic
the World Bank Handbook on Justice Sec-
Courtrooms (2011); she is the co-editor of
tor Assessments. She was the acting expert
Federal Courts Stories (2010); Migrations and
for the Consultative Council of European
18JOSHUA ROZENBERG QC (Hon)
Journalist and Broadcaster
Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders, and Gender Joshua Rozenberg online courts in England and Wales.
(2009), and the 2014 Daedalus volume, The QC (hon) For more than a decade he has written a
Invention of Courts. Professor Resnik chairs is Britain’s twice-monthly column for the Law Society
Yale Law School’s Global Constitutional best-known Gazette. From 2010 to 2016, he wrote a
Law Seminar and edits its on-line book commentator on weekly commentary for the Guardian
series. Professor Resnik is also the founding the law. He is the website.
director of Yale’s Arthur Liman Center for only full-time
Public Interest Law, convening colloquia on journalist to have Joshua was the BBC’s legal correspondent
access to criminal and civil justice systems. been appointed as for 15 years before moving in 2000 to
The 2018 Liman monograph, Who Pays? Queen’s Counsel honoris causa. The Daily Telegraph. He resigned as the
Fines, Fees, and the Cost of Courts, is an newspaper’s legal editor in the summer
online e-book; earlier monographs include After taking a law degree at Oxford he of 2007 but continued writing a weekly
a series of reports on solitary confinement, trained as a solicitor, qualifying in 1976. column until the end of 2008.
co-authored with the Association of State He is an honorary Master of the Bench
Correctional Administrators. Judith Resnik (bencher) of Gray’s Inn and holds honorary A decade after he left the BBC, Joshua
has been awarded a Carnegie Fellowship to
doctorates in law from four universities. returned in 2010 to present the popular
support her work on prison reform and other
Radio 4 series Law in Action, a programme
pressing issues. You can read more about the
Joshua has delivered the first two of a series he had launched in 1984. The programme
award and Judith’s work here:
of three annual lectures at Gresham College is broadcast in the spring, summer and
https://bit.ly/2HQaPzy
about the government’s plans to introduce autumn each year.
The Future of Justice: Harnessing the Power of Empirical Research - May 2018
19THE SPEAKERS
THE RT HON SIR ERNEST RYDER SHANNON SALTER
Senior President, Tribunals in the UK British Columbia Civil Resolution Tribunal
Sir Ernest Ryder Justice, he was responsible for the creation Shannon Salter
is the Senior of the Family Court and the family justice is Chair of the
President of modernisation programme. In addition to Civil Resolution
Tribunals in the his appointment as the Senior President, Tribunal, Canada’s
United Kingdom he is the Head of Deployment Strategy first online
and is a judge for the Lord Chief Justice and the Course tribunal resolving
of the Court Director of the Leadership Programme at small claims and
of Appeal in the Judicial College. He regularly lectures condominium
England and at the Judicial College, the Judicial Institute disputes. She is
Wales. He is also a judicial member of in Scotland and at Universities across the an adjunct professor at the UBC Allard
the Board of Her Majesty’s Courts and United Kingdom. School of Law, teaching administrative law
Tribunals Service. He was formerly a judge and legal ethics and professional regulation.
of the Family Division of the High Court. Sir Ernest started his professional life Shannon was a BC Supreme Court judicial
as a merchant banker and has also been law clerk before practicing civil litigation at
Until his appointment to the Court of a commissioned officer in the Army a large Vancouver firm. She has served as
Appeal, Sir Ernest was the senior Presiding Reserves. He is the Chancellor Emeritus a vice chair of the Workers’ Compensation
Judge of the Northern Circuit where he sat of the University of Bolton, an honorary Appeal Tribunal and on the College of
in the criminal, civil and administrative Professor of Law and a Trustee of the Registered Nurses of BC. She is currently a
courts as well as in family. As Judge in Nuffield Foundation. commissioner of the Financial Institutions
Charge of the Modernisation of Family Commission, vice president of the BC
20AYELET SELA
Bar Ilan University
Council of Administrative Tribunals, and Ayelet Sela is an needs. Finally, she collaborates with
a board member of the Canadian Legal assistant professor researchers from the BIU Data Science
Information Institute (CanLII). She is a co- (lecturer) at Bar Institute on studies of digital contracts
author of the BC Administrative Decision Ilan University and court dockets. Previously, Dr. Sela was
Maker’s Manual, as well as a number of Faculty of Law. the socio-legal research coordinator of an
legal journal articles. Named one of the 25 Her work unites ERC-funded research on judicial conflict
Top Most Influential Lawyers in Canada research in law, resolution, a legal auditor in the Israeli
in 2017, she was previously recognized as social sciences Ministry of Justice, a fellow at the Gould
one of Canada’s New Law Pioneers by the and technology Negotiation and Dispute Resolution Center
Canadian Bar Association and an Access to explore issues of dispute system design, and the Codex Center for Legal Informatics
to Justice All-Star by the National Self- procedural justice, law and technology, and at Stanford University, and a legal clerk for
Represented Litigants Project (NSLAP). the legal profession. Dr. Sela’s current work Justice Eliezer Rivlin of the Israeli Supreme
In 2016 she was recipient of the Adam spans three areas. First, she examines the Court. Dr. Sela holds a JSD and JSM from
Albright award for outstanding teaching by impact of process design and technological Stanford Law School and an LL.B from the
an adjunct professor. Shannon is a frequent choice architecture on the behavior and Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
speaker at international conferences on experience of participants in online legal
online dispute resolution, administrative processes. Second, she analyzes the role of
law, legal education, and the future of courts and judges in an era of vanishing
law and technology. She has BA and LLB trials and how court process designs and
(UBC), and her LLM (Toronto). judicial regulation should adapt to current
The Future of Justice: Harnessing the Power of Empirical Research - May 2018
21THE SPEAKERS
RICHARD SUSSKIND OBE TOM TYLER
Society for Computers and Law Yale University
Richard Susskind numerous books, including The Future Tom R. Tyler is a
is President of of the Law (1996), Transforming the Law Macklin Fleming
the Society for (2000), The End of Lawyers? (2008), and Professor of Law
Computers and Tomorrow’s Lawyers (2013, 2017). His book and Professor of
Law, Chair of the The Future of the Professions, co-authored Psychology at Yale
Advisory Board with his son Daniel, was recognised as one University. His
of the Oxford of the books of 2015 by both the Financial research explores
Internet Institute, Times and the New Scientist. the dynamics
and Strategy of authority
& Technology Adviser to the Lord Chief Richard is a Fellow of the Royal Society of in groups, organizations, and societies.
Justice of England and Wales. He chaired Edinburgh and of the British Computer In particular, he examines the role of
the ODR Advisory Group of Civil Justice Society. In the 1980s, he wrote his judgments about the justice or injustice of
Council whose radical proposals on online doctorate on artificial intelligence and group procedures in shaping legitimacy,
courts have been adopted as judicial and the law at Balliol College, Oxford. He compliance and cooperation.
government policy. Richard is the world’s holds professorships at Oxford University,
most cited author on the future of legal UCL, Gresham College, and Strathclyde Tom is the author of several books,
services. His work has been translated into University. An Honorary Bencher at Gray’s including The social psychology of
15 languages and he has been invited to Inn, he was awarded an OBE in 2000. procedural justice (1988); Social justice in a
speak in over 50 countries. He has written diverse society (1997); Cooperation in groups
22THE NUFFIELD FOUNDATION 75th ANNIVERSARY LECTURER
THE RT HON THE BARONESS HALE OF RICHMOND DBE PC LLD FBA
President of the United Kingdom Supreme Court
(2000); Trust in the law (2002); Why people Lady Hale is she led the work of the family law team,
obey the law (2006); Why people cooperate the United resulting (among others) in the Children
(2011); and Why Children Follow Rules Kingdom’s most Act 1989 and the Mental Capacity Act
(2017). senior judge. 2005. In 1994, she was appointed a Judge
She became the of the Family Division of the High Court.
He received his Ph.D. in social psychology first woman She was promoted to the Court of Appeal
from UCLA in 1978. Since then he has Lord of Appeal in 1999 and in 2004 to the House of Lords.
taught at Northwestern University; the in Ordinary in In 2009, she became the first woman Justice
University of California at Berkeley; and 2004, after a of the Supreme Court, and was appointed
New York University. varied career as an academic lawyer, law Deputy President in 2013 and President in
reformer and judge. She was educated at 2017.
Girton College, Cambridge (where she
is now Visitor) and was called to the Bar Lady Hale was founding editor of the
by Gray’s Inn in 1969. She taught Law at Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law,
Manchester University for 18 years, and and author of the case book on The Family,
practised for a while at the Manchester Bar. Law and Society. She was a Trustee of the
Nuffield Foundation from 1987 to 2002 and
In 1984 she became the first woman to Chancellor of the University of Bristol from
serve on the Law Commission, where 2004 to 2016.
The Future of Justice: Harnessing the Power of Empirical Research - May 2018
23ABOUT THE NUFFIELD FOUNDATION ABOUT THE LEGAL EDUCATION
FOUNDATION
The Nuffield Foundation funds research, their skills and confidence in quantitative The Legal Education Foundation is a grant
analysis, and student programmes that and scientific methods. making trust that helps people better
advance social well-being across the UK. understand and use the law. We operate
We want to improve people’s lives, and We are the founder and co-funder of the across three strategic objectives: increasing
their ability to participate in society, by Nuffield Council on Bioethics, which public understanding of the law and the
understanding the social and economic examines and reports on ethical issues in capability to use it; improving the skills
factors that affect their chances in life. biology and medicine. We have recently and knowledge of lawyers; and increasing
The research we fund aims to improve established the Ada Lovelace Institute access to employment in the profession.
the design and operation of social policy, to examine the ethical and social issues We do this so that so that those working
particularly in Education, Welfare, and arising from the use of data, algorithms and in in the law can be equipped to meet legal
Justice. We have recently established the artificial intelligence. needs to the highest standard, and so that
Nuffield Family Justice Observatory to individuals and organisations with legal
support the best possible decisions for We are financially and politically needs can learn about how to use the law to
children by improving the use of data and independent, but we often work in secure rights, fair treatment and protection.
research evidence in the family justice partnership with other organisations that We place a particular emphasis on being
system in England and Wales. share our aims and interests. evidence-led and on the role of digital
technology and, more recently, have added
Our student programmes – Nuffield www.nuffieldfoundation.org policy and communications functions to
Research Placements and Q-Step – provide @NuffieldFound the organisation. We distribute around
opportunities for young people to develop £5million a year in grants. In 2014, the
24ABOUT UCL CENTRE FOR ACCESS
TO JUSTICE
Foundation established the Justice First Located within the UCL Faculty of Laws, law including specialist advice in welfare
Fellowship – a scheme to provide fully- the Centre for Access to Justice combines benefits, housing, education, and commu-
funded training contracts, pupillages and the unique advantages of clinical legal nity care
wider development opportunities for the education with the provision of pro bono
next generation of specialist social welfare legal advice to vulnerable communities, www.ucl.ac.uk/access-to-justice/
lawyers. In partnership with a growing predominately in the areas of social welfare,
number of host organisations and co- employment and education law. UCL is
funders, over fifty Fellowships have now unique in its incorporation of casework and
been funded across all four countries of the social justice awareness into the law degree
UK. programmes we offer. Working in partner-
ship with charity organisations and legal
professionals, the Centre provides legal
assistance to members of the local commu-
nity while giving students an opportunity
to gain hands on experience in meeting
legal needs. The UCL Integrated Legal Ad-
vice Clinic, based in Stratford, offers users
of the Liberty Bridge Road General Practice
and local residents free face to face general
legal advice on all aspects of social welfare
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