Ms Christine Carter
College positions: Junior Research Fellow
Ms Christine Carter is a Junior Research Fellow at Magdalene College.
Ms Christine Carter's research interests lie in private law, with a focus on the relationship between private law doctrine and the factual conditions to which legal norms respond. A significant part of her work examines how private law determines responsibility, causation, and proof in contexts of uncertainty. She is particularly interested in how developments in technology, science, and empirical methods shape the attribution of legal responsibility where complex or uncertain factual evidence gives rise to difficult normative questions. Her research often combines doctrinal analysis with interdisciplinary approaches, including statistical and computational methods.
To date, her work has been published in legal journals including the Cambridge Law Journal, Industrial Law Journal, European Labour Law Journal, and Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law. She is also engaged in economic and policy-related research and recently co-authored a report for the UK Department for Business and Trade on the legal and economic implications of the Employment Rights Act 2025. In addition, she is an Associate Fellow of the ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work and previously held a Transatlantic Fellowship in Law and Technology with the Faculty of Law at Stanford University.
Alongside her research, she supervises across several Tripos papers, including Contract Law, Tort Law, Company Law, Labour Law, and Law & Economics at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. She has also delivered lectures on the LLM Advanced Labour Law paper.
Academic / Research Interest
- Tort la
- Contract law
- Company law
- Labour law
- Law & Economics
Qualifications
- BA, University of Cambridge
- LLM, University of Cambridge
- PhD, University of Cambridge
Career / Research Highlights
- 2023-2026 AHRC Studentship (full funding for PhD)
- 2023-2026 Moller Churchill College Studentship
- 2023 Prince of Wales Scholarship, Gray’s Inn
- 2021 Corpus Christi College Prize for Law
- 2020 Dr Cooper’s Law Studentship, Trinity Hall (full funding for LLM)
- 2020 Trinity Hall Law Studentship
- 2020 James W Squire Scholarship
- 2020 Trinity Hall College Prize for Law
- 2019 Trinity Hall College Prize for Law
- 2019 Alan-King Hamilton Scholarship, Trinity Hall
KEY PUBLICATIONS
Articles
Statistical Methodologies and the Treatment of Risk in Industrial Disease Disputes. Christine Carter. Industrial Law Journal, 2026, pp. 1-30.
AI surveillance: Reclaiming Privacy through Informational Control. Christine Carter. European Labour Law Journal, 16, no. 2, 2024, pp. 245-258.
Why the Algorithmic Recruiter Discriminates: The Causal Challenges of Data-driven Discrimination. Christine Carter. Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 31, no. 3, 2024, pp. 333-359.
Co-Authored Articles
On the Economic Consequences (and Causes) of Labour Laws: Estimating the Impact of the Employment Rights Act 2025. Christine Carter, Simon Deakin, Kamelia Pourkermani. Industrial Law Journal, 2026, pp. 1-46.
Shortcut Learning in Legal Judgment Prediction: Empirical Evidence from the UK Employment Tribunal. Joe Watson, Joana Ribeiro de Faria, Marcus Tomalin, Måns Magnusson, Huiyuan Xie, Hao Tian Yeung, Christine Carter, Jonathan Rutherford, Felix Steffek. arXiv, 2026.
The CLC-UKET Dataset: Benchmarking Case Outcome Prediction for the UK Employment Tribunal. Huiyuan Xie, Felix Steffek, Joana Ribeiro de Faria, Christine Carter, Jonathan Rutherford. Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024, pp. 81-96.
Notes
A Source of Material Confusion: Holmes v Poeton Holdings Limited. Christine Carter. Cambridge Law Journal, 84, no. 1, 2025, pp. 27–30.
Reports
Assessing the legal and economic implications of the Employment Rights Act 2025. Christine Carter, Simon Deakin, Conor McCormack, Kamelia Pourkermani. Department for Business & Trade, UK Government, 2026.
Labour rights in the digital economy: a first look at the CBR Platform Work Index. Louise Bishop, Christine Carter, Simon Deakin, Kamelia Pourkermani. Digit Data Commentary, 06, Digital Futures at Work Research Centre, 2025.
Leximetric Datasets - Labour, Company and Insolvency, 1970-2025. John Armour, Zoe Adams, Bhumika Billa, Louise Bishop, Christine Carter, Simon Deakin, Tvisha Shroff, Mathias Siems. Centre for Business Research, 2025.
CBR Platform Work Index. Louise Bishop, Christine Carter, Simon Deakin, 2025.
Email
mcc90@cam.ac.uk