Leicester Law School
PhD students
Find a list of Leicester Law School's current research students and their topics.
Company, Commercial and Financial Law
| Name | Title/topic | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| John Adamah | The contribution of weak bank regulatory frameworks to the failure of Banks in Ghana |
Horace Yeung Ebenezer Adodo |
| Essa Ahmad | The Standard of Arbitrators’ impartiality and Independence in the UAE; a study within a comparative context. | Masood Ahmed Tony Cole |
| Buthaina Al Sawaii | The protection of creditors against the abuse practiced by a sole shareholder in one-person company | Horace Yeung Peter Jaffey |
| Marcelo Henrique Andrade | The duty to mitigate loss in Brazil | François du Bois Nicky Jackson |
| Duaa Baakdhah |
The effects of adopting the shareholder primacy corporate governance principle on the financial market development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) (1995-2023) |
Navajyoti Samanta Horace Yeung |
| Margaret Davies |
Legal Aspect of Women's Participation in Corporate Boards in the Financial Sector: A Comparative Study of the Position in Commonwealth West Africa and the United Kingdom |
Ebenezer Adodo Konstantina Sampani |
| Shenali Dias | Evolution or Extinction: Assessing the Impact of the Use of Artificial Intelligence in E-commerce on Trade Mark Law | Alison Slade Peter Jaffey |
| Wolemi Esan |
Rethinking Insolvency Transaction Avoidance Under Nigerian Law |
Horace Yeung TBA |
| Rafaella Ethelonti |
Exceptions to the payment obligations of banks in relation to trade and construction finance transactions governed by common law jurisdictions |
Ebenezer Adodo Horace Yeung |
| Ruijue Gu | Comparison research on the defects of Letter of Credit system, especially in soft clauses risk in the ‘data silos’ era in UK and China. |
Ebenezer Adodo Tamaraudoubra Egbe
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| Fernando Ferro Gumaraes |
The (in)effectiveness of Compliance Programs in Preventing Corruption and How to Improve them to Enhance Social Outcomes |
Navajyoti Samanta Konstantina Sampani |
| Ahmed Hasan |
The international Carriage of Goods by Sea Conventions: A Comparative Study of the burden of proof of the exercise of due diligence |
Ben Adodo Masood Ahmed |
| Juldeh Jalloh | Getting corporate rights right: A critical analysis of legal protections of corporations within the Human Rights jurisdiction of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice | |
| Amit Jamsandekar |
The Indian Trade Marks Act – A Comparative Analysis |
Alison Slade Barbara Bogusz |
| Chengeo Kazangarare | To what extent do existing soft and hard law rules on corporate governance redress the problems of director accountability. A comparative study of multinational corporations headquartered in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. | Navajyoti Samanta Horace Yeung |
| Antele Madugu |
The African Single Market: An analysis of Competition Law Regulation in the ECOWAS and its impact on the African Continental Free Trade Area |
Ewa Zelazna Arinze Okiche |
| Tajeldin Mukhtar | The Principle of Autonomy and The Applicable Law on Documentary Credits: A comparative study between Libyan, Egyptian and English laws | Ben Adodo Horace Yeung |
| Niki Petridou | An analytical and comparative study of the mens rea of money laundering offences in British, Greek and Cypriot legal systems | Tracey Elliott Stephen Riley Janet Ulph |
| Iain Potter | The Bwllfa principle and the extent to which risk and uncertainty should be reflected in the quantum of pre-trial and post-trial damages |
Ben Adodo Adaeze Aniodoh |
| Mandeep Singh | The impact of changes in corporate governance regulations on the growth of financial markets and sustainability practices in the central, eastern, and south-eastern European countries: an empirical analysis (2004-2020) | Navajyoti Samanta Horace Yeung |
| Abzal Temirbayev | The impact of adopting shareholder primacy corporate governance on the growth of the financial market in The Commonwealth of Independent States (1995-2020) |
Navajyoti Samanta Horace Yeung |
| Nazan Begum Ugurluoglu | Protection of Minority Shareholder Rights in Turkey: Lessons to be learned from the UK Corporate Governance Practices | Peter Jaffey Horace Yeung |
| Xin Wang (Elizabeth) | Bank Insolvency in China: Lessons from the Anglo-American Jurisdictions | |
| Craig Wright |
Bitcoin: The international commercial and Tax implications of Bitcoin as money. An international law comparative analysis. |
Ben Adodo Peter Jaffey |
| Ying Zheng | The promotion of corporate governance of SOEs in China through internal governance system and external enforcement institutions' Company law and corporate Governance | Horace Yeung Navajyoti Samanta |
Criminal Law, Criminal Justice and Criminology
| Name | Title/topic | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Clive Akpotaire | The socio-legal policy considerations on international modern slavery and organised crime: Nigeria as a case study | Onder Bakircioglu Eki Omorogbe |
| Megan Phillips | Criminalising association after Jogee | Sally Kyd Dan Bansal |
Dispute Resolution
| Name | Title/topic | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Md Maher Abbasy | The practice of mediation in the England and Wales: Can parties be encouraged to use mediation to achieve timely and cost-effective settlements without a need to make the use of mediation mandatory in dealing with civil disputes? | Masood Ahmed Pablo Cortés |
| Essa Ahmad | The Standard of Arbitrators’ impartiality and Independence in the UAE; a study within a comparative context. | Masood Ahmed Tony Cole |
| Fatma Nursima Arslan | The many faces of mediation and its place in modern civil procedure: A comparative analysis of the concept, its practice and policy considerations in Turkey, UK and Ontario | Masood Ahmed Pablo Cortés |
| Geoffrey Bezzina |
Feeding outcomes of consumer dispute mechanisms in financial services A comparative analysis of Malta, UK and Italy |
Pablo Cortés Tony Cole |
| Valentina Dimitriou | The effect of repeatedly appointed arbitrators to the evolution of international investment law | Tony Cole Rossana Deplano |
| Mahmoud Khaled Mahmoud El-Khamry |
The Enforceability of arbitral awards against State Properties: Legal Aspect, Practical Challenges and A Way Forward Dispute | Tony Cole Konstantina Sampani |
| Sylvia Chidinma Igwe |
Multilateral Investment Court, Panacea to the Legitimacy Crisis or case of old wine, new skin | Tony Cole Ewa Zelazna |
| Amit Jamsandekar |
The Indian Trade Marks Act – A Comparative Analysis |
Alison Slade Barbara Bogusz |
| Cemre Kadioglu Kumtepe | Decentralization of Justice by Use of Blockchain and Smart Contracts in Online Dispute Resolution | Pablo Cortés Rossana Deplano |
| Harry Meliniotis | A comparative study between the construction statutory adjudication systems of the United Kingdom and New South Wales, and evaluation of their performance from a socio-legal perspective | Tony Cole Pablo Cortés |
| Anna Kyprianou Spiliakou | The autonomous theory of international commercial arbitration: An autopoietic perspective | Tony Cole Paolo Vargiu |
Employment Law
| Name | Title/topic | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Sari Brice | To what extent does UK labour law prevent and tackle mental health in the teaching profession? | Pascale Lorber Lisa Rodgers |
| Tessa Briony Johnston | Stress and the Employment Contract | Lisa Rodgers Inga Thiemann |
| Arwen Joyce | Singapore’s egalitarian paradox: Interrogating the gap between egalitarian discourse, law and policy in the context of Singapore’s migrant labour system | Bernard Ryan Lisa Rodgers |
| Naomi Njuguna | The right to health, and protecting the occupational psycho-social well-being of health care workers in Kenya | Lisa Rodgers Joe Wills Stefano Bertea |
| Paul Taylor | Historic criminal convictions – storage and usage are they an indelible stain? What barriers do they present to employment? | Lisa Rodgers Pascale Lorber |
European Law and Policy
| Name | Title/topic | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Ewa Garbarz | Transitional Justice and Post-Communist Populism: A Case Study of Poland |
Ewa Zelazna Adam Cygan |
| Amit Jamsandekar |
The Indian Trade Marks Act – A Comparative Analysis |
Alison Slade Barbara Bogusz |
Human Rights
| Name | Title/topic | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Jasmine Blow | Must the relatives be told? Legal and ethical issues in relation to the non-disclosure of genetic information by healthcare professionals to relatives. | Tracey Elliott
Liz Wicks |
| Amelie Courtine | Conversion Therapy: an International Human Rights Framework Analysis |
Ed Bates Danielle Watson |
| Solomon Faakye | Equal Access to Higher Education through Affirmative Action: Obstacles and Opportunities |
Kimberley Brayson Loveday Hodson |
| Arwen Joyce | Singapore’s egalitarian paradox: Interrogating the gap between egalitarian discourse, law and policy in the context of Singapore’s migrant labour system |
Bernard Ryan Lisa Rodgers |
| Kseniya Kirichenko | Because We Do Not Live Single-Issue Lives’: Gender, Disability and Race in the United Nations Developments on LGBTI Human Rights | Loveday Hodson
Paolo Vargiu |
| Lydia Kitchen | Human Rights Law and the Provision of Health Care: Rationing Decisions During a Pandemic |
Liz Wicks
Nataly Papadopoulou |
| Kyla Brenna Lanford | Mandatory Vaccination Reconsidered: The Autonomous Mandate Model | Nataly Papadopoulou Stephen Riley |
| Char-Lee Lewis | A Critical study on the rights afforded to female victims of intimate partner violence in Jamaica from the Victim’s perspectives | Loveday Hodson Troy Lavers |
| Carley Lightfoot |
Animals, Sentience and Justice: An Analysis of the Legal Status of Animals in UK Law, and the Application of Justice to Animals |
Joe Wills Liz Wicks |
| Charlotte Mills | Women’s experiences with post-conflict justice: The use of truth and reconciliation commissions as an alternative form of redress | Loveday Hodson Troy Lavers |
| Kulsum Patel | The End of Life, Islam and the Law | Liz Wicks
Peter Cumper |
| Dickson Tarnongo | Disability rights and citizenship in Nigeria: to what extent will the enactment of the Nigerian disability act, 2018 and the accession of the Nigerian government to the united nation convention on the rights of persons with disabilities 2006, affect the current and future implementation of citizens rights in Nigeria? | Paolo Vargiu Loveday Hodson |
| Fatima Tayub | Reforming the law and procedures in relation to the Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPA) system | Tracey Elliott Liz Wicks |
| Mary-Justine Todd | Women’s Rights, Animal Ethics and Ecofeminism: An intersectional examination of Arab power structures from Pre-Islamic tribal practices, to modern Bahraini law | Joe Wills Kimberley Brayson Onder Bakircioglu |
| Nicoletta Thoma | The perception of children from minorities of their rights: A case study of their education rights in Cyprus | Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella Peter Cumper |
| Dickson Tarnongo | Disability rights and citizenship in Nigeria: to what extent will the enactment of the Nigerian disability act, 2018 and the accession of the Nigerian government to the united nation convention on the rights of persons with disabilities 2006, affect the current and future implementation of citizens rights in Nigeria? | Paolo Vargiu Loveday Hodson |
| Edafe Ugbeta | Constitutional Recognition of the Right to a Healthy Environment: Comparative Insight on Global Trends and a Proposal for Political Action in Nigeria |
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| Oluwabusayo Wuraola | The Implications of the Grant of Legal Personhood to Natural Entities in New Zealand and The United States of America | |
| Vazgen Zakharyan |
Legal Synthesis of Artificial Intelligence in the prism of Intellectual Property and Human Rights. Critical Analysis of modern AI components in correlation with IP and HR basics |
Alison Slade Stephen Riley |
Immigration Law
| Name | Title/topic | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Nourah Jassim Alfarhan | The role and responsibility of state authorities in resolving the issue of the statelessness | Bernard Ryan Alan Desmond |
| Carla Field | Disaster, Displacement, and Dynamics: A Study of Nexus Dynamics and a Hybrid Legal Approach to Protection of the Environmentally Displaced. | Alan Desmond Bernard Ryan |
Intellectual Property Law
| Name | Title/topic | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Shenali Dias | Evolution or Extinction: Assessing the Impact of the Use of Artificial Intelligence in E-commerce on Trade Mark Law | Alison Slade Peter Jaffey |
| Amit Jamsandekar | The Indian Trade Marks Act – A Comparative Analysis |
Alison Slade Barbara Bogusz |
| Vazgen Zakharyan | Disaster, Displacement, and Dynamics: A Study of Nexus Dynamics and a Hybrid Legal Approach to Protection of the Environmentally Displaced. | Alan Desmond Bernard Ryan |
International Law
| Name | Title/topic | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Harry Brown III |
Legal Framework for Fully Autonomous Weapons (LFAWS) |
Katja Ziegler Liz Wicks |
| Valentina Dimitriou | The effect of repeatedly appointed arbitrators to the evolution of international investment law | Tony Cole Rossana Deplano |
| Claiton Fyock |
International Law and Foreign Direct Investment: Transitioning States and Law’s Impact on the Movement of Capital |
Paolo Vargiu |
| Andrea Harrison | Legal reviews and judicial oversight in non-international armed conflicts | Katja Ziegler Onder Bakircioglu |
| Ahmed Hasan |
The international Carriage of Goods by Sea Conventions: A Comparative Study of the burden of proof of the exercise of due diligence |
Ben Adodo Masood Ahmed |
| Maria Kazamia | Assessing the international customary law status of the three-step maritime delimitation test and the influence of case-law on customary international law formation | Rossana Deplano Katja Ziegler |
| Char-Lee Lewis | A Critical study on the rights afforded to female victims of intimate partner violence in Jamaica from the Victim’s perspectives | Loveday Hodson Troy Lavers |
| Elizabeth Morrow | Towards an International Regulatory Regime for the Commercialization of Space Resources |
Rossana Deplano Richard Ambrosi (Physics and Astronomy) |
| Alethea Peall | Intelligence Collection in International Law: The Conceivability of a Lex Specialis |
Onder Bakircioglu Ed Bates |
| Mohamed Salim | A comparative analysis of the application of international law to protect internally displaced persons in Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Somalia and South-Sudan by the African Union | Eki Omorogbe Rossana Deplano |
| Dickson Tarnongo | Disability rights and citizenship in Nigeria: to what extent will the enactment of the Nigerian disability act, 2018 and the accession of the Nigerian government to the united nation convention on the rights of persons with disabilities 2006, affect the current and future implementation of citizens rights in Nigeria? | Paolo Vargiu Loveday Hodson |
| Mary-Justine Todd | Women’s Rights, Animal Ethics and Ecofeminism: An intersectional examination of Arab power structures from Pre-Islamic tribal practices, to modern Bahraini law | Joe Wills Kimberley Brayson Onder Bakircioglu |
| Oluwabusayo Wuraola | The Implications of the Grant of Legal Personhood to Natural Entities in New Zealand and The United States of America | |
| Yavuz Yildiz | The underlying trends influencing the (birth of the?) “Unwilling or Unable” doctrine and its wider implications | Onder Bakircioglu Katja Ziegler |
Law and Theory
| Name | Title/topic | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Nourah Jassim Alfarhan | The role and responsibility of state authorities in resolving the issue of the statelessness | Bernard Ryan Alan Desmond |
| Carla Field | Disaster, Displacement, and Dynamics: A Study of Nexus Dynamics and a Hybrid Legal Approach to Protection of the Environmentally Displaced. | Alan Desmond
Bernard Ryan |
| Carley Lightfoot |
Animals, Sentience and Justice: An Analysis of the Legal Status of Animals in UK Law, and the Application of Justice to Animals | Joe Wills Liz Wicks |
| Thuy Duong (Alissa) Pham |
Building legal competency: The role of legal culture in developing public legal education | Nataly Papadopoulou Ed Bates Laura Bee |
| Oluwabusayo Wuraola |
The Implications of the Grant of Legal Personhood to Natural Entities in New Zealand and The United States of America | Joe Wills Stephen Riley Stefano Bertea |
Medico-legal
| Name | Title/topic | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Jasmine Blow | Must the relatives be told? Legal and ethical issues in relation to the non-disclosure of genetic information by healthcare professionals to relatives. | Tracey Elliott
Liz Wicks |
| Carley Lightfoot |
Animals, Sentience and Justice: An Analysis of the Legal Status of Animals in UK Law, and the Application of Justice to Animals |
Joe Wills Liz Wicks |
| Rachel Lim | A Regulated Market for Organs? A Comparative Analysis on Commodification, Risk and the Law in Living Organ Donation & Gestational Surrogacy | Tracey Elliott Jose Miola |
| Shweta Luthra | Considering the consequences for mentally disordered defendants in India and England | Sally Kyd Tracey Elliott |
| Kulsum Patel | The End of Life, Islam and the Law | Liz Wicks
Peter Cumper |
| Gunjan Sharma | Mental Health Act 1983: Autonomy vs Welfare. Exploring the implementation of the UN CRPD on UK mental health law | Tracey Elliott Liz Wicks |
| Kathryn Sandilands | Ethical and legal implications of direct-to-consumer genetic testing Medical Law and Ethics | Tracey Elliott Dr Chris Willmott (Molecular and cell Biology) |
Private Law
| Name | Title/topic | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Marcelo Henrique Andrade | The duty to mitigate loss in Brazil | François du Bois Nicky Jackson |
| Sari Brice | To what extent does UK labour law prevent and tackle mental health in the teaching profession? | Lisa Rodgers |
| Shenali Dias | Evolution or Extinction: Assessing the Impact of the Use of Artificial Intelligence in E-commerce on Trade Mark Law | Alison Slade Peter Jaffey |
| Amit Jamsandekar |
The Indian Trade Marks Act – A Comparative Analysis |
Alison Slade Barbara Bogusz |
| Coleen Lewis | A critical and comparative analysis of the cyber defamation laws in England, USA and Australia, and considering proposals for reform of the Jamaican Defamation Act | John Hartshorne Peter Cumper |
| Tajeldin Mukhtar | The Principle of Autonomy and The Applicable Law on Documentary Credits: A comparative study between Libyan, Egyptian and English laws | Ben Adodo Horace Yeung |
| Iain Potter | The Bwllfa principle and the extent to which risk and uncertainty should be reflected in the quantum of pre-trial and post-trial damages | Ben Adodo Adaeze Aniodoh |
| Ayesha Shakil | The introduction of the good faith notion in English law: why and why not? | François du Bois Nicky Jackson |
| Craig Wright |
Bitcoin: The international commercial and Tax implications of Bitcoin as money. An international law comparative analysis. |
Ben Adodo Peter Jaffey |
| Oluwabusayo Wuraola | The Implications of the Grant of Legal Personhood to Natural Entities in New Zealand and The United States of America |