Publications

Papers on our research can be downloaded from the University of Westminster School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series at SSRN.

Research monographs

• Sommerlad H. & Webley, L., Duff, L. Muzio, D., Tomlinson, J. (2013) Diversity in the Legal Profession in England and Wales: A Qualitative Study of Barriers and Individual Choices (London: University of Westminster Law Press) ISBN: 978-0-9927330-0-1, First published 2010, reissued 2013 with Legal Services Board Foreword.
• Webley, L. (2010) Adversarialism & Consensus? The Professions’ Construction of Solicitor and Family Mediator Identity and Role (New Orleans: Quid Pro Books LLC) pp. 214 ISBN:  9781610270106.
• Bacquet S. & Webley L. (2006) A Review of How Other Countries Provide Advice to the Vulnerable on Consumer and Social Issues (London: Department of Trade & Industry) pp. 54.
• Webley, L., Abrams, P. & Bacquet, S. (2006) Report on the Evaluation of the Birmingham Court-based Civil Mediation Scheme (London: The Department for Constitutional Affairs) pp. 169.
• Duff, L. & Webley, L. (2004) Equality and Diversity: Women Solicitors Research Study 48 Volume II Law Society Research Study Series (London: The Law Society) pp. 64 ISBN:185328-972-8.
• Moorhead, R., Sherr, A., Webley, L., Rogers, S., Sherr, L., Paterson, A. & Domberger, S. (2001) Quality and Cost: Final Report on the Contracting of Civil Non-Family Advice and Assistance Pilot (Norwich: The Stationery Office) pp. xii, 237 ISBN:0-11-702741-3.

Peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters in edited collections

• Camplin, H. (2017) Changing Landscapes: The relationship between Student Law Clinics, Litigants in Person and family law dispute resolution in England and Wales. International Family Law, Policy and Practice, 5 (1). pp. 25-32. ISSN 2055-4802
• Kathrani, P. (2017) 'Kandinsky-fying’ the law: A translaborative use of abstract art in the law classroom. Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts, 3 (3). 370–387. ISSN 2352-1805
• Webley, L. (2017) When is mediation mediatory and when is it really adjudicatory? Religion, Norms and decision-making. In: Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes: Women, Mediation, and Religious Arbitration. University Press of New England. ISBN 9781512600353
• Kathrani, P. (2017) An ‘existential’ shift? Technology and some questions for the legal profession. Legal Ethics. ISSN 1460-728X (In Press)
• Creutzfeldt, N. (2016) An Introduction to Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) for Consumers in Europe. In: The Citizen in European Private Law: Norm-setting, Enforcement and Choice. Intersentia, Cambridge, pp. 141-151. ISBN 9781780683737
• Creutzfeldt, N. (2016) What do we expect from an ombudsman? Narratives of everyday engagement with the informal justice system in Germany and the UK. International Journal of Law in Context, 12 (4). pp. 437-452. ISSN 1744-5523
• Creutzfeldt, N. and Bradford, B. (2016) Dispute resolution outside of courts: procedural justice and decision acceptance among users of ombuds services in the UK. Law and Society Review, 50 (4). pp. 985-1016. ISSN 0023-9216
• Creutzfeldt, N. (2016) A voice for change? Trust relationships between ombudsmen, individuals and public service providers.Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 38 (4). pp. 460-479. ISSN 0964-9069
• ◾Creutzfeldt, N. (2016) Book review: Regulating Dispute Resolution. ADR and Access to Justice at the Crossroads. Felix Steffek and Hannes Unberath (eds) in coop. with Hazel Genn, Reinhard Greger and Carrie Menkel-Meadow. Oxford & Portland, Ore: Hart 2013. Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht = The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law, 80 (3). pp. 709-712. ISSN 0033-7250
• Creutzfeldt, N. and Berlin, C. (2016) ADR in aviation: European and national perspectives. Civil Justice Quaterly, 35 (2). pp. 148-161. ISSN 0261-9261
• Economou, D., Doumanis, I., Pedersen, F.S., Kathrani, P., Mentzelopoulos, M., Bouki, V. and Georgalas, N. (2016) Westminster Serious Games Platform (wmin-SGP) a tool for real-time authoring of roleplay simulations for learning. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Future Intelligent Educational Environments, 16 (6). e5. ISSN 2409-0034
• Mason, M (2015) Making way for change at the Bar: The practical implications of the new Bar Standards Board Handbook.Journal of Professional Negligence, 31 (3). pp. 139-155. ISSN 1746-6709
• Mentzelopoulos, M., Parrish, J, Kathrani, P. and Economou, D. (2016) Immersive Learning Research Network. In: Immersive Learning Research Network: Volume 621 of the series Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, June 27 – July 1, 2016, pp. 73-84. ISBN 9783319417691
• Webley, Lisa (2015) Legal Professional De(Re)Regulation, Equality, and Inclusion, and the Contested Space of Professionalism Within the Legal Market in England and Wales. Fordham Law Review, 83 (5). pp. 2349-2367.
• Creutzfeldt, N. (2014) Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumers. In: The Role of Consumer ADR in the Administration of Justice - New Trends in Access to Justice under EU Directive 2013/11. Sellier, Munich, pp. 3-10. ISBN 9783866536098
• Creutzfeldt, N. (2014) How important is procedural justice for Consumer Dispute Resolution? A case study of an ombudsman model for European Consumers. Journal of Consumer Policy, 37 (4). pp. 527-546. ISSN 0168-7034
• Floyd, L (2014) Researching professional identities of female law students: Ethical issues and dilemmas. Review of Social Studies, 1 (1). pp. 1-19. ISSN 205-448X
• Mason, M. (2014) Room at the inns: the increased scope of regulation under the new Bar Standards Board Handbook for England and Wales. Legal Ethics, 17 (1). pp. 143-147. ISSN 1460-728X
• Webley, Lisa (2014) The Former Legal Director of the London Times, Legal Professional Privilege and the Duty Not to Mislead the Court in England and Wales. Legal Ethics, 17 (2). pp. 310-312.
• Webley, Lisa (2013) United Kingdom: What Robinson v Solicitors Regulation Authority Tells Us about the Contested Terrain of Race and Disciplinary Processes. Legal Ethics, 16 (1). pp. 236-241.
• Tomlinson, Jennifer, Muzio, Daniel, Sommerlad, Hilary, Webley, Lisa and Duff, Liz (2013) Structure, agency and the career strategies of women and BME individuals in the legal profession. Human Relations, 66 (2). pp. 245-269. ISSN 0018-7267
• Creutzfeldt, N., Hodges, C. and Benoehr, I. (2012) Consumer–to–business dispute resolution: the power of CADR. ERA Forum Journal of the Academy of European Law, 13 (2). pp. 199-225. ISSN 1612-3093
• Creutzfeldt, N. and Berlin, C. (2012) Verbraucher-ADR in Europa wird gestärkt. Zeitschrift für Konfliktmanagement, 15 (2). pp. 57-60. ISSN 1439-2127
• Webley, L. (2010) Gate-Keeper, Supervisor or Mentor? The Role of Professional Bodies in the Regulation and Professional Development of Solicitors and Family Mediators Undertaking Divorce Matters in England and Wales. 32(2) Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 119-133 ISSN: 0964-9069.
• Webley, L. (2010) Part III Doing Empirical Legal Studies Research Chapter 38 - Qualitative Approaches to ELS in Cane, P. & Kritzer, H. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Studies. (Oxford University Press) 926-950 ISBN13: 978-0-199-54247-5.
• Webley, L. (2010) Solicitors as Imagined Masculine, Family Mediators as Fictive Feminine and the Hybridisation of Divorce Solicitors in Mortensen, R., Bartlett, F. & Tranter, K. (eds.) Alternative Perspectives on Lawyers and Legal Ethics: Reimagining the Profession (Sydney: Routledge-Cavendish) 132-150 ISBN: 978-0-415-54652-2.
• Bacquet, S., Boon, A., Webley, L. & Whyte A. (2009) The Next Generation of Legal Aid Solicitors – The LSC’s Training Grants Scheme Buck, A., Pleasence, P. & Balmer, N. (ed.) Reaching Further: Innovation, Access and Quality in Legal Services (London: The Stationery Office) 143-165 ISBN: 978-0-11-706724-0.
• Webley, L. & Duff, L. (2007) Women Solicitors as a Barometer for Problems within the Legal Profession – Time to Put Values Before Profits? Vol. 34 No. 3  Journal of Law & Society 374-402 ISSN:0263-323X
• Webley, L. (2004) Divorce Solicitors and Ethical Approaches – The Best Interests of the Client and/or the Best Interests of the Family? Vol. 7 Part 2 Legal Ethics 231-250 ISSN: 1460-728X.
• Webley, L. (2001) Comment: Pro Bono and the Young Profession: A View from England and Wales in Special Issue: For the Public Good Pro Bono and the Legal Profession in Australia Vol. 19 Law in Context 45-49 ISBN:1-86287-411-5.
• Webley, L. (2000) Pro Bono and Young Solicitors: Views from the Front Line Vol.3 Legal Ethics 152-168 ISSN: 1460-728X.

Other journal articles and book chapters

• Webley, L. Gender, Hierarchy, Power and Inequality:  What Sociological Theory Adds to our Understanding of Sex-Discrimination (2012) Vol. 1 Westminster Law Review 1-6 available on the Westminster Law and Theory Lab website
• Webley, L., Abrams, P. & Bacquet, S. (2006) Mediation through the Birmingham Court-based Scheme Vol. 9 Part 1 Journal of Housing Law 9-12 ISSN: 1368-6542.

Professional publications/articles (by invitation)

• Webley, L. (2012) The Legal Education and Training Review: Correspondent’s Report for the United Kingdom Vol. 15 (1) Legal Ethics 140.
• Webley, L. (2011) Law Students as Peer Mentors: Developing the Reflective Practitioner and/or Embedding Legal Learning: Correspondent’s Report from the United KingdomVol. 14 (2) Legal Ethics 250.
• Webley, L. (2011) Legal Ethics in the Academic Curriculum: Correspondent’s Report from the United Kingdom Vol. 14 (1) Legal Ethics 132.
• Webley, L. (2011) Diversity in the Legal Profession: A Business or an Ethical Rationale? Correspondent’s Report from the United Kingdom Vol.13 (2) Legal Ethics 223.
• Webley, L. (2008) Paralegals in Cane, P. & Conaghan, J. (eds.) New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press) ISBN-13:978-0-19-929054-3.
• Webley, L. (2008) The Cost of Claiming and Complaining in Cane, P. & Conaghan, J. (eds.) New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press) ISBN-13:978-0-19-929054-3.
• Webley, L. (2008) Legal Ethics 2008: report on the 3rd International Legal Ethics Conference Autumn Directions in Legal Education 16-17 ISSN:1474-7774.
• A series of pro bono articles in the Law Institute of Victoria’s Journal for the legal profession in Victoria, Australia:
• Webley, L. (2004) Access Key In The UK September Law Institute of Victoria Journal 83 ISSN:0023-9267.
• Webley, L. (2004) Legal Aid and Legal Need November Law Institute of Victoria Journal 91 ISSN:0023-9267.

Research reports to external funders

• Bacquet, S., Boon, A., Webley, L. & Whyte, A. (2008) An Evaluation of the Training Contract Grants Scheme, Final Report to the Legal Services Commission.
• Bacquet S. & Webley L. (2006) Interim Report on How Other Countries Provide Advice to the Vulnerable on Consumer and Social Issues, Department of Trade & Industry.
• Webley, L., Abrams, P. & Bacquet, S. (2005) Second Interim Report on the Birmingham Court-based Civil Mediation Scheme, Report to the Department for Constitutional Affairs.
• Webley, L., Abrams, P. & Bacquet, S. (2005) First Interim Report on the Birmingham Court-based Civil Mediation Scheme, Report to the Department for Constitutional Affairs.
• Duff, L. & Webley, L. (2003) Women Solicitors: Equality and Diversity, Report to the Law Society of England and Wales.
• Webley, L. (2002) National Means Of Implementation Of Third Pillar Instruments England and Wales National Report, Report to the European Commission.
• Webley, L. (2002) Legality & Feasibility of the Creation, Maintenance and Use of a European Criminal Record England and Wales National Report, Report to the European Commission.
• Webley, L. (2000) Solicitors Pro Bono Group Guide to Pro Bono Opportunities, Survey of Views of Contributors and Readers, Solicitors Pro Bono Group & Gulbenkian Foundation.
• Hanson, S. & Webley, L. (2000) Interim report of Iolis project for LLB (Law School) and PHE (Faculty of Continuing Education) courses, Birkbeck College, City Solicitors Educational Trust.