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By Professor Gary Slapper (The Open University)

31 May 2011

Professor Gary Slapper introduces Amnesty International's iconic candle, one of the most recognisable symbols in the world  Read more : A most extraordinary candle

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By Professor Gary Slapper (The Open University), Professor Kevin McConway (The Open University)

12 April 2011

With clean-up rates and reoffending numbers, discussions of crime often circle back to statistics. But are these 'facts' really such reliable witnesses?  Read more : Statistics and the law

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Darwin and the law Featuring Video Production team

By Professor Gary Slapper (The Open University)

06 March 2009

The Open University's Gary Slapper revisits the Scopes trial of 1925. But it's the lack of subsequent action which really shows how Darwin changed the...  Read more : Darwin and the law

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Five questions, five perspectivesThe Open University

By Professor Gary Slapper (The Open University)

23 October 2008

 Professor Gary Slapper introduces our videos exploring barristers and their roles  Read more : Five questions, five perspectives

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The court in 10 years' time Featuring VideoFeaturing Audio The Open University

By Jane Goodey (The Open University), Professor Gary Slapper (The Open University), Lynn Tayton QC (Guest), Abigail Bright (Guest), The Honourable Mr Justice Calvert Smith (Guest)

22 October 2008

We asked our panel what we might expect to see if we arrived in the courtroom of 2018.  Read more : The court in 10 years' time

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What makes a good judge? Featuring VideoFeaturing Audio The Open University

By Jane Goodey (The Open University), Professor Gary Slapper (The Open University), The Honourable Mr Justice Calvert Smith (Guest), Lynn Tayton QC (Guest), Abigail Bright (Guest)

22 October 2008

The figure who must ensure that both sides feel the justice process is fair. But what does that entail?  Read more : What makes a good judge?

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What makes a good barrister? Featuring VideoFeaturing Audio The Open University

By Jane Goodey (The Open University), Professor Gary Slapper (The Open University), Abigail Bright (Guest), The Honourable Mr Justice Calvert Smith (Guest), Lynn Tayton QC (Guest)

22 October 2008

Our panel of legal experts consider what it is that makes a good barrister.  Read more : What makes a good barrister?

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What makes the legal system just? Featuring VideoFeaturing Audio The Open University

By Jane Goodey (The Open University), Professor Gary Slapper (The Open University), The Honourable Mr Justice Calvert Smith (Guest), Abigail Bright (Guest), Lynn Tayton QC (Guest)

22 October 2008

If a legal system is to dispense justice, it must be just. How do you create that in the courts?  Read more : What makes the legal system just?

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What is the role of the barrister? Featuring VideoFeaturing Audio The Open University

By Jane Goodey (The Open University), Professor Gary Slapper (The Open University), Lynn Tayton QC (Guest), The Honourable Mr Justice Calvert Smith (Guest), Abigail Bright (Guest)

22 October 2008

The position of barrister is crucial in the justice process. Our panel explains why.  Read more : What is the role of the barrister?

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When your face is your fortuneCreative Commons Image ♥KatB Photography♥ under CC-BY-NC licence

By Professor Gary Slapper (The Open University)

19 March 2007

How far will celebrities go to control their image? Surprisingly far, when your face is your fortune.  Read more : When your face is your fortune

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Kelly, David and Slapper, Gary (2006). The English legal system: Q and A 2006-7. Questions and answers series. London, UK: Routledge Cavendish.

Slapper, Gary (2004). The jury, publicly funded law, and the Courts Act 2003, the Criminal Justice Act 2003, and the Court of Appeal Civil Division. Student Law Review, 42(Summer), pp. 24–26.

Slapper, Gary (2004). Magistrates. Student Law Review, 41 pp. 25–26.

Slapper, Gary and Kelly, David eds. (2004). The English legal system. 7th edition. London: Cavendish Publishing, p. 776.

Slapper, Gary (2002). The judiciary and court efficiency. Student Law Review, 35 pp. 29–34.

Slapper, Gary (2002). Litigation and publicly funded law. Student Law Review, 37 pp. 27–31.

Slapper, Gary (2002). The birth of a new system for monitoring deaths. New Law Journal, 152(7052), pp. 1377–1379.

Slapper, Gary (2002). Precedents and cyber justice. Student Law Review, 36 pp. 28–33.

Slapper, Gary (2002). Corporate manslaughter: the changing legal scenery. Asia Pacific Law Review, 10(2), pp. 161–170.

Slapper, Gary and Kelly, David (2001). The English legal system: Q and A. 4th edition. Questions and answers. London: Cavendish Publishing Ltd.

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Darwin, 'The Origin' and the future of biology Featuring Video British Council

By Professor Edward O Wilson (Guest)

24 November 2009

On the 150th Anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Professor E O Wilson, considered by many as Darwin’s natural...  Read more : Darwin, 'The Origin' and the future of biology

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By Dr Peter Lewis (The Open University)

01 December 2005

Native Americans used it to make bags and play games. Today, it keeps the world moving. Dr Peter Lewis explains the history of rubber.  Read more : Rubber

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By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

26 January 2007

Find out more about the BBC/OU radio series, The Making of Modern Medicine.  Read more : OU on the BBC: Making of Modern Medicine - About the series

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What makes the legal system just?

Comment posted by santaClara

01 Feb 2010

hmmm .... Sally Clarke was a solicitor ... but it did not help her in the slightest. I guess we have reached a dead end. Read more : What makes the legal system just?

What makes the legal system just?

Comment posted by dave p

26 Jan 2010

Re elected legislatures, juries etc, my case is merely that to me they're not essential: they may deliver a just system and just verdicts, but so might alternatives. And like the alternatives... Read more : What makes the legal system just?

What makes the legal system just?

Comment posted by Ken Natton

26 Jan 2010

Well I confess dave p that your post is not quite the response I had expected. I think the point I was making was on a slightly different tack. But since you raise some significant points, let me... Read more : What makes the legal system just?

What makes the legal system just?

Comment posted by dave p

25 Jan 2010 

I do find a degree of complacency in the view points expressed by the participants in the discussion to which this thread links. Understand, I do accept and agree with the... Read more : What makes the legal system just?

What makes the legal system just?

Comment posted by Ken Natton

24 Jan 2010

I do find a degree of complacency in the view points expressed by the participants in the discussion to which this thread links. Understand, I do accept and agree with the things they identify as... Read more : What makes the legal system just?

Darwin and the law

Comment posted by MATHIEU CORREA DE SA

06 Jan 2010

Dear Gary, As a teacher of legal Enlish and a human rights activist, I am delighted by your inspired talks and videos, which I encourage all my French law students at Orléans Law School to watch!... Read more : Darwin and the law

Darwin and the law

Comment posted by MATHIEU CORREA DE SA

06 Jan 2010

MATHIEU CORREA DE SA has started a thread discussing Darwin and the law. Read more : Darwin and the law

What makes the legal system just?

Comment posted by santaClara

30 Dec 2009

However ... I cannot let the case of Sally Clarke go unmentioned in any self-satisfied discussion of English justice (not). In this barbaric case, the prosecution could not even prove that a crime... Read more : What makes the legal system just?

What makes the legal system just?

Comment posted by santaClara

30 Dec 2009

hmm ... a bit close to the bone it would seem ! There is plenty more where this came from; but who needs to talk to oneself? Read more : What makes the legal system just?

What makes the legal system just?

Comment posted by santaClara

29 Dec 2009

Having spent most of my adult life in Canada, I find it very curious how underlying national cultural conditions affect what is considered "just". However, one particular similarity between Canadian... Read more : What makes the legal system just?

Biography

Read Professor Gary Slapper’s biography.

Professor Gary Slapper is professor of law and director of the Centre for Law at The Open University. He is the author of various books on English law, and corporate crime, and has written about law for The Times for fifteen years.
A new edition of his book How the Law Works is published by Routledge. He is academic consulted to When They Are All Free – the Films of Record film on Amnesty’s history.
You can follow him on Twitter: @garyslapper

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