Thesis title

‘Basis in Natural History: Towards a Historical Materialist Theory of Environmental Law’ [provisional title]

Supervisors

Dr Michael Wilkinson and Professor Veerle Heyvaert

Research interests/areas

Environmental law, legal history, Marxism, constitutional theory, legal and political theory

Jakub Bokes is a PhD candidate at LSE Law School. He holds an LLB (First Class Honours) from LSE and a BCL (Distinction) from the University of Oxford. He has won several academic awards and scholarships. 

Jakub’s research is funded by an LSE PhD Studentship. His doctoral thesis seeks to better understand the historical relationship between environmental law and capitalism. In his work, Jakub draws on insights from Marxism, Critical Legal Studies (CLS) and the Law and Political Economy (LPE) movement and applies them to the study of environmental law.

Awards / Scholarships

LSE PhD Studentship (2021-2025), College Prize for Performance in the BCL (2021), Oxford Faculty of Law Graduate Scholarship (2020-2021), Slaughter & May Prize for Best Overall Degree Performance (2020), Lauterpacht/Higgins Prize for Excellent Performance in Public International Law (2020)