Thom Brooks#
| Membership Number: | 5778 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://thombrooks.info https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/thom-brooks/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9145-837X |
| Twitter: | @thom_brooks |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/thombrooks.info |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/thombrooks/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - ongoing Professor of Law and Government (since 2014), Dean (2016-2021), Reader in Law (2012-2014), Durham Law School, Durham University, UK
- 2024 Visiting Fellow, Yale Law School, Yale University, USA
- 2022 - 2023 Senior Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, UK
- 2020 - 2022 Visiting Professor, LUISS Guido Carli, Italy
- 2019 Academic Visitor, Columbia Law School, Columbia University, USA
- 2015 Visiting Fellow, Yale Law School, Yale University, USA
- 2012 Visiting Scholar, St John's College, Oxford, UK
- 2010 - 2011 Academic Visitor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford
- 2004 - 2012 Reader in Political and Legal Philosophy (2007-12), Lecturer in Political Thought (2004 - 2007), Department of Politics, University of Newcastle, UK
- 2004 - 2005 Visiting Fellow, Department of Moral Philosophy, University of St Andrews, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Law and Public Policy
- British Politics
- Political Philosophy
- Rawls
- UK Labour Party
- Hegel
- British Idealism
- Capabilities Approach
- Immigration
- Constitutional Law
- Global Justice
- Political Strategy
- Citizenship
Honours and Awards
- 2020 - 2021 President, The Society of Legal Scholars
- 2019 - 2020 Vice-President, The Society of Legal Scholars
- 2018 Academic Bencher, The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
- 2018 Inaugural Foundation Fellow, Howard League for Penal Reform
- 2018 Who's Who 2019
- 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award, Arizona State University
- 2015, 2016 Debrett's People of Today
- 2012 Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
- 2010 Fellow, Royal Historical Society
- 2009 Fellow, Academic of Social Sciences
- 2004 Essay Prize, Hegel Society of Great Britain
- 2000 Professor Magennis Memorial Prize, Department of Philosophy, University College Dublin
