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Durham strengthens Human Rights team

(6 November 2003)

Professor Thomas Allen has taken up a Professorship in Law at the University of Durham.

His main research interests relate to the impact of national and international human rights instruments on property and commercial law. Human Rights is one of the Durham Law department’s specialities and the University established their Centre for Human Rights in 2001.

Currently he is completing his book The Human Rights Act 1998: Property and Economic Interests. Moreover he is the author of two other books and several articles and chapters in edited books.

Having graduated with a BA in Ontario, Canada, Professor Allen moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia to gain an LLB (Bachelor of Laws). He then worked as a volunteer teacher in Botswana before returning to Canada to practise law.

In 1990 he came to England to gain an LLM (Master of Laws) in London.

Professor Allen first came to Durham as Teaching Fellow and Research Assistant in 1991, moving to the University of Newcastle to become Lecturer. In 1995 he returned to Durham, this time as Senior Lecturer in Law and before his present appointment, he was Professor of Private Law at the University of Leeds.

Further information:

Daphne Buijs, Public Relations Office, daphne.buijs@durham.ac.uk, 0191 334 6076