Current PhD students at LSE Law School are listed below (alphabetically by surname). Click on the student's name for further details. For more information about our research interests, see Research.
See also our list of recently completed PhD theses.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Ferial Aboushoka
'The Perversion of 'Leniency': A Comparative Law and Penal Theory Analysis of Exempting Bribe-Givers'
Daniela Arantes Prata
'Corporate behaviour, compliance and the environment: A Latin American perspective'
Omotola Ariyo
'Legal Issues in the regulation and adjudication of OTC Derivatives'
Thomas Bagshaw
'Entrepreneurial futures: social enterprise, development and human rights'
Jakub Bokes
‘Basis in Natural History: Towards a Historical Materialist Theory of Environmental Law’
Lauren Bursey
'Preventing the Sale of Looted Antiquities by Non-State Actors: a comparative analysis of International Law and national legislation in the United Kingdom, United States, and the European Union'
Joaquín Casalia
'Criminal Process, Blame, and Conversation: The Two World View of Criminal Law'
Niall Conlon
'Potential UK legal and Regulatory Path Dependency in prohibitions against Insider Trading and Market Abuse; a project to review the legal theoretical and doctrinal foundations of insider trading prohibitions and information-based market abuse under UK law'
Pascual Cortés
'Imagining police character: the case of the Chilean Carabineros'
Arianna Crosera
'Regulating the environmental impact of the European Cloud'
Parashar Das
'International Law: A Language of Expertise'
Margot Donzé
'The Interplay between International Law and Politics: What about Attacks on Foreign Leaders?'
Cüneyd Erbay
'Legal Pluralism and the Codification of the Late Ottoman Empire: A Re-imagination of Imperial Political Authority and Legal Thought'
Lorena Espinosa Olguín
'Access to Justice: Reconstruction from a Contextual Approach that Promotes Equality'
Ilil Gabison
'Obscure Chains, Transparent Prices: Contested Commodification in Global Value Chains'
Sebastian Gazmuri Barker
'In search for tax progressiveness in developing countries'
Lance Green
'The Meaning of “Personal Property” in Law: A Contextual Map'
Brynne Guthrie
'Legal Continuity and Failures in Constitution-Making: A Comparative Study'
Mila Harding
'Combining Competition Law and the Right to Health as a Tool to Advance Access to Healthcare'
Genevieve Heng
'Control as a Service: Big Tech, imperfect copyright enforcement, and restrictions on creativity in the digital age'
Samuel Hickey
'Extraterritoriality and corporate crime'
Zarja Hude
'A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Structure and Process International Tax Law'
Michelle Hughes
'The Cost of Compliance: The Judicialization of Conflict and the Art of War’
Eoin Jackson
'Climate Change, Corporate Actors, and International Human Rights Law'
Ioanna Kladi
'Construing ‘Tax Fairness’ as a Concept of EU Law'
Carly A. Krakow
'The Role of International Law for Protecting the Human Rights of People Impacted by Environmental Crimes in Contexts of Statelessness, Displacement, and Armed Conflict'
Caroline Leeds-Ruby
'Regulating for responsible AI in finance'
Yi Heng Leong
'Examining Constitutional 'Reason of State' in the British Postcolony in Asia: Between Legality and Coloniality'
James Monaghan
'Constituting the public service'
Dimitris Moragiorgas
'Nonrandom Walks of Knowledge, Wide Epistemic Responsibility, and Criminal Blameworthiness'
Reem Moustafa
'The Culture of Impunity and the Regulatory Framework Protecting Cultural Property from Illicit Trafficking'
Nakul Nayak
'Technology and Constitutional Change'
Shafic Osman
'Moving on from “yentua”: Debt Governance in an African State'
Pedro Pereira de Morais Pacheco
'The uncertainty problem: how the limitations of human knowledge impact the adjudication of constitutional rights (and what should be done about it).'
Malavika Raghavan
‘Socio-legal consequences of the digitalisation of welfare delivery: A case study of India’s direct benefit transfer system’
Leonardo Rivera Mendoza
'The Art of Dignity: Ancestral Community and Collective Human Rights in the Aftermath of International Litigation'
Roberto Russo
'The Legal Ramifications of Narrative Disclosures’ Language'
Josiah Senu
'Defending consideration'
Shukri Shahizam
'The use of foreign law by Eastminster apex courts in public law adjudication'
Konstantinos Sioufas
'Constitutionalism and horizontal effect of rights in the common law world'
Evgenia Stavropoulou
'Defining Compensable Loss in International Investment Law'
Spyros Syrrakos
'Data and Content in the Digital World: Revisiting Proportionality in the EU Legal Order'
Kaia Turowski
'High-Stakes Influencers: How Amicus Briefs Shape Judicial Decision-Making in U.S. Climate Litigation'
Sam Warburton
'Exploring the Pervasiveness of Proportionality Reasoning in English Law'
Florian Wetzlaugk
'The Deconstitutionalization and Politicization of Constitutional Law'
Nathan Whetton
'Protest in Post-Democracy: Silencing Environmentalists in Twenty-First Century Britain'
Jinyang Xu
'International Law Profession in the Party-State China in the Cold War Times'
Christos Zois
Futurity narratives in international climate change law: Deciphering the rights of 'future generations'