Durham Law School's Thom Brooks has been interviewed by several broadcasters about the recent USA elections and their potential impact over the next four years.

Durham Law School's Thom Brooks has launched his latest book British Legal Reform: An Agenda for Change with his co-editors Catherine Atkinson MP and David Drew at Middle Temple in London.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Professor Bohlander's recent monograph, Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Law, was recently discussed at the Society for UAP Studies' colloquium.

In 2024, Professor Thom Brooks is visiting fellow at Yale Law School based in his hometown of New Haven, Connecticut.

Professor Thom Brooks has examined the Office for National Statistics data on asylum applications and grants.