Research Students, Edinburgh Law School

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This page lists research students in the School of Law, with links to further details about their research.

Handa S. Abidin

'The Protection of Indigenous Peoples in REDD-Plus under International Law'

Craig Anderson

'The Law of Possession in Scotland'

Kajit Bagu

'In Search of Cognitive Justice: Deadly Violence, Peace Building and Alternative Solutions in Central Nigeria'

Ellie Bates

'Place and Time Dynamics of Vandalism'

Tobias Bednarz

'Collective Management of Copyright in Music for Online Uses: The Implications of the Cultural Functions of Collecting Societies for a Multi-territorial Licensing Model'

Justine Bendel

'Settlement of international environmental disputes'

Richard Bethune

'Profiling White-Collar Crime'

Genci Bilali

'The Anglo-American Competition Aspects of Bank Mergers'

Jessica Bird

'Segregation arrangements in Scottish prisons: a socio-spatial history'

Stephen Bogle

'The development and use of the will theory in Scots contract law'

Stefano Bonino

'Negotiated Muslimness in Post-9/11 Scotland: Integrations, Discriminations and Adaptations of a Heterogeneous Community of Faith'

Louise Brangan

'An historical comparative study of penal sensibilities in Irish and Scottish political culture'

Graeme Brown

'Reduction in Sentence for a Guilty Plea: Judicial Perspectives'

Jamie Buchan

'Selling Out? Private Enterprise and Community Justice in Scotland Following the Introduction of the Community Payback Order'

Colin Campbell

'The Law of Positive Prescription in Scotland'

Katarzyna Chalaczkiewicz-Ladna

'The relevance of the long-term interests in the decision making processes of company directors in the UK, Delaware and Germany: a critical evaluation'

Kuan-Hsun Chen

'Biomedical Research and Benefit-Sharing'

Tom Daly

''Courts Constructing Democracy: The South American Experience in Comparative Perspective''

Yianna Danidou

'Legal Implications of Trusted Computing'

Diogo De Sousa e Alvim

'Human Rights and Transboundary Environmental Law: A European Perspective'

Beatriz de Sousa Fernandes

'A legal study of Marine Protected Areas in the context of International Environmental Law'

Noppadon Detsomboonrut

'Conflict of Norm Rules as a Key to Alleviate the Legal Uncertainty Created by the Fragmentation of International Law'

Neil A Dowers

'The interface between jurisdiction conventions and arbitration law'

Gemma Flynn

'The Political Communication of Crime'

Tom Flynn

'Judicial Review and the Separation of Powers within European Constitutional Pluralism'

Daniel Torres Goncalves

'The role of law interpretation to the protection of Digital Identity Rights'

Diarmaid Harkin

'Community Policing in Edinburgh'

Jasmin Hepburn

'The “ius commune” in Early Modern European legal thought (1453 – 1683)'

Bonnie Holligan

'Protection of Ownership in Scots Law'

Wei-sheng Hong

'The Law and Practice for Participation in Multilateral Relations as a Sovereignty-restrained Sui Generis Entity in International Law: the Case of the European Union and Maritime Affairs'

Miroslava Hulvanova

'Margin of appreciation in interpretation of human rights in internal market law'

Nazli Ismail Nawang

'Weblog (Blog) and Freedom of Expression: A Case Study in Malaysia'

Fiona Jamieson

'Narratives of Crime and Punishment in late Twentieth Century Scotland : A Study of Judicial Sensibilities'

Cara Jardine

'Putting the pieces together: an examination of the impact of imprisonment on prisoners and their families and the implications for reintegration, resettlement and desistance.'

Chathuni Jayatilake

'Did the Common Law Underpinning Scots Contracts of Sale Develop As a Unified Entity?'

Giedre Jokubauskaite

'A critical analysis of the state-centric legal framework surrounding the World Bank’s Development Cooperation Agreements'

Evgenia Kanellopoulou

'New Business Models for the Music Industries: the new role of Copyright in Relevant Markets for music'

Martin Kelly

'Semantic vagueness in legal discourse'

Chloë Jane Sophia Kennedy

'The influence of religion on the development of Scots criminal law.'

Korrasut Khopuangklang

'A Comparative Study of Promise in Thai law, Scots law and the Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR)'

Younsik Kim

'Challenges and Opportunities for the National Constitutional System in Dealing with Global Investment Regime'

Young Lo Ko

'The Effect of the Interplay of EU law and International Law on consistency of EU Foreign Policy'

Lei Kuang

'Competition Policy and State-Owned Enterprises in Contemporary China'

Anja Lansbergen

'Political rights of European citizens'

Thorsten Lauterbach

'The notion of joint authorship in copyright law'

Ki Beom Lee

'The Principles and Rules Governing the Delimitation of International Maritime Boundaries: Their Purpose and Application'

You-Hung Lin

'The Constitutionality and Legality of Forced Access of Telecommunications Networks; A Comparative Study of the EU and Taiwan'

Shaowei Lin

'Derivative Actions in China: A Comparative Reflection with a View to Reform'

John MacLeod

'Voidable title: Scots law in European context'

Ben Matthews

'Criminal Careers in Scotland'

TJ McIntyre

'Internet filtering - Implications of the 'Cleanfeed' system'

Aisling McMahon

'The place for a 'European' morality in the patenting of biotechnology.'

Kath Murray

'Policng Scotland: Stop and Search'

Stephen Noon

''Internal enlargement' within the European Union: legal issues around Scottish independence.'

Felipe Oliveira de Sousa

'Reason-Giving as a Form of Recognition: a study on the moral nature of practical decision-making'

Asya Ostroukh

'Reception of the French Civil Code in Quebec, Louisiana and Francophone Switzerland'

Maureen O'Sullivan

'Deconstructing Patents at the Edge of Reason'

Zoe Picton-Howell

'What can law contribute to difficult medical decision making for disabled children?'

Munin Pongsapan

'The Reception of Foreign Private Law in Thailand in 1925: A Case Study of Specific Performance'

Emily Postan

'Revealing the self: how should the law regulate what biotechnologies can tell us about who and how we are?'

Danielle Rached

'Towards legitimacy in international environmental law: a case-study on non-compliance procedures'

Majid Rizvi

'Scottish Devolution and Democracy-Based Objections to Judicial Review of Federalism'

David Rossati

'Governance and Legitimacy of Climate Finance Institutions: A Legal Perspective'

Francisco Saffie Gatica

'Taxes and citizenship: an egalitarian theory of tax law'

Paolo Sandro

'Creation and application of law: a neglected distinction'

Elizabeth Shaw

'Determinism, Criminal Responsibility and Punishment'

Luiz Fernando C. Silveira

'Communication and Legal Decision-Making: Between the Subjective and the Objective'

Leslie Stevens

'A contextual approach to the information governance of personal and sensitive personal data used for research.'

Silvia Suteu

'Eternity and the Constitution: The Promise and Limits of Eternity Clauses'

Stephen Thomson

'The constitutional basis of judicial review in Scotland'

Jaime Ubilla Fuenzalida

'Reflexive Law and Reflexive Property Rights: Tackling the Regulatory Trilemma of Ecosystems Conservation'

Wendy van der Neut

'The moral wrong in exploitation and legal restrictions of exploitative transactions'

Ashley Daniel Varghese

'Human Trafficking and Governing Security'

X. Panagia Voyatzis Hernandez

'Law and social change'

Asanga Welikala

'Beyond the Liberal Paradigm: The Constitutional Accommodation of National Pluralism in Sri Lanka'

Amanda Wyper

'An Evaluation of the Legal issues surrounding the implementation of the Automatic Enrolment Pensions Regime in the UK'

Yi You

'Imprisonment in the Contemporary Imaginaries in the UK: Nihilism, Innovation and Performance of Introspective Normativity'

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