Thesis title

'Legal Continuity and Failures in Constitution-Making: A Comparative Study' [provisional]

Supervisors

Professor Tarun Khaitan and Professor Jo Murkens

Research Interests

Comparative constitutional law (especially in the Global South), constitutional change and constitution-making, international human rights law

Brynne is a PhD student in Law. She holds an LLB (with distinction) from the University of Pretoria and an LLM (with distinction) from the LSE. Her research examines the concept of “legal continuity” in the context of failed constitution-making processes and aims to shed light on the broader impact of such processes on understandings of constitutionalism.

Before joining the LSE, Brynne was a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law. In this role, she consulted to constitution-making bodies in Chile and conducted research and capacity building activities with judges and lawyers in Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Brynne was also previously a Law Clerk at the Constitutional Court of South Africa and a Google Policy Fellow.

Awards/Scholarships

LSE PhD Studentship (2024 – 2028); Commonwealth Scholarship (2016 – 2017); University of Pretoria Dean’s Merit List (2012 – 2015), and Scholarship for Academic Merit (2012 – 2015