Current research students
We currently have around 100 PhD students studying with us with topics covering an extensive range of legal and criminological subjects.
You can view our current research students' PhD topics by visiting their University of Edinburgh profile pages.
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Desmond Agyekumhene 'Is online music streaming akin to radio, digital download or a derived hybrid? An evaluation of musicians' rights in a changing digital music consumption landscape'
Aina Arif 'Substantive Equality in Malaysia and the United Kingdom: A Comparative Analysis of The Legal Framework of Sex Discrimination in Employment'
Emily Asgari 'An Examination of Deepfakes’ Impact on Truth Through a Legal Comparative and Historical Study of Visual Media Manipulation'
Ayça Atabey 'Fairness, vulnerability and AI-driven technologies'
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Grayson Bartels 'Is substance use disorder recovery possible in prison? A study of autonomy'
Colin Bathgate 'Exclusionary Rights in Scots Law'
Thomas Broderick 'Examining the need for legal regulation of data-driven and digital journalism'
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Sara Canduzzi 'Legitimacy without legality: towards a theory of global and supranational authorities'
Pablo Carvacho 'Penitentiary system evolving logics in Chile’
Martina Cerna ‘Liability for Failures in Blockchain Transaction under Private Law: Comparative Analysis’
Zekun Chang (Eric) '(Working title) Hedge fund activism in corporate governance reality'
Pedro Cisterna Gaete Environmental justice and urban adaptation to climate change: the case of slum communities
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Chioma Dibia 'Racism and the Reform of Mental Health Laws in England and Wales'
Kajsa Dinesson 'Defining the law: on police and prosecutorial decision-making under broad and vague terrorism offences'
Mihail Dishev 'The patentability of CRISPR-Cas9-mediated gene editing in human embryos: Time to “edit” the European patent law landscape?'
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Tahir Erdogan Penalty Clauses in Civil Law and Common Law: A Comparative Analysis with Special reference to harmonisation
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Juan Pablo (JP) Fassnidge 'Moral Scepticism and Criminal Law: a Theory of Criminalisation'
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Mirjana Gavrilović Nilsson 'From State Ideology to Individual Criminal Action: Testimony and Evidence from the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda'
Lamprini Georgiou 'The impact of blockchain technology and machine contracting on investor protection and bank integrity laws.'
Claudia González-Márquez ‘Neurohacking and the Law: Examining the Adequacy of Legal Frameworks in Safeguarding the Neurocognitive Domain from Interference with Implantable Neurotechnologies’
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Zahra Haji Jaffer 'Public interest : a diluted justification?'
Robert Holland 'Intersections of Security: Rhythms of Security and Governance in a Major City Transport Hub'
Yi-Chen Huang 'Contested Pathways to Citizenship: A Comparison of Taiwan’s Investor Residence Scheme and the UK BNO Visa Scheme for Hong Kongers'
Cara Hunter 'The dynamics of penal change in Scotland since 1990'
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Fransiska Ari Indrawati 'Legal Aspect of Central Bank Digital Currency (Indonesia and other Relevant Countries)'
Maria Ithurria 'Historical - dogmatic study of the responsibility for redhibitory vices.'
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Matthew Jewell 'Dissent in the smart city: Contesting cyber-physical architectures'
Kholyn Ruran Jonathan 'Federal and state relationship under Malaysia Agreement 1963 : A case study of Putrajaya & Sarawak'
Christian Paul Jones 'Fundamental political freedoms, privacy, free speech and election regulation: The legal challenges of political marketing in the modern era'
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Ahmedul Kabir Police Reform in Democracies: Readiness for Safeguarding Human Rights
Lynn Kennedy 'Medical Futility and Experimental Treatment'
Gokce Kolukisa 'Genome Editing in International Law'
Leo Kritikos 'Carving out space for queer* subjectivities beyond the fear/safety binary'
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Richard Latta 'The relationship between International Law and Municipal Legal Systems : a positivistic account'
Fangyi Li 'Post-Conflict Justice, International Law, and Regional Particularism in Southeast Asia: An Analysis Focused on Victims’ Right to Justice'
Ruiting Liu ‘Protecting and Promoting Media Pluralism in the Online Environment: An assessment of European Union policies and regulatory responses to enhance pluralism of professionally-generated content on online platforms’
Xinyu Lyu 'Competition Law and the Platform Economy：Could Business Users be "Consumers" Under the Consumer Welfare Standard?'
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Daniela Mardones Bravo 'The Elderly Population within the prison system in Chile: Characteristics and Challenges.'
Clare McDairmant 'In the Workplace in Great Britain : Do the religious exceptions contained in schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010 go far enough, are they too wide or should they not exist at all?'
Andreea Mihut ‘Stealing Stories’?: Investigating Language, Narrative, and Power in the Contemporary Scottish Criminal Courts
Bethan Morgan 'Examining the Use and Impact of Progress Reviews which Operate Externally to Specific Problem-Solving Courts in Scotland'
Houman Mortazavi 'The reception of the Romano-Canonical rules on “strict liability” and the creation of the law of “delict” in Scots Law: from the European ius commune to the contemporary era'
Ke Mu An Examination of Evidence Gathering in English Commercial Arbitration and Lessons for China
Hashim Mude 'Critical reporting or fanning the flames of intolerance? The media's coverage and framing of the 'refugee crisis' in Europe: A comparative study of the reporting in Germany, Greece and Hungary.'
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Sofia Nakou 'Developing the understanding and practice of human rights law in refugee camps through the creation of a sustainable theatre community'
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Kyle Leif Oakes 'Explaining post-human era warfare in the legal nomrs of human era warfare'
Aziz Ozturk Application of the Business Judgement Rule: From US Law, Throughout European Jurisdictions, to Turkish Law
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Pravar Petkar 'Transcending British Parliamentary Sovereignty: Constituent Power, Referendums and Normative Political Realism'
Matilde Masetti Placci 'Newly tinted glasses? Revisiting international law's unity (and fragmentation) through the theories of Georg Jellinek, Maurice Hauriou and Santi'
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Mochammad Noer Alim Qalby 'The Role of Indonesian Competition Law in Digital Markets'
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Ruby Reed-Berendt 'On power and empowerment: an intersectional analysis of mental capacity law in England and Wales'
Rebecca Richards 'Global Health Emergencies, the shortage of healthcare professionals in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, and global justice: analysing the duties of high-income countries'
Valentina Rioseco Vallejos 'Human Rights Law in Chilean domestic courts: Situating Migration and Refugee Issues.'
Deborah Russo Segregation in Scottish Prisons in Comparative Context
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Alison Seaman Does the United Kingdom, comprising as it does of the three jurisdictions of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, need a specialised human rights court in order to afford effective protection of human rights, in particular the fundamental right to life, freedom from inhuman and degrading treatment, and the right to liberty?
Nidhi Sahay Children of a Lesser God: Protecting the best interests of children on the move by building a bridge between international refugee law and international law on the rights of the child
Bhavinee Singh 'Fiscal Federalism in India'
Kongsatja Suwanapech 'The Legacies of the Codification of Thai Criminal Law: A study of History and Transculturalisation of the Penal Code of Siam'
Pakatida Suwonnawong Regulatory Effectiveness: The Analysis of National Legal Frameworks on Maritime Safety and Marine Pollution in Thailand
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Kim Taehyeon 'A Propitious Time for Establishing the Asian Court of Human Rights: Feasibility Analysis of Institutionalising Regional Human Rights Mechanism Within ASEAN Plus Three'
Ammar Tanhan 'Investing in Investment Claims: A Critical Analysis of Third-Party Funding in Context of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement System'
Hilda Tizeba 'Autonomy, Paternalism and the Regulation of Mental Healthcare in Low-Resource Settings: Examining the Case of Tanzania'
Tsampika Taralli 'Justification and Explanation in Theories of Law'
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Jin Wang 'Third-Party Funding in International Commercial Arbitration - From the Perspective of Access to Justice'
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Chenghuai Xu 'Utilising regulatory technology in the supervision of climate finance'
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Gaia Zanotti 'What legal standards concerning access to employment and fair labour standards are available to applicants and beneficiaries of international protection in Europe and what is the current level of compliance across European states?'
Yunchong Zhou 'Comparison of Merger Control between China and European Union - Using Internet Firms as Examples'
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