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Bleasedale, Lydia; Rizzotto, Beverley; Stalker, Rachel; Yeatman, Lucy; McFaul, Hugh; Ryan, Francine; Johnson, Nick and Thomas, Linden (2020). Law Clinics: What, why and how? In: Thomas, Linden and Johnson, Nick eds. The Clinical Legal Education Handbook. University of London Press, pp. 7–56.

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Hardie, Liz; Mcfaul, Hugh and Ryan, Francine (2020). 50 years of Clinical Legal Education: Looking Back to the Future. In: Claydon, Lisa; Derry, Caroline and Ajevski, Marjan eds. Law in Motion: 50 years of Legal Change. The Open University Law School, pp. 212–227.

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Jones, Emma; Mcfaul, Hugh and Ryan, Francine (2017). Clinical legal education in the United Kingdom: Origins, growth and the technological innovations and challenges of its future. German Journal of Legal Education, 4 pp. 107–136.

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Jones, Emma; Ryan, Francine and Mcfaul, Hugh (2018). Connectivity, confidentiality and confidence: Key issues in the provision of online pro bono activities. International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, 25(2) pp. 48–88.

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Jones, Emma; Ryan, Francine; McFaul, Hugh; Vince, David; Kizilkaya, Lawrence and Daniels, Jamie (2023). Using virtual reality to enhance the law school curriculum. In: Tharanj, Ann and Gledhill, Kris eds. Teaching Legal Education in the Digital Age: Pedagogical Practices to Digitally Empower Law Graduates. Routledge.

McFaul, Hugh (2020). Does Clinical Legal Education Need Theory? Asian Journal of Legal Education, 7(2) pp. 152–163.

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Mcfaul, Hugh and FitzGerald, Elizabeth (2020). A realist evaluation of student use of a virtual reality smartphone application in undergraduate legal education. British Journal of Educational Technology, 51(2) pp. 572–589.

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Mcfaul, Hugh and FitzGerald, Elizabeth (2021). Supporting access to justice through volunteer training: An evaluation of an Open Educational Resource. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 1(5) pp. 1–14.

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McFaul, Hugh; FitzGerald, Elizabeth; Ryan, Francine and Byrne, David (2020). A mobile app for public legal education: a case study of co-designing with students. Research in Learning Technology, 28, article no. 2434.

McFaul, Hugh; Hardie, Liz; Ryan, Francine; Lloyd Bright, Keren and Graffin, Neil (2020). Taking Clinical Legal Education Online: Songs of Innocence and Experience. International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, 27(4) pp. 6–38.

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Ryan, Francine (2020). A virtual law clinic: a realist evaluation of what works for whom, why, how and in what circumstances? The Law Teacher, 54(2) pp. 237–248.

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Ryan, Francine (2021). Rage against the machine? Incorporating legal tech into legal education. The Law Teacher, 55(3) pp. 392–404.

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Ryan, Francine (2020). The Integration of Technology into Clinical Legal Education: An Exploration of the 'Virtual' Law Clinic. In: Conference on Experiential Learning and Innivation in Legal Education 2019, Hong Kong University, pp. 98–104.

Ryan, Francine (2021). Voices from the front line: exploring what pro bono means to lawyers in England and Wales? International Journal of the Legal Profession, 28(3) pp. 265–278.

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Ryan, Francine and Mcfaul, Hugh (2020). Innovative technologies in UK legal education. In: Jones, Emma and Cownie, Fiona eds. Key Directions in Legal Education National and International Perspectives. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 67–79.

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