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Suits, Law and Order and the Good Wife portray law as a glamorous, dynamic and glitzy profession, but what is it really like working for a law firm? Is the reality a little less New York City skyscraper and more about the long hours and personal sacrifice required by lawyers?

Two Law School academics have created a biographical timeline of the first female judges as a free resource on digital learning platform OpenLearn.

The conference, which forms part of the OU’s 50th anniversary celebrations, has attracted some 150 delegates from various parts of Africa and the rest of the world, offering an opportunity to collaborate and co-create an ambitious vision for learning for the next 50 years and beyond.

The OU’s 2018-19 Annual Report celebrates some of the highlights of an outstanding 50th anniversary year. 

Executive Dean of the Business and Law Schools, Professor Devendra Kodwani,hosted a lecture for new and returning Business and Law School students Wednesday 20 November. This new initiative took place in the Berrill Theatre and for an online audience via YouTube Live.

The Open Justice Centre’s prison radio project at HMP Altcourse near Liverpool has been featured on BBC Radio Four’s Law in Action programme

The Open Justice Centre has launched an exciting new initiative for its alumni to help shape the development of future legal outreach projects

The Open Justice Centre’s project in conjunction with the St Giles Trust charity has been shortlisted in the Most Effective Pro Bono Partnership category at the annual LawWorks Annual Pro Bono Awards.

As the Open Justice Centre approaches its third anniversary, the 2019 Annual Report provides an opportunity to review the progress of the Centre since its inception in 2016.

Academics from the Law School have launched a new blog site to examine controversial legal issues which have posed difficulties for law and society.