Disney has made international headlines after it performed a U-turn on using terms of service to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit. Dr Stergios Aidinlis, from our Law School, explores the potential consequences of completing a user agreement without reading the fine print.

The survey is available in four languages (English, German, French and Spanish), with additional invitations in Arabic and Chinese. For the invitations containing further information and the links to the survey see the links below.

Wednesday 17 July marks World Day for International Justice. Our Law and Global Justice @ Durham group (LGJD) was formed in 2015 and here they explain how they came together to better understand the role law plays in responding to global challenges.

The Aarhus Centre for Conflict Management (Aarcon) at Aarhus University hosted a summer conference discussing ways of embedding restorative justice practices more widely in the criminal justice system, such as developed by Durham’s Professor Thom Brooks. The conference brought together academic scholars, policy makers and practitioners from across Denmark, including the Danish Probation Service, to discuss insights from Brooks’s work on how restorative justice could be used more often.

Philip Bennett, Professor in Practice, co-ordinated a workshop on ‘Current Issues in DB Funding’ at the International Pension and Employee Benefits Lawyers’ Association (IPEBLA) conference in Milan in May 2024.

The University of Rijeka in Croatia hosted a two day symposium on the work of Durham Law School’s Thom Brooks in early June, 2024.

Professor Clare McGlynn in Durham Law School is playing a key role in a new national campaign to demand a change in the law surrounding image-based abuse.

The fourth international Judicial Roundtable at the end of April 2024 in Durham explored topics within Technology and Climate Change, with judges and leading policymakers from around the world.

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How will humanity react to contact with an alien civilisation? How would different types of contact affect us? How would humans live with such a new reality? Contact, or even life with another intelligent species, would have ramifications into all areas of human life, such as, for example politics and governance, defence, law, religion, philosophy, sociology, psychology, communication and linguistics, arts and literature, and technology, to name but a few.

Professor Thom Brooks helped host the 10th annual Modern Law Awards ceremony held at the Hurlington Club in London on 7 March 2024 alongside celebrity Bobby Davro.

The findings of the UK’s Infected Blood Inquiry have been reported. Over 3,000 people have died after receiving contaminated blood products in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Professor Emma Cave, of Durham Law School, and Professor Bobbie Farsides, of Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Co-Chairs of the Medical Ethics group for the Infected Blood Inquiry, set out the background to this scandal.