In the spirit of strengthening academic partnerships globally, the international research advisory board (IRAB) was founded in May 2020. IRAB comprises a group of experts in climate law, energy law, climate science and health science, with expertise in academic research and legal practice.

Over the past five months, 25 academics, led by Prof Aoife O’Donoghue (Durham) and Máiréad Enright (Birmingham University Law School) rewrote the Executive Summary of the Irish Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation Report.

Members of staff bid a fond farewell to our wonderful Class of 2021.

Professor Deirdre McCann co-organises global labour conference with the UN International Labour Organisation

Dr Andy Hayward has been appointed the Specialist Adviser to the Women and Equalities Committee in relation to their forthcoming inquiry into the Rights of Cohabiting Partners.

Professor Thom Brooks has been invited to become an elected member of the Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe), a pan-European Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Letters founded in 1988.

On Wednesday 23 June Durham Law School celebrated some fantastic achievements with our annual awards ceremony!

SLS Small Projects and Events Fund: Devolution in the UK and International Law

Justice Brian Preston, Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales, Australia, gives the first lecture in the Durham University COP26 Event Series, taking place between May and September 2021.

Irene Wieczorek’s book “The Legitimacy of EU Criminal Law” (Hart 2020) was quoted by the Advocate General Priit Pikamäe in Opinion C‑845/19 et C‑863/19 before the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Durham Law School in collaboration with Centre for International Law (National University of Singapore), Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law & Policy (University of Dundee), Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Environmental Change Institute (University of Oxford), Michael E. Moritz College of Law (Ohio State University), and Dundee Law School is inviting abstracts for an international, multi-disciplinary conference.

Durham Law School students Dara Foody and Katie Tooley have made it to the finals of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Moot Court Competition after success in the regional competition.