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

Madhloom, Omar and McFaul, Hugh eds. (2022). Thinking About Clinical Legal Education: Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives. Emerging Legal Education. Routledge.

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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Curryer, Emma and Edwards, Carol (2024). Innovative ways of developing communities and enhancing students employability skills in the online university environment. In: Milmore, Amanda ed. How to Include Employability in the Law School. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 133–146.

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.

McFaul, Hugh (2022). Towards a Capability Approach to Clinical Legal Education. In: Madhloom, Omar and McFaul, Hugh eds. Thinking About Clinical Legal Education. London, UK: Routledge.

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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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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Curryer, Emma and Edwards, Carol (2024). The impact of policy work on employability skills in the policy project connected to the criminal appeals clinic at the Open University. International Journal of Clinical Legal Education pp. 109–146.

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Curryer, Emma and Mawdsley, Gillian (2024). Navigating Vicarious Trauma: The Importance of Planning, Teaching, and Delivering Vicarious Trauma Training to support law students and the legal profession. International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, 31(1) pp. 126–165.

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Hardie, Liz (2024). "Training is Everything": How to Prepare Students for Policy Clinic Projects. International Journal of Clinical Legal Education pp. 72–108.

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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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Lloyd Bright, Keren and McNicholl, Maria (2021). The Open University Law School’s Public Legal Education in Prisons: Contributing to Rehabilitative Prison Culture. International Journal of Public Legal Education, 5(1) pp. 94–131.

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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 (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; 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 (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 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 (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 (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.