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: 584572@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
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
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
- Email: 603474@soas.ac.uk
Sujith Koonan
The Right to Sanitation in India: A Multi-faceted Right in Search of a Comprehensive Framework
- Email: sk137@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: Politicising Legal Personnel and Legal Education:A Critical Evaluation of the Conflicting Legal Culture in Hong Kong
- Email: 567467@soas.ac.uk
Chung-Hsien Lee
Law, Norms and Administrative Rules in Climate Change Flexible Mechanisms – Legal Framework in Global Environmental Governance (working title)
- Email: 604181@soas.ac.uk
Kari Lipschutz
Working title: "Rentier Law: Access to Environmental Justice in Nigeria"
- Email: 296042@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: s_luciakula@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
Working title: Critical analysis of the impact of water related subsidies on groundwater regulation in India
- Email: 655800@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 age of Climate Change
- 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
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
Law as a Determinant of External Finance: Foreign Direct Investment in Sri Lanka
- 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)
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