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Research @ OU Law SchoolCelebrating World Day for International Justice 2021In this episode we celebrate World Day for International Justice 2021. On 17 July 1998 the Rome Conference, negotiating the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was closed and the Rome Statute, creating the ICC, was open for signatures and ratifications. It finally came into force in 2002 with 60 ratifications. It now has 123 state parties and it is dedicated to prosecuting the most serious of crimes, Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, War Crimes, and Aggression. Some day soon we might add the crime of Ecocide to the list.
In this episode, I talk with Dr Alessandra Cuppini about expressivism as a justification of the...
2021-07-1754 minResearch @ OU Law SchoolFeminist Judgments Project with Prof Rosemary Hunter and Paul TroopWelcome to a new episode of Research @ OU Law School. On today's episode, Paul Troop, a Lecturer here at the Law School, has a conversation with Rosemary Hunter, a Professor of Law and Socio-Legal Studies from the University of Kent Law school, and one of the co-organisers at the Feminist Judgments Project. They talk about legal reasoning, the Feminist Judgments Project and judging in general. I enjoyed listening to their conversation and I hope that you will too.
If you wish to find out more about Paul Troop, please visit www.open.ac.uk/people/pbt55 or listen to one...
2021-05-0740 min
Research @ OU Law SchoolVoices from ParliamentThe OU Law School celebrates LGBTQ+ history month with a talk by Dr Caroline Derry and Andrew Gilbert. In their Voices from Parliament talk they spotlight two periods in British history and the regulation of same sex relationships by the British Parliament. A short working, some of the quotes given by MPs are quite harsh towards members of the LGBTQ+ community so please take that under advisement while listening to this episode.
As always you can find out more about us on our website http://law-school.open.ac.uk/. I hope you enjoy this episode and come again for more.
2021-02-2645 minResearch @ OU Law SchoolLesbianism and the LawWelcome to another episode of Research at OU Law School. On today’s episode we have a book launch and the book in question is Lesbianism and the Criminal Law written by my dear friend and colleague Caroline Derry, a Senior Lecturer at the Law School. The discussion is hosted by Professor Simon Lee of the Law Scholl, together with Caroline Derry and Professor Rosemary Auchmuty of the University of Reading School of Law. To pick up Caroline’s book visit this link https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030352998 and enter the promo code: PM20TWENTY4 for a 20% discount. Hope you...
2020-11-2748 min
Research @ OU Law SchoolPaul Dale - Re-imagining John AustinWelcome to another episode of Research at OU Law School. Today I have a talk with Paul Dale, one of the many Associate Lecturers at the Law School. We talk with Paul about his PhD project on John Austin, an early legal philosopher. Paul’s project is a re-imagining of Austin. We talk about Austin’s life, and about how his religion and the intellectual community that he was a part of, influenced his views on law, morality and politics. Hope you enjoy this episode, and if you want to find out more about Paul, go to https://bit.ly/3d2IG...
2020-01-2432 minResearch @ OU Law SchoolJudging Brexit with David Dennis - Llewellyin, Hart and Miller 2Welcome to Research @ OU Law School. We continue with our Judging Brexit series in this episode. I have a talk with David Denis about his recent blog post on Llewellyn, Hart and Miller 2 on the UK Constitutional Law Association's blog (https://bit.ly/33AJGLW). We discuss the insights of the early realists, Hart, and what they would say about the recent Miller 2 judgment. We also have some laughs along the way.
Don't forget to also check out our 50 Years of Law blog dedicated to the Open University's 50th birthday (http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/50YearsOfLaw/). It is where we...
2019-11-1126 min
Research @ OU Law SchoolSjors Ligthart - Brain reading technologies and privacyWelcome to another episode of Research @ OU Law School. Today we have a talk with Sjors Lighart who is a PhD student and Tilburg University. He studies the human rights implication of brain scanning and brain reading technologies. With current technologies it is possible to "read" someones brain in a way that can be used in criminal justice. For example, a person can be shown images of objects and the brain scan will detect whether they recognize that object. If that object was involved in a crime it could corroborate or disqualify a persons testimony. Also, like DNA evidence, this...
2019-10-2523 min
Research @ OU Law SchoolJudging Brexit - Simon Lee and Leslie Budd take the big picture on BrexitWelcome to another episode of Research @ OU Law School.
Continuing in our Judging Brexit series, in this episode we have a chat between Prof Simon Lee and Dr Leslie Budd from the Business School. Leslie is a bit of a Renaissance man with a background in economics, engineering and across the social sciences. They talk about the possible wider ramifications of Brexit on the UK from a political and economic perspectives.
As always, you can find out about us on our web site: http://law-school.open.ac.uk/. Don't forget to visit our blog in celebration of the OU's 50th...
2019-10-1815 min
Research @ OU Law SchoolJudging Brexit - an ongoing series on things law and BrexitWelcome to another Research @ OU Law School podcast. The Law School is starting a series on Judging Brexit, where various academics from the Law School and its sister faculty the Business school have a conversation about all things legal and Brexit. Last week, Professor Simon Lee and Lecturer Simon Lavis had a chat about what the Supreme Court judgments mean for the UK's constitutional arrangement, how to read Supreme Court judgments, and how referendums impact the constitutional settlement at the time.
This audio is taken from four different video recordings that were aimed primarily for students of the law, but...
2019-10-161h 00
Research @ OU Law SchoolProf Simon Lee - reading the Supreme CourtWelcome to a special kind of episode from Research @ OU Law School where I have a talk with Prof Simon Lee about the latest UK Supreme Court judgement on parliamentary prorogation. We talk about reading the latest judgement, reading the language of the Supreme Court and put Simon's decades long fascination with all things judicial. Hope you enjoy listening to this episode, I certainly enjoyed making it.
Just a reminder that we will be launching our celebration of the Open University's 50th birthday in a couple of weeks, so watch this space. You can find out more about us on...
2019-09-2622 min
Research @ OU Law SchoolJohn Cubbon and the legacy of the ICTYWelcome to another episode of Research @ OU Law School.
In this episode I have a chat with John Cubbon who is a deployable civilian expert with the UK's Stabilisation Unit. We have a talk about his almost 20 years of experience working for the UN, including the peacekeeping missions in the former Yugoslavia, and in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. John is a wellspring of practical knowledge about the inner workings of peacekeeping missions and international judges, and I feel like we only scratched the surface in this talk, one that was not covered by confidentiality.
The OU...
2019-09-2034 min
Research @ OU Law SchoolPaul-Troop — Behind Judicial ReasoningWelcome to another Research @ OU Law School podcast.
In this episode I have a chat with Paul Troop who is an Associate Lecturer at the Law School. In this episode we talk about his research into how judges reason when they decide cases. However, he is taking an unorthodox approach, he is using insights from cognitive science on how people reason to test how ordering (scheduling) decisions affects the decisions' outcome. He draws his inspiration from various places, including the Trolley Problem found across moral philosophy (https://youtu.be/bOpf6KcWYyw). I hope you enjoy this talk.
To find out...
2019-08-0932 min
Research @ OU Law SchoolHugh-McFaul — Talking Open JusticeHello and welcome to another episode of Research @ OU Law School.
In this episode I have a conversation with Hugh McFaul who is a Senior Lecturer at the Law School. In this episode we talk about his work, along with his colleagues, of setting up the Open Justice centre in the Law School. We talk about the challenges of clinical legal education at a distance, the use of technology in experiential learning, and his project to explore theoretical approaches to clinical legal education across the globe.
If you wish to find out more about the Open Justice project visit their...
2019-08-0234 min
Research @ OU Law SchoolDr Lucas Lixinski - International Cultural Heritage protectionWelcome to another episode of the Research @ OU Law School podcast. This time around I will be talking with Dr Lucas Lixinski who is an Associate Professor at UNSW Sidney, Australia. His interests are in the international protection of cultural heritage and how the many brights sides of heritage protection can have its dark sides - its unintended consequences - which oftentimes affects the minority communities that produced that heritage.
If you wish to discover more about Dr Lixinski's work you can visit his profile @ https://www.law.unsw.edu.au/staff/lucas-lixinski.
My name is Marjan Ajevski and I...
2019-07-2622 min
Research @ OU Law SchoolDr Simon Lavis - talking Nazi lawWelcome to another OU Law School podcast. In this episode I will be talking with Dr Simon Lavis who is a Lecturer at the Law School. Dr Lavis is a lawyer and a historian and his passion is studying Nazi law as law. We end up talking about the implications of that period of time for the current challenges that faced by liberal democracies.
If you wish to find out more about Dr Lavis' research, visit his profile @ http://www.open.ac.uk/people/sl9764.
My name is Marjan Ajevski and I am the research fellow in law at the...
2019-07-1949 min
Research @ OU Law SchoolDr. Stephanie Pywell - a butterfly mindWelcome to another episode of the Research @ OU Law School podcast. This time around I will be talking with Dr Stephanie Pywell, Senior Lecture here at the Law School. As you will see in the episode, Dr Pywell has a butterfly mind and finds the most interesting things to research which she studies with passion and tenacity.
If you want to discover more about Dr Pywell, visit her profile @ http://www.open.ac.uk/people/smp492
My name is Marjan Ajevski and I am the research fellow in law at the Law School. If you have a comment or a...
2019-07-1240 min
Research @ OU Law SchoolDr Emma Jones - Emotion and the lawWelcome to an OU Law School podcast. In this episode, I will be talking to Dr Emma Jones, who is a Senior Lecturer at the Law School. We talk about emotion and the Law, how they interact, and how the image of the law as a rational system impacts the emotional wellbeing of people working with it.
To find out more about Dr Jones' research visit her profile @ http://www.open.ac.uk/people/ejj62
My name is Marjan Ajevski and I am the research fellow in law at the Law School. If you have a comment or suggestion about...
2019-07-0520 min