Our research students

Our research students cover a variety of research themes, under the supervision of our research staff.

Competition law

  • Wenyu Zhou – ‘Market Dominance of Online Platforms in the Digital Economy'

Corporate and financial law

Paola Alarcón López - 'It may be legal, but is it socially desirable?'

Khaled Mohammed D Almutairi - 'Strengthening the board: The Case for Directorship Certifications in Mitigating Directors’ Liabilities'

Yanlu Chen - 'Legal Regulation of the Sustainability of Low-Tier Suppliers: A Study of the "Cascading" Effect of Contract and Supplier Code'

Sylwia Jakuczun - 'Unfair prejudice petitions as the most important statutory means of protecting minority shareholders in the jurisdictions of Scotland, England & Wales: legal theory and practice'

Chun Li - 'Research on Coordination of Financial Services Trade Liberalization and Regulation Rules in Regional Trade Agreements'

Mingyi Li - 'Improving ESG Disclosure Rules Under Chinese Law'

Martina Meneget - 'The integration of nature-related financial risks in the EU macroprudential framework: a comparative legal perspective with the Brazilian experience'

Sümeyye Nur Mete: 'The use of artificial intelligence in corporate governance: Ethics, morality and legal issues surrounding AI’s'

Lorena Mičik - 'Taking security over crypto-assets'

Pengzhao Shang - 'A study of the relationship between innovation and regulation in fintech regulatory cooperation in the great bay area of China'

Luca Verzobio - 'The Macroprudential Use of Transition Plans: A Social-Ecological Systems Approach to Climate-Related Systemic Financial Risk Management'

Xueqi Wang - 'The EU third country regime and its influences on the international financial regulatory system'

Paula Patrycja Wilczopolska (nee Madalinska) - 'Regulatory development, its implications and impact on shaping automated advice services in financial markets'

Mark Wilson - 'Can activism using private ordering strategies promote long-term shareholder support of publicly traded companies (“Issuers”) in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia (collectively, the “Jurisdictions”)?'

Liwen Xu - 'Investigation into Information Disclosure within China's Pre-Pack System'

Ying Zheng - 'Comparison of Involuntary Creditor Relief under Limited Liability in China and the UK'

Shining Zhou - 'Macroprudential Perspectives on Central Banks' Response to Systemic Risk in the Context of Climate Change' 

Criminal law and criminal justice

  • Sandy Brindley - 'Exploring victim participation and agency for rape complainers within adversarial criminal justice processes'
  • Nicholas Burgess - 'Tracking the synergy between criminal law theory and UK

  • Clare Marsh - 'An examination of the accessibility and operation of legal defences in 'Scots law where non-fatal offending has been preceded by domestic abuse' 
  • Ellena Nowell - 'Collecting Criminal Statistics: The Creation and Development of Sexual Offences'

  • Phoebe Reilly - 'An examination and evaluation of Scottish university responses to a complaint of student to-student gender-based violence (GBV)'

  • Renyi Xu - 'Criminal Law and Artificial Intelligence ---- On The Criminal Attribution of Crimes Involving Artificial Intelligence'

  • Yu Zhou - 'Abuse of Unequal Status and Power? A Model of Coercion in Authority Relations'

International law

  • Khaled Hassan
  • Ebiere Japhet
  • K M Shazzad Mohashin
  • Klaudia Szabelka
  • Norhayati Raihan Binti Wahab

 

 

Labour law

  • Jiaheng Deng
  • Muirean McDermott
  • Neil Saddington
  • Qingqin Zhang

Legal theory

 

  • Jamie McGowan
  • Allan McKenna
  • Pudit Ovattananavakhun
  • Carlos Ramaglia Mota
  • Andrew Rayner
  • Hatice Sare Temel
  • Yuhan Wang

Public law

  • Elif Busra Kaya

Private law

  • Euan Campbell
  • Troy Charman
  • Allan McKenna
  • Calum Stewart
  • Katharina Stoll