Publications

The Lab’s projects result in a wide variety of research publications. These papers are listed below and, wherever possible, are made open access.

Journal articles

  • Jed Meers, Simon Halliday, and Joe Tomlinson, ‘An ‘interface first’ bureaucracy’ (2024) Social Policy & Administration (online pre-print)

  • Simon Halliday, Jed Meers, and Joe Tomlinson, ‘Procedural Legitimacy Logics within the Digital Welfare State’ (2024) 24(1) Journal of Social Security Law 64 (30th Anniversary Special Issue)

  • Jed Meers, Joe Tomlinson, Alice Welsh, and Charlotte O’Brien, ‘Does digital status unlawfully penalise EU citizens accessing the UK's private rented sector?’ (2024) Modern Law Review (online pre-print)

  • Joe Tomlinson, Eleana Kasoulide, Simon Halliday, and Jed Meers, ‘Direct and Vicarious Administrative Burden’ (2024) Journal of Refugee Studies (online pre-print)

  • Joe Tomlinson, Eleana Kasoulide, Simon Halliday, and Jed Meers, ‘Hosts’ Experiences of the Homes for Ukraine Scheme: A Qualitative Study’ (2023) 37(4) Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law 321

  • Joe Tomlinson, Eleana Kasoulide, Simon Halliday, and Jed Meers, ‘Whose Procedural Fairness?’ (2023) 45(3) Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 278

  • Joe Tomlinson, Jed Meers and Cassandra Somers-Joce, ‘Judicial Review of Public Data Gaps?’ [2023] Judicial Review 69.

Chapters in books

  • Joe Tomlinson and Eleana Kasoulide, ‘Delays and Backlogs as an Administrative Justice Problem’ in Stephen Thompson, Greg Weekes and Matthew Groves (eds), Administrative Tribunals in the Common Law World (Hart Bloomsbury, 2024)

  • Joe Tomlinson, Jed Meers, and Simon Halliday, ‘Why we need to rethink procedural fairness for the digital age and how we should do it’ in Bartosz Brożek, Olia Kanevskaia, and Przemysław Pałka (eds), Research Handbook on Law and Technology (Edward Elgar 2023)

Reports and briefings

  • Joe Tomlinson, Aleksandra Cichocka, Simon Halliday, Jed Meers, and Ben Seyd, Administrative Fairness in the Digital Welfare State (No.2): Bureaucratic Justice in Universal Credit (Nuffield Foundation Paper, 2024)

  • Joe Tomlinson, Jed Meers, and Simon Halliday, Administrative Fairness in the Digital Welfare State (No.1): Procedural Legitimacy Logics within the Digital Welfare State (Nuffield Foundation Paper, 2024)

Blog posts

  • Naoise Coakley, ‘“You could be waiting forever”: Managing Autism Assessment Waiting Lists’ (2024) Essex CAJI Blog

  • Joe Tomlinson, ‘Why has there been a 264% increase in asylum appeals?’ (2024) UK Constitutional Law Blog

  • Joe Tomlinson, Angela Paul, and Jed Meers, ‘Are Statutory Duties to Protect the ‘Vulnerable’ a Good Idea?’ (2024) UK Constitutional Law Blog

  • Simon Halliday, ‘What do ordinary people mean by procedural fairness (and why should we care)?’ (2024)

  • Joe Tomlinson, Simon Halliday, Eleana Kasoulide, and Jed Meers ‘Targeted case reviews: a legitimate compliance exercise or a scandal in the making?’ (2023) UK Constitutional Law Blog

  • Joe Tomlinson, ‘Government should publish user research for the public good’ (2023) Public Technology

  • Jed Meers, Joe Tomlinson, Charlotte O’Brien, and Alice Welsh ‘Rights on Paper?’ (2023) UK Constitutional Law Blog