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...law, cartoon, Society Matters] As a dock city, Liverpool has served as a gateway to the sugar trade, slavery and global transport for hundreds of years. It has long been a city of immigrants from Ireland, India and Pakistan to Somalia, Ethiopia and Jamaica. It boasts the oldest Chinese community in Europe, and the largest Chinese arch outside of China. But like other...

...Law School, visiting professor at The Open University and contributor to OpenLearn and Open2.net - has died...[Gary Slapper] Gary Slapper Carol Howells, senior lecturer in law with The OU Law School, writes: It is with great sadness that the death of Professor Gary Slapper is announced. Gary first joined the OU in 1997 and was instrumental in the founding of the OU Law...

...law?...As a retired military officer, I do not publicly endorse candidates. But as someone who served as a judge advocate, or military lawyer, for 34 years, I do think it can be helpful to examine in a nonpartisan way the legal aspects of Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric on the use of force against the Islamic State, or ISIS. [A photograph of 2016 presidential candidate...

...law to do research on individuals without their consent? Throughout these audio discussions, Phil Bates and Marc Cornock of The Open University’s Law School, discuss these, and similar issues surrounding ethics in law... Clinical decision making: A legal perspective Phil Bates and Marc Cornock look at what is meant by clinical decision making. Researching people who...

...law constrains and influences judges, and what happens when the law is uncertain or contested. The course uses videos, practical examples, and interactive activities to explain and demonstrate each key idea. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course W112 Civil justice and tort law...This free course, Judicial decision making, explains how...

...Law courses and qualifications. Family cases in 2006 Twenty years ago, family cases were held in private courtrooms behind closed doors. Members of the public could not attend the hearing, journalists faced strict reporting restrictions, and little was known about how decisions were made. Following campaigns by organisations such as Fathers4Justice or those involved in...

...laws are interpreted and applied. It looks at legislation, court judgments, argument, judicial reasoning and rights. It also explores the relationship between society’s values and the laws which it supports and how policy and rights influence development of law...This free course, Legal skills and debates in Scotland, explores the role, function and purpose of the...