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Former Research Student Projects
Durham Law School is proud of its postgraduate research student community. Each year a large number of our students are awarded research degrees and go on to successful careers in a range of areas including academia and the legal profession.
Below is a list of our former postgraduate students and, where available, links to their Master of Jurisprudence and Doctor of Philosophy theses.
Academic Year 2023-2024
| Harsh Bajpai | PhD | https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15340/ | Protecting Privacy in Indian Schools: Regulating AI-based Technologies' Design, Development and Deployment |
| Ella al-khalil-Coyle | MJur | https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15550/ |
Lady Justice: The Goddess, the Myth, the Legal Metaphor: |
| Jesse Bachir | PhD | https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15569/ |
Hybrid Republicanism: Freedom as Orthonomous Non-Domination |
| Jinu Carvajalino-Guerrero | PhD | https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15169/ |
The judicial development of a norm on the permissibility of amnesties under international law |
| Romain Chuffart | PhD | Indigenous Sovereignty, Self-determination, and Rights: Normative Agency through the Rights-Based Approach in Multilevel Arctic Environmental Governance. | |
| Lauren McCaughey | MJur | https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15473/ | Can Ectogestation be Ended? The Importance of Legal Personhood in 'Switching Off' Artificial Amnion and Placenta Technology |
| Francesca Mesure | MJur | https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15639/ |
De-gendering gestation: the final impetus for decriminalising abortion |
| Oluseyi Olayanju | PhD | https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15486/ | A Critical Examination of the Prospects and Challenges of Applying the International Right to Health Framework for the Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Nigeria |
| Helen Rodway | PhD | https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15433/ | Reconceptualising Cohabitation Reform as a Human Rights Issue |
| Hui Sun | PhD | https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15277/ | Corporate governance in Chinese SOEs: explaining and evaluating the reliance on “administrative governance”. |
| Katie Tooley | MJur | https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15549/ | An Analysis of the Legal Position of Unmarried Fathers in the Context of the Acquisition of Parental Responsibility in the UK |
Academic Year 2022-2023
| Uchenna Agunwa | PhD | https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15114/ |
International Investment Law Protection of Foreign Portfolio Investments: ‘To be, or not to be’? |
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| Samuel Bannister | PhD | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14647/ |
Unjust Enrichment for Cohabiting Couples: Reassessing the Common Intention Constructive Trust |
| Kershwyn Bassuday | PhD | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15057/ |
Mediated Settlement Agreements in South Africa: A Judicial Review |
| Mengqi Bi | PhD | https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15129/ |
Compliance with and through the Rules of Corporate Governance in China |
| Jordan Buck | MJur | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14603/ |
Parents and treatment decision-making for very young children at the end of life: a comparative analysis |
| Emma Christie | MJur | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14776/ | Domestic Abuse in England and Wales: A Critique of Emerging Law and the Role of Criminal Justice |
| Rachel Giles | MJur | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14726/ |
Court-ordered obstetric intervention: Capacity, Consent and Compulsion |
| Shivaraj Huchhanavar | PhD | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15082/ |
Judicial Conduct Regulation Regimes in India and the United Kingdom: A Comparative Study |
| Xinyue Li | PhD | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14959/ | Quantising Geoeconomics: Pluralistic Reconciliation Between Security Protection and Economic Liberalisation Through a Quantum Worldview |
| Clara McNeill | MJur | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14742/ | Mandatory Vaccination for Healthcare Professionals: Preparation for Future Pandemics |
| Joanna Reimann | MJur | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14817/ | Controlling the Environmental Impacts of UK Fast Fashion Companies: Do B Corps provide a way forward? |
| Adam Rowe | PhD | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15060/ | Dionysus against the Crucified: Nietzsche, Sovereignty, and the Power of Nihilism |
| Kieran Sewell | Mjur | https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15130/ |
Misinformation and Disinformation: the Issue, the Marketplace of Ideas, and the British and American Approaches |
| Zoe Tongue | PhD | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14938/ |
Recognising a Human Right to Abortion |
| Olivia Verity | MJur | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14913/ | Obstetric Violence as a Civil Battery: Exploring the Limitations of Tort Law in the Context of Unauthorised Vaginal Examinations |
Academic Year 2021-2022
| Ajibola Asolo | PhD | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14194/ | Advances, False Starts, and Outstanding Reform Imperatives in Nigerian Derivatives Law and Regulation. |
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| Mustafa Akgün | PhD | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14100/ |
Human rights and money laundering: a comparative analysis of the suspicious transaction reports regime from a personal data protection rights perspective |
| Elisabeth Bechtold | PhD | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14238/ | Regulating Extreme Speech in the Digital Age: A Comparative Analysis of European and American Approaches |
| William Cole | MJur | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14478/ | Defending Digitalisation: The Case for Platform- Specific Legislation in the UK |
| Andreas Georgiou | PhD | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14515/ | The 'Output' Legitimacy of Financial Stability in EU Law: Beyond Economics Functionalism |
| Sophia Gonella | MJur | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14408/ | Trusts of the Family Home, the 'Familialisation' of Property Law and the Potential for Judicial Development |
| Jan Mikael Stefan Lundmark | PhD | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14472/ |
Access to Land Access to Justice. The divergence of legal protection: cultural protection for Sami access to land and waters under Swedish law in light of the European convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms |
| Amy Nerou | MJur | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14522/ | "A Tissue, A Tissue, It All Falls Down”: A view of the Impacts of Covid-19 on the English Criminal Court System Between March 2020 and March 2021 |
| Ugochukwu Nwosu-Iheme | PhD | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14121/ |
A critical assessment of the efficacy of the Nigerian anti-money laundering legal and institutional frameworks for politically exposed persons |
| Ella O'Donoghue | MJur | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14399/ | EU Corporate Tax Harmonisation |
| Maria Antonia Panascì | PhD | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14091/ | Solidarity in the European Constitutional Imaginary: The Currency of an EU Social Value |
| Oskar Polanski | MJur | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14234/ | Unwilling or unable? Assessing the failure of the Rule of Law Framework and Article 7 TEU in Poland |
| Charlie Winefield | MJur | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14373/ | Developing a Constitutionally Appropriate Method of Circumventing Statutory Ouster Clauses |
| Connor Wright | MJur | http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/13885/ |
Assisted dying: Judicial wrong turns in the rights-based review of the Suicide Act 1961 and proposals for reform |