Law and Global Justice at Durham
Dedicated to understanding how law both shapes and responds to global justice challenges

About Us
Law and Global Justice at Durham (LGJD), a research cluster based in Durham Law School, provides a forum for the development and dissemination of legal research with an international, transnational, or global dimension.
It also provides a home for inter-disciplinary or multi-disciplinary research that relates to wider debates over global justice.
The cluster, primarily composed of academics and postgraduate researchers within Durham Law School, is increasingly expanding to include participants from across the University whose research and scholarship has a global dimension and touches on the role of law on that global plane.
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Judge Hilary Charlesworth of the International Court of Justice delivers the Durham Law School Distinguished Lecture in Law and Global Justice
On March 17, Judge Hilary Charlesworth delivered her public lecture “Human Rights and the International Court of Justice”. In her lecture, she charted the growing openness of the ICJ to human rights-based arguments in its jurisprudence.
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Dr. Mark Amakoromo Submits Input to UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change in Response to Call on the Fossil Fuel-based Economy and Human Rights
Dr Mark Amakoromo, a postdoctoral researcher at Durham Law School, has recently submitted input to the UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change for a thematic report on human rights in the context of climate change, focusing on the Fossil Fuel-based Economy and Human Rights.
Durham news
Lord Sales delivers The Institute for Commercial and Corporate Law Annual Lecture 2025
On 7 March 2025, Durham Law School’s Institute for Commercial and Corporate Law held its Annual Lecture. The lecture promotes, amongst other things, the Institute’s international reputation for world class research on topics that fall within its broad remit; it also frequently stimulates conversations that lead to new lines of inquiry.
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Upcoming events
Thrills and Perils of Common Law Codification: The Case of the Indian Contract Code
Friday 11 April 2025 - Friday 11 April 2025
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
This event is taking place via Microsoft Teams.
Grounding the SETI and UAP debate: Law, evidence, and anticipated futures
Thursday 24 April 2025 - Thursday 24 April 2025
9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
This is a hybrid event. The event is taking place in PLC048, and online via Teams.
Modern slavery and human rights: migrant workers in the agricultural and care sectors in the UK
Monday 28 April 2025 - Monday 28 April 2025
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Online via Teams
Wanted, More than Human Intellectual Property Animal Authors and Human Machines
Tuesday 20 May 2025 - Tuesday 20 May 2025
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
In person, venue TBC
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For enquiries about Law and Global Justice at Durham, visit our staff pages for individual contact details.
Law and Global Justice at Durham
Durham Law School
Durham University
Palatine Centre
Stockton Road
Durham
DH1 3LE, UK
Telephone: +44 (0)191 334 2800