ABSTRACT
The appearance of an extract from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in the context of a legal research methods book is seemingly incongruous. How might children’s literary fiction bear any relevance to the pursuit of serious, academic legal research? This chapter will seek to answer this question within a broad-ranging consideration of a law and humanities approach to legal research, as well as considering, more specifically, some ways in which the topic of lay decision-making in the legal system might be addressed within a law and humanities remit.
