Empirical Legal Research at UCL Laws

Committee Members

Advisory Committee

• Professor Martin Partington CBE, Law Commissioner (Chair)
• Professor Robert Burgess, Vice Chancellor, University of Leicester
• The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Robert Carnwath
• Professor Ian Diamond, Chief Executive, Economic and Social Research Council
• Professor Dame Hazel Genn DBE QC, Faculty of Laws, University College London
• Valerie Macniven, Head of Civil and International Group, Scottish Executive Justice Department
• Walter Merricks, Chief Ombudsman, Financial Ombudsman Service
• Professor Alan Paterson, Vice President, Society of Legal Scholars
• Professor Genevra Richardson, Trustee Nuffield Foundation
• Roger Smith, Director, Justice
• Jonathan Spencer, Director-General Clients and Policy, Department for Constitutional Affairs
• Professor Sally Wheeler, Chair, Socio-Legal Studies Association
• Professor Paul Wiles, Chief Scientific Advisor and Director, Strategy Research and Statistics, Home Office
• Sharon Witherspoon, Deputy Director Nuffield Foundation

Professor Dame Hazel Genn QC and Professor Sally Wheeler will have responsibility for the day-to-day work of the Inquiry.