Details of current research students - PhD and MA topics:

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Sherif Azer

On Tweets and Treaties: Cyberactivisits as Human Rights Defenders and their role in the Arab Spring

Supervisors: Martin Jones and Dr Alice Nah

 

Charlotte Ellis

Methodology in Contract Law

Supervisor: Professor Jenny Steele 

 

Nu Hud

Terrorism and the Changing Face of Freedom of Freedom of Freedom of Expression in the UK

Supervisors: Dr Joanna Gilmore and Professor Matt Matravers

 

Elliott Keech

Crime, Innovation and the Technology of Money

Supervisors: Dr Sarah Wilson and Dr Henry Yeomans

 

Jonathan Fisk

The question of the nature and purpose of consent in medicine and the extent to which these can be derived from a coherent ethical framework

Supervisors: Professor Matt Matravers

 

Petronel Geyser

Counter-Terrorism Financing in South Africa

Supervisors: Dr Lawrence McNamara and Professor Matt Matravers

 

Jessica Gracie

Vicarious Liability and the Gig Economy: A Socio-Legal Study of the Regulation and Perceptions of Risk

Supervisors: Professor Simon Halliday and Dr Phillip Morgan

 

Jane Hill
Patenting Artificial Intelligence
Supervisor: Dr Peter Harrison

 

James Killen

Human rights defenders at risk: Security, psychological trauma and state responsibility

Supervisors: Martin Jones

 

Michael Robinson

Meeting aspirations?  Evaluating the assessment of Personal Independence Payment from a Disability Rights perspective

Supervisors: Professor Charlotte O'Brien and Dr Jed Meers

 

Rhiannon Griffiths
Memory, transitional justice, and social control in East Asia
Supervisor: Dr Ioana Cismas

 

James Hart
The Admissibility of Conduct Subsequent to the Execution of a Contract as an Aide to Contractual Interpretation: A Doctrinal, Empirical, and Comparative Analysis

Supervisor: Dr Phillip Morgan

 

Carl Makin
Regulation and reality: towards a tenant-centric understanding of social housing law
Supervisor: Professor Caroline Hunter

 

Sam Guy
Access to environmental justice in a contested costs framework: how can judicial review crowdfunding affect the UK legal opportunity structure?
Supervisors: Professor Joe Tomlinson and Professor Simon Halliday

 

Zaki 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 Matravers

 

Atoosa 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 McNamara

 

Charlie Tye

To 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 Dr Phillip Morgan

 

Alice 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

 

Le Nam Vo
An analysis of open banking regulations and their legal impact on banking structure
Supervisors: Professor  Dr Phillip Morgan and Simos Gerasimou (Computer Science) 

 

Stefano Faraoni
Artificial Intelligence and liability: From smart contracts to persuasive technology
Supervisors: Dr Phillip Morgan and Dr Sean Thomas

 

Thomas Knight

Privacy in emerging adulthood: A study of Generation Z's legal consciousness

Supervisors: Professor Simon Halliday and Professor TT Arvind

 

Lucia Varela Vazquez
Sexual and Reproductive Rights for young women and girls in the Dominican Republic.
Supervisors: Dr Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis and Dr Alex Green

 

Aysha Alshehri 
A Study of an Artificial Intelligence System Used in the Constitutional Review of Administrative Actions and Judgements
Supervisors: Professor Simon Halliday and Professor Joe Tomlinson

 

Naoise Coakley

The Law Against Public Data Gaps

Supervisors: Professor Joe Tomlinson and Dr Jed Meers

 

Shivangi Gangwar
Judgments as Goods: An Economic Analysis of Constitutional Law Judgments
Supervisors: Dr Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis and Professor TT Arvind

 

Cindy Leung
Conceptualizing and Implementing a Rights-Based Approach to Address Food Insecurity at City Level in Developed Countries – A Pilot Trial in York

Supervisors: Dr Ioana Cismas and Professor Paul Gready 

 

Giorgio Minelli
Seeking theoretical justifications to support the institution of the
jury trial
Supervisor: Professor Matt Matravers

 

Frankie Power
Legal (de)constructions of the (un)deserving nomad. Precarious freedoms in forbidden lands
Supervisors: Professor Caroline Hunter and Dr Laurence Etherington

 

Max Williams
The Online Threat of Artificial Intelligence to the Legal and Ethical Foundations of Contemporary Journalism.
Supervisors: Dr Phillip Morgan and Professor TT Arvind