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Research Students

Student	Supervisors	Dissertation Title
ABDUL AZEEM ABDUL SAMAD	Professor Keith Stanton	Islamic banking in the UK
IRENE ANTHIS	Dr Pat Capps Dr Nikolaos Tsagourias	The role of International Law in the light of humanitarian intervention
ARDAVAN  ARZANDEH	Professor Jonathan Hill	English Law and Forum Non Conveniens
CHOTIKA ATTAPIMON	Professor Achilles Skordas Professor Malcolm Evans	Fragmentation of International Law in the Dispute Settlement Regime of the United Nations for the Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
KATHERINE BALLINGER	Simon Baughen Professor Brenda Sufrin	Constructive Trusts and Duties of Constructive Trustees
CHARLOTTE BATTY	Helen Norman Dr Matt Fisher	Appropriation of Personality: A Path to Legal Recourse in the UK?
FIONA BATT	Professor Rachel Murray Dr Nikolaos Tsagourias	The return of cultural objects under international law
LINDSEY BELL	Jonathan Burnside	Homicide narratives in Biblical law
ROBERT BINNEY	Andrew Charlesworth Dr Matt Fisher	What are the perceived and real obstacles to Open Source achieving a lasting foothold in the intellectual property marketplace?
RUSSELL BUCHAN	Dr Nikolaos Tsagourias Dr Pat Capps	The international democratic community
MIREILLE CARUANA	Andrew Charlesworth Professor Steven Greer	The impact of IT on the concept of privacy across cultures: towards a comparative analysis of the developing positions in the EU, China and some Muslim societies
CHRISTIANA CLERIDOU	Professor Tonia Novitz	EU sex-discrimination law at work in post-accession Cyprus
BEN-JACOB  DIEWITZ	Professor Panos Koutrakos Professor Achilles Skordas	EU External Relations in regards to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982)
CLAIR GAMMAGE	Professor Tonia Novitz Professor Achilles Skordas	Spontaneous Regionalism and Economic Partnership Agreements: the impact of a European trade model for Southern African development
ZOE GODOLPHIN	Professor Tonia Novitz Dr Pat Capps	International protection of the right to education, with reference to the World Bank
KATE GRADY	Professor Rachel Murray Dr Nikolaos Tsagourias	(A feminist perspective on) international legal responses to sexual offences committed by United Nations peacekeepers
JAMES GRIFFIN	Helen Norman Andrew Charlesworth	PhD Awarded - Copyright law in the digital era: why the law should focus upon the nature of technology
GERALDINE HASTINGS	Lois Bibbings	Ethical, legal and professional issues in paediatric physiotherapy practice
LYDIA HAYES	Professor Tonia Novitz Professor Harriet Bradley	The value of domiciliary care work
HYE JANG	Professor Brenda Sufrin Professor Tony Prosser	A study of the direction of reform of the Korean competition law enforcement system through a comparative analysis of foreign competition law enforcement systems
EVANGELIA KASSOTI	Dr Nikolaos Tsagourias Dr Pat Capps	Unilateral acts of states in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice
JOHN KILMISTER	Professor Keith Stanton Professor Richard Young	The medico-legal consequences of exposure to asbestos and reform proposals
SOPHIA KOPELA	Professor Malcolm Evans	Mid-ocean archipelagoes
JANA LISS	Professor Steven Greer Professor Rachel Murray	Should the grounds for excluding criminal responsibility in the articles 31-33 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998) be applicable in the case of “preventive” torture/inhuman treatment?
BHARAT MALKANI	Dr Pat Capps Professor  Rachel Murray	Domestic enforcement of international law
RYAN MURPHY	Dr Phil Syrpis Professor Panos Koutrakos	Exceptions to the Free Movement of Capital in the European Community
DANIEL NEWMAN	Professor Richard Young Michael Naughton	'Another Day in Paradise' - The Everyday Reality of Criminal Defence
TEHSEEN  NOORUDDIN NOORANI	Professor Bronwen Morgan Tom Osborne	Mental Health Organisations and European Social Theory
EMMA OAKLEY	Professor Richard Young Dr Oliver Quick	'Policing the Missing' - A Study of Police Discretion
MAUREEN OWOR	Professor Malcolm Evans Professor Rachel Murray	Sentencing and human rights in Uganda
ELENI PAPAGEORGIOU	Professor Rachel Murray Professor Tonia Novitz	Reservations to treaties for the protection of human rights: an analysis in light of the recent work of the International Law Commission on reservations to treaties and fragmentation of international law
TANYA PALMER	Lois Bibbings	Sexual Violence Within Relationships: Developing a Legal Response
THALIA  PRASTITOU	Professor Paula Giliker Professor Gerard McMeel	Asymmetries between contract interpretations in common law and various civil law jurisdictions are claimed to constitute a barrier to the harmonised application of European contract law. Can national courts bear the task of interpreting contracts at EU level?
ALEXANDRA PIMOR	Professor Julian Rivers Dr Phil Syrpis	Law, religion and the future of the European Union
ISOBEL RENZULLI	Professor Rachel Murray Professor Malcolm Evans	Legal Mechanisms to prevent torture at the national level in Africa. The case of Sudan
CHRISTINE REYNOLDS	Professor Rachel Murray Professor Malcolm Evans	The relationship between national and international preventive visiting mechanisms under the 2002 Optional Protocol to the United Nations Torture Convention
GEMMA SHORT	Lois Bibbings Dr Pat Capps	Feminism and international human rights
SARIKA SESHADRI	Professor Bronwen Morgan Dave Gordan	Ethical Consumerism as a Brokering Mechanism in Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Towards a Governance Framework
BIANCA SOUCEK	Professor Tony Prosser Dr Keith Syrett	Drug trials in the third world: A critical exploration of issues of distributive justice and informed consent
ANDREW STAFFORD	Professor Richard Young Dr Oliver Quick	Police engagement with the Public - Responses to non-emergency calls
ELEANOR STAPLES	Professor Judith Masson Lois Bibbings	Who Cares? Legal and Political representations of parenting in the 21st Century
VICTORIA TRIMBLE	Dr Jonathan Burnside Professor Steven Greer	How the crime of terrorism has evolved, with reference to the creation, and subsequent alteration of the semiotic narrative typification of action
JAMES WATSON	Professor Malcolm Evans Professor Rachel Murray	The role of institutions created under the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture, acting in conjunction with the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, in preventing  torture that occurs through the refoulement of asylum-seekers in Europe
SARAH WEBBER	Dr Morag McDermont	Attentiveness, Responsibility, Competence and Responsiveness in Access to Care Services: Does Current and Future Policy and Practice "Care" for Older People?
HUA WEI	Professor Julian Rivers Professor Steven Greer	A Definition of Group Rights
BRIAN WILLIAMS	Professor Malcolm Evans Professor Rachel Murray	Quis custodiet ...? Forensic, psychological and medical considerations in the monitoring of compliance under international law
SEBASTIAN ZARATE	Professor Tony Prosser Dr Keith Syrett	Constitutional implications of independent regulators: their accountability, legitimacy and powers