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. Click on the linked thesis titles (where available) to view research summaries.

Supervisor	Research student and thesis topic
Maria Aristodemou	Sara Paiola (jointly with Patrick Hanafin) Robert Cason (Kant avec Sade: Ethics in Law, Literature and Psychoanalysis) Rob Herian
Jose Bellido	Leythem Wall (Patent Law and Biotechnology) Clive Bruton (Copyright and Public Domain) Dimitris Androutsos (Cloud Computing and Copyright Law)
Bill Bowring	Havard Baekken (jointly with University of Oslo) Selective Law Enforcement in Russian Politics: Perceptions of Legal Abuse 2007-2012 Naheed Ghauri: Qur’ānic Model of ‘Shari‘ā’ and Contemporary International Human Rights in the UK Thanasis Goutzioulis (jointly with King's) The interplay between particularity and universality: towards the conceptualisation of citizenship, human rights and civil society Ahmed Ali M. Khayre: Somalia: State Collapse, State Reconstruction and the Role of International Human Rights Standards Panos Paraskevopoulos: The Impact of the Kosovo Precedent: A Comparative Analysis of ʽFrozenʼ Self-Determination Struggles in South-East Europe and South Caucasus 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
Eddie Bruce-Jones	Penelope M. Lawrence (jointly with Peter Fitzpatrick): Complicity in Atrocity: Investigating Human Rights Violations and the Supply Chain for Information Technology Hardware Mekonnen Aderaw Tesfaye (jointly with Matthew Weait)
Marinos Diamantides	Giorgia Baldi
Costas Douzinas	Basak Ertur (with Elena Loizidou): Political Trials: Performativity, Sovereignty and Spectrality Zacharoula Kouki 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 Victoria Ridler Frank Rodrigues
Peter Fitzpatrick	Kathleen Birrell: Indigeneity: Before and Beyond the Law Richard Bowyer: The Laws of James Joyce: Myth, Music, Mind Fred Cowell: The resistance of African states to the human rights scrutiny processes of international organisations: the search for an Anti -Imperialist explanation of human rights Erdem Erturk: Bridging the gap between ‘factual existence’ and ‘existence as a rights bearing person’ Hannah Franzki: Addressing socio-economic dimensions of transitional justice: the role of (transnational) legal activism. (working title) Suzanne Kudrath: The Self-determination & Education Assistance Act 1975: is American Indian sovereignty merely a facade? Sarah Knuckey: Critique and practice in human rights fact-finding. Penelope M. Lawrence (jointly with Eddie Bruce-Jones): Complicity in Atrocity: Investigating Human Rights Violations and the Supply Chain for Information Technology Hardware 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 Tara Mulqueen: Co-operation and Social Economy in Critical Perspective: History, Politics and Law Carolina Olarte: Constitutionalism, Economy and the Evacuation of the Political: Transitional Justice and Biopolitics in the Colombian Case Paola Pasquali: Human Mobility Through the Eyes of Law. EU and China's Migration Regimes in Comparative Perspective Anastasia Tataryn: Arriving to work: exploring migrant labour through law and hospitality Roberto Yamato: Tracing the Illegal Migrant, and De-limiting the Inter/national Language.
Adam Gearey	Dennis Dixon
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera	Faith Marchal Enrique Prieto Rios: International Law of Foreign Investments: Limitation and Emancipation in Latin America Mohammed Siddiqui Shimie Umaru
Piyel Haldar
Patrick Hanafin	Peter Lovett Sara Paiola (with Maria Aristodemou) Robert Hanlon
Mike Hough	Tim Clayton Gemma Lousley
Sarah Lamble	Lisa Wintersteiger: Public legal education and legal empowerment initiatives
Elena Loizidou	Mischa Allen Elisabetta Bertolino Aytu Cakici Basak Ertur (with Costas Douzinas): Political Trials: Performativity, Sovereignty and Spectrality 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	Jonathan Nash Emmanuel Ochugboju Alma Segoviano-Basuto Wei Shih
Daniel Monk	Lama Younis (co-supervisor with Dr Karen Wells, Department of Geography) Child welfare in Saudi Arabia Maria Wozniak (co-supervisor with Professor Sasha Roseneil, Department of Psychosocial studies) Regulating adolescent sexuality in Poland Caroline Lynch (co-supervisor with Liesbeth de Block, Institute of Education) The Education Rights of Homeless Children ESRC sponsored, Bloomsbury Consortium.
Leslie Moran	Anna Chronopoulou Eva Marschan Susan Paterson Simon Robinson Pamela Sellman Nadtara Siriaraya (joint with Amanda Perry-Kessaris)
Stewart Motha	Tshepo Madlingozi (with Patricia Tuitt)
Amanda Perry-Kessaris	Giuseppe Caratozzolo [Note: Amanda Perry-Kessaris is now Professor of Law at SOAS]
Anton Schutz	Giulia Bryson Stephen Connelly Massimiliano Traversino Despina Ntokooupilova
Patricia Tuitt	Simon Behrman (joint supervision with Thanos Zartaloudis) Tshepo Madlingozi (joint supervision with Stewart Motha)
Matthew Weait	Mekonnen Aderaw Tesfaye (jointly with Eddie Bruce-Jones)
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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