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54°46′30″N 1°34′29″W / 54.775082°N 1.574678°W / 54.775082; -1.574678

Durham Law School
Established1969
DeanVolker Roeben
Address
Durham University
Palatine Building
Stockton Road
Durham
DH1 3LE
,
Durham
,
England, UK
AffiliationsUniversity of Durham
Websitewww.dur.ac.uk/law/

Durham Law School is the law school of Durham University in Durham, England. In 2022, Durham Law was ranked 5th in the UK in a league table which averaged the rankings of the Complete University Guide, The Guardian and the Times University League Table. Durham Law School is ranked 34th in the world for law in the 2022 Times Higher Education ranking[1] and 49th in the world for law by the 2022 QS ranking.

Small group teaching in tutorials taught in academic staff offices 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 with further strengths in Chinese Law and Legal Philosophy.

Volker Roeben is Dean of Durham Law School. The School was congratulated by the House of Commons in Early Day Motion 875 in 2018.[2]

Programmes

Durham Law School offers a three-year LLB degree and a four-year LLB with Year Abroad degree.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5]

Research postgraduate degree programmes include a one-year Master of Jurisprudence MJur and PhD in Law.[6] 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

Rankings
National rankings
Complete (2025)[7]5
Guardian (2025)[8]7
Times / Sunday Times (2025)[9]6
Global rankings
ARWU (2024)[10]101-150
QS (2025)[11]43
THE (2025)[12]34


Durham Law School is housed in the Palatine Centre, which 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.[13][14]

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).[15][16]

Research

Durham Law School

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).[17]

Durham's Centre for Chinese Law and Policy is among the largest in Europe.[18] Durham's Dean Thom Brooks introduced Chinese Law into the LLB and LLM curriculum alongside a new annual Chinese law summer school - the first ever in the UK and first time in English outside Asia - in a move described as offering "great career prospects" for Durham Law School graduates beyond what is offered at other UK law schools.[19]

Major areas of research

Notable individuals

Notable academics

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

Notable alumni

Judiciary

Barristers

Politics

Media

References

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  2. ^ "Early day motion 875 - FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF DURHAM UNIVERSITY'S LAW SCHOOL". UK Parliament.
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  4. ^ "Durham Law School : Career Options and Employability - Durham University". dur.ac.uk.
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  6. ^ "Durham Law School : PhD/MPhil/MJur - Durham University". dur.ac.uk.
  7. ^ "Complete University Guide 2025". The Complete University Guide. 14 May 2024.
  8. ^ "Guardian University Guide 2025". The Guardian. 7 September 2024.
  9. ^ "Good University Guide 2025". The Times. 20 September 2024.
  10. ^ "Academic Ranking of World Universities 2024". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. 15 August 2024.
  11. ^ "QS World University Rankings 2025". Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd. 4 June 2024.
  12. ^ "THE World University Rankings 2025". Times Higher Education. 9 October 2024.
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  19. ^ "Chinese law offers great career prospects". The Times. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
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  27. ^ "The Durham University Journal, Volume 30". The Durham University Journal. University of Durham: 413. 1972.
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  32. ^ "Nick Gibb Biography". Conservative Party. Archived from the original on 7 June 2009.
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