Research Agenda for Social Welfare Law, Policy and Practice

Edited by Michael Adler, Emeritus Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, School of Social and Political Science, The University of Edinburgh, UK

• Contents:1 Introduction: A view from the bridge 1Michael AdlerPART I SOCIAL WELFARE LAW2 A public law perspective 25Tom Mullen3 Family law and social welfare research: Towardsa sustainable symbiosis? 43Mavis Maclean4 A human rights lens: Reclaiming the narrative forsocial rights as legal rights 59Katie Boyle and Diana Camps5 An administrative justice perspective 77Lee Marsons and Maurice SunkinPART II SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY6 Insights from health and social care 97Jackie Gulland7 A social security perspective 115Mark Simpson8 A view from education and employment law 133Amir Paz-Fuchs and Tammy Harel Ben-Shahar9 Social harms, crime and criminal justice 153Chris GroverPART III METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES10 An anthropological perspective 173Insa Lee Koch11 Normative approaches 191Beth Watts and Katie Colliver12 Feminist jurisprudence and administrative justice 211Sharon Cowan and Simon Halliday13 Race, gender and discrimination – learning fromZambrano 227Iyiola SolankePART IV IMPORTANT POLICY DEVELOPMENTS14 The outsourcing perspective 245Robert Thomas15 Digital technologies and artificial intelligence:a computer science perspective 263Paul Henman16 The street level of the welfare state 281Peter Hupe and Michael Hill17 Concluding thoughts: Après le déluge 301Michael AdlerIndex

‘We are (yet again) at a pivotal point in social welfare – after the global financial crisis, after Brexit, and approaching the worst recession in living memory. In this novel book, leading figures across social welfare law and policy address the methodological challenges that face us as researchers and also as actors in this unforgiving world. Full of insight, this is a book which transcends disciplinary narratives and should be read widely. Having had the privilege of reading the chapters in advance of publication, their appreciations of the field are already impacting on my thinking.’