“…Accordingly, social sciences and humanities scholars, alongside many scholars housed in law schools, have been arguing QRJ 23,1 for an expansion of the role of qualitative research in legal inquiry and for qualitative researchers to take legal texts as objects of inquiry more readily (Dobinson and Johns, 2007;Linos and Carlson, 2017;Webley, 2010). Indeed, some have argued that qualitative inquiry is essential for understanding law itself, while others have argued that qualitative research can play a crucial role in improving legal systems and legal analysis (Hanley et al, 2016;Kennedy, 2019). Judgments have been a particular site of interest in this respect, illustrated by the rapid growth of feminist, queer, and Indigenous judgment projects in recent years (Gayoye et al, 2021;Sharpe, 2017;Watson and Douglas, 2021).…”