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Law student Chelsea began with an access module to see if she could juggle looking after a child and studying. She never expected to love studying as much as she does. Now she's in the third year of her Law degree with a goal of becoming a barrister.

In this post, Fred Motson and Stephanie Pywell outline their empirical work exploring how people professionally involved in weddings and other couples ceremonies behaved and felt when lockdown ended.

A blog post by Mel Holmes about her refections after not being inside a court room for 15 years.

A blog post by Al Edmond on how how he navigated critical analysis in the discipline of Law.

Abortion is a topic that, understandably, invokes varying thoughts, feelings and opinions, be they strong or weak, undecided or veering, static or malleable. The topic gained increased coverage in 2022 following the reversal of Roe v Wade 410 U.S. 113 (1973) by the US Supreme Court, in which the court majority declared that there was no longer a constitutional right to abortion. The decision was received by some with joy, others with despair, but regardless of opinion, the question arose, and the resulting answer by the Supreme Court sparked debate and discussion on reproductive rights, spreading across the globe.

In legal practice, the importance of social justice and accessible legal aid cannot be overstated. In this blog post, Law student Dan Morgan reviews The Access to Justice Foundation's 'Supporting Social Justice Solicitors Programme'.

Emilio Kyprianou talks about the future of The OU Law School and what the next 25 years might look like, especially with how technology keeps evolving. 
He has a feeling that an app could be a game-changer!

In the final blog post of our 25th anniversary-themed series, Hugh McFaul, Head of the Law School, reflects on how the landscape of legal education might change for The Open University in the next 25 years.

Law student Ashley Mackie reviews the last 25 years of criminal, employment and environmental law in order to understand how these three areas might evolve in the next quarter of a century.

Given there’s been so much change since the turn of the millennium, what is left to reform in the field of family law? Dr Andrew Gilbert, Senior Lecturer in Law, discusses in this blog post.