Research opportunities

The School of Law provides high quality supervision for higher degrees by research for applicants looking to conduct postgraduate research in the following areas:

Competition Law

• Ioannis Kokkoris research interests lie primarily in competition law and competition economics and welcomes proposals in these areas.

Common Law

• Lawrence McNamara's research interests lie primarily in the legal regulation of speech, especially as it relates to the media. He is particularly interested in defamation and in racial and religious hate speech, including comparative and historical aspects of these fields. He would welcome proposals in these and related areas of media law.
  
  
• Mark Wilde welcomes proposals concerning nuisance, trespass to land and Rylands v Fletcher.

Child Law

• Michael King welcomes proposals which seek to apply Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems within any field of law. He would be also interested in supervising research into legal decisions concerning children, their welfare and their education.

Environmental Law

• Christopher Hilson welcomes research proposals relating to domestic (UK or other states) and European environmental law in general, including e.g. aspects of risk, environmental rights, citizenship, environmental regulation and governance, and litigation and protest strategies.
  
  
• Mark Wilde has research interests that focus on environmental law and have principally concerned various aspects of environmental liability. However, he would welcome proposals on most aspects of the subject, including European Union and International perspectives.

European Law

• Thrse Callus welcomes research proposals on family and child law issues, especially those of a comparative nature.
  
  
• Grace James welcomes research proposals in the area of Labour Law, (especially discrimination law, family-friendly initiatives and the application of labour law at employment tribunals) or European Social Policies.
  
  
• Christopher Hilson welcomes research proposals relating to EU Law (including e.g. EU constitutional and administrative law, EU environmental law and the law of the single market).
  
  
• Mark Wilde welcomes proposals concerning EU environmental law and EU single market law.

Intellectual Property Law

• Daphne Zografos would invite research proposals in the field of intellectual property law, particularly in the areas of traditional knowledge, trade marks, geographical indications as well as intellectual property and development.

International Law/ International Human Rights Law

• Robert Barnidge Jr. has research interests that span public international law generally, in particular the law of state responsibility, international human rights law, the use of force, and issues of terrorism. He would welcome proposals on most aspects of public international law.
  
  
• Sandy Ghandhi would invite particularly proposals in the area of the international protection of human rights, especially the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966.
  
  
• James Green is interested in receiving proposals in the area of public international law, particularly those concerning the use of force and the law of armed conflict, as well as the nature and formation of customary international law.
  
  
• Anne Thies focuses in her research on public international, international trade and European law. She is particularly interested in international dispute settlement and the interrelationships between different international legal systems.

Legal History

• Stephen Banks welcomes proposals in the field of British legal history, in particular those relating to the regulation of violence, to perceptions of public order and to the early development of the prison.
  
  
• Charlotte Smith would particularly invite research proposals in the general areas of constitutional law and legal history and, in particular, projects relating to 19th century legal history or the interaction of law and religion.

Legal Theory

• Rosemary Auchmuty's main research interest is gender and law, particularly in relation to property law, modern legal history, sexuality, and popular culture. She would welcome research proposals on gender and/or sexuality and law, socio-legal perspectives on property law, or law and popular culture.
  
  
• Samia Bano would invite research proposals in the areas of family law, socio-legal studies, gender, race and the law and, legal pluralism in particular relating to Muslim family law and minority Muslim communities in Britain.
  
  
• Martha-Marie Kleinhans invites research proposals in the general areas of political, social and legal theory and especially those which address and interrogate issues of identity and subjectivity (including, for example, ways in which nation, gender, and/or technology inform these questions). Theoretically informed work in some aspects of corporate law are also welcome.
  
  
• Carl Stychin would invite research proposals in the areas of law, gender and sexuality and, more generally, in the fields of legal, political and social theory.

Medical Law

• Christopher Newdick would welcome research proposals concerning the relationships between doctors, patients, health authorities, and government, especially as to the manner in which they are affected by the availability of resources.

Property Law

• Elizabeth Cooke would invite research proposals in any field of property law, particularly land registration, adverse possession, and estoppel; she would also welcome proposals in family law, particularly family property.
  
  
• Peter Smith welcomes research proposals in the area of common law of landlord and tenant.

Public Law

• Paul Almond is particularly interested in research proposals in the areas of social regulation, health and safety law, corporate crime and criminology, and socio-legal studies of regulation and enforcement, as well as those in the areas of criminal law and criminology more generally.
  
  
• Patricia Leopold is interested in British Constitutional law, and invites proposals in this field, in particular those connected with Parliament.