Postgraduate research
Law
Company, Commercial and Financial Law
- Sale of goods transactions and law of agency
- The mechanics of International sales contract
- Marine insurance law
- Carriage of goods by sea (charterparties and bills of lading)
- Banking law
- International banking law, including interbank electronic funds transfer
- Conflict of Laws (private international law), International commercial litigations and enforcement of foreign judgments
- Contract law (human rights aspects)
- Company, commercial and financial law
- Maritime Law
- International Carriage of Goods by Sea
- International Sale of Goods
- Corporate law
- Corporate governance
- Trusts and equity
- Professional regulation
- Comparative corporate governance
- Financial market growth and development
- Leximetrics
- Company law
- International Trade and Transport of Goods (by sea)
- Interest in: Corporate Governance
- International commercial law
- International economic law
- International investment law
- Competition law and policy in traditional and digital markets
- International and comparative law
- Company law
- Commercial law
- Financial law
- Comparative corporate governance
Constitutional Law
- Constitutional law (human rights protection in UK law)
- Constitutional law (UK Parliament and UK constitutional reform)
- Administrative and public law
- Constitutional law
- Colonial law
- Colonial legal history
- Citizenship and nationality law
- Comparative citizenship law
- Decolonial Legal Studies
- Comparative constitutional law
- Constitutional theory
- Constitutional rights theory
Criminal Law, Criminal Justice and Criminology
- Criminal law
- Criminal justice
- Criminology
- Criminal law; including theory, doctrine, and comparative criminal law
- Criminology (especially in the area of drug policy)
- Criminal justice
- Criminal justice
- Criminal law
- Criminal law
- Policing/Criminology/Crime and Criminal/related police Laws and Policies including organised crime, cyber crime; cross border elements and data sharing
- Security and Terrorism: particularly related to transport (e.g. aviation and 9/11) and space, cyber, and open spaces
- Criminal law
- Evidence
- Image-based evidence
- The Application of forensic sciences to criminal investigations
- Criminal justice
- Criminal law
- Criminal justice
- Criminal evidence
- Miscarriages of justice
- Forensic science
- Criminology
Dispute Resolution
- Alternative dispute resolution (in particular mediation)
- Arbitration law (international and commercial arbitration, including theoretical aspects)
- Alternative Methods of Dispute resolution
- Dispute resolution (including conflicts of laws)
- Socio-legal studies, including criminal law and justice - relating to arbitration
- Consumer redress
- Online Dispute Resolution
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (Mediation, Arbitration, Ombudsman Schemes)
- Comparative civil litigation (class actions, small claims, etc)
- Civil litigation
- International law (private), including conflict of laws
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (arbitration, mediation)
- Online dispute resolution
- The impact of anthropological and socio-legal aspects on judicial mechanisms for dispute resolution
- Commercial and Maritime Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Arbitration law
Employment Law
- Employment law
- Collective representation of workers and voices at work
- Equality law in the workplace
- International, European and comparative employment law
- Employment law
- Employment status and precarious work
- Theoretical approaches to employment and labour law
- Equality, discrimination and inclusion in the workplace
- Health and safety in the workplace.
- Employment law
- Reconciliation of work and family life
- Equality, discrimination and inclusion in the workplace
- Industrial action
- Human rights in employment context
Environmental Law
- Energy, Oil and Gas Investment Law
- Environmental Climate Change and Sustainability law
- Environmental Rights and Justice in Energy Frontiers
- Transboundary Movement of Waste
- International environmental law
- Public participation in environmental decision making (particularly with regards to black women's participation)
- Human right to food
- Human right to a clean and healthy environment
European Law and Policy
- EU Law (internal market law and conflict of laws)
- Human rights
Dr Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella
- Equality (in particular Gender) and the Law - Work/Life Balance, Family and Child Law, Caring and the Law
- EU Brexit law
- Protection of migrants in European human rights law
- EU immigration and asylum law
- Free movement of persons
- Mobility and transport (aviation/UAV’), Communications, and Energy
- Space (defence and European Space Agency)
- Migration, Home affairs, and Rights
- Employment law
- EU law
- Employment law (especially regulation of dismissals)
- Employment law (national, European, international and comparative)
- The subnational dimension of the EU
- Multilevel governance and subsidiarity
- Foreign and Security Policy of the EU
- Employment law
- EU law (labour law, social rights)
- Human rights (labour law, social rights)
- Immigration law, nationality law and asylum law
- EU law, EU constitutional law,
- EU external relations law
- EU law (human rights, interaction of legal orders, multilevel constitutionalism
Human Rights
- Economic rights
- International human rights law
- Constitutional law (human rights protection in UK law)
- Human Rights and Civil Liberties (Law of the ECHR; legal regime of ECHR; human rights protection in UK law)
- International human rights law and theory, especially environmental rights and justice
- International human rights law
- Human Rights and Civil Liberties
- Law of the ECHR
- Extraterritoriality of Human Rights Treaties
- Human rights - relating to labor rights
- Histories and theories of human rights in medieval and early modern thought
- European human rights law (ECHR Articles 9, 10, 11)
- Law and religion (human rights related areas)
- Freedom of expression (ECHR Article 10)
- Protection of migrants’ rights in national, regional and international systems of human rights protection
- Human Rights and Civil Liberties (impact on private law, esp. law of obligations)
- Privacy (esp. issues of civil liability and interaction of private law and human rights)
- Administrative and public law
- Constitutional law,
- Gender, sexuality and law/Feminist theory
- Human rights and civil liberties
- Freedom of expression and private life in the workplace
- Human rights as they relate to the labour rights of migrant workers
- Public participation in environmental decision making (particularly with regards to black women's participation)
- Human right to food
- Human right to a clean and healthy environment
- International human rights law
- Human rights and civil liberties
- End of life law and policy from a human rights, doctrinal, and comparative perspective
- Assisted suicide and euthanasia
- Human rights in healthcare (especially the European Convention of Human Rights)
- Human rights theory (especially human dignity as the foundation of human rights)
- Human rights protection in Canada (anti-discrimination law, Canadian Charter of Rights of Freedoms)
- International human rights law
- The intersection of human trafficking and labour exploitation with human rights law
- Human rights
- Gender
- International Human Rights Law
- Freedom of Expression
- Human rights law (especially the Right to Life and Bodily Autonomy)
- Human rights in healthcare
- Aspects of the ECHR
- Human rights law (especially socioeconomic rights)
- Animal rights
- EU rights
- ECHR
- Comparative human rights
Immigration Law
- Refugee/asylum law, in particular children's rights and children's approaches to evaluating the law
- International migration law
- International refugee law, Migrants' rights, Protection of migrants in international human rights law
- Nationality Law
- Labour rights of migrant workers (with a particular geographical interest in Asia)
- Regulation of low-wage visa schemes
- Socio-legal and comparative approaches to the study of labour migration and outcomes for migrant workers
- Labour and family migration in the UK
- Comparative citizenship law
- Decolonial legal studies
- Comparative constitutional law
- The history of immigration and nationality law (including both decolonisation and race discrimination)
- Nationality law, covering British law, international law and comparative studies
- UK, EU and international law relatinmg to border control
- The EU settlement scheme
- Human trafficking and labour exploitation, as well as their intersections with gender and law, human rights law and public international law
Intellectual Property Law
- Patent Law
- IP Licensing
- International IP Law
- IP and Global Health
- Copyright law
- Music and copyright
International Law
- International investment law
- Economic rights
- Public international law
- Collective security system
- Just war doctrine in Islam and Christianity
- Environmental law
- Theory and history of human rights; human rights of the ECHR
- Decolonial and feminist approaches to rights
- Human rights and fascism
- Human rights and Islamic dress
- Alternatives to rights.
- International Law (public)
- Migrants’ rights protection
- Nationality law
- Public International Law
- Critical Legal theories/TWAIL
- International Legal History
- Law of International Organisations
- Relationship and Conflicts between states and non-state actors in law-making
- Legal pedagogy/Decolonisation
- International Development (Sustainable Development Goals, Development collaborations between states and Aid/Tied Aid.
- Space Law and policies
- Aviation law and policy
- Shipping laws (mining and interdictions)
- International policing and security
- Gender, sexuality and law/Feminist theory
- International law (public)
- International migration and refugee law
- Comparative law
- Legal pluralism
- Transnational law
- International environmental law
- History of international law/international criminal justice
- International criminal tribunals and the international criminal coirt
- ICC institutional and constitutional issues
- International human rights law/law of armed conflicts
- Protection of civilians
- Public international law
- International law and history
- International law and international relations
- International public law
- International criminal law
- Economic sanctions and certain aspects of constitutional law and human rights
- Feminist perspective of international law
- General international law
- International arbitration
- ICC institutional and constitutional issues
- Public International Law - international and regional peace and security ( United Nations, African Union, peacekeeping, peace-enforcement, the use of force, intervention in civil conflicts, military humanitarian intervention, the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ doctrine)
- International Criminal Court and African situations
- Public International Law
- International Procedural Law
- International Trade Law
- Competition Law
- International Economic Law
- African Economic Integration
Any of the following in developing democracies, Global South, authoritarian and hybrid regimes:
- Constitutional law and politics
- Judicial independence
- Judicialisation of politics
- Juristocracy
- Human rights protection/enforcement
- Rule of law and/or constitutionalism
- Immigration law, nationality law and asylum law
- International human rights law
- International legal theory
- Public International Law
- International economic law
- International development law
- Genocide
- International Criminal Law
- International Criminal Courts
- International economic law, international trade, international investment
- International law (public)
- Use of force and accountability for the use of force in international and constitutional law
Law and Theory
- Environmental storytelling and narrative enquiry
- Legal theory and jurisprudence (modern and postmodern)
- International human rights law and theory, especially human rights and justice
- Legal theory and jurisprudence
- Philosophy of law
- Political philosophy
- Feminist legal theories, legal theory, philosophy of law, jurisprudence, critical jurisprudence, critical theory
- Comparative law, law and literature
- Decolonisation and decolonial theory, race and gender, socio-economic class
- Human rights
- Islamic dress
- Alternative pedagogies, epistemological pluralism, embodied epistemologies
- Legal Theory and Jurisprudence (philosophy of private law, esp. law of obligations)
- Philosophy of Law (philosophy of private law, esp. law of obligations)
- Constitutional theory
- Medieval and early modern histories of constitutional thought
- Jurisprudence/philosophy
- Gender, sexuality and law/Feminist theory
- Labour law theory
- Migration law theory
- Epistemic oppression and the law
- Black feminist theories of justice
- Constitutional theory
- Constitutional rights theory
- Legal theory
- Political philosophy
- German idealism
- Critical theory
- Jurisprudence / philosophy of law
- Human dignity and law
- Future generations and law
- Jurisprudence
- Natural law theory
- Law and political theory
- Animal rights
- Critical theory
Medico-Legal
- Informed consent
- Medical negligence
Eugenia Caracciollo di Torella
- Caring and the Law
- Bioethics
- Medical law and ethics
- Informed consent
- Assisted suicide and euthanasia
- Access to innovative treatments
- Consent
- Liability issues
- Medical decision-making, including by AI entities
- End of life law and policy from a human rights, doctrinal, and comparative perspective
- Assisted suicide and euthanasia
- Human rights in healthcare (especially the European Convention of Human Rights)
- Medical Law and Ethics (especially beginning and end of life issues, and faith and belief in healthcare)
Private Law
- Contract law (human rights aspects)
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Land Law
- Comparative Law (general theoretical aspects and private law, esp. law of obligations
- Commercial Law (commercial aspects of contract and tort law)
- Contract Law (including comparative and philosophical/theoretical analysis)
- Tort Law (including comparative and philosophical/theoretical analysis)
- Personal Injury Law (including comparative and philosophical/theoretical analysis)
- Defamation Law (including comparative and philosophical/theoretical analysis)
- Human Rights and Civil Liberties (impact on private law, esp. law of obligations)
- Privacy (esp. issues of civil liability and interaction of private law and human rights)
- Issues relating to the Law of Tort, especially the protection of privacy
- Trusts Law, particularly trustees powers and duties, validity and formation of trusts, and offshore trusts
- Aspects of Land Law, such as title registration, overreaching, equitable doctrines such as proprietary estoppel
- Contract law
- Restitution and unjust enrichment
- The common law and common law reasoning
- Remedies
- Theory of contract
- Private property
- Private law
Socio-legal Studies
- Criminal justice
- Criminology
- Regulation and governance studies
- Law and literature (African pre- and post-colonial literature)
- Postcolonial and decolonisation theory
- Legal cultures, traditions and history (from the global perspective)
- Criminology (especially in the area of drug policy) and criminal justice
- Feminist legal theories, legal theory, philosophy of law, jurisprudence, critical jurisprudence, critical theory
- Comparative law, law and literature
- Decolonisation and decolonial theory, race and gender, socio-economic class
- Human rights
- Islamic dress
- Alternative pedagogies, epistemological pluralism, embodied epistemologies
- Children's rights and children's rights approaches to evaluating the law
- Criminal justice
- Equality (in particular Gender) and the Law
- Work/Life Balance
- Family and Child Law
- Caring and the Law
- Socio-legal studies, including criminal law and justice - relating to arbitration
- Consumer redress
- Online Dispute Resolution
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (Mediation, Arbitration, Ombudsman Schemes)
- Comparative civil litigation (class actions, small claims, etc)
- Critical legal theories/TWAIL/decolonisation/legal pedagogy
- Legal history
- Relationship and conflicts between states and non-state actors in law-making
- Development/aid
- Policing/Criminology/Crime and Criminal/related police Laws and Policies including organised crime, cyber crime; cross border elements and data sharing
- Security and Terrorism: particularly related to transport (e.g. aviation and 9/11) and space, cyber, and open spaces
- Administrative and public law
- Constitutional law
- Gender, sexuality and law/Feminist theory
- Human rights and civil liberties
- International law (public)
- Socio-legal and comparative approaches to the study of low-wage temporary migrant worker programmes and outcomes for migrant workers
- Family law
- Feminist legal studies
- Law and religion
- Socio-legal studies
- Food and environmental justice
- Creative and arts-based methodologies
- Participatory action research in socio-legal research
- Black women in the legal profession (the lived experiences of...)
- Criminal justice
- Criminal law
- Citizenship and nationality law
- Interdisciplinary research between psychology and law
- Intellectual property and copyright law
- Empirical research into jurisprudence, legal theory and morality
- The impact of anthropological and socio-legal aspects on judicial mechanisms for dispute resolution
- The intersection of gender and law with human trafficking and labour exploitation
- Criminology