Avrom Sherr's research work covers the sociology of the legal and other professions, the delivery of legal services, legal education, legal ethics and the management and organisation of legal services, legal aid and the legal profession. He has acted as a researcher and consultant to governments and the European Commission and also to the Law Society, the Bar Council, the Commission for Racial Equality, the Legal Aid Board, the Legal Services Commission and other professional bodies including the Osteopaths and the Actuaries. Multi-disciplinary work has included work in the areas of sociology, psychology, economics and public health as related to law. His main interests are professional competence, professional education, procedural fairness, access to justice and academic independence.

His university administration work has included sitting on some 30 university committees at Warwick, Liverpool and the University of London. He has been a Higher Education Funding Council Reporting Assessor on teaching quality and on the QAA Benchmarking Group for Law. He has been involved in a number of committees of the Law Society, was a member of the Ethnic Minority Advisory Committee of the Judicial Studies Board and was appointed to the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct. He has also been actively involved in organisational and charitable work within the community including school governorship, university chaplaincy committees and organisation of welfare rights services. Among his writings are Quality and Cost - Contracting of Civil Advice and Assistance Pilot (2001), Client Care for Lawyers (1999), Lawyers - The Quality Agenda (1994) and Superheroes and Slaves: Images and Work of the Legal Professional, (1995) and Freedom of Protest, Public Order and the Law, Blackwells, Oxford, 1989.