Research students in the Birkbeck Law School

Student name	Title	Supervisor(s)
Nerges Azizi	Legal Interventions against European Border Violence	Eddie Bruce-Jones, Nadine El-Enany
Silvina Alonso Grosso	An Intervened Landscape: Urban Legislation and city planning in Buenos Aires during the last military dictatorship	Nathan Moore
Joanna Blackwell	The needs and experiences of young fathers in prison	Daniel Monk, Paul Turnbull
Eglina Bubliauskaite	Law and Literature in the Soviet Lithuania in 1945-1989	Maria Aristodemou, Maria Tzanakopoulou
Henrique Carvalho	The stuff of copyright: a political ontology	Fiona Macmillan, Piyel Haldar
Saadiya Chaudary Alam	Securing the Rights of Women under International Human Rights Law: a Comparative Analysis of the enforcement capabilities and potential of the UN, European, Inter-American and African Systems	Professor Bill Bowring, Dr Frederick Cowell
Soumyaijt Basu	A Feminist Genealogy of US Intellectual Property Law	Fiona Macmillan, Henrique Carvalho
Leonie Clarke	Formations of Black Personhood in Common Law and Cultural Heritage; Persons or objects of Property	Sarah Keenan, Stewart Motha
Sarah Corbett-Batson	The criminalisation of the racialised Other: A Critical Legal Studies/ Critical Race Theory/Butlerian analysis of criminal law and evidence	Nadine El-Enany, Piyel Haldar
Leticia Da Costa Paes	Exhaustion of critique: jurisprudence as the practice of a life	Costas Douzinas
Michael Darke	Agricultural Law and Policy – Corporatism	Fiona Macmillan
Kanika Gauba	Violence and the Indian Constitutional Founding	Stewart Motha
Oliver Gilman	Delivering the Art of the Possible: The work of Government Lawyers in the making of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 and the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013	Daniel Monk, Les Moran
James Godfrey	How is 'Prevent' impacting free speech re Israeli Occupied Palestine within English universities and how is it being resisted?	Nathan Moore, Nadine El-Enany
Tina Hartland-Swann	To address the legal challenges presented by hybrid threats, the impact of influence operations, and the emergence of increasingly creative forms of modern warfare, providing a practical aid to policy-making and protection of the populace, and a greater understanding of twenty-first century Kremlin strategy.	Bill Bowring
Abigail Jackson	Lost Property: Dispossession in East London	Sarah Keenan, Jeremy Pilcher
Philipp Kender	Authority and Government: Toward a Genealogy of Political Authoritarianism in Early 21st Century Europe	Basak Ertur, Adam Gearey
Adimaya Keni	The singular construction of crime in Britain’s ‘Colonial Laboratory’: thuggee as a motif of colonial fear	Piyel Haldar, Eddie Bruce-Jones
Alexandra Koenig	The Family Must Be Defended: The Hegemonic Biography of Migrant Family Life	Tanya Serisier, Nadine El-Enany
Shailesh Kumar	Access to justice and Sexual Violence against Children in India: An Empirical Study of the Reforms under the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act 2012	Les Moran, Jessica Jacobson
Kumari Lane	Climate Change 'Refugees' and Refugee Law: Viewed Through a Postcolonial Lens	Nadine El-Enany, Sarah Keenan
Shemi Leira	The role of CPO processes in housing estate regeneration and compatibility with the compelling public interest in London/Lambeth.	Sarah Keenan, Paul Watt
Christopher Lloyd	Derrida’s Law as Autoimmune	Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
Tatiana Lynn Makhoul	TBC	Fiona Macmillan
Mercedes Malcomson	A socio-legal enquiry into approaches to culture and international law in Russia’s community of human rights defenders	Bill Bowring, Agnieszka Kubal
Alex May	Towards a Socio-ecologically Holistic Conception of Law	Elena Loizidou, Adam Gearey
Paddy McDaid	TBC	Costas Douzinas, Stewart Motha
Gabriella McGrogan	The Ironies of the Digital Image: Weaponising digital witnessing	Bernard Keenan, Tanya Serisier
Athina Michalakea	Regulating Sexual Labour in Greece: State, Governance Feminism(s) and the Sex Workers’ Movement	Elena Loizidou, Maria Tzanakopolou
Crina Morteanu	The “necessity” component of the test of proportionality under the margin of appreciation doctrine at the European Court of Human Rights. The case of the Roma in Europe	Eddie Bruce-Jones
Sabrina Neves	“Forbidden territory” The principle of juror confidentiality and the investigation of juror impropriety	John Hough, Jessica Jacobson
Eleni Papakonstantinou	The biopolitics of a contemporary witch-hunt: the prosecution of HIV positive sex- workers in Greece, 2012	Basak Ertur
Ali Raiss-Tousi	The concept of aggression in international law	Bill Bowring
Alper Ral	Property and Potential	Nathan Moore
Moniza Rizzini Ansari	Legal Aesthetics of Poverty: mediating knowledge and intervention	Costas Douzinas, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
Abu Reza	Impact of Beccaria in England
Lizzette Robleto De Howarth	The 1986 US v Nicaragua International Court of Justice (ICJ) case continues to be relevant to international lawyers since it showcases the abuse of covert operations and misuse of international economic mechanisms, such as economic sanctions, in the pursuit of an imperialistic foreign policy. It is emblematic of the tension between US foreign policy, US constitutionalism and international law	Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Fiona Macmillan
Nadeem Saeed	Is digital evidence presenting new challenges to the complainant’s right to privacy in rape cases?	Tanya Serisier
Rebecca Seglow Hudson	A Legal Anthropology of Personality Disorder	Rachael Dobson, Sarah Marks
David Thomas	A story about an origin of human rights in the seventeenth century, focussing on Thomas Hobbes and Gerrard Winstaley and drawing on the work of Foucault and Rancière	Nathan Moore
Yvonne Thomas	What kind of British citizen does a black pupil need to become to conform to parliamentary committees and government ministers’ views on citizenship as expressed through initiatives in citizenship education between 2001 and 2013?	Eddie Bruce-Jones
Shimie Umaru	Neo-colonialism and Intellectual Property Rights: An Examination of Intellectual Property Regime in Africa (Case Study Kenya)	Fiona Macmillan
Luiz Valle Junior	Emancipation in queer theory and psychoanalysis: queerness, futurity and the insistence of subjectivity	Eddie Bruce-Jones
John Van Houcke	The right to ongoing self-determination: developing a contemporary standard to measure the legitimacy of sovereignty	Bill Bowring
Calvin Wells	Mad about the boy: Historical concepts of virtus Romana, duty and office to create the ideal holder of public office	Eddie Bruce-Jones, Piyel Halda
Jonathan Wheale	Family Magistrates and Adjudicating Welfare (provisional)	Amy Kirby, Daniel Monk
Xiaoxi Xue	Marxism and the right to development in Mao’s China	Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Adam Gearey
Roberto Vilchez Yamato	Before the and of the world: a decolonial deconstruction of the interdisciplinary study of International Law and International Relations	Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Kojo Koram
Ceylan Yildiz	‘Murderer state will be held to account’: The myth of the state and its violence	Basak Ertur, Elena Loizidou