The Hegel Society of America’s flagship journal, The Owl of Minerva, has invited Durham Law School’s Professor Thom Brooks to joins its editorial board as one of a team of new primary editors under longstanding editor-in-chief Professor Ardis Collins.

Professor Michael Bohlander has published a new empirical study tracking the careers of individual judges from their initial entry posts until their appointment to the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) in detail. 

Disney has made international headlines after it performed a U-turn on using terms of service to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit. Dr Stergios Aidinlis, from our Law School, explores the potential consequences of completing a user agreement without reading the fine print.

The survey is available in four languages (English, German, French and Spanish), with additional invitations in Arabic and Chinese. For the invitations containing further information and the links to the survey see the links below.

Wednesday 17 July marks World Day for International Justice. Our Law and Global Justice @ Durham group (LGJD) was formed in 2015 and here they explain how they came together to better understand the role law plays in responding to global challenges.

The Aarhus Centre for Conflict Management (Aarcon) at Aarhus University hosted a summer conference discussing ways of embedding restorative justice practices more widely in the criminal justice system, such as developed by Durham’s Professor Thom Brooks. The conference brought together academic scholars, policy makers and practitioners from across Denmark, including the Danish Probation Service, to discuss insights from Brooks’s work on how restorative justice could be used more often.

Philip Bennett, Professor in Practice, co-ordinated a workshop on ‘Current Issues in DB Funding’ at the International Pension and Employee Benefits Lawyers’ Association (IPEBLA) conference in Milan in May 2024.

The University of Rijeka in Croatia hosted a two day symposium on the work of Durham Law School’s Thom Brooks in early June, 2024.

Professor Clare McGlynn in Durham Law School is playing a key role in a new national campaign to demand a change in the law surrounding image-based abuse.

The fourth international Judicial Roundtable at the end of April 2024 in Durham explored topics within Technology and Climate Change, with judges and leading policymakers from around the world.

Expressions of interest to be submitted by October 2024.

How will humanity react to contact with an alien civilisation? How would different types of contact affect us? How would humans live with such a new reality? Contact, or even life with another intelligent species, would have ramifications into all areas of human life, such as, for example politics and governance, defence, law, religion, philosophy, sociology, psychology, communication and linguistics, arts and literature, and technology, to name but a few.