Our PhD students
PhD student projects cover many different areas of legal research and can be multidisciplinary. Outlined below are a number of research topics currently being explored by our students.
Global Law at Reading
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Behnam Balalimood "EU immigration policy, EU civic citizenship, and the integration of migrants into the receiving society" |
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Faye Bird "Islamic State’s Use of Forced Marriages and Sexual Slavery as a Weapon of War: A Critical Analysis of International Law in the Changing Landscape of Modern Day Warfare" |
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Max Brookman-Byrne "Militarised Drones and Their Implications for International Law" |
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Natasha A. Georgiou "Energy Regulation in International Trade: Legal Challenges in EU-Russia Energy Relations from an Investment Protection Perspective" |
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Hoshman Ismail "Genocide of the Yezidis within the context of Responsibility to Protect" |
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Steve Samuel "Diplomats, Practitioners, Scholars: A Study of the Multiple Roles Played by International Lawyers in Public International Law" |
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Wanni Teo "EU External Co-operation on Counter-Terrorism: A Fundamental Rights Perspective on Information Sharing" |
Justice, Rights and Legal Theory
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Abdulhaleem Mohammed "Monitoring of legislative omission by the constitutional judiciary (a comparative study)" |
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Ana Laura Cannilla Morozovich Ana is completing her PhD in Law with a thesis titled "Meanings under Democratic Construction: A Theory of Deliberative Constitutional Review" and is currently a Sessional Lecturer in Public Law 1 & 2 at the University of Reading. Ana's research interests are legal theory, political theory and constitutional theory. She holds a degree in Law from Complutense University of Madrid and an LLM in Human Rights from University Carlos III of Madrid. |
Family, Gender and Sexuality
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Faye Bird "Islamic State’s Use of Forced Marriages and Sexual Slavery as a Weapon of War: A Critical Analysis of International Law in the Changing Landscape of Modern Day Warfare" |
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Liz-Mari Welman "Securing gender equality at a senior level? A critique of UK employees' right to request flexible working" |
Recently completed
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Olugu Ukpai "Beyond 'Amputating A Healthy Limb' Argument: Female Genital Cutting (FGC): Problems and Prospects of Its Socio-Legal Abolition in South-Eastern Nigeria" |
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Julie Knight "To what extent the law effectively protects, and can effectively protect, the dignity of elderly people in care" |
Legal History
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Sally J Gold "Quakerism, Localism and Law - a critical consideration of the History of the Quakers in the North West of England and the Religious and Political Policy of the Restoration" |
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Louise Falcini |
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Michelle Johnson "The influence of Christopher St German in English law: theories of conscience" |
Property, Transactions & Markets
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Ian F Johnson |
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Athanassios Skourtis "The Application of a More Economics-based Approach (MEA) and Behavioural Economics in EU Competition Law" |
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Adnan Farook "Competition Law and High Technology companies" |
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Mira Marinova "The treatment of fidelity rebates under the EU competition law - beyond the 'as efficient competitor' test" |
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Stefanos Merikas "Tramp Shipping Pools: An Assessment under the Scope of EU Competition Law" |
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Pamela Nika "The interaction between monetary policy and banking supervision tasks of the European Central Bank under the existing provisions of the Treaty" |