Hanock combines his practical legal experience with formal training in both Law and Sociology to study interactions between Law and Society using original data and quantitative techniques. His doctoral dissertation in Law employs network analysis to highlight inefficiencies in the flow of information between the scientific community and the legal system, resulting in a sub- optimal use of scientific evidence in courts. His dissertation in Sociology utilizes spatial methods to demonstrate how Constitutional and Family Law shape population dynamics such as fertility and grandparental investment in grandchildren, thereby setting out a new, more involved role for the Law in population studies.