Current PhD students at LSE Law School are listed below (alphabetically by surname). Click on the student's name for further details. For more information about our research interests, see Research.
See also our list of recently completed PhD theses.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Daniela Arantes Prata
'Corporate behaviour, compliance and the environment: A Latin American perspective'
Omotola Ariyo
'Legal Issues in the regulation and adjudication of OTC Derivatives'
Thomas Bagshaw
'Entrepreneurial futures: social enterprise, development and human rights'
Jakub Bokes
‘Basis in Natural History: Towards a Historical Materialist Theory of Environmental Law’
Lauren Bursey
'Preventing the Sale of Looted Antiquities by Non-State Actors: a comparative analysis of International Law and national legislation in the United Kingdom, United States, and the European Union'
Elena Calsamiglia
'The Enforcement of Corporate Sustainability: is the European Sustainable Corporate Governance Initiative on the right track?'
Niall Conlon
'Potential UK legal and Regulatory Path Dependency in prohibitions against Insider Trading and Market Abuse; a project to review the legal theoretical and doctrinal foundations of insider trading prohibitions and information-based market abuse under UK law'
Pascual Cortés
'Imagining police character: the case of the Chilean Carabineros'
Parashar Das
'International Law: A Language of Expertise'
Cüneyd Erbay
'Legal Pluralism and the Codification of the Late Ottoman Empire: A Re-imagination of Imperial Political Authority and Legal Thought'
Sebastian Gazmuri Barker
'In search for tax progressiveness in developing countries'
Lance Green
'The Meaning of “Personal Property” in Law: A Contextual Map'
Brynne Guthrie
'Legal Continuity and Failures in Constitution-Making: A Comparative Study'
Genevieve Heng
'Control as a Service: Big Tech, imperfect copyright enforcement, and restrictions on creativity in the digital age'
Samuel Hickey
'Extraterritoriality and corporate crime'
Zarja Hude
'A Semantic Framework for International Tax Regimes: A Computational Legal Analysis'
Michelle Hughes
'The Cost of Compliance: The Judicialization of Conflict and the Art of War’
Ioanna Kladi
'Achieving Tax Justice in the European Union; Tax Competition, State Aid, and Fundamental Rights'
Carly A. Krakow
'The Role of International Law for Protecting the Human Rights of People Impacted by Environmental Crimes in Contexts of Statelessness, Displacement, and Armed Conflict'
Caroline Leeds-Ruby
'Regulating for responsible AI in finance'
Sofia Maria Lener
Protection of the individual and “personal inferences” from algorithmic data processing
Shingira Masanzu
'Understanding the factors that shape infrastructure deal-making by African governments and exploring human-rights based approaches to deal-making'
Vittoria Mastrandrea
'Export Controls for Cultural Goods in the United Kingdom: A Critical Analysis'
Dimitris Moragiorgas
'Nonrandom Walks of Knowledge, Wide Epistemic Responsibility, and Criminal Blameworthiness'
Reem Moustafa
'The Culture of Impunity and the Regulatory Framework Protecting Cultural Property from Illicit Trafficking'
Viknes Muthiah
'Constituting the Worker in International Law'
Nakul Nayak
'Technology and Constitutional Change'
Paul Newman
'The reporting of nisi prius cases: origins and effects'
Shafic Osman
'Moving on from “yentua”: Debt Governance in an African State'
Pedro Pereira de Morais Pacheco
'The uncertainty problem: how the limitations of human knowledge impact the adjudication of constitutional rights (and what should be done about it).'
Malavika Raghavan
‘Socio-legal consequences of the digitalisation of welfare delivery: A case study of India’s direct benefit transfer system’
Leonardo Rivera Mendoza
'The Art of Dignity: Ancestral Community and Collective Human Rights in the Aftermath of International Litigation'
Bob Roth
'The Political-Economic Origins of Europe’s Rule of Law Crisis'
Valeria Ruiz
'Unconstitutional punishment'
Roberto Russo
'The Legal Ramifications of Narrative Disclosures’ Language'
Josiah Senu
'Defending consideration'
Shukri Shahizam
'The use of foreign law by Eastminster apex courts in public law adjudication'
Alexandra Sinclair
'Automated decision-making by the state'
Konstantinos Sioufas
'Constitutionalism and horizontal effect of rights in the common law world'
Spyros Syrrakos
'Data and Content in the Digital World: Revisiting Proportionality in the EU Legal Order'
Mikolaj Szafrański
'International law and global waste governance: the making and discarding of smartphones'
Mostafa Taherkhkani
'Fictional Archè in International Legal Theories'
Kaia Turowski
'High-Stakes Influencers: How Amicus Briefs Shape Judicial Decision-Making in U.S. Climate Litigation'
Winluck Wahiu
'Constitutional implementation and informal politics in Kenya and South Africa'
Sam Warburton
'Exploring the Pervasiveness of Proportionality Reasoning in English Law'
Florian Wetzlaugk
'The Deconstitutionalization and Politicization of Constitutional Law'
Jinyang Xu
'International Law Profession in the Party-State China in the Cold War Times'