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Ajevski, Marjan; Barker, Kim; Gilbert, Andrew; Hardie, Liz and Ryan, Francine (2023). ChatGPT and the Future of Legal Education and Practice. The Law Teacher, 57(3) pp. 352–364.

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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; Ryan, Francine and Baxter, Jacqueline (2025). Every Truth Has Two Sides: The Impact of ChatGPT on Law and Business Education. In: Baxter, Jacqueline; Selby-Fell, Helen and Gilbert, Andrew eds. Creativity and Critique in Digital Learning and Teaching: Insights for Learning Design in Business and Law. Cham, CH: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 41–66.

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Hardie, Liz; Lowe, Jonquil; Pride, Mychelle; Waugh, Kevin; Hauck, Mirjam; Ryan, Francine; Gooch, Daniel; Patent, Volker; McCartney, Kieran; Maguire, Claire; Richards, Mike and Richardson, Heather (2024). Developing robust assessment in the light of Generative AI developments. NCFE; The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

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Hardie, Liz and Ryan, Francine (2024). How to Offer Effective Pastoral Support in a Distance Learning Institution. In: Bleasdale, Lydia ed. How to Offer Effective Wellbeing Support to Law Students. How to guides. Edward Elgar, pp. 88–101.

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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; 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.

Jones, Emma; Ryan, Francine; Thanaraj, Ann and Wong, Terry (2022). Digital Lawyering: Technology and Legal Practice in the 21st Century. Abingdon: Routledge.

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; 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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Kadry, Ahmed; Ryan, Francine; Knight, Jon-Paul and Hull, Simon (2024). Utilising a virtual courtroom to facilitate simulated court hearings to enhance the teaching and learning for law, policing and social work students. In: 16th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers, 19 Sep 2024, Porto, Portugal.

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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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.

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Ryan, Francine; Hardie, Liz; Gooch, Daniel; Waugh, Kevin; Barker, Kim and Barrett, Dan (2025). AI Law and Legal Training: Interim Report. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

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Ryan, Francine and Hardie, Liz (2024). ChatGPT, I have a legal question? The impact of Gen AI tools on law clinics and access to justice. International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, 31(1) pp. 166–205.

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