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.

Expressions of interest to be submitted by October 2024.

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.

Professor Bohlander's recent monograph, Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Law, was recently discussed at the Society for UAP Studies' colloquium.

The Royal Statistical Society has named Professor Thom Brooks a Fellow.

Visiting Law Professor Dr Mohammad Hedayati-Kakhki has been recognised for his outstanding contribution to education in the prestigious British Muslim Awards 2024.

In 2024, Professor Thom Brooks is visiting fellow at Yale Law School based in his hometown of New Haven, Connecticut.

Durham Law School is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Sally Penni MBE to its Advisory Board.

The House of Lords’ Justice and Home Affairs Committee is conducting an inquiry into electronic border management systems.