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Welcome to our OU Law School research related news page, providing a platform to showcase the wide variety of stories and news from our OULS research community.


 

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Helping humanitarian workers with their legal rights and obligations

An OU academic has received a British Academy/Leverhulme Grant to help humanitarian workers to understand complicated legal environments.

13th November 2020
The Royal Courts of Justice quiet in lockdown

The Open University Law School and Business School have launched a showcase for their COVID-19 research and reflections

The current pandemic has brought both threats and opportunities, overturning economic and social norms but also pointing towards new ways of doing things. In the OU’s Law and Business Schools, our response has been: what can we learn?

20th July 2020
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Call for new regulations around civil weddings to avoid backlogs

An OU researcher calls for a change to regulations around civil wedding ceremonies so that more people can get married simply and inexpensively, and to avoid COVID-19 backlogs.

6th May 2020
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