Details of current research students and PhD topics:
Marcus Hulme
Preventive Justice: Law, Theory and Practice
Supervisor: Professor Matt Matravers
Sherif AzerOn Tweets and Treaties: Cyberactivisits as Human Rights Defenders and their role in the Arab SpringSupervisors: Martin Jones and Dr Alice NahCharlotte EllisWrotham Park damages in English contract law: identifying and evaluating internal and external perspectives. Wrotham Park damages are a non-standard remedy in contract law: instead of compensation for loss, the defendant is ordered to pay damages assessed as a reasonable fee which might hypothetically have been demanded by the claimant for permission to breach the contractSupervisor: Professor Jenny SteeleAlice WelshEU Citizenship and Euroscepticism in the UKSupervisor: Professor Charlotte O'BrienBader AbdeenIs PTSD a Mitigating Defence Against Criminal Responsibility?Supervisor: Professor Matt MatraversRossella De BernardiA Normative Analysis of the Relationship between Political Toleration and Legitimacy in Circumstances of Disagreement about JusticeSupervisor: Professor Matt MatraversNu HudTerrorism and the Changing Face of Freedom of Freedom of Freedom of Expression in the UKSupervisors: Dr Joanna Gilmore and Professor Matt Matravers
Enyeribe OguhAn Examination of the Legitimacy of Regional Enforcement of International Criminal LawSupervisor: Professor Matt MatraversFitriaThe International Refugee Regime and Legal Pluralism: Refugee Protection of the Rohingya in AcehSupervisor: Martin JonesElliott KeechCrime, Innovation and the Technology of MoneySupervisors: Dr Sarah Wilson and Dr Henry YeomansAndre PringleWhat Role for Environmental Regulation in the prevention and utilisation of food waste?Supervisor: Professor Simon HallidayJonathan FiskThe question of the nature and purpose of consent in medicine and the extent to which these can be derived from a coherent ethical frameworkSupervisors: Professor Matt MatraversPetronel GeyserCounter-Terrorism Financing in South AfricaSupervisors: Dr Lawrence McNamara and Professor Matt MatraversJessica GracieVicarious Liability and the Gig Economy: A Socio-Legal Study of the Regulation and Perceptions of RiskSupervisors: Professor Simon Halliday and Dr Phillip MorganJane Hill
Patenting Artificial Intelligence
Supervisor: Dr Peter HarrisonJames KillenHuman rights defenders at risk: Security, psychological trauma and state responsibilitySupervisors: Martin JonesMichael RobinsonMeeting aspirations? Evaluating the assessment of Personal Independence Payment from a Disability Rights perspectiveSupervisors: Professor Charlotte O'Brien and Dr Jed MeersRhiannon Griffiths
Memory, transitional justice, and social control in East Asia
Supervisor: Dr Ioana CismasJames Hart
The Admissibility of Conduct Subsequent to the Execution of a Contract as an Aide to Contractual Interpretation: A Doctrinal, Empirical, and Comparative AnalysisSupervisor: Phillip MorganCarl Makin
Regulation and reality: towards a tenant-centric understanding of social housing law
Supervisor: Professor Caroline HunterSam Guy
Access to environmental justice in a contested costs framework: how can judicial review crowdfunding affect the UK legal opportunity structure?
Supervisors: Dr Joe Tomlinson and Professor Simon HallidayZaki Kaf Al-Ghazal
What are the problems with the understanding and enforcement of legal norms in a regime of sovereign states with reference to crimes against humanity?
Supervisors: Dr Kate Leader and Professor Matt MatraversAtoosa Khatiri
The women and children of ISIS and their journeys back home: Challenges in the UK and beyond
Supervisors: Dr Ioana Cismas and Dr Lawrence McNamaraAlice Trotter
Architectures of inequality? Employing a human rights perspective to study the built environment of the city of York, United Kingdom
Supervisors: Dr Ioana Cismas and Professor Paul Gready (CAHR/Politics)Charlie TyeTo what extent should principles of civil and criminal liability in England and Wales be attached to the harms inflicted by individual and collective acts within the Manosphere? The Manosphere is a network of male-orientated subcultures, communities, blogs, and Torums which subscribe to a philosophy known as the ¿Red Pill¿Supervisors: Professor Matt Matravers and Phillip MorganLe Nam Vo
An analysis of open banking regulations and their legal impact on banking structure
Supervisors: Professor Jay Cullen, Phillip Morgan and Simos Gerasimou (Computer Science)