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Current PhD students

The Centre for Applied Human Rights has PhD students conducting research in a variety of fields.

Anaïs Brunier

  • Monitoring and Learning from Humanitarian Engagement with Religious Leaders - A MEAL for Interdisciplinary and Norms Compliance Analysis?
  • Supervised by Professor Ioana Cismas and Dr Mattia Pinto

Brian Frenkel

  • Navigating Normative Crossroads: The use of IHL by Human Rights
  • Treaty Bodies as a case study of the interaction between human rights and other international legal regimes
  • Supervised by Professor Ioana Cismas and Dr Piergiuseppe Parisi

Zaki Kaf Al-Ghazal

  • Sovereignty and the Enforcement of Legal Norms in International Criminal Law
  • Supervised by Professor Matt Matravers and Dr Piergiuseppe Parisi

Cindy Leung

  • Making sense of the right to food in cities in England: Two qualitative case studies in York and Leeds

Marynka Marquez

  • Human rights cities in the United States and the United Kingdom

Jack Mayhew

  • What can the campaign against IPP tell us about justice in late capitalism?

Brook Morrison

  • Conducting NATO Operations and Missions in Compliance with International Human Rights Law

Laura Muñoz López

  • How land grabs in developing countries affect the land rights of local people

Maro Pantizidou

  • Precarity and the Politics of Time: Doing Care, Reimagining Work and the Community

Jens Poessel

  • Access to Justice and Non-Judicial Mechanisms of Cooperation and Coordination in Zambia: Challenges and Opportunities.

Martha Thickett

  • Passing on the Torch: Using the arts to facilitate intergenerational dialogue promoting the transmission of LGBTQ+ cultural knowledge, memory, resilience, and resistance
  • Supervised by Professor Sue Westwood and Professor Ioana Cismas

Xiaxin Wang

  • Institutional Personhood: Reimagining Legal Personality for Nature Through the Lens of Chinese Environmental Law
  • Supervised by Dr Piergiuseppe Parisi and Professor Ioana Cismas

 

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