In this episode we celebrate World Day for International Justice 2021. On 17 July 1998 the Rome Conference, negotiating the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was closed and the Rome Statute, creating the ICC, was open for signatures and ratifications. It finally came into force in 2002 with 60 ratifications. It now has 123 state parties and it is dedicated to prosecuting the most serious of crimes, Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, War Crimes, and Aggression. Some day soon we might add the crime of Ecocide to the list. In this episode, I talk with Dr Alessandra Cuppini about e ..read more

Welcome to a new episode of Research @ OU Law School. On today's episode, Paul Troop, a Lecturer here at the Law School, has a conversation with Rosemary Hunter, a Professor of Law and Socio-Legal Studies from the University of Kent Law school, and one of the co-organisers at the Feminist Judgments Project. They talk about legal reasoning, the Feminist Judgments Project and judging in general. I enjoyed listening to their conversation and I hope that you will too. If you wish to find out more about Paul Troop, please visit www.open.ac.uk/people/pbt55 or listen to one of our previous episodes w ..read more

The OU Law School celebrates LGBTQ+ history month with a talk by Dr Caroline Derry and Andrew Gilbert. In their Voices from Parliament talk they spotlight two periods in British history and the regulation of same sex relationships by the British Parliament. A short working, some of the quotes given by MPs are quite harsh towards members of the LGBTQ+ community so please take that under advisement while listening to this episode. As always you can find out more about us on our website http://law-school.open.ac.uk/. I hope you enjoy this episode and come again for more ..read more

Welcome to another episode of Research at OU Law School. On today’s episode we have a book launch and the book in question is Lesbianism and the Criminal Law written by my dear friend and colleague Caroline Derry, a Senior Lecturer at the Law School. The discussion is hosted by Professor Simon Lee of the Law Scholl, together with Caroline Derry and Professor Rosemary Auchmuty of the University of Reading School of Law. To pick up Caroline’s book visit this link https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030352998 and enter the promo code: PM20TWENTY4 for a 20% discount. Hope you enjoy the discussion ..read more

Welcome to another episode of Research at OU Law School. Today I have a talk with Paul Dale, one of the many Associate Lecturers at the Law School. We talk with Paul about his PhD project on John Austin, an early legal philosopher. Paul’s project is a re-imagining of Austin. We talk about Austin’s life, and about how his religion and the intellectual community that he was a part of, influenced his views on law, morality and politics. Hope you enjoy this episode, and if you want to find out more about Paul, go to https://bit.ly/3d2IG89 I am Marjan Ajevski and I am the research fellow at the OU ..read more

Welcome to Research @ OU Law School. We continue with our Judging Brexit series in this episode. I have a talk with David Denis about his recent blog post on Llewellyn, Hart and Miller 2 on the UK Constitutional Law Association's blog (https://bit.ly/33AJGLW). We discuss the insights of the early realists, Hart, and what they would say about the recent Miller 2 judgment. We also have some laughs along the way. Don't forget to also check out our 50 Years of Law blog dedicated to the Open University's 50th birthday (http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/50YearsOfLaw/). It is where we post the videos of th ..read more

Welcome to another episode of Research @ OU Law School. Today we have a talk with Sjors Lighart who is a PhD student and Tilburg University. He studies the human rights implication of brain scanning and brain reading technologies. With current technologies it is possible to "read" someones brain in a way that can be used in criminal justice. For example, a person can be shown images of objects and the brain scan will detect whether they recognize that object. If that object was involved in a crime it could corroborate or disqualify a persons testimony. Also, like DNA evidence, this evidence ca ..read more

Welcome to another episode of Research @ OU Law School. Continuing in our Judging Brexit series, in this episode we have a chat between Prof Simon Lee and Dr Leslie Budd from the Business School. Leslie is a bit of a Renaissance man with a background in economics, engineering and across the social sciences. They talk about the possible wider ramifications of Brexit on the UK from a political and economic perspectives. As always, you can find out about us on our web site: http://law-school.open.ac.uk/. Don't forget to visit our blog in celebration of the OU's 50th birthday by going to: www.open ..read more

Welcome to another Research @ OU Law School podcast. The Law School is starting a series on Judging Brexit, where various academics from the Law School and its sister faculty the Business school have a conversation about all things legal and Brexit. Last week, Professor Simon Lee and Lecturer Simon Lavis had a chat about what the Supreme Court judgments mean for the UK's constitutional arrangement, how to read Supreme Court judgments, and how referendums impact the constitutional settlement at the time. This audio is taken from four different video recordings that were aimed primarily for stud ..read more

Welcome to a special kind of episode from Research @ OU Law School where I have a talk with Prof Simon Lee about the latest UK Supreme Court judgement on parliamentary prorogation. We talk about reading the latest judgement, reading the language of the Supreme Court and put Simon's decades long fascination with all things judicial. Hope you enjoy listening to this episode, I certainly enjoyed making it. Just a reminder that we will be launching our celebration of the Open University's 50th birthday in a couple of weeks, so watch this space. You can find out more about us on our website. My nam ..read more