Durham University is now a member of YOUNGO – the official youth constituency of the UNFCCC.

Durham Law School second year first generation students were gifted textbooks by international Law Firm, Hill Dickinson. Each student received a textbook bundle to help support their studies as they move into their second year of studies at Durham Law School.

Durham Law School is delighted to announce the launch of its first ever Alumni Association, with the signing of the Association's constitution by its first Joint Presidents, Lady Black of Derwent and Lord Hughes of Ombersley, the Vice-Chancellor and Warden of the University, Professor Karen O'Brien, and the Dean of the Law School, Professor Volker Roeben.

The Economist magazine has run a feature about the Life in the UK test centred around an interview with Durham Law School’s Professor Thom Brooks, Professor of Law and Government.

Our Youth COP Teams were successful!

An important new collection entitled British Legal Reform: An Agenda for Change has been published by Policy Press.

The act of strangulation has become increasingly normalised and sexualised. Dr Hannah Bows, from our Law School, explains that despite its increased popularity, research shows it isn't necessarily wanted, especially by women.

Durham Law School’s Thom Brooks was invited to speak to a research group within the Ministry of Justice.

ITV News broadcast a report into the “Life in the UK” test for British citizenship. Professor Thom Brooks was interviewed and the piece was entitled “Like a Bad Pub Quiz?” highlighting the title of his report into the need to reform the test. Brooks’s work on the test has been debated in Parliament, he has given oral and written evidence to Parliamentary committees and cited in multiple reports.

Durham Law School recently hosted its third annual International Arbitration Summer School.

The Hegel Society of America’s flagship journal, The Owl of Minerva, has invited Durham Law School’s Professor Thom Brooks to joins its editorial board as one of a team of new primary editors under longstanding editor-in-chief Professor Ardis Collins.

Professor Michael Bohlander has published a new empirical study tracking the careers of individual judges from their initial entry posts until their appointment to the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) in detail.