Current MPhil/PhD students and their research topics

Research students in the Law School at Birkbeck are an important part of our research culture. We have succeeded in recruiting very high-quality research students and the number of UK and overseas MPhil/PhD students has increased fivefold since 2001. This reflects our growing reputation as a training ground for early career academics working from critical and socio-legal perspectives.

Supervisor	Research student and thesis topic
Maria Aristedemou	Sara Paiola (with Patrick Hanafin) Robert Cason (with Daniel Monk)
Bill Bowring	Said Khalil Aziz: How far is the policy of Afghanistan towards the issue of Pashtunistan 'legal' and 'legitimate'? Naheed Ghauri:Islamic Shar'iah Law with particular references to women in the UK Isaac OC Igwe: Globalisation and Global Economic Governance: Reshaping the Contours of International Trade Liberalisation. Raymond Kenny: Marxism and genocide Ahmed Ali M. Khayre: Somalia: State Collapse, State Reconstruction and the Role of International Human Rights Standards Frederica Prina: Minority cultural rights in Russia (registered jointly with UCL) Ali Raiss-Tousi: The Concept of Agression in International Law Shahnewazuddin Mohammed Reza: A Comparative Analysis of Legal Cultures of the UK and the USA in Their Recent Campaign against Terrorism Dixon Tang: The Interaction of Law and Religion on the Question of Palestine
Marinos Diamantides	Kirsten Marenah (successfully completed 2009)
Costas Douzinas	Basak Ertur (with Elena Loizidou): Theatres of Sovereignty: Performance of Justice in Political Trials Zacharoula Kouki Sophie Oliver Can Öztaş: Black Stains on White Castle: Snapshots of inclusion and exclusion in Europe Tatiana Tomayeva
Michelle Everson	Mukesh Bhatt Paul Cattigan Rui de Correia Goncalves Frank Rodrigues
Peter Fitzpatrick	Kathleen Birrell: Indigeneity: Before and Beyond the Law Richard Bowyer: The Laws of James Joyce: Myth, Music, Mind Barry Collins Erdem Erturk: Bridging the gap between ‘factual existence’ and ‘existence as a rights bearing person’ Hannah Franzki Sarah Knuckey Soo Tian Lee: On the Limits of the University: Exploring a Genealogy of the Margins Christopher Lloyd: 'A strange and paradoxical revolution': Derrida's Law as Autoimmune Aaron Matthews Michael Meehan Carolina Olarte Paola Pasquali Victoria Ridler Anastasia Tataryn: Arriving to work: exploring migrant labour through law and hospitality Yiannis Trimithiotis
Adam Gearey	Dennis Dixon Lucy Finchett-Maddock (with Oscar Guardiola-Rivera): Social Centres and Legal Innovation: Memory and Hope through the Hidden Law of Naughtiness
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera	Lucy Finchett-Maddock (with Adam Gearey): Social Centres and Legal Innovation: Memory and Hope through the Hidden Law of Naughtiness Faith Marchal Enrique Prieto Mohammed Siddiqui Shimie Umaru
Piyel Haldar	George Pappas: The Marshall Trilogy Cases: Literary Discourses or Legal Judgement? (with Patricia Tuitt)
Patrick Hanafin	Peter Lovett Sara Paiola (with Maria Aristodemou) Sharon Persaud Robert Hanlon
Elena Loizodou	Mischa Allen Elisabetta Bertolino Aytu Cakici Basak Ertur (with Costas Douzinas): Theatres of Sovereignty: Performance of Justice in Political Trials Gary Maydon: Moral Luck and the Good Samaritan: Duties and Protections of the Volunteer Rescuer in England & Wales Susanna Menis: The custodial system for women
Fiona Macmillan	Chrysthia Papacleovoulou Sean Morris Francis Yeoh: The ephemeral art form of dance and copyright law
Patrick McAuslan	Janet Banda Jonathan Nash Emmanuel Ochugboju Alma Segoviano-Basuto Wei Shih Derek Watts
Daniel Monk	Ajayi, Mya
Les Moran	Anna Chronopoulou Eva Marschan Susan Paterson Simon Robinson Pamela Sellman Nadtara Siriaraya (joint with Amanda Perry-Kessaris)
Amanda Perry-Kessaris	Shola Babington-Ashaye: (Ab)use for public office for private gain Giuseppe Caratozzolo [Note: Amanda Perry-Kessaris is now Professor of Law at SOAS]
Anton Schutz	Guilia Bryson Stephen Connelly: Spinoza's scientia intuiva and natural right Richard Fitch (successfully completed December 2010) Nick Spearing: The Jurisprudence of Giambattista Vico Massimiliano Traversino
Patricia Tuitt	Simon Behrman (joint supervision with Thanos Zartaloudis) Tshepo Madlingozi George Pappas: The Marshall Trilogy Cases: Literary Discourses or Legal Judgement? (with Piyel Haldar)
Matthew Weait	Robert James: The Response of the English Legal System to People Living with HIV
Thanos Zartaloudis	Simon Behrman (joint supervision with Patricia Tuitt) Tahseen Chowdhry: Domestic Violence a Myth or Reality? Laura Lammasniemi Konstantinos Mortopoulos: Fluctuat nec Mergitur: A Legal Study of Conscription in Greece and the Southern Balkans Daniel Ossei-Kissi Chinyere Nwanekwu: Evaluating and managing environmental pollution in the Niger delta region of Nigeria.

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Current MPhil/PhD students and their research topics

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