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The Open University Law School's Open Justice Centre’s Law Clinic toasted its success at the LawWorks Annual Pro Bono Awards on Monday 3 December 2018. The Law Clinic was highly commended in the ‘Best new pro bono activity’ category.

Couples marrying in civil ceremonies should be allowed to have religious vows, rituals, readings, and music as part of their ceremony for the first time, a major new study has concluded.

During this Breakfast Briefing on 29 November 2018, Dr Robert Herian, Senior Lecturer in Law at The Open University Law School, discussed the concept of 'Smart Contracts'.

Mature student James O’Connor is the 2018 winner of the Tom Bingham Memorial Essay Prize.

Joint research between The Open University and Stirling University has uncovered the extent of online abuse against women. In their forthcoming book ‘Online Misogyny as a Hate Crime: A Challenge for (Legal) Regulation’ Dr Kim Barker and Dr Olga Jurasz call for greater legal recognition of the problem and how abuse online is tackled.

OU Law School students came from far and wide to benefit from an intensive weekend residential masterclass in street law from one of its gurus.

A recent Law School graduate is the ‘best in Europe’ in the world’s leading academic awards programme that recognises innovation and excellence at undergraduate level.

Starting this October, students in secure environments have the opportunity to study level 1 Law with The Open University Law School.

The Open Justice Centre’s Law Clinic, which offers free online legal advice led by OU students supervised by qualified solicitors, has been shortlisted in the LawWorks Annual Pro Bono Awards.

Six Law students have received an Open Justice Award for their contribution to pro bono.