Joe Tomlinson

SELECTED RECENT WORK

• 'Administrative Justice, Apologies, and the Limits of Reason-Giving' [2026] Public Law, with Jed Meers, Simon Halliday, Eppie Leishman, and Iva Stojanovic

• 'What is driving increases in tribunals backlogs?' (2026) Institute for Fiscal Studies, with Luca Rizzotti

• 'The Importance of Assistance for Disability Benefits Claiming: Administrative Burden, Bureaucratic Rationality, and the False Promise of Equality' (2026) Journal of Social Security Law, with Ruth Friskney, Simon Halliday, Jed Meers, Gillian MacIntyre, and Ben Seyd

• 'Human Rights, Public Law, and Administrative Burden' (2026) 89(3) Modern Law Review 507, with Cassandra Somers-Joce

• Mark Bennett, Jed Meers, and Joe Tomlinson, 'Fraud and Fair Process in Benefits Administration: An Empirical Study of Targeted Case Reviews in Universal Credit' (2026) 33(1) Journal of Social Security Law 15

• ‘The Social Side of Fair Process’ (2025) 78 Current Legal Problems 103

• Artificial Intelligence and Public Law (Hart Bloomsbury, 2025), with Brendan McGurk KC 

• ‘Perceptions of procedural fairness and space for personal narrative’ (2025) 52(1) Journal of Law & Society 81, with Jed Meers and Aisling Ryan

• ‘Does digital immigration status unlawfully penalise EU citizens in the UK rental market?’ (2025) 88(1) Modern Law Review 33, with Jed Meers, Charlotte O’Brien, and Alice Welsh

CURRENT WORKING PAPERS

• Just Bureaucracy: Managing Claims Fairly in the Modern Welfare State, with Aleksandra Chichoka, Ben Seyd, Jed Meers, and Simon Halliday

• 'Hyperefficient Bureaucratic Rationality: Fraud and Error, Administrative Justice, and the Burdens of the Digital Welfare State', with Mark Bennett and Jed Meers

• 'Demand Shocks in Administrative Justice: A Study of the Backlogs Crisis in the Tribunals,' with Luca Rizzotti

• 'Artificial Intelligence in Tribunals: An Experimental Study of Perceptions of Justice', with Jed Meers

• 'The Transformation of the Tribunal Hearing: Perspectives on Choice, Process, and Outcome in Online Mental Health Appeals', with Magda Furgalska and Cassie Somers-Joce

• 'Hard Choices about Soft Law: An Experimental Study of Rule-based Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in Public Administration', with Jed Meers, Alexandra Sinclair, and Kimberlee Weatherall

• 'Waiting for Bureaucratic Justice', with Jed Meers, Michela Tinelli, Sanna-Leea Read, Simon Halliday, and Eppie Leishman 

• 'Of Burdens and Bots: How Benefit Claimants Use Generative AI Chatbots', with Jed Meers and Iva Stojanović 

• 'Process Evaluations and System Legitimacy in Reformed Welfare Services', with Aleksandra Chichoka, Ben Seyd, Jed Meers, and Simon Halliday

FULL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

A full list of publications is available HERE via the King's College London PURE database.