MPhil/PhD Research Degrees
PhD Completions 2012/13
Law Department students awarded with their PhD in the academic session 2012/13:-
Ugljesa Grusic
'The international employment contract; ideal, reality and regulatory
function of European private international law of employment
Supervisor:
Professor Hugh Collins and
Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp
Chi Hsing Ho
'Socio-legal perspectives on biobanking: the case of Taiwan'
Supervisors:
Professor Tim
Murphy
Mary Catherine Lucey
'The interface between competition law and the restraint of trade doctrine
for professionals: understanding its evolution and proposing its solution'
Supervisor:
Professor Hugh Collins
Udoka Nwosu
'Head of state immunity in international law'
Supervisor:
Dr Chaloka Beyani
PhD Completions 2011/12
Law Department students awarded with their PhD in the academic session 2011/12:-
Luis Barroso
'The Problems and the Controls of the New Administrative
State of the EU'
Supervisors:
Professor Julia Black and
Professor Damian Chalmers
Paul Benral
'Do deficiencies in data privacy threaten ourautonomy and if so, can
informational privacy rights meet this threat?'
Supervisors: Professor Conor
Gearty and Professor Andrew
Murray
Paraskevi Boukli
'Imaginary penalities: reconsidering anti-trafficking discourses and
technologies'
Supervisors: Professor
Christine Chinkin and Professor
Susan Marks
Isabel Calich
'The impact of globalisation on the position of developing countries in
the international tax system'
Supervisor: Ian Roxan
Benjamin Dille
Ill fares the land: the legal consequences of land confiscations by the
Sandinista Government of Nicaragua,1979-1990
Supervisor: Professor Simon
Roberts
Seema Farazi
'Nuclear Threats and Military Responses'
Supervisors: Professor
Christine Chinkin and Professor
Susan Marks
Eyal Geva
'Corporate and Corporate Insolvency Restructuring: Employee Voice in an
Anglo-American Perspective'
Supervisor: Professor Vanessa
Finch
David Hood
'What model for regulating employee discipline and grievances most effectively supports the policy objective of partnership at work?'
Supervisors:
Professor Hugh Collins and
Professor David Kershaw
Matthew John
'Rethinking the Secular State: Perspective on Constitutional Law in
Post-Colonial India'
Supervisors:
Professor Martin
Loughlin and Professor Tim
Murphy
Andreas Kotsakis
'The Biological Diversity Complex: A History of Environmental Government'
Supervisors:
Dr
Veerle Heyvaert and
Professor Martin
Loughlin
Emily Laidlaw
'Internet Gatekeepers, Human Rights and Corporate Social Responsibilities'
Supervisors: Professor Conor
Gearty and Professor Andrew
Murray
Jeffrey Benjamin Meyers
'Toward a Negri-inspired theory of c/Constitution: A Canadian case study'
Supervisors:
Professor Tim Murphy and
Dr Igor Stramignoni
Abhijit Pandya
'Coherence and Interpretations of the Fair and Equitable Treatment
Standard in Investment Treaty Arbitration'
Supervisors: Dr
Andrew Lang and
Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp
Lorenzo Sasso
'Capital structure and corporate governance: the role of hybrid
financial instruments'
Supervisors: Professor Paul Davies and
Dr Eva Micheler
Chenwei Zhu
'Authoring Collaborative Projects: A Study of Intellectual Property and Free
and Open Source Software (FOSS) Licensing Schemes from a Relational Contract
Perspective'
Supervisors:
Anne Barron and
Professor Linda Mulcahy
PhD Completions 2010/11
Law Department students awarded with their PhD in the academic session 2010/11:-
Miguel Correia
'The Taxation of Corporate Groups Under a Corporation Income Tax: An
Interdisciplinary and Comparative Tax Law Analysis.'
Supervisor: Ian Roxan
Christine Evans
'The Right to Reparations in International Law for Victims of Armed
Conflict: Convergence of Law and Practice?'
Supervisors:
Dr Margot Salomon and Professor
Gerry Simpson
Emily Haslam
'Between Consent and Contestation: Civil Society, Justice and International
Criminal Law'
Supervisors:
Dr Margot Salomon and Professor
Gerry Simpson
Guoming Li
'The Constitutional relationship between China and Hong Kong: a study of the
status of Hong Kong in China's system of government under the principle of
"one country, two systems"'
Supervisors:
Professor Martin
Loughlin
and Professor Tim Murphy
Jiabo Liu
'Copyright Expansion and Industrial Growth : A Case Study of the UK Book
Publishing Industry'
Supervisor:
Professor Andrew Murray
David Mangan
Thesis Title: 'Challenges of Change: Teachers, Government and Reform'
Supervisors:
Professor David Kershaw,
Dr Julian
Fulbrook
and Dr Bob Simpson.
Charlotte
Peevers
'Justifying Force: From the Suez Crisis to the Iraq
War'
Supervisors: Dr
Andrew Lang and
Ms Anthea Roberts
Stephanie Roberts
'The Decision Making Process of Appeals Against Conviction in the Court
of Appeal (Criminal Division)'
Supervisor:
Professpr Andrew Murray
Edite Ronnen
'Mediation in a Conflict Society. An Ethnographic View on Mediation
Processes in Israel.'
Supervisor:
Professor Simon Roberts
Matteo Solinas
'Legal evolution and hybridization: The law shares transfer in England'
Supervisors:
Dr Eva Micheler and
Professor David Kershaw
Kraijakr Thiratayakinant
'Multilateral supervision of regional trade agreements: developing
countries' perspectives'
Supervisors:
Professor Francis Snyder and
Dr Andrew Lang
Qianlan Wu
'Competition Laws, Globalization and Legal Pluralism: China's Experience'
Supervisors: Dr
Andrew Lang and
Professor Francis Snyder
PhD Completions 2009/10
Ely
Aharonson
The Role of'Pro-Black' Criminalization Policy in
Enabling and Contraining the Mobilization of
Eqalitarian Racial Reform, US 1669-2008
Supervisors: Professor Robert
Reiner
and
Professor Nicola Lacey
Matthias Boizard
'The Sell-Out Right as an Agency Control Mechanism'
Supervisor:
Professor Paul Davies
Alan Brady
'A Structural, Institutionally Sensitive Model of Proportionality
and Deference Under the Human Rights Act 1998'
Supervisor: Professor Conor
Gearty and Dr Manolis
Melissaris
Reza Djojosugito
'The Role of Project Financing in Promoting Transfer of Technology
(for the Microelectronic Industry in Indonesia)'
Supervisor: Sir Ross Cranston
FBA
Martin Dumas
'On Limitations to the Transformative Power of Consumocratic Law: The
Paradigmatic Case of Rugmark.'
Supervisors:
Professor Tim Murphy and
Professor Julia Black
Elizabeth Franey
'Immunity, Individuals and International Law. Which Individuals are
Immune from the Jurisdiction of National Courts under International Law?'
Supervisor: Professor Christopher
Greenwood and
Dr Chaloka Beyani
Debbie De Girolamo
'The
Fugitive Identity of Mediation: Negotiations, Shift Changes and Allusionary
Action.'
Supervisors:
Professor Simon Roberts and
Prof Mike Redmayne
Panagiotis Kapotas
'Positive action as a means to achieve full and effective equality in
Europe.'
Supervisor: Professor Hugh Collins
and Dr Thomas Poole
Demetra Pappas
'The Politics of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: A Comparative Case Study
of Emerging Criminal Law and the Criminal Trials of Jack "Dr.Death"
Kevorkian.'
Supervisors: Professor Robert
Reiner
and
Professor Paul Rock
Heba Shahein
'The Development of Competition Law and Policy in Egypt: National and
International Factors'
Supervisor: Mr Giorgio Monti
and Dr Andrew Scott
PhD Completions 2008/09
Aseel Al-Ramahi
'Competing Rationalities:
The Evolution of Arbitration in Commercial Disputes in Modern Jordan'
Supervisor:
Professor Simon Roberts
Natalia Andreicheva
'The Role of Legal Capital Rules in Creditors Protection: Contrasting the
Demands of Western Market Economies with Ukraine's
Transitional Economy'
Supervisor:
Professor Sarah Worthington
Marina Brilman
'Georges Canguilhem: Norms and Knowledge in the Life
Sciences'
Supervisor:
Mr Alain Pottage and
Dr Emmanuel Melissaris
Alejandro Chehtman
'The Morality of Extraterritorial Punishment'
Supervisor: Professor Gerry Simpson
and
Prof Mike Redmayne
and Prof Cecile Fabre (Edinburgh)
Heather Harrison-Dinniss
'The status and use of computer network attacks in international
humanitarian law'
Supervisor: Professor Christopher
Greenwood
Kati Kulovesi
'The WTO Dispute Settlement System and the challenge
of environment and legitimacy'
Supervisor: Dr
Veerle Heyvaert
Indianna Minto
'The role of incumbent firms in telecommunications reform: the case of Jamaica
and Ireland'
Supervisors: Professor Robert
Baldwin and Professor Damian Chalmers
Michael Reynolds
'Caseflow Management: A Rudimentary Referee Process, 1919-70'
Supervisor: Professor Simon Roberts
Jaejin Shim
'The right to equality of workers'
Supervisor:
Professor Hugh Collins
John Upton
'The Constitutional Thought of Joseph de Maistre'
Supervisor:
Professor Martin Loughlin and
Dr Tim Hochstrasse
Marisa Vallely
'Mediation and Conciliation in disputes about special educational needs:
Proportionate dispute resolution or justice on the cheap?'
Supervisor: Professor Jill Peay
Ting Xu
'Property rights, governance and
socio-economic transformation: the revival of private property and its
limits in Post-Mao China'
Supervisors: Professor Tim Murphy and
Dr Tatiana Flessas
Benjamin Yu Min Yong
'Becoming national: contextualising the construction of the New Zealand
Nation-State'
Supervisor:
Professor Martin Loughlin
PhD Completions 2007/08
Law Department students awarded with their PhD in the academic session 2007/08:-
George Chifor
'Cutting Down the Law to Seize the Devil:
Exploring the Relationship between Legality and
Legitimacy in the Context of Humanitarian
Intervention'
Supervisor:
Professor Gerry Simpson
Sung Soo Hong
'The Regulatory Dilemma in Human Rights: The Status and Role of the
National Human Rights Institution'
Supervisors: Professor Tim
Murphy and
Professor Martin Loughlin
Manuel Iturralde
'Punishment and Authoritarian Liberalism: the
Politics of Emergency Criminal Justice in
Colombia (1984-2006)'
Supervisors:
Professor
Nicola Lacey
and Professor
Tim Murphy
Michail Kritikos
'Institutions and Science in the Authorization
of GMO Releases in the European Union
(1990-2007): The False Promise of Proceduralism'
Supervisor: Professor Damian Chalmers and
Dr
Veerle Heyvaert
Arlie Loughnan
'Mental Incapacity Defences in Criminal Law'
Supervisors: Professor
Nicola Lacey
and Jill
Peay
Duncan Matthews
'Characterising EC Regulation: Emulation,
Innovation, Re-regulation'
Supervisor:
Professor Robert Baldwin
Guenael Mettraux
'Command responsibility in international law -
the boundaries of criminal liability for
military commanders and civilian leaders'
Supervisor:
Professor Christopher
Greenwood
Daryl Mundis
'The Law of Naval Exclusion Zones'
Supervisor: Professor Christopher
Greenwood
Chidi Odinkalu
'Regional integration and Human Rights in Africa'
Supervisor: Dr Chaloka Beyani
Anestis Papadopoulos
'The Role of the Competition Law and Policy of the EU in the Formation of
International Agreements on Competition'
Supervisor: Giorgio Monti
Wei Shen
'Beyond the New York Convention'
Supervisor:
Professor Simon Roberts
Charlie Webb
'Property, Unjust Enrichment and Restitution'
Supervisor:
Professor Sarah Worthington
PhD Completions 2006/07
Law Department students awarded with their PhD in the academic session 2006/07:-
Tola Amodu
'The transformation of planning agreements as
regulatory instruments in land-use planning in
the twentieth century.'
Supervisor
Professor Martin Loughlin
Louise Arimatsu
'Defences in International
Criminal Law'
Supervisor: Professor Gerry Simpson
Ruke Dukes
'Workplace worker representation in Germany and
the UK: from industrial democracy to
partnership'
Supervisor:
Paul
Davies
Christian HjiPanayi
'Double Taxation, Tax Treaties, Treaty Shopping
and the European Community'
Supervisor:
Dr Ian Roxan
Chieh Huang
State-Trading Countries in the World Trade
Organisation - A Case study of Trading Rights
Reform in China
Supervisor:
Professor Francis Snyder
Bisher Khasawneh
'An appraisal of the right of return and
compensation of Jordanian nationals of
Palestinian origin and Jordan's right under
international law, to bring claims relating
thereto, on their behalf to and against Israel
and to seek compensation as a host state in
light of the conclusion of the Jordan-Israel
peace treaty of 1994.'
Supervisor: Professor Christopher
Greenwood
Despina Kyprianou
'The role of the Cyprus Attorney General's
Office in Prosecutions: Rhetoric, Ideology and
Practice.'
Supervisor:
Professor
Jill Peay
Virginia Mantouvalou
'Labour Rights under the European Convention on
Human Rights'
Supervisor:
Professor Hugh Collins
Kris Panijpan
'Market dynamics in corporate governance:
Lessons from recent developments in English Law'
Supervisor: Professor
Tim Murphy
Jungwon Park
Minority rights constraints on a State's power
to regulate citizenship under international law.
Supervisor:
Dr Chaloka
Beyani
PhD Completions 2005/06
Law Department students awarded with their PhD in the academic session 2005/06:-
Shane Bryans
'Prison Governance: An exploration of the changing
role and duties of the prison governor in HM Prison
Service.'
Supervisor:
Professor Robert Reiner
Philip Chang
'Sociological economic analysis of law: A
theoretical framework for understanding the
correlative aspects of law and economics'
Supervisor:
Professor Hugh Collins
Caitriona Drew
'Population Transfer: The Untold Story of the
International Law of Self-Determination'
Supervisor:
Professor Christine Chinkin
Jesse Elvin
'Political Correctness, Feminism and Law Reform in
England'
Supervisor:
Professor Christine Chinkin
Zeina Ghandour
'Indirect rule in Mandate
Palestine'
Supervisor: Professor Simon
Roberts
Gus Van Harten
'The emerging system of international investment
arbitration'
Supervisor:
Professor Martin Loughlin
Kirsten Lampe
'Human rights in the context of EU foreign policy
and enlargement'
Supervisor:
Dr Chaloka Beyani
Shay Menuchin
'The Dilemma of International Tax Arbitrage: A
comparative analysis using the cases of hybrid
financial instruments and cross border leasing.'
Supervisor:
Dr Ian Roxan
Kris Panijpan
'Market dynamics in corporate governance:
Lessons from recent developments in English Law'
Supervisor: Professor
Tim Murphy
Everard Phillips
'Recognising the language of calypso as "Symbolic
Action" in Resolving Conflict in the Republic of
Trinidad and Tobago'
Supervisor:
Professor Simon Roberts
Rod Rastan
'Closing the Enforcement Gap: The International
Criminal Court and National Authorities.'
Supervisor: Professor Christopher
Greenwood
Tamara Relis
'Parallel worlds of disputes and mediation'
Supervisor:
Professor Simon Roberts
Iyiola Solanke
'The evolution of anti-racial discrimination law in
England, Germany and the European Union'
Supervisor:
Professor Nicola Lacey
Charlotte Steinorth
'Democratic Governance and International Law: Ideas
and Realities'
Supervisor:
Dr Chaloka Beyani
Stephen Tully
'Corporations and International Lawmaking'
Supervisor:
Professor Christine Chinkin
