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Francine Ryan, Director of the Open Justice Centre and Senior Lecturer in Law leads us all in a rousing festive sing-a-long. 

The festive season is upon us, so I thought I would bring you an alternative Twelve Days of Christmas designed for the social justice warrior in all of us. Don’t forget to sing….

Liz Hardie, Teaching Director at the Open University Law School writes about anniversaries and the Open Justice team chapter that was published last week in ‘Law in Motion: 50 Years of Legal Change’

At the start of this advent blog, here is a quick quiz to find out how much you know about Christmas. 

Simon Lee, Professor of Law at the Open University writes about his interest in Christmas crime novels and recommends trying your hand at one....

Dr Caroline Derry, Senior Lecturer in the Open University Law School writes about 24 December 1919, a special day for women and the law.

Open Justice student Dona Mclachlan lets us in on her well-being secret.

I am an addict, you could be too.

The Education for Justice (E4J) online course – developed to prevent crime and promote lawfulness to students – has been translated into Spanish, widening its appeal further than ever before.

Created thanks to a partnership between the OU’s Open Justice Centre and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), E4J supplies integrity and ethics education resources for schools, colleges and universities around the world.

Jill St George gained her LLB, LLM and PgDip BVC before embarking on an academic career at the University of Aberystwyth in 2009. Having lived in Bahrain and Barbados from 2011, Jill returned to England and started a PhD at the University of Sussex, which is currently in the “writing up” stage. Jill has recently joined the OU Law School as a lecturer.

With an admittedly fairly tenuous link, I introduce you to my research area within the theme of Christmas!

Dr Stephanie Pywell, Senior Law Lecturer at the Open University writes about her research into weddings and related ceremonies.

Dr Marjan Ajevski writes about his interest in Space Law and its developments in this blog post.

Dr Miriam Mbah joined the Open University as a Lecturer in Law in September 2020. She has both an LLM and a PhD in Public Procurement Law.