Current PhD students
The following PhD students have presented a seminar to the Law Faculty on their thesis topic and have moved from provisional to full registration to reflect satisfactory progress in their study.
Prakriti Bhatt
Supervisors: Richard Boast and Ruiping Ye
Thesis: "British Justice and Native Land Tenure: Indirect Rule in British India, New Zealand, and British Africa from the Late-18th to the Early-20th Centuries"
Deborah Deane
Supervisors: Mark Bennett and Matteo Solinas
Theses: "The evolving client-firm relationship in United Kingdom financial services law and regulation: can social and ethical norms be part of the business and regulatory relationship under English law?"
Injy Johnstone
Supervisors: Bjørn-Oliver Magsig and Michelle Zang
Thesis: "Net-Zero: The New Norm?"
Amokura Kawharu
Supervisors: Campbell McLachlan and Grant Morris
Thesis: "The Foundations and Consequences of an Arbitral Legal Order"
Khushbu Kumari
Supervisors: Jessica Lai and Susy Frankel
Thesis: "Data Exclusivity: an alternative to patent regime? The Indian Perspective"
Temitope Kuti
Supervisors: Susy Frankel and Jessica Lai
Thesis: "The Realisation of Technology Transfer through the Access and Benefit Sharing Regime: Which Way Forward?"
Raina Meha
Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Makino, Ngāti Kahungunu, Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki
Supervisors: Mike Ross and Māmari Stephens
Thesis: "The Taniwha in the boardroom. Navigating conflicts of interest and Maori governance"
Natdanai Nachan
Supervisors: Eddie Clark and Joel Colón-Ríos
Thesis: The Constitutions of the Kingdom of Thailand: Elite Constructed Constitution
Maria Rabino Neira
Supervisors: Alberto Costi and Marnie Lloydd
Thesis: "The Evolution of United Nations Humanitarian Exemptions and the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflicts Involving Counter-terrorism Sanctions"
Kent Newman
Supervisors: Nicole Moreham and Graeme Austin
Thesis: "Common Law's Contribution to the Future Regulation of Targeted Advertising"
Yvonne Oldfield
Supervisors: Gordon Anderson and Amanda Reilly
Theses: "The Scope of Standard Setting in the International Labour Organisation: Developing a definition of 'worker'"
Laura Rodriguez Rengifo
Supervisors: Nicole Moreham and Yvette Tinsley
Thesis: "Cyberbullying Among Children"
Etienne Wain
Supervisors: Māmari Stephens and Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown
Thesis: "What it Means to be Tangata Tiriti: a Conceptual Framework"