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Former Research Student Projects

Durham Law School is proud of its postgraduate research student community. Each year a large number of our students are awarded research degrees and go on to successful careers in a range of areas including academia and the legal profession.

Below is a list of our former postgraduate students and, where available, links to their Master of Jurisprudence and Doctor of Philosophy theses.

Academic Year 2025-2026

Jordan Buck PhD

https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/16459/ 

Dignity and the individual in end-of-life decisions: A comparative analysis of the role of dignity in centring decisions upon the individual in English and German law
Oliver Crisp MJur

https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/16390/ 

Punishment and Atonement: Retrieving Anselmian Jurisprudence
Wuhua Gretta Dai PhD

https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/16369/ 

To what extent is disclosure regulation necessary in order to achieve fair securities markets in the United States?
Sebastian Gittes MJur

https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/16308/ 

An Analysis of the Theoretical Underpinnings of Privacy and Reputation, Linked to the Uncertain Relationship Between Defamation and Misuse of Private Information
Gift Makanje PhD

https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/16389/ 

Countering harmful cultural practices through criminal law? A critical study based on fieldwork in African communities
Ahmed Pehlivanli PhD

https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/16410/ 

From consumer welfare to fairness: A functional framework for controlling digital markets and beyond under EU competition law
Xiaonan Xu MJur

https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/16440/ 

  Regulation of AI-generated disinformation by online platforms: A comparative analysis perspective

Academic Year 2024-2025

Ketty Akello PhD https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/16009/ Investment Relations from Below: Echoing the Voices of the Invisible in Uganda’s Extractive Sector
Olivia Bond MJur https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/16078/ Algorithmic Credit Scoring and Consumer Credit Regulation in the UK: Evaluating the Case for Reform
Don Adam Brookes MJur https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/16043/ On Freedom and Constraints: A Critical View
Michael Budd PhD https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/16081/ The nature and governance challenges of share sale transactions
Henrietta Catley PhD https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/16008/ Assessing the UK’s Current Approach to Addressing Deceptive Representations from Westminster Politicians: An Argument in Favour of Introducing a New Criminal Offence Covering Politicians Making Deceptive Representations to the Public
Frederick Green MJur https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15659/ ‘Judicial treatment of ouster clauses: time for a new approach?’
Hugo Holmes MJur

https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/16135/ 

Deviation from Dicey? Departures from orthodoxy in judicial treatment of parliamentary sovereignty
Volker Kang PhD https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/16059/ Asset Management and Depositary Regulation: A Proposal for a single EU depositary passport
Katie Morris PhD https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15810/ Caring about food: Rethinking the UK's approach to the right to food through Tronto's political theory of care
Yuanxi Qin PhD https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/16072/ Marriage Consent and Psychological Pressure: A Study of Cui Hun in China
Scarlett Swain PhD https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/16076/ Meating the Climate Challenge: Tissue Engineered Meat, Patents, Utilitarianism and Biotechnological Solutions
Joy Twemlow PhD https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/16029/ Phenomenology and Human Rights:
Experiencing the Self and Other as a Human
Amila Wijesinghe PhD https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15921/ A critical consideration as to the extent to which the free speech framework in Sri Lanka can facilitate the process of reconciliation
Ying Ye PhD https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/16016/ Protection of AI-generated Works by Copyright: A Human-Based Perspective

Academic Year 2023-2024

Harsh Bajpai PhD  https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15340/ Protecting Privacy in Indian Schools: Regulating AI-based Technologies' Design, Development and Deployment
Ella al-khalil-Coyle MJur https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15550/ 

Lady Justice: The Goddess, the Myth, the Legal Metaphor:
An Investigation into the justice behind the visual metaphor and the influence of her female form.
Jesse Bachir PhD https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15569/ 

Hybrid Republicanism: Freedom as Orthonomous Non-Domination
Jinu Carvajalino-Guerrero  PhD https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15169/ 

The judicial development of a norm on the permissibility of amnesties under international law
Romain Chuffart PhD

https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15357/

 Indigenous Sovereignty, Self-determination, and Rights: Normative Agency through the Rights-Based Approach in Multilevel Arctic Environmental Governance. 
Lauren McCaughey MJur https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15473/ Can Ectogestation be Ended? The Importance of Legal Personhood in 'Switching Off' Artificial Amnion and Placenta Technology
Francesca Mesure MJur
https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15639/ 		 De-gendering gestation: the final impetus for decriminalising abortion
Oluseyi Olayanju PhD https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15486/ A Critical Examination of the Prospects and Challenges of Applying the International Right to Health Framework for the Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Nigeria
Helen Rodway PhD https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15433/ Reconceptualising Cohabitation Reform as a Human Rights Issue 
Hui Sun PhD  https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15277/ Corporate governance in Chinese SOEs: explaining and evaluating the reliance on “administrative governance”. 
Katie Tooley MJur https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15549/ An Analysis of the Legal Position of Unmarried Fathers in the Context of the Acquisition of Parental Responsibility in the UK

Academic Year 2022-2023

Uchenna Agunwa PhD https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15114/

International Investment Law Protection of Foreign Portfolio Investments: ‘To be, or not to be’?
Samuel Bannister PhD http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14647/

Unjust Enrichment for Cohabiting Couples: Reassessing the Common Intention Constructive Trust
Kershwyn Bassuday PhD http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15057/

Mediated Settlement Agreements in South Africa: A Judicial Review
Mengqi Bi PhD https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15129/ 

Compliance with and through the Rules of Corporate Governance in China
Jordan Buck MJur http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14603/

Parents and treatment decision-making for very young children at the end of life: a comparative analysis
Emma Christie MJur http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14776/ Domestic Abuse in England and Wales: A Critique of Emerging Law and the Role of Criminal Justice
Rachel Giles MJur http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14726/

Court-ordered obstetric intervention: Capacity, Consent and Compulsion
Shivaraj Huchhanavar  PhD http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15082/

Judicial Conduct Regulation Regimes in India and the United Kingdom: A Comparative Study
Xinyue Li PhD http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14959/ Quantising Geoeconomics: Pluralistic Reconciliation Between Security Protection and Economic Liberalisation Through a Quantum Worldview
Clara McNeill MJur http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14742/ Mandatory Vaccination for Healthcare Professionals: Preparation for Future Pandemics
Joanna Reimann MJur http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14817/ Controlling the Environmental Impacts of UK Fast Fashion Companies: Do B Corps provide a way forward?
Adam Rowe PhD http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15060/ Dionysus against the Crucified: Nietzsche, Sovereignty, and the Power of Nihilism
Kieran Sewell Mjur https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15130/

Misinformation and Disinformation: the Issue, the Marketplace of Ideas, and the British and American Approaches
Zoe Tongue PhD http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14938/

Recognising a Human Right to Abortion
Olivia Verity MJur http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14913/ Obstetric Violence as a Civil Battery: Exploring the Limitations of Tort Law in the Context of Unauthorised Vaginal Examinations

 

Academic Year 2021-2022

Ajibola Asolo PhD http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14194/   Advances, False Starts, and Outstanding Reform Imperatives in Nigerian Derivatives Law and Regulation. 
Mustafa Akgün PhD http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14100/  

Human rights and money laundering: a comparative analysis of the suspicious transaction reports regime from a personal data protection rights perspective
Elisabeth Bechtold PhD http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14238/   Regulating Extreme Speech in the Digital Age: A Comparative Analysis of European and American Approaches
William Cole MJur http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14478/   Defending Digitalisation: The Case for Platform- Specific Legislation in the UK
Andreas Georgiou PhD http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14515/   The 'Output' Legitimacy of Financial Stability in EU Law: Beyond Economics Functionalism
Sophia Gonella MJur http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14408/   Trusts of the Family Home, the 'Familialisation' of Property Law and the Potential for Judicial Development 
Jan Mikael Stefan Lundmark PhD http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14472/  

Access to Land Access to Justice. The divergence of legal protection: cultural protection for Sami access to land and waters under Swedish law in light of the European convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms
Amy Nerou MJur  http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14522/   "A Tissue, A Tissue, It All Falls Down”: A view of the Impacts of Covid-19 on the English Criminal Court System Between March 2020 and March 2021
Ugochukwu Nwosu-Iheme PhD http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14121/  

A critical assessment of the efficacy of the Nigerian anti-money laundering legal and institutional frameworks for politically exposed persons
Ella O'Donoghue MJur http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14399/   EU Corporate Tax Harmonisation
Maria Antonia Panascì PhD http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14091/   Solidarity in the European Constitutional Imaginary: The Currency of an EU Social Value
Oskar Polanski MJur http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14234/   Unwilling or unable? Assessing the failure of the Rule of Law Framework and Article 7 TEU in Poland
Charlie Winefield MJur http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14373/   Developing a Constitutionally Appropriate Method of Circumventing Statutory Ouster Clauses
Connor Wright MJur http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/13885/  

Assisted dying: Judicial wrong turns in the rights-based review of the Suicide Act 1961 and proposals for reform