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10 September: The Lab co-hosted a conference with Garden Court Chambers at King's College London on the future of socio-economic rights.

7 September: Grace Yeo joins the Lab as London Research Scholar, associated with the University of Notre Dame. She will be researching administrative justice in English ambulance services.

1 September 2026: The Lab published a new analysis with JUSTICE, based on the 'chatmining' method, of how the public is using chatbots to resolve everyday legal problems. This research was reported in The Law Society Gazette, Legal Futures, Artificial Lawyer, and the Local Government Lawyer.

1 September, 2026: The Lab welcomes Maite Gambardella (socio-legal studies) to the Lab as a PhD student and Research Assistant. She will be based at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London, and will research administrative justice in social welfare administration.

24 August, 2026: The Lab welcomes Dr Aaron Payne (economics) to the Lab as a Research Economist. He will be based at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and associated with the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London. He will be researching the economics of administrative justice. 

15 August 2026: The Lab welcomes Eleana Kasoulide (socio-legal studies) to a new role as Research Associate in the Lab. She will be based at York Law School, University of York. She will research perceptions of fair process in social welfare administration.

7 July, 2026: Lab Co-Director, Joe Tomlinson, gives evidence to the Justice Select Committee on proposed legislation to reform immigration and asylum appeals.

7 July, 2026: The Lab's research on tribunal backlogs has been covered in The Telegraph and the Times Education Supplement Magazine.

7 July, 2026: The Lab has published a new paper on tribunal appeals backlogs via the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

6 July, 2026: The Lab welcomes Dr Aisling Ryan (socio-legal studies) back to the Lab as a Research Fellow. She will be based at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London.

29 June, 2026: Lab co-sponsors an early-career workshop on empirical research on law and courts, hosted by the Department of Political Science, University College London.

26 June, 2026: Lab Co-Director, Joe Tomlinson, gives a paper on perspectives on fairness in remote administrative appeal hearings at a University of Notre Dame conference held in London. 

24 June, 2026: Eleana Kasoulide, a PhD Student in the Lab, publishes a blog on her PhD research on the internal law of designing digital welfare services.

10 June, 2026: Lab Co-Director, Joe Tomlinson, gives a keynote lecture on the effects of fair administrative process at the Ombudsman Association Conference in Glasgow.

4 June, 2026: Lab Co-Director, Joe Tomlinson, gives a keynote presentation at Lund University's conference on the digital welfare state.