65 271.  The  Law  Commission  has  done  some  work  that  has  utilised  other  disciplines.   The accident compensation work involved public policy, economic and actuarial analysis.    The  work  on  the  format  of  legislation  involved  experts  on  English, type  and  publishing.    Most  notably  the  empirical  research  done  into  The Operations  of  the  New  Zealand  Jury  in  Criminal  Cases  by  Professor  Warren Young,  Neil  Cameron  and  Yvette  Tinsley  is  a  landmark  in  legal  research.⁵⁶   More of this work needs to be done.  It is expensive to undertake, but without it New Zealand will never be at the cutting edge.    272.  It  is  interesting  to  note  that  the  President  of  the  Law  Commission  of  Canada, Roderick A McDonald, has pointed out in a recent article in the Canadian Bar Review    that    the    approach    of    the    Law    Commission    of    Canada    is “multidisciplinary with the law being investigated as part of the broader social and economic environment.  The Commission understands multidisciplinary to mean  that  issues  should  not  only  be  examined,  but  also  defined  as  much  by disciplines other than law as by the law itself”.⁵⁷    273.  The time has come to take that on board in New Zealand and there is nothing in the  Law  Commission  Act  that  prevents  interdisciplinary  research.    People learned in disciplines other than the law can be appointed Commissioners and probably one Commissioner should come from a discipline outside the law.  A person with expertise in law and economics would be an obvious choice.   The analytical insights of this new discipline are of particular importance to law reform projects.    274.  But  it  is  not  merely  the  Commissioners  who  need  to  come  from  other disciplines, it is also the researchers.  The Law Commission employs primarily lawyers  as  its  researchers,  and  a  leavening  of  other  disciplines  would  be  of assistance there.  There are also occasions for particular projects where experts in particular fields should be brought in to assist the Law Commission.    275.  For  example,  the  absence  of  specific  social  science  expertise  on  the  Law Commission   may   have   at   least   in   part   been   responsible   for   the   internal                                                                                                                                              55   O W Holmes, “The Path of the Law” (1897) 10 Harvard Law Review 457.    56   Juries  in  Criminal  Trials:  Part  Two  A  Summary  of  the  Research  Findings,  NZLC  PP  37, Volume 2 (November 1999). 57   R A Macdonald, “Law Reform and its Agencies” (2000) 79 Canadian Bar Review 99, 104.