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Law: Social Justice

Resources and support for students studying Law

Featured website - Warwick University - Centre for Human Rights in Practice

A very impressive set of Resources for those concerned with Human Rights, Equality and Public Spending Cuts.

It comprises 7 sections - each one full of reports, articles, statistics, legal challenges, research papers, bibliographic entries and full text material (where possible). Highly recommended

Featured Website - Joseph Rowntree Foundation

JRF is the leading social policy/social justice organisation in the UK, researching poverty, social exclusion and welfare reform. Highly  recommended

The site is broken down in to 6 broad areas: Income & Benefits, Housing, People, Work, and Cities, Towns & Neighbourhoods.

Browse content using the sub-topic menus or use Search option. Filter results by England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland and/or by type, e.g. Reports, Blogs, News or Data & Charts. You can further limit by year. Material may be in text or multi-media format.

British Library Social Welfare Portal

British Library's Social Welfare Portal includes a high quality collection of full text research and evaluation reports, Parliamentary papers, consultations and policy proposals selected by social policy curators and available for immediate download.As well as these digital documents, you’ll find details of books, journal articles, official papers, theses, archived websites and datasets in the British Library’s collections.

Choose  'Services by Activity' for a number of key areas including Poverty Alleviation Welfare Benefits and Financial Inclusion

A Short Film made by Claimants for the Dole - DoleAnimators

Ulster Law Clinic