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About Us
Our Mission
Our Centre is the focal point for the study of law and global justice at Durham Law School. Our mission is to support and develop the work of emerging and established scholars, working individually and collectively, to better-understand and elucidate the relationship between law and global justice. As a part of a global university, our work positions Durham Law School at the centre of wider scholarly research and debates on law and global justice. We partner with researchers and organizations across the world who share our mission.
Our Vision
Our research centre draws together a diverse and unique combination of legal expertise. Our thematic and doctrinal areas of focus include and go beyond migration, conflict, environment, global finance, corporate and commercial law, human rights, colonialism, global governance, global constitutionalism, gender, transnational and international crime and data regulation.
The 'global' attention of our research recognises the state as an agent of international law, but looks also at law beyond the state, happening in diverse local, substate and interstitial spaces, and transcending national boundaries, in oceans, in institutions of global governance and in spaces that defy these characterisations altogether. We study the regulatory gaps created by the 'global', but also the regulatory innovation and space for global governance that can emerge as a result. We are interested in how law both shapes and responds to the justice challenges and opportunities of the 'global'. We recognise and are attentive to law's discursive and material effects. We recognise that the 'justice' of global justice will be defined by diverse local priorities. We pay attention to the voices privileged - and marginalised - in the articulation of global justice aims.
Our Work
Our work involves both descriptive, normative and critical elements, and draws on diverse doctrinal, empirical and theoretical methodologies, all with the ultimate aim of understanding the relationship between law and global justice. To achieve this, Law and Global Justice at Durham organises internal and external workshops and seminars, and supports the development of scholarly and policy outputs. We welcome inputs and perspectives from beyond law to enable inter-disciplinary conversations on global justice.