The act of strangulation has become increasingly normalised and sexualised. Dr Hannah Bows, from our Law School, explains that despite its increased popularity, research shows it isn't necessarily wanted, especially by women.

Durham Law School’s Thom Brooks was invited to speak to a research group within the Ministry of Justice.

ITV News broadcast a report into the “Life in the UK” test for British citizenship. Professor Thom Brooks was interviewed and the piece was entitled “Like a Bad Pub Quiz?” highlighting the title of his report into the need to reform the test. Brooks’s work on the test has been debated in Parliament, he has given oral and written evidence to Parliamentary committees and cited in multiple reports.

Durham Law School recently hosted its third annual International Arbitration Summer School.

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.