Doctoral study in Law

Dr Cem Abanazir

• Sports law
• Esports
• Freedom of expression
• Philosophy of human rights
• Transnational law

Dr Adedayo Akingbade

• Public international law
• Human trafficking
• Irregular migration

Jamie Atkinson

• Gender equality in the workplace
• Women’s careers post-maternity leave, particularly the transition from full to part-time work
• Dads and shared parental leave

Dr James Brown

• Sports law

Dr Seamus Byrne

• Children’s rights law
• Education and the law
• Human rights law
• Disability and the law

Dr Sarah Carrick

• Sports law
• Tax law
• Intellectual property law

Professor Beverley Clough

• Medical law
• Tort law
• Disability legal studies

Dr Cate Coleman

• International economic law
• Environmental law

Dr Cecilia Flores Elizondo

• International Economic Law, mainly trade and investment
• International governance of food systems
• Food security
• Public international law

Professor Andrew Francis

• Regulation and organisation of the legal profession
• Social mobility
• Legal education
• Access to justice

Dr Costantino Grasso

• Corporate economic and financial crime
• Organised crime
• International cooperation in criminal matters
• Corporate social responsibility
• Corporate governance

Dr Maz Idriss

• Violence against women
• Honour-based violence
• Forced marriages

Professor Mark James

• Sports law – player issues, spectator disorder, and ticketing
• Olympic law – including the legal frameworks used to host mega events, ambush marketing and athlete activism
• The regulation of popular culture

Dr Jenny Kanellopoulou

• Law and place
• Copyright law
• Law and the creative industries
• Socio-legal studies

Dr Aikaterini Koula

• International human rights law
• Public international and constitutional law
• Refugee law
• Social rights

Dr Kay Lalor

• LGBT rights law and politics
• International human rights law
• Feminist legal theory
• Legal temporalities

Dr Kryss MacLeod

• Legal empowerment and access to justice
• Human rights and international law: business and human rights; extraterritoriality

Dr Damian Mather

• EU law – free movement, citizenship and migration and asylum law
• Human rights
• Counter-terror law

Dr Lawrence Modeme

• Public international law
• International criminal law
• Tort law
• International political rights

Dr Ash Murphy

• International climate law
• The United Nations Security Council
• Climate security and securitisation

Dr Zainab Naqvi

• Feminist legal studies
• Family law
• Minoritised communities in the UK

Dr Jen Neller

• Public order law
• Nationalism
• Law and race
• Hate speech

Dr Jorge Nunez

• Jurisprudence
• Legal theory
• Political theory
• Public international law

Dr Fatimah Opebiyi

• Corporate law

Dr John Pearson

• Environmental law
• Natural resources law
• Property law

Michael Poulsom

• Property law
• Landlord and tenant law
• Property practice

Dr Rossella Pulvirenti

• International human rights law
• International criminal law
• Victims and witnesses of crimes
• Human rights and healthcare issues

Dr Senthorun Raj

• Law and emotion
• LGBTI rights and politics
• Human rights law
• Critical legal studies

Dr Annapurna Waughray

• Caste and the law and politics in South Asia and the diaspora including UK and US
• Legal regulation of caste discrimination
• International human rights law
• Equality and discrimination law
• Minority rights

Catherine Jaquiss

• Spatial and affective dimensions of LGBTIQ+ refugee litigation and adjudication

Samantha Morgan

• Spatial and affective dimensions of LGBTIQ+ advocacy and litigation in the Caribbean

Hannah Varnouse

• ‘Honour’-based violence and abuse – a need for specific legislation

Lucy Glynn

• Revisiting law’s dimensions: a place-based approach  

Jaria Hussain-Lala

• A critical analysis of the effectiveness of the legal and policy framework governing female genital mutilation in England and Wales

Harry Houlden

• The evolution of intellectual property to protect characters and universes

Stephen Holden

• State secrecy and whistleblowing in the UK

Kelly Danielle

• A regulatory framework for the procurement of foetal tissue

Cintia Baranyi

• Post-Brexit vulnerability: evaluation of policy perspectives for conservation strategies of North Atlantic migratory species and investigating the level of non-governmental organisations’ participation in legislative reform