Durham Law School is pleased to announce the appointment, by Durham University, of David Standish as an Honorary Professor in the Law School, with effect from 1st August 2025.

The Durham Law School Alumni Association was launched on 17 September 2024 with 40 alumni Founder Members but, since then, has grown to over 600 members from all over the world. Stay connected with the community by reading our latest newsletter.

A team of Durham University law students has been awarded first place in the 11th Annual Rule of Law Innovation Challenge (ROLIC), an international competition organised by Lawyers Without Borders. Selected from approximately 30 global teams, they advanced as one of five finalists and were invited to present their project live at King’s College London, where they were ultimately crowned winners.

Durham Cathedral is hosting a new Magna Carta and the North exhibit from July to early November launched by Baroness Hale of Richmond, former President of the UK Supreme Court.

We are working with the Securities Commission Malaysia to develop the financiers and regulators of the future.

Thom Brooks's Hegel's Political Philosophy: A Systematic Reading of the Philosophy of Right 2nd edition has appeared in a new Portuguese edition. Originally published by Edinburgh University Press in 2007 and a second edition in 2013, the new book is translated by Bruno Cunha for Brazilian publisher Editora Vozes in 2025.

Legal Cheek recently invited Professor Thom Brooks to speak at LegalEdCon 2025, where he discussed his views on the Solicitors Qualifying Exam.

For the first time in its history, the Durham Vis Moot Team achieved two honourable mention awards in the Willem C. Vis and Vis East International Commercial Arbitration Moots, with Oralists being LLM students Cariana Jones, Haya Farid, and Jack Pham, and LLB students Harry Pearcy and Taiga Matsushima.

The UK’s extradition, mutual legal assistance, and criminal jurisdiction systems need urgent reform, according to a new report.

In an increasingly digital age, criminal law has struggled to keep pace with online abuse, particularly for women and girls. Professor Clare McGlynn, from our Law School, is changing this.

On 15 May 2025, we hosted a workshop titled “Human Rights, Algorithmic Justice, and Global AI Policy,” bringing together a distinguished group of judicial experts and scholars to examine the impact of emerging technologies on civil society, human rights, access to justice, and public services.

International academics and professionals urge House Of Lords to recommend support for academically rigorous research into extraterrestrial intelligence and unidentified anomalous phenomena