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PhD Supervision - Areas of Interest

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  Richard Austen-Baker

  Law of contracts; contract theory, especially relational contract theory; history of contracts; outsourcing/insourcing contracts; framework (umbrella) contracts.
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  Sarah Beresford

  Sarah Beresford would be happy to receive applications from potential doctoral students in the areas of Family, Gender, Sexuality and Religion.
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  Ian Bryan

  Dr Bryan would be happy to supervise doctoral students in most areas within the broad field of Criminal Justice Studies (including Criminal Law and the Laws of Evidence). Prospective research students should go to: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/law/prospective/postgrad/admissions.htm
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  Mark Butler

  EU Labour Law: Free Movement of Workers, Discrimination law, the rights of employees to participate in management decisions, Health and Safety, family-friendly rights, and social policy. UK Employment Law: any aspect of UK employment law will be considered on the strength of the application.
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  Amanda Cahill-Ripley

  International human rights, in particular, economic, social and cultural rights; human rights and development; human rights, conflict and transitional justice.
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  Bela Bonita Chatterjee

  Dr Chatterjee welcome expressions of interest from potential doctoral students in the following areas: Socio-Legal studies, in particular: Gender, Sexuality and Law Film/Media and the Law
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  Catherine Easton

  I am willing to supervise PhDs in the general areas of internet law and intellectual property. Relevant topics include: Internet governance, website accessibility, domain name regulation, Internet service provider liability and online copyright infringements.
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  Agata Fijalkowski

  I am interested in research proposals from students writing dissertations or theses under the following headings: Comparative criminal justice Legal transition Post-totalitarian law Terrorism
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  Georgina Firth

  Criminal law - particularly feminist perspectives, penology and sexual offences Immigration law - particularly feminist perspectives, issues relating to children and asylum issues
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  Sara Fovargue

  Health care law and ethics generally. I am particularly interested in clinical research involving human and non-human animals, developing biotechnologies such as xenotransplantation (especially issues of risk and regulation), reproductive technologies, organ donation and transplantation, consent and capacity, and decision making for the 'vulnerable' Family law - especially issues around parents, parenthood and reproductive technologies, children and childhood - particularly children and health.
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  Neil Kibble

  I would be happy to receive applications from potential Doctoral students in the areas of: criminal evidence (especially in sex offence cases,evidence proof and facts, and evidence of bad character; criminal law (especially rape and other sex offences); comparative criminal law & procedure; judges, juries & lay participation in criminal trials; judicial independence & accountability; affirmative action.
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  Philip Lawton

  I have experience of supervising several successful Phd candidates and I welcome for consideration MPhil/Phd proposals on corporate law, corporate governance and also trusts law including legal transplantation and law in a post colonial context in these areas. I particuarly enjoy comparative studies but in addition to theoretical emphasis I am also prepared to consider a wide range of socio-legal and/or empirical approaches.
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  Angus MacCulloch

  Competition Law, EU Law, and Regulation
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  Barbara Mauthe

  Public Law
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  David Milman

  Company Law Partnership Law Securities Law Bankruptcy Law Insolvency Law European Commercial Law International Business Law Education Law Fiscal Law Legal History Interface between Islamic law and western commercial law
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  Gearoid O Cuinn

  Law and Public HealthHuman Rights LawLaw and Science
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  Suzanne Ost

  I am happy to supervise research degrees on the subjects of assisted dying, end of life and other aspects of medical law and bioethics, legal and social issues surrounding child pornography/sexual grooming and child sexual exploitation and other areas related to my research interests.
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  Peter Rowe

  International Humanitarian Law (Law of Armed Conflict or Laws of War) Human Rights relating to Armed Forces Comparative Military law
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  Sigrun Skogly

  I welcome applications in the broad fields of Public international law;International Human Rights Law; Economic, social and cultural rights; International human rights obligations; Extraterritorial human rights obligations International institutional law Current or recent topics covered in PhD supervision: The Right to Water as a Human Right. The Implementability of the Right to Water.Foreign Direct Investment and Human Rights WTO.Human Rights and the Right to Health in Thailand. The Right to Participation in Human Rights.Indigenous Peoples and International Law. Language rights of immigrant minorities.International law, internal conflict and the duty to protect.The right to development and poverty. Trafficing in women in international law and the United Arab Emerets. Economic variables and the right to social security.Rights of Women in Pakistan.Discrimination in the right to education - experience from a European settting
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  James Summers

  Any field of international law
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  Tom Webb

  Public law, constitutional theory, jurisprudence, systems theory

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