'Socio-Legal Studies' in the UK has grown mainly out of the interest
of law schools in promoting interdisciplinary studies of law.[46]
Whether regarded as an emerging discipline, sub-discipline or a
methodological approach, it is often viewed in light of its relationship
to, and oppositional role within, law.[47]
It should not, therefore, be confused with the legal sociology of many
West European countries or the Law and Society scholarship in the US,
which foster much stronger disciplinary ties with social sciences. In
the past, it has been presented as the applied branch of the sociology
of law and criticised for being empiricist and atheoretical.[48]
Max Travers, for example, regards Socio-Legal Studies as a subfield of
social policy, 'mainly concerned with influencing or serving government
policy in the provision of legal services'[49] and adds that it "has given up any aspirations it once had to develop general theories about the policy process".[50]
Notable practitioners of Socio-Legal Studies include Professor Carol Smart, co-director of the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life, (named after the sociologist, David Morgan), as well as Professor Mavis Maclean and John Eekelaar who are joint directors of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy (OXFLAP).
Notable practitioners of Socio-Legal Studies include Professor Carol Smart, co-director of the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life, (named after the sociologist, David Morgan), as well as Professor Mavis Maclean and John Eekelaar who are joint directors of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy (OXFLAP).
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