Jed Meers

Profile

Biography

Dr Jed Meers

LLB, MRes, PhD, PGCAP (York)

Senior Lecturer

I am a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of York. With Professor Joe Tomlinson (York Law School) and Professor Simon Halliday (Strathclyde Law School) I am a founding member and co-Director of the Administrative Fairness Lab. My research interests are focused mainly on social welfare law and policy, administrative law, equality and discrimination law, and local government.

For an up-to-date list of research publications, please see my page on York Research database. If you are after something that is otherwise behind a paywall, do please get in touch.

I’m currently working on a range of projects, including:

• A package of work examining administrative fairness in front-line health care contexts
• An evaluation of the Universal Credit system 
• An examination of council tax support and collection policies in Local Government
• A study examining needs assessment processes under the Care Act 2014

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Legal concepts (module convenor)
• Public law II (module convenor)
• Public law I
• Introduction to law and society
• Anti-social behaviour law and policy
• Housing policy

External activities

Memberships

• Socio-legal Studies Association Executive Committee Member
• Cases Editor, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law
• Co-Convenor, ‘Social Rights, Citizenship and the Welfare State’, Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference Stream
• Conference Administrator, Society of Legal Scholars (Paperbank and EasyChair)