Gender Rules: Research methods in law

This conference will consider how expressions of gender in law can be explored through attention to legal rules; whether grounded in statute or common law. Presentations in the morning session will address a range of methodological questions for academic lawyers. The afternoon session will showcase examples of contemporary, cutting-edge research from leading UK scholars exploring issues of equality and gender in law.

Professor Joanne Conaghan: Approaching common law as gendered legal heritage
Author of Law and Gender (OUP) 2013

Professor Lizzie Barmes: The qualitative analysis of judgments

Author of Bullying and Behavioural Conflict at Work (OUP) 2016

Dr Ania Zbyszewska: Discourse analysis and regulatory design
Author of Gendering of European Working Time Regimes (CUP) 2016