Research students in international law

We have an active community of research students working on projects in the area of international law, including the following candidates:

  • Christopher M J Boyd - '(In)security and Superfluity: the Regulation of Work(ers) in the Contemporary Global Order'
  • Hoon Cho - 'Jurisdictional Evolution by the Courts and Tribunals under United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea'
  • Ferhat Ercümen - 'Military Use of Foreign Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf'
  • GC McBain - 'Peace Through Institutionalisation: The Forgotten Role of the League of Nations'
  • Saskia Millman - ''Flexible Engagement’: The League of Nations and its Non-Members'
  • Athene Richford - 'Examining the Trade and Labour Gap in International Law: Neutralization of the Political in International Legal Regime Design'
  • Jessica Schechinger - 'Private (Armed) Security Actors in the Contemporary Fight against Maritime Piracy: Issues of International Responsibility'
  • Phakanadh Sutthent - ‘Towards the Appropriate Use of Science in the WTO: The Case Study of Food Safety Regulation’
  • Chin-Chia Tien - Regulating IUU Fishing Through Flag States: Development of State Responsibility in the Context of the Law of the Sea
  • Konstantina Tsekeri - 'The application of the best interest of the child principle in the refugee status determination process. The case of unaccompanied children claiming asylum in the UK and Greece.'
  • Joanna Wilson - '(L)AWS, Laws and The Ethics of Autonomy: Questioning the Morality of the ‘Killer Robot’'
  • Fuat Balaban - 'Addressing Low-intensity Cyber Operations under International Law'
  • Jessica Ballasi-LLM by Research
  • Ye Feng -'Non-State actors role in cyber-space international-law making'
  • Rémy Fuhrmann - 'Civil war in international humanitarian law: Between inclusion and exclusion'
  • Michael Hempelman - LLM by Research
  • Pia Hüsch - 'State Sovereignty in the Digital Era: Disruptive Cyber Operations and Non-Intervention'
  • Heloise Guichardaz - 'The UN responsibility in the Haiti cholera crisis.'
  • Muhammed Karayagli - 'The Conceptualisation of Terrorism From Third World Approaches To International Law (TWAIL) Perspective'
  • Jinyup Kim - 'Protection Regime Building for the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities in Southeast Asia to biogenetic resources and associated traditional knowledge.
  • Marie Lepelletier -LLM by Research
  • Charles HW Mak - 'Sovereign Debt Regulation: Towards a Unified International Legal Regime?'
  • Onthatile Olerile Moeti, 'The Impact of the Modern Development Agenda on the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Botswana: The Case of the San'
  • Salome Nilsson - LLM by Research 
  • Andreas Piperides - 'Countering Hegemony: A Marxist Approach to the Relationship Between International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law'
  • Sören Sommer - 'German-French Armament Cooperation and Export Control in the context of the European Defence Policy'
  • Susanne Stuehlinger, 'Allocating Responsibility in Climate Change Cases: Normative Aspects of Causality'
  • Erik Tuchtfeld - LLM by Research
  • Norhayati Raihan Binti Wahab - 'Reviewing the role of Investor-State Dispute Settlement in Malaysia's International Investment Treaty'
  • Xi Wang, 'The Improvement of the ISDS System from the Perspective of Foreign Investment Transition Countries: Analysis Based on the China’s Implementation of the “The Belt and Road Initiative”' 
  • Ayse Yildiz – “Externalization of Migration Control: International Legal Guarantees against the Erosion of Refugee Protection“