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23 January 2025, 6:00 pm–7:00 pm
This lecture was delivered by Professor Joe Tomlinson, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2024-25
Speaker: Professor Joe Tomlinson (University of York)
Chair: The Rt Hon Sir Ernest Ryder
About the lecture
This lecture will argue that the idea of a fair administrative process has an under-theorised social side. This is the idea that the public’s perceived (un)fair experiences of administrative processes, particularly in everyday encounters with public services, affect their attitudes and behaviours over time. In the aggregate, this effect can potentially shape the overall outcomes of government action and, in turn, society. The lecture will show how a range of empirical evidence suggests advancing understanding of this social side of the fair process presents a viable pathway to improving the fairness, legitimacy, and efficacy of public action. However, maximising the possibilities here requires us to fundamentally change how we think about procedural fairness and its role in the pursuit of good government and a more just society.
23 January 2025, 6:00 pm–7:00 pm
This lecture was delivered by Professor Joe Tomlinson, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2024-25
Speaker: Professor Joe Tomlinson (University of York)
Chair: The Rt Hon Sir Ernest Ryder
About the lecture
This lecture will argue that the idea of a fair administrative process has an under-theorised social side. This is the idea that the public’s perceived (un)fair experiences of administrative processes, particularly in everyday encounters with public services, affect their attitudes and behaviours over time. In the aggregate, this effect can potentially shape the overall outcomes of government action and, in turn, society. The lecture will show how a range of empirical evidence suggests advancing understanding of this social side of the fair process presents a viable pathway to improving the fairness, legitimacy, and efficacy of public action. However, maximising the possibilities here requires us to fundamentally change how we think about procedural fairness and its role in the pursuit of good government and a more just society.
