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.

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.

Cem Kalelioğlu and Tiffany Chan from WilmerHale gave an excellent talk on "Written and Oral Advocacy in International Arbitration"

Durham University alumnus Jamie Harrison came to Durham to talk about International Arbitration

Justice Knowles delivered an insightful lecture on "The Complexity of Commercial and International Arbitration," offering a profound discussion on the role of courts/arbitrators in upholding the rule of law

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.

The Association was launched on 17 September 2024 with 40 alumni Founder Members but, since then, has grown to over 350 members from all over the world. In addition to a significant number of Durham alumni working in barristers' chambers, and as in-house counsel, we now have Association members from over 60 law firms from around the world.

In February 2025, Durham Law School PhD candidate Miranda Wang submitted evidence to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics as part of its inquiry into the ethics of neurotechnology in healthcare. The inquiry focuses on developments since the Council’s last report on the topic in 2013.

Durham Law School is pleased to announce the appointment, by Durham University with effect from 1st March, 2025, of three additional Professors in Practice in the Law School: Mark Baldwin, Mark Grant, and Nigel Swycher.

On Monday 17 March 2025, the Daily Telegraph published an article on the Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme (VDPS), featuring Professor Richard Goldberg.

On 31 January 2025, Counsel to the COVID 19 Inquiry in their closing statement referred to Durham Law School expertise - which is centred on Professor Goldberg's research into the Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme.

On Monday 20th January 2025, Professor Richard Goldberg addressed the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Pandemic Response and Recovery (APPG) on 'The UK Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme: Reappraisal and Reform Within a Revised National Vaccine Policy'.