In 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 ICC and International Criminal Law. We have a long conversation about retributive and restorative justice, and how expressivism can complement to them. I enjoyed this conversation, and I hope you will too. You can find out more about Alessandra by visiting her LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandra-cuppini-170aa3135. Leave us a comment if you want to continue the conversation about our talk. I am Marjan Ajevski and I am the Research Fellow at OU Law School. Take care and hope to see you again.

Welcome 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 of our previous episodes where I have a conversation with him about legal reasoning. If you wish to find out more about Rosemary Hunter please visit www.kent.ac.uk/law/people/1333/hunter-facss-rosemary.

The 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.