Bakhtiyor Abdulhamidov
- Email: ba8@soas.ac.uk
School of Law
School of Law Doctoral Candidates
Tariq Al-Timimi
(Working title) The Development of the Maqasid Model in the Modern Era and its utility to the application of Islamic law today
- Email: ta15@soas.ac.uk
Christopher Argyris
Nothing Secedes Like Succession: Why Self-Determination Movements Fail to Achieve State Sovereignty and International Recognition
Mohammed Abdul Aziz
- Email: 580725@soas.ac.uk
Sara Bertotti
Law and Peace Agreements: Theory and Practice (working title)
- Email: s_bertotti@soas.ac.uk
Lovleen Bhullar
Impact Analysis of Judicial Directives on Water Pollution in India: Relevance for Realization of the Human Rights to Water & Sanitation
- Email: lb53@soas.ac.uk
Bulama Bukarti
An Assessment of Boko Haram's War from Islamic Law of War Perspective
- Email: 667558@soas.ac.uk
Fé de Jonge
The Genealogy of International Criminal Tribunals: An Appraisal of the 1860 Extraordinary Tribunal for Beirut and the International Commission of Inquiry
- Email: 667528@soas.ac.uk
Chike Valentine Ezike
Encouraging Investment Through International Arbitration.
- Email: ce7@soas.ac.uk
Dan He
Working Title: Personification of State as ‘Corporation’
- Email: 618836@soas.ac.uk
Emad Eddien Hussein
The Evolution of the Commercial Arbitration in the UAE & KSA
- Email: 665163@soas.ac.uk
Manar Idriss
Working Title: The Responsibility to Protect: A critical look at the international community’s response to Sudan’s conflicts
- Email: 278508@soas.ac.uk
Melinda Janki
External self-determination under international law.
- Email: 634369@soas.ac.uk
Malik Kenewa
The Islamic Sacred Months as a contemporary peace agreement
- Email: 655822@soas.ac.uk
Toby King
Conditionality and legitimacy in international financial institutions: From Bretton Woods to the Eurozone
- Email: 606528@soas.ac.uk
Moritz Koenig
The Jurisprudence of Colonial Sumatra and its Canons of Knowledge. Ethnographic Explorations in and of an Archive.
- Email: 603474@soas.ac.uk
Riccardo Labianco
Supporting a Cause or Fighting Wars with the Lives of Others? Legal Criticisms and Possible Justifications to Arms Transfers and Jus ad Bellum in Civil Wars (Working Title)
- Email: 632364@soas.ac.uk
Yan-Ho (Eric) Lai
Working Title: A Political Understanding of University Law School and a Discordant Legal Culture: The Case of Hong Kong
- Email: yanho_lai@soas.ac.uk
Kari Lipschutz
Working title: "Rentier Law: Access to Environmental Justice in Nigeria"
- Email: 296042@soas.ac.uk
Zainab Lokhandwala
Protecting Indian Farmers’ Biocultural Heritage: Moving Beyond Fragmented and Insufficient Farmers’ Rights to Traditional Knowledge and Access and Benefit Sharing
- Email: 656869@soas.ac.uk
Sidonia Lucia Kula
Working Title: The Accountability of States for the Rape, Sexual Abuse and Violence Against Congolese Refugees in Angola
- Email: lk15@soas.ac.uk
Roopa Madhav
Working Title: Externalities, Rights and Mining: Past Traditions and Emerging Principles
- Email: 657053@soas.ac.uk
Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode
The Suicide Bombing Girls of Boko Haram; Between State and Structural Violence
- Email: 631516@soas.ac.uk
Antonia Mulvey
International Justice: Solution or Obstacles to Peace in Housing, Land and Property Conflicts
- Email: antoniacmulvey@yahoo.co.uk
Gayathri Naik
Water-related Subsidies and Groundwater Regulation in India: Social and Environmental Dimensions
- Email: gn9@soas.ac.uk
Margaret O'Brien
Law, power and land in the Chittagong Hill Tracts - An analysis of the emancipatory potential of the human rights system in the customary legal system of the Jumma people of Bangladesh
- Email: 618028@soas.ac.uk
Will Odogwu
Comparing Formal Legal Discourse across Sites of Global Adjudication of Investment Disputes: the Variable Significance of ‘General Principles of Law’ Rhetoric in the International Court, International Commercial Arbitration and Investment Treaty Arbitration.
- Email: 605358@soas.ac.uk
Birsha Ohdedar
Realising the Human Right to Water in the Context of Climate Change in India
- Email: bo6@soas.ac.uk
Oreva Olakpe
Working Title: Sovereignty and Migrations: Straddling Human Rights and Security in a Globalized World
- Email: 615199@soas.ac.uk
Qianyi Sa
China’s participation in the WTO dispute settlement body
- Email: 615638@soas.ac.uk
Ammar Shamsuddin
Gender parity in Inheritance Law in the United Arab Emirates
- Email: 169342@soas.ac.uk
Elizabeth Stubbins Bates
Solving the Conundrum between Military Training, Prevention and Compliance in International Humanitarian Law
Michele Tedeschini
The formation process of human rights custom: a theoretical study (working title)
- Email: 644250@soas.ac.uk
Micha Wiebusch
The Emerging Normative Framework of the African Union on Constitutionalism – The Legal Process and the Contribution to Peace, Security and Democratic State Building
- Email: michawiebusch@gmail.com
Clare Williams
Beyond embeddedness: Re-sociologizing the Econolegal
- Email: c_williams@soas.ac.uk
Yawen Yang
Towards Democratic Citizenship for Temporary Migrant Workers: Cases of Taiwan and Canada
- Email: 623372@soas.ac.uk
Hu Yuan Qiong
Rethinking Patent Centric Biomedical Innovation: Towards an Alternative Conceptual Framework Building (working title)
This page lists all current PhD candidates in the School of Law together with their area of research. For information about research degrees in the School of Law, visit the following page.