1. Programmes

2. Reputation
    Employability 

3. Research
    Research centres and groups  Major areas of research 

4. Notable individuals
    Notable academics  Notable alumni  Judiciary  Politics  Media 

5. References

6. External links

Small group teaching in tutorials taught in academic staff offices and seminars are a central part of the School's award-winning legal education. Durham Law School has particular research strengths in the areas of Public Law & Human Rights, Commercial & Corporate Law, EU & International Law and Bio-law.

Programmes

Durham Law School offers a three-year LLB degree and a four-year LLB with Year Abroad degree.^[5] They are both Qualifying Law Degree programmes for the purpose of practicing as a barrister or solicitor in England and Wales. Durham's law students rank among the very best in the UK for employability.^[6] The School offers a wide diversity of modules covering virtually every key area of law with particular strengths in public law, human rights, commercial and corporate law, EU law, international law and biolaw (including medical law) as well as Chinese law, comparative law, family law and jurisprudence.

Taught postgraduate LLM degree programmes include a general Master of Laws LLM, LLM in Corporate Law, LLM in European Trade and Commercial Law, LLM in International Trade and Commercial Law and LLM in International Law and Governance.^[7]

Research postgraduate degree programmes include a one-year Master of Jurisprudence MJur and PhD in Law.^[8] Durham Law School has a staff common room and a postgraduate student suite that each have panoramic views of Durham Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Durham Castle is a college of the University.

Reputation

Durham Law School has been ranked as the 3rd best Law School in the UK by the Complete University Guide for 2016,^[9] behind Cambridge and Oxford respectively, as well as 3rd in the UK for the quality and impact of its research, according to the most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF) in 2014.^[10] It was ranked joint 4th in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in terms of the proportion of research activity ranked at the highest 4* level,^[11] and was one of only five UK law schools to be awarded the top grading of 5*A in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).^[12] The School achieved the top rating of "Excellent" for its teaching in its last inspection by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) and is consistently rated as one of the very top UK law schools in various league tables.^[13][14][15] The UK's Supreme Court has more Durham Law School graduates than any other non-Oxbridge university.^[16]

Durham Law School has been named the most impressive law school building in the world. The findings were published in 2014 by Best Choice Schools who selected the 50 most impressive law schools in the world.^[17][18]

Employability

In 2015, the Chambers Student triennial survey of which universities law firm trainees had attended ranked Durham third behind Oxford and Cambridge, supplying 7.6 per cent of law trainees in the UK (up from 4th in 2012). The survey also placed Durham second (behind Manchester) in supplying national firms (up from 11th in 2012) and third in supplying US firms in London (up from 5th in 2012).^[19][20]

Research

Research centres and groups

Durham Law School supports a range of institutes, centres and groups open to academic staff and law students. These include: the Centre for Chinese Law and Policy (CCLP), the Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (CCLCJ), the Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences (Durham CELLS), the Durham European Law Institute (DELI), the Centre for Gender Equal Media (GEM), Gender and Law at Durham (GLAD), the Human Rights Centre (HRC), the Institute of Commercial and Corporate Law (ICCL), Islam, Law and Modernity (ILM) and Law and Global Justice at Durham (LGJ).^[21]

Durham's Centre for Chinese Law and Policy is among the largest in Europe.^[22]

Major areas of research

• Biolaw: including bioethics, medical law and intellectual property issues^[23]
• Chinese law
• Comparative law
• Criminal law and criminal justice: including international criminal law, jury trials, organized crime, sentencing and theories of punishment and restorative justice.
• English private and commercial law: including commercial fraud, consumer law, contract law, corporate law, equity, Europeanisation of private law, intellectual property international trade law, law and economics, restitution, tort law
• EU law: including EU constitutional law, EU external trade, EU competition law, Third Pillar matters
• Gender and law: including discrimination, equality and diversity, feminist legal theory gender and crime and women in the legal professions
• Human rights: including counter-terrorism issues, discrimination law, the Human Rights Act, international human rights law, media freedom and religious liberty
• Legal theory: including jurisprudence, legal realism, moral philosophy, multiculturalism, political philosophy, socio-legal studies and theory of international law
• Public international law: including international human rights law, international humanitarian law, conflict studies, international criminal law and WTO law
• UK public law: including human rights, citizenship, comparative constitutional law, separation of powers, scrutiny of security services and United Kingdom immigration law.^[24]

Notable individuals

Notable academics

The following notable individuals are or have been academics of Durham Law School:

• Deryck Beyleveld - Former Head of School
• Leo Blair - Lecturer of Law
• Thom Brooks - Dean & Professor of Law and Government
• David Campbell
• Roger Masterman - former Head of School
• David O'Keeffe
• Clare McGlynn - Professor of Law
• Wolfgang Schomburg - Judge at International Criminal Tribunal and Honorary Professor of Criminal Law

Notable alumni

Judiciary

• Jill Black (Trevelyan) - second women to become a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom^[25]; former Lady Justice of Appeal^[26][27]
• James Goss (University) - Justice of the High Court (Queens Bench Division)
• Anthony Hughes (Van Mildert) - Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom; former Lord Justice of Appeal; Vice-President of the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales^[28]
• Andrew McFarlane (Collingwood) - President of the Family Division^[29], High Court Judge, Lord Justice of Appeal^[30]
• Robert Strother Stewart (Hatfield & Armstrong) - Justice of the Supreme Court of the Gold Coast Colony and Member of the West African Court of Appeal.
• Caroline Swift (St Aidan's) - leading counsel to the Inquiry in the Shipman Inquiry and Justice of the High Court (Queens Bench Division)^[31]
• Mark Waller - former Lord Justice of Appeal and Vice-President of the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales

Politics

• Graham Brady MP, Chair of 1922 Committee
• Robert Buckland QC MP, Solicitor General
• Earl Pomeroy, former member of US House of Representatives
• James Wharton, former MP

Media

• Gabby Logan

References

External links

• Durham Law School

• The Chinese Health and Retirement Survey or CHARLS
• The Chinese High School
• The Chinese Hospital
• The Chinese in America
• The Chinese Language Fact and Fantasy
• The Chinese must go
• The Chinese Paymaster (Killmaster novel)
• The chinese probrem
• The Chinese property bubble
• The Chinese Puzzle
• The Chinese Puzzle (1932 film)
• The Chinese Puzzle (disambiguation)
• The Chinese Puzzle (television series)
• The Chinese Puzzle (TV series)
• The Chinese Repository
• The Chinese Ring
• The Chinese Roswell
• The Chinese Stars
• The Chinese State in Ming Society
• The Chinese Stuntman
• The chinese theater
• The chinese theatre
• The Chinese Union
• The Chinese Wall
• The Chinese Wall (Drop Dead Diva)