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Issues to be discussed Burkini * Political: How is this framing political issues and to what strategic and ideological ends? What are alternative ways to frame and understand this issue? * Legal: t...o what extent does the law protect individual freedom to manifest religion? Progressive manifesto/Labour leadership * Political: How is this changing the ‘rights’ of individuals? What does this imply for the role of the state and citizen in post-crisis world? * Legal: The affect of BREXIT and reopening the Human Rights Act debate. Corporate ‘responsibility’ and ‘consciousness’ * Political: Why, for whom and for what should corporations should be socially responsible? What are the limits of this responsibility? What are alternative political systems for assigning ‘responsibility’ and would they be more effective than ‘corporations with a conscience’? * Legal: legal cases giving rise to the exercise of a religious conscience on the part of business: same sex couples and a double bed/bakers refusing to ice a cake/a company refusing to provide health insurance which provides advice on abortion.
Issues to be discussed Burkini * Political: How is this framing political issues and to what strategic and ideological ends? What are alternative ways to frame and understand this issue? * Legal: t...o what extent does the law protect individual freedom to manifest religion? Progressive manifesto/Labour leadership * Political: How is this changing the ‘rights’ of individuals? What does this imply for the role of the state and citizen in post-crisis world? * Legal: The affect of BREXIT and reopening the Human Rights Act debate. Corporate ‘responsibility’ and ‘consciousness’ * Political: Why, for whom and for what should corporations should be socially responsible? What are the limits of this responsibility? What are alternative political systems for assigning ‘responsibility’ and would they be more effective than ‘corporations with a conscience’? * Legal: legal cases giving rise to the exercise of a religious conscience on the part of business: same sex couples and a double bed/bakers refusing to ice a cake/a company refusing to provide health insurance which provides advice on abortion.
| Series: | The OU Business School and The OU Law School – Induction event; Series 2016 |
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| Episode | Part 14 |
| Recording date: | 29-09-2016 |
| Published: | 2016 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all Digital Archive web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:40:32 |
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| Presenter: | Karen Foley |
| Contributors: | Jessica Giles; Peter Bloom |
| Publisher: | The Open University |
| Link to related site: | Internal url: http://studenthublive.open.ac.uk/abstract/current-affairs?event=The%20OU%20Business%20School%20and%20The%20OU%20Law%20School%20%E2%80%93%20Induction%20event |
| Production number: | SHL00089 |
| Available to public: | yes |
