Professor Clare McGlynn has welcomed new legislation in the UK aiming to reduce online harms which includes new offences and guidelines based on her research.

Durham Law School is delighted to announce that Professor Clare McGlynn KC (Hon) has been elected as an Academic Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, one of the four Inns of Court that hold the exclusive right to Call their Members to the Bar of England and Wales and which govern the barristers’ profession in England & Wales.

Professor Michael Bohlander has written a new book called ‘Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Law - The applicability of rules of war and human rights’.

Professor Thom Brooks, Chair in Law and Government at Durham Law School, has published a new student textbook. It’s entitled Global Justice: An Introduction and published by Wiley-Blackwell.

Gemma Davies (Associate Professor in Criminal Law) together with her colleague Helena Farrand Carrapico (Professor of International Relations and European Politics, Northumbria University), was awarded a Scottish Parliament Fellowship on Criminal Justice and Policing after Brexit. The project, which starts in May 2023, aims to understand the impact of the current legal and political Scottish- EU relations on the Scottish criminal justice landscape.

On 28 March 2023, the House of Commons debated amendments to the government's Illegal Migration Bill. A recurring criticism is the government has failed to secure sufficient returns agreements in order to make their strategy effective, especially an agreement with the European Union. During the debate, David Simmonds MP (Conservative) noted this issue and discussed the work of Durham Law School's Professor Thom Brooks.

A new investigation from the flagship BBC Panorama series features Professor McGlynn sharing her expertise on the trading and sharing of intimate images without consent.

This practice-facing, decolonisation-minded and best-practice sharing project will create a valuable resource of criminal judgments, drafted by experts on criminal law and procedure from a number of jurisdictions. A comprehensive factual case scenario will form the basis of the judgments, which will be based on the law and practice of each jurisdiction, written in English, but in the style of the relevant court in each jurisdiction.