The Open University Law Society welcomes contact from members of the Press.  We have been fortunate in being granted permission to re-print articles by well known figures in the Review and we are most grateful to those authors and publishers who have given us this important and valued support.  We welcome any similar offers of support and anyone wishing to support us in this way is invited to contact our webmaster who is also sub-editor of the Review.

On certain issues members of the Press may wish to interview or obtain a comment from OU law students or the OULS Committee.  Whilst the Committee of the OULS clearly wishes OULS to remain impartial in many areas, the webmaster will pass on any requests for such contact or material immediately and will respond rapidly.  As OU students are primarily 'mature' students, there is clearly a different perpective available from OU students than might be obtained from the UK student body as a whole.

The following press release was issued on 4th January 2005:

NEW DEVELOPMENT FOR OPEN UNIVERSITY LAW SOCIETY

Following the very successful relaunch of the OU Law Society publication, the OU Law Society Review, the Society has now launched a web site. The web site will shortly offer a news feed from Consilio (http://www.spr-consilio.com) and gives information on the Society, sample articles from the Review and information on OU Law courses. The web site also provides some useful links to other sites of relevance to law students.

The Review editor welcomes articles for inclusion in future issues. Since its re-launch in summer 2004, the Review has been fortunate in being granted permission to publish articles by Jeremy Paxman, Elizabeth Cruickshank (Chair of the Association of Women Solicitors), Rosemary McKenna CBE MP, Janet Davies AM, Professor Gary Slapper, Lincoln's Inn and numerous practicing lawyers and others working in the field. 'We're well on the way to making the Review an academically interesting publication' said Karen Dunlop, Review Editor since May 2004. Issue 12 of the OU Law Society Review, the quarterly publication of the OULS, has just gone to press.
 
Membership of the Society is available to current and former Open University students, and subscriptions to the OU Law Society Review are available to non-members.  For further information about the Society or the Review visit the web site or e-mail the webmaster.

The Open University Law Society was founded in 2002 by Richard Hand and is intended to be a supporting organisation for students of the law courses offered by the Open University in conjunction with the College of Law. The OULS is entirely run by students. The Open University law faculty, headed by Professor Gary Slapper, can be contacted here and the College of Law can be contacted here.