Postgraduate Research Students
There are more than 160 postgraduate law research students registered in the School of Law.
View the profiles of some of our current research students to see their research topics, supervisors and working titles.
| Name | Thesis | Research area |
|---|---|---|
| Hanan Almawla | The problem of author's moral rights in conflict-of-laws | Intellectual Property, Private international law, copyright, author's moral rights, choice of law |
| Gilberto Ayres Moreira | Tax Aspects of Regional Economic Integration: ASEAN, EU and Mercosur | Tax and International Economic Law |
| Kadir Bas | A Critical Approach towards Substantive Appraisal of Joint Ventures under EC Competition Law | Competition Law |
| Daniel Berger | Improving legal reasoning, using Bayesian probability methods | |
| Ana Georgina Alba Betancourt | Arbitration of Multijurisdictional Intellectual Property Disputes | ADR dispute resolution, International Arbitration, Intellectual property law, Patent law, Trade Mark law, Copyright law |
| Jeanette Calleja Borg | Cross-Border Group Loss Relief in the EU | European commercial law, European and International taxation, Taxation |
| Marie-Aimée Brajeux | Anti-Social Behaviour Orders and Criminalisation | Criminal law and criminal justice, comparative law |
| Kimberley Brayson | Unveiling our Ignorance? Can human rights discourse ever adequately articulate the interests of Muslim women in European society? A study within the context of the European Convention on Human Rights. | |
| Becky Brown | The Ethics of Using Financial Incentives to Change Health Behaviours | Philosophy, Philosophy and Ethics, Bioethics, Medical Ethics |
| Stephan Buck | Virtual Worlds – Virtual Governance | Media law, internet law, information technology, privacy and data protection, Telecommunications, Electronic commerce, Communications law |
| Shane Burke | Disintegrating Reification: Developing Artistic Practice and Copyright’s Increasing Struggle for Relevance | Intellectual Property Law, Copyright Law, Patent Law, Legal Regulation of the Arts, Public Law |
| Jack Simson Caird | 'The Theory and Practice of Legislative Constitutional Interpretation in the United Kingdom' | Public law, Administrative law, courts and tribunals, Constitutional law, judges access to justice |
| Robin Callender Smith | Celebrities, media and the laws of privacy: is celebrity culture precipitating a crisis? | Torts, Class actions, Media law, Internet law, information technology, privacy and data protection, Telecommunications, Electronic commerce, Communications law, Legal history, Legal education, Human rights and civil liberties, Asylum and immigration law, Public law, Administrative law, courts and tribunals, Constitutional law, judges access to justice, Intellectual property law, Patent law, Trade Mark law, Copyright law |
| Nefissa Chakroun | What Kind of Technology Transfer Best Practices could be implemented by developing countries to achieve development? | Intellectual property law, Patent law, Trade Mark law, Copyright law |
| Ti-Li Chen | Copyright Exception for the Visually Impaired Persons: the Work of WIPO | Copyright, Intellectual Property Law |
| Theodora A Christou | Justice and Trust: European Criminal Justice and Fundamental Rights | |
| Shang-Pei Chung | Patent as Property in Taiwanese Jurisprudence: A Comparative Study of Taiwanese Law Reform 1899-2009 | Legal history, Legal education, Property law, Pensions law, Housing law, Intellectual property law, Patent law, Trade Mark law, Copyright law |
| Margaret Devaney | The Remedies Stage of the Investor-State Arbitration Process: a public interest perspective | ADR and dispute resolution, international arbitration Comparative law Foreign investment law International economic law, international commercial law, international trade law, international secured transactions Public international law, protection of human rights, international humanitarian law, disarmament law, international environmental law, Development treaties |
| Ana Maria Fagetan | Hedge Fund Regulation | |
| Mena Faridi | Women’s Rights in Pakistan: Politics or Progress? | Feminist Legal Theory |
| Micheál O'Floinn | The Role of Service Providers in the Alleviation of Cybercrime Transjurisdictionality | |
| Mary Gani-Ikilama | An Analysis of the Effect of Copyright Law on Creativity in the Music Industry | Intellectual property law, Patent law, Trade Mark law, Copyright law |
| Abdul-Raouf Garoub | Toward International Uniform Rules for Parallel Imports' Regulation under the WTO: Pharmaceuticals as Step One | |
| Patrick Graham | The Evolution of Martial Law: Military intervention and civil disorder in Great Britain | Criminal law, international criminal law, European criminal law, criminal justice and criminology, Terrorism law, Evidence, Legal history, Legal education, Public law, Administrative law, courts and tribunals, Constitutional law, judges access to justice. |
| Dabrowka Grodz | The role of auditors in the context of corporate governance (working title) | Company Law, Corporate Law |
| Rish Handa | The Interplay between Copyright and Patent Law in the Protection of Computer Programs | Intellectual property law, Patent law, Trade Mark law, Copyright law, Media law, Internet law, information technology, privacy and data protection, Telecommunications, Electronic commerce, Communications law |
| Mark Hanna | Law at its Critical Point: The Function of Law in Securing Basic Norms in Global Society | Jurisprudence and legal theory, Sociology of law, Law and literature, Public International law, protection of human rights, International humanitarian law, disarmament law, International environmental law, Development Treaties |
| Tom Hannant | A Republican Analysis of the Human Rights Act 1998 | Jurisprudence and Legal Theory, Political Theory, Constitutional Law, Public Law, Human Rights and Civil Liberties |
| Yewa S Holiday | Article 31 of the 1951 Refugee Convention and the prosecution of asylum seekers and refugees in England, Wales and Northern Ireland | Public international law, criminal law, asylum and immigration law, human rights, victims of human trafficking, international criminal law, constitutional law |
| Alexander Horne | Is there a case for greater legislative involvement in the judicial appointments process? | Comparative Law, Public Law, Administrative Law |
| Aaron Hudson-Tyreman | 'Traits' of the Commercial Mediator (working title) | Mediation methodology, ADR, Regulatory and Policy making mechanisms, Psychological Profiling |
| Aleksandra Jolkina | Marriages and Civil Partnerships of Convenience as Mechanisms for Circumventing European Union Immigration Law | Asylum and immigration law, European Union law, European criminal law, criminal law and criminal justice, comparative law, family law, human rights |
| Aleksandra Jordanoska | Financial Transgressions and the Law | Regulation, Jurisprudence and legal theory, Sociology of law, Law and literature, Criminal law, international criminal law, European criminal law, criminal justice and criminology, Terrorism law, Evidence |
| Andriani Kalintiri | The assessment of economic evidence by the European Courts and the application of competition law | Competition Law |
| Troels Larsen | The Chilling Effect on Freedom of Expression in the Jurisprudence of The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) | |
| Pawarit (Paul) Lertdhamtewe | WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement), Intellectual Property Rights and Development: Reforming Plant Protection Regime in Thailand for Development Objective | Intellectual property law, Patent law, Trade Mark law, Copyright law |
| Luo Li | How to Protect “Chaos”- Protection of Folklore in Southwest of China | Intellectual property law, Patent law, Trade Mark law, Copyright law |
| Wen Li | The Regulation of New Electronic Payment in China, a Comparative study with the EU/UK | Media Law, Internet law, information technology, privacy and data protection, telecommunications, electronic commerce, communications law |
| Wenxin Li | The Children of Internal Migrants in China and their Rights to Education - a Long Journey towards a Harmonious Society | International Law and children's rights, Human rights and civil liberties |
| William Linton | Re-describing the limits of discrimination law from the perspective of modern systems theory | |
| Michaela MacDonald | ‘Virtual Property: Building upon Established Legal Concepts’ | Intellectual Property law, IT law, Property law, Contract law |
| Vivian Mak | Developing Guidelines for Patenting Living Organisms: A Comparative Interdisciplinary Study in the E.U., United States and Canada | Intellectual Property, Comparative International Law, Policy Making |
| Thaddeus Manu | The Impact of WTO/TRIPS Agreement on Local Production of Essential Pharmaceuticals and the Supply of APIs for Public Health Protection in Africa | Intellectual property law, Patent law, Trade Mark law, Copyright law |
| Alberto Merino Lefenda | The role of judicial training and performance appraisal mechanisms in Chile: How to enforce judicial consistency without undermining independence | Public Law, Administrative Law, Courts and Tribunals, Constitutional Law, Judges, access to justice |
| Andrea Miglionico | Recasting credit rating agencies’ responsibility: reform suggestions | Regulation of Financial Markets, Securities Regulation, Financial Law, Banking Law |
| Sungho Mok | Trade Mark Use in Paid Search Marketing and Direct Liability | Intellectual property law, Trade mark law |
| Roksana Moore | Vendor liability for defects in computer security applications – can de jure standards be used as a tool to establish whether a defect should lead to liability? | |
| Amir Nabil | The Definition of Economic Activity and the Limits of Competition Law in Egypt | Competition Law |
| Tatjana Nikitina | Regulation of over-the-counter derivatives in the European Union | Banking and Finance Law |
| Yonit Manor Percival | Chinese outward direct investment (ODI) – An interdisciplinary analysis of the operation of the ODI paradigm emerging from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) within the framework of international Economic Law | ADR and dispute resolution, International Arbitration, Foreign investment law |
| Metka Potocnik | Intellectual Property Rights (Trade Marks) as Foreign Direct Investment (the case of plain packaging) | |
| Charles Randell | Making Cross-Border Resolution of Systemically Important Financial Institutions a Reality | Banking and Finance Law |
| Jim Roche | Empowering the inventor; the most appropriate course of action for RNAi and antisense diagnostics and treatments? | Intellectual property law, Patent law, Trade Mark law, Copyright law |
| Eda Sahin | Establishing an effective and efficient EU Collective Redress mechanism on damages actions in the field of competition law. | Competition Law |
| Ruth Saunders | Genetic Databases Created By Personal Genome Companies: Understanding The Relationship Between Law and Practice | Medical law, Philosophy, Philosophy and Ethics, Bioethics, Medical Ethics |
| Maria Kreszentia Sheppard | The Patient, the Doctor, the NHS and the EU: treatment choice and complementary medicine a paradox? | Medical Law, European Union Law, Medical Ethics |
| Sarah Singer | Exclusion from Refugee Status: asylum seekers and terrorism in the UK | Human rights and civil liberties, Asylum and immigration law, Criminal law, international criminal law, European criminal law, criminal justice and criminology, Terrorism law, Evidence Public International law, protection of human rights, International humanitarian law, disarmament law, International environmental law, Development Treaties |
| Carla Teteris | Previous Statements and the Evaluation of Witness Credibility | Evidence law, Criminal procedure, Criminal law |
| Georgina Tsagas | The financial crisis as a driver of EU takeover law reform: the board neutrality and ‘breakthrough’ rules revisited | Corporate Law, Takeover Regulation, Corporate Governance (Jurisdictions: UK, EU & US) |
| Mariia Tymofiienko | Economic functions of a trade mark: legal analysis | Trade mark law, competition law, marketing |
| Hélène Tyrrell | Foreign Jurisprudence in (UK) Domestic Human Rights Cases | Human rights and civil liberties, Asylum and immigration law, Public law, Administrative law, courts and tribunals, Constitutional law, judges access to justice |
| Niovi Vavoula | Border Controls and Counter Terrorism law in the European Union | European Law, Border Controls, EU Criminal law, Human Rights law |
| Peter A Wilson | BRICS and International Taxation | |
| Mary Yarwood | 'Prisoners and reproduction: fundamental right or privilege?' | |
| Ali Zbeeb | Suggesting a Legal Framework to Construct the Arab Economic Union Post 'Arab Spring' |
