Members

Name	Research interests
Muhammad Zeeshan Ali	Student member: Public international law, human rights, humanitarian law, democracy, justice
	Socio-economic rights, particularly the right to education; equality law and human rights law; national human rights institutions, regulators, inspectorates and ombudsmen; theories of regulation and governance
	Political sociology of Gulf states, statelessness, nationality, elites.
	Intersections between international human rights law, technology (including big data and artificial intelligence), digital law, data protection and privacy, and international migration and refugee law
	European and international human rights law; prevention and prohibition of torture under the European Convention on Human Rights and UN law
	Feminism, gender, public international law, law of armed conflict, UN Security Council
	Domestic violence and/or abuse, coercive control, intimate image abuse, family court proceedings, domestic homicide, trauma and fair trial rights for domestic abuse victims
	Equality, diversity, interdisciplinarity, education
Jade Brailsford	PhD researcher exploring the concepts of national security and State secrecy, and legitimate reasons for restricting the flow of security and intelligence information. With a particular focus on the Official Secrets Act 1989, and the freedom of expression rights of whistle-blowers in the field of security and intelligence.

Bertha Chakawarika	PhD researcher working on international human rights law, particularly children’s rights to autonomy, parental rights, the right to freedom of religion and the rights of the larger community within a modern liberal democracy

	Public International Law, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Islamic Law of War.
	Comparative constitutional law; human dignity and human rights; the European Convention on Human Rights; human rights in the EU; judicial dialogue; the rule of law and democracy in Europe
	Policing and human rights, international human rights law and standards, police use of force, less lethal weapons, torture prevention, detention monitoring bodies, equipment with no use other than torture and ill-treatment
	Constitutional law; human rights under the Human Rights Act 1998 and the European Convention on Human Rights; civil liberties and human rights in criminal justice, policing, and police powers
	International criminal law and procedure; Transitional justice; International crimes and gross human rights violations; Human Rights Law; European Convention on Human Rights; Right to a Fair Trial; Post-conflict investigations; Investigations of gross human rights violations; Forensic evidence
	Authoritarian regimes, good governance, service provision, local government, ethnic diversity, elections.
	Public law; constitutional theory; comparative constitutional law; constitutional democracy; constitutionalism; populism; authoritarianism; illiberalism; courts
	LLM Student: International law, international humanitarian law and international human rights law
	Human rights dimensions of international trade in healthcare services in Indian and international law; the right to health; public and private duties in the health sector
	Corruption, economic crime, crimes of the powerful, corporate crime, corporate social responsibility, business ethics, lobbying, deregulation, self-regulation, corporate power and wealth, whistleblowing, investigative journalism, and negotiated resolutions
	The 'public'; public value; value power/'soft' power; good governance; constitutionalism; institutional design; subsidiarity; localism
	PhD student: Relationship between data protection and data access in the context of connected and automated vehicles; artificial intelligence regulation; tort law and liability; data protection and human rights
	International human rights law; internal displacement, refugee movements and migration; European Convention on Human Rights; vulnerability and human rights; access to higher education
	International criminal law, international criminal procedure, accountability, inclusion, victims and victim participation in accountability processes
	PhD researcher examining the intersections of law, feminism and developments in digital technology. Specific focus on developments in image-based sexual abuse, and image-based sexual abuse from human rights, criminal and feminist perspectives.
	European integration, democracy, Brexit, smartphones, social media.
	The history of modern political thought and contemporary political philosophy, with a particular focus on human rights. His current work focuses both on general historical and philosophical understandings of human rights as a moral idea, and also on particular conceptions of specific human rights (such as rights to property, asylum, and political participation) in modern political texts
	Human rights education, education for sustainable development, business and human rights, academic freedom and human rights defenders in authoritarian regimes
	General international law, international humanitarian law, international cyber law.
	Migration and asylum, access to justice and legal aid
	transitional justice. State violence. Enforced disappearance. Franquismo (Francoism). Temporality. Critical legal studies. Necropolitics. Use of forensics in human rights investigation. Memory studies. Community-led approaches to justice. Decoloniality.
	International humanitarian law; secrecy; disarmament; the use of force; chemical and biological weapons; evidence-based policing
	PhD researcher working on the burden of proof in relation to LGBTQI+ asylum seekers; sexuality rights; immigration, including asylum and refugee law and international human rights law
	Business and human rights, comparative corporate governance, transnational tort litigation, human rights & documentary filmmaking, law & economic thought, the legal history of the corporation, international economic law
	International law and politics - Middle East - international refugee law - internally displaced persons in Syria - large scale refugee crises - Palestine.
	Comparative history and theory of criminal law; political crime; the rule of law; democracy, fascism, authoritarianism and populism; legal and political theory; lethal force and the right to life under the ECHR
	International human rights law, abortion, sexual and reproductive health and rights, reproductive rights/justice, critical perspectives (feminist, queer, disability, TWAIL, post/anti/decolonial)
	Gulf monarchies; comparative (Middle East) politics; authoritarianism and strategies of legitimation in authoritarian context; state-business relations; political economy; political sociology
	Migration law, especially the regulation of family migration and citizenship
	Constitutional law; judicial dialogue; the role of courts in articulating ideas of democracy; the democratic and constitutional role of dissenting judicial opinions; pedagogy in constitutional & administrative law; public legal education
Zainab Zafar	PGT student: International Human Rights, Civil and Political Rights, Freedom of Expression, Law of Armed Conflict