Thom Brooks keynote speaker

Thom Brooks is an award-winning author, policy advisor and public speaker. He has written 9 books, over 150 articles and book chapters and edited 30 books. An immigration expert, he published the Jenny Jeger Prize winning Fabian Society pamphlet setting out a new immigration system for Labour described by POLITICO as the first major piece in area for over a decade.

The BBC has called him ‘the UK’s leading expert on the citizenship test’ and he successfully argued for the creation of an inquiry into the test by the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee. He serves on the Office for National Statistics’ Government Statistical Service Migration Group. Brooks is cited by the Electoral Commission in favour of rewording the EU Referendum to ‘Leave’ and ‘Remain’.

His research on punishment is listed in the top 100 ‘Big Ideas for the Future’ in British universities. He is cited in ‘watershed’ Connecticut Supreme Court case of Santiago II ending capital punishment in his native state of Connecticut.

As Durham University’s longest serving Dean of the Law School, Brooks doubled the school’s size and and grew its profile recognised in House of Commons Early Day Motion 875. Brooks was the 112^th President of the Society of Legal Scholars, the oldest and largest learned society for academic lawyers.

He is an executive committee member of the Fabian Society and British Institute for International and Comparative Law trustee. He lives in Co. Durham and a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and United States.