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Europe: Politics, institutions & law
Parent category: European & other international expertise
Dr Thom Brooks
Reader, Durham Law School
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 44365
Associate , Department of Philosophy
Centre for the History of Political Thought
Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics, Law and the Life Sciences)
Specialist expertise:
- British Idealism
- British politics
- Capabilities
- Capital Punishment
- Citizenship
- Criminal Justice
- Criminal Law
- German Idealism
- Global Justice
- Hegel
- Immigration
- Jurisprudence
- Jury Trial
- Justice
- Kant
- Life in the UK test
- Plato
- Political Communication
- Political Philosophy
- Political Strategy
- Punishment
- Rawls
- Restorative Justice
- Sentencing
Professor Joe Painter
Head of Department, Department of Geography
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41906
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Professor, Politics-State-Space
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41906
Professor, Social/Spatial Theory
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41906
Professor, Urban Worlds
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41906
Specialist expertise:
- Cities and urban development
- European citizenship and identity
- Regional Politics and Government
Dr Christian Schweiger
Lecturer, School of Government and International Affairs
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 47220
Specialist expertise:
- Central and Eastern Europe
- European Union
- Germany
- Globalisation
- Transatlantic Relations
- United Kingdom