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) |
|---|---|---|
| Essa Ahmad | The Standard of Arbitrators’ impartiality and Independence in the UAE; a study within a comparative context. | Masood Ahmed Tony Cole |
| Mutaz Alkhedhairy |
Takaful and the new English Law of Insurance: a paradigm shift toward sustainable and halal insurance models |
Ben Adodo Patrick Masiyakurima |
| 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 |
| Shenali Dias | Evolution or Extinction: Assessing the Impact of the Use of Artificial Intelligence in E-commerce on Trade Mark Law | Alison Slade Patrick Masiyakurima |
| Wolemi Esan |
Rethinking Insolvency Transaction Avoidance Under Nigerian Law |
Horace Yeung Patrick Masiyakurima |
| 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 |
Ben Adodo |
| 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. | Patrick Masiyakurima Navajyoti Samanta |
| 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
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| 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 Patrick Masiyakurima |
| Robin Rathmell |
Is the global anti-money laundering framework compatible with the asset protection laws of offshore financial centres? | Peter Jaffey |
| 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 |
Horace Yeung |
| 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 |
| Jennifer Armstrong | The issue of prior record as a consideration in sentencing in Canada | Sally Kyd Melissa Bone |
| 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 |
| 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 Cortes 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 |
| Chudi Nelson Ojukwu | An analysis of redress of options for Nigerian consumers in the electricity market | Pablo Cortés Maribel Canto-Lopez |
| 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 |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Stephanie Coker | Culture and child protection: Clarifying the significant harm threshold | Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella Katherine Wade |
| Imrana Iqbal | An Interpretive Approach for the “Reserved Domain” -- to remedy Statelessness | Bernard Ryan Alan Desmond |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Katherine Wade |
| 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 |
| Oluwabusayo Wuraola | The Implications of the Grant of Legal Personhood to Natural Entities in New Zealand and The United States of America |
Joe Wills |
International Law
| Name | Title/topic | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Shirley Llain Arenilla | The right to a legal identity of children born to foreign parents in South America | Bernard Ryan Alan Desmond |
| 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 |
| Imrana Iqbal | An Interpretive Approach for the “Reserved Domain” -- to remedy Statelessness | Bernard Ryan Alan Desmond |
| 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 |
| Alethea Peall | Intelligence Collection in International Law: The Conceivability of a Lex Specialis |
Onder Bakircioglu Ed Bates |
| George Revel | International law and the operation of the right to self-determination on the creation of states | Troy Lavers Kelly Staples (Politics and International Relations) |
| 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 |
Joe Wills |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| Thuy Duong (Alissa) Pham | Building legal competency: The role of legal culture in developing public legal education |
Nataly Papadopoulou Ed Bates Laura Bee |
| Claiton Fyock |
International Law and Foreign Direct Investment: Transitioning States and Law’s Impact on the Movement of Capital |
Paolo Vargiu |
| 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 |
| Oluwabusayo Wuraola | The Implications of the Grant of Legal Personhood to Natural Entities in New Zealand and The United States of America |
Joe Wills |
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 Katherine Wade |
| 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? | Pascale Lorber 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 Patrick Masiyakurima |
| Imrana Iqbal | An Interpretive Approach for the “Reserved Domain” -- to remedy Statelessness | Bernard Ryan Alan Desmond |
| 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 Patrick Masiyakurima |
| 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 |
Joe Wills |