Student and Graduate Profiles

Crawford, Keith

Insolvency and the Plague: Effective Redistributive Justice through Failure.

Professor David Fraser & Dr Sandra Frisby

Liew, Ying

Rationalising Constructive Trusts in Informal Transfers of Property.

Professor Craig Rotherham & Dr Christine Davis

Saidova, Sanam

Security Interests under the UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment 2001.

Dr Sandra Frisby

Udofia, Kubianga

A Legal Analysis of the Effects of the Commencement of Corporate Insolvency Proceedings.

Vargiu,   Paolo

The Conflict of Jurisdictions on the Arbitration Agreement: The Relationship Between the English Court and the Foreign Court for the Case of Foreign Proceedings in Breach of an Arbitration Agreement.

What Price Democracy? Human Rights, Counter-Terrorism and Democracy

Hadzi-Vidanovic, Vidan

The Use of Force against Non-State Armed Groups in International Law

Dr Olympia Bekou & Professor Dino Kritsiotis

The role of human rights field operations in the implementation of protection mandates in the context of UN peace operations

Professor Nigel White & Professor Michael O’Flaherty

Seiberth, Corrina

Non-binding Norms and the Regulation of Private Military and Security Companies during Armed Conflict: The Contribution of Soft Law and Codes of Conduct to the Legal Framework of Private Military and Security Companies.

Shucksmith, Christy

An analysis of the legal and practical relationship between United Nations Peace Operations and the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Democratic Republic of Congo. How does the human security concept impact upon UN and ICRC missions?

Professor Nigel White & Mr Sandesh Sivakumaran

Stathopoulou, Kalliopi

African Intrastate Peace Agreements and Self-determination.

Professor Nigel White & Professor Mary Footer 

Zamani, Masoud

When is the Use of Administrative Detention Justified in the Context of Counter-terrorism Measures?

Professor Dino Kritsiotis & Mr Sandesh Sivakumaran

Henderson, Christian

The Impact of the United States on the Jus Ad Bellum in the Post-Cold War Era.  

Professor Rob Cryer

Kalpouzos, Ioannis

The Applicability of the Jus in Bello to Conflicts Involving Non-state Armed Groups.

Professor Robert McCorquodale & Mr Sandesh Sivakumaran

O'Brien, Melanie

National and International Criminal Jurisdiction over UN Peacekeeping Personnel for Gender-based Crimes against Women.

Professor Michael O'Flaherty & Dr Olympia Bekou

Murphy, Rose Alice

International Economic Sanctions as a Legal Power of the United Nations Security Council.

Professor Mary Footer & Professor Dino Kritsiotis

Roele, Isobel

Without Identifiable System Agents of International Law, can "Armed Attack" Provide Sufficient Semantic Certainty for the Collective Evaluation of States' Claims to have used Force in Self-defence by Providing a Connection for is and ought Statements?

Professor Rob Cryer

Arustamyan, Olia

Responsibility without Authorship.

Professor Paul Roberts

An Analysis of the Compatibility of the Use of Secret Evidence with the Right to a Fair Trial.

Professor Paul Roberts &  Ms Sangeeta Shah

Carver, Lucy

The ICC and the Penal Objectives of International Criminal Justice.

Professor Paul Roberts

Chadwick, Mark

The Universal Mystery: Divining a Coherent Theory of Universal Jurisdiction.

Dr Olympia Bekou & Professor Dino Kritsiotis

Community sanctions and measures in China - an empirical and comparative study.

Professor Dirk van Zyl Smit & Dr Roisin Mulgrew

Emmerich, Fabienne

Professor Dirk van Zyl Smit & Professor David Fraser

The Impact of Community Punishment on Offenders' Human Rights in England and Wales: A Conceptual and Empirical Study.

'There's a Rat in the Kitchen, what are the Local Authority going to do?': A Socio-Legal Study of the Enforcement of Food Safety and Food Hygiene Law.

Common criminal designs and the path to individual accountability - the need for a normative approach in the culture of International Criminal Law.

Jones, Annika

The Use of External Jurisprudence by the International Criminal Court.

Prof. Nigel White & Dr Olympia Bekou

Lutfi, Budiman

Rethinking the Death Penalty in Malaysia.

Tan, Alvin

Regionalization of International Criminal Justice

Balmer, Andrew

Where the Truth Lies: A Critical Analysis of the use of fMRI as a Lie Detector.

Special Measures for Child Witnesses: A Socio-Legal Study of Criminal Procedure Reform.

Frisso, Giovanna

The Participation of Victims in International Criminal Trials.

Professor Dirk van Zyl Smit & Mr Sandesh Sivakumaran

Detention and the Enforcement of Sentences in the International Criminal Justice System.

The illusion of simplicity – Designing appropriate policies for reducing deforestation and related emissions.

Stabilisation Clauses and Sustainable Development in Developing Countries. 

Professor Mary Footer &  Dr Edward Goodwin

Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement in the Light of Sustainable Development

The World Trade Organisation and its Relationship with Multilateral Environmental Agreements.

Professor Mary Footer & Mr Michael Bowman 

Climate Change and Environmentally Displaced Persons: A Lacuna in International Legal Protection

Environmental Law - Implementation and Impact of Multilateral Environment Agreements on Small Island Developing States in the Caribbean.

Limitations of a Human Right to the Environment: Softening the Divide between Humanity and Nature

Sovereignty And The Stateless Nation: How Has Gibraltar's Democratic & Governance Deficit Emerged And How Should It Be Addressed In The Modern European Legal Context?  

How Effective is the European Neighbourhood Policy in Transposing the EU's Concept of Democratic Values into the Legal Order of Armenia and Other Countries of Southern Caucasus?

The Legal Framework of Cross-border Portability of Supplementary Occupational Pension Rights.

Neoliberal Governmentality at the 2012 Olympic Games: A New Approach to Human Trafficking and Victimhood in Foucault's Carceral Archipelago.

Feminisms within/out the state: Exploring narratives of depoliticisation in feminist theory through the lens of sex work discourse and activism in the UK.

Professor Julia O’Connell Davidson

A Critical Exploration of the Role of the Human Rights Act in the Reform of Prostitution Law.

The Right to Inheritance under the Shariah and International Human Rights Law.   

Professor Michael O'Flaherty & Professor Hugh Goddard

The Concept of Culture in International Human Rights Law

Ensuring Human Rights and Investment in Conflict Settings: Afghanistan as a Case Study.

Human Rights in Policing.

Fragmentation or Unity of International Law’ Revisited: Analyzing the European Convention on Human Rights when the European Court takes Cognizance of Public International Law Norms.

Professor Alastair Mowbray & Mr Sandesh Sivakumaran

Reichstein, Angelika

The right to life – a right to have a life and a right to end one’s life

The Human Rights-based Approach and Street Level Corruption in the Access to Basic Social Services.

The Relationship between International and EU Law: Judicial Review, Art. 103 UN Charter and Protection of Human Rights.

The Application of International Human Rights Law to Unrecognised Entities: The Case of Taiwan.

Modelling an International Normative Framework for the Promotion and Protection of the Human Rights of the Elderly.

The Evolving Role of the European Court of Human Rights 1998-2009.

The Relationship of States’ Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and International Humanitarian Law – a Discussion of Food and Health Related Problems in Situations of Non-international Armed Conflicts.

Democracy and State Creation in International Law.

The Scope of Copyright Protection for Computer Software Study on the Private International Law in England and Kuwait.

The Technical Assistance Saga! Does WIPO have the Ultimate Receipe for a Successful Implementation?

The Challenges of using Patents as Loan Collateral.

The Protection of the Intellectual Property Rights in Outer Space Activities

Non-Producing Entities (NPEs) and an Injunctive Reliefs in Patent Infringement Lawsuits.

IP Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions and Traditional Knowledge of the Modern Communities.

Copyright and the Right to Freedom of Expression: Balancing of Rights in the New Technological Age

Access to Copyright Works: Fine-tuning DRM to Balance Between the Rights of Owners and Users.

Patent Protection of Agricultural Biotechnological Inventions - Towards Achieving Global Harmonization. 

Cross-border Intellectual Property Disputes Arising Online: Towards a New Dispute Resolution Model? 

Patents and Industry Standards.

Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights over the Internet and Private International Law (MPhil).

Probing the Margins of Legal Theory: an Exploration into Law's Responses to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.

Governmentality, Rights and EU Legal Scholarship: A Foucauldian Analysis.

The Implementation of Community Treatment Orders in Mental Health Law.

Professor Peter Bartlett & Mr Mat Kinton

The Rehabilitation of Personality Disordered Offenders: A Foucauldian Analysis.

The Discreditation of Mad People within Legal and Psychiatric Decision Making: A Systems Theory Approach

Adjudicating Housing Disputes under the Housing Act 2004.

Professor Nigel Gravells &  Dr Sandra Frisby

Public Procurement Award Criteria in the EU Member States (a comparative study).

The Correlation between Public Procurement and Development: the Case of Turkey.

Remedies in Public Procurement Law.

The Impact of the EC Procurement Rules on Corporate Responsibility in the Supply Chain: a Study of Utilities. 

Procurement Procedures under the Private Finance Initiative: the Operation of the New Legal Framework.

The Influence of Developments in EC Public Procurement Regulation of Member States: a Case Study of the UK, the Netherlands and France. 

The European Community Legal Framework on Electronic Auctions in Regulated Procurement: Perspectives from the United Kingdom.

Defence Procurement Law in Europe: The Role of International Organisation.

An Evaluation of Soft Law as a Method to Regulate Public Procurement from a Trade Perspective.

Competitive Dialogue in Portugal and Spain.

Professor David Fraser

A Supplier Review System as part of the Government Procurement System for China.