Current Postgraduate Research Students
The Law School currently has approximately 50 Postgraduate Research Students (PGR) on its Ph.D. and M.Litt programmes. Below is a list of selected current PGR students and their thesis titles.
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Thesis : "Rule of Law and Preventive Justice: Property Rights Protection in Counter-Terrorism Legislation"
Ahmed Ellaboudy (PhD Student)
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Thesis : "Realist Sustainability: Norwegian Energy and Natural Resource Policy in Context"
Alexandru Gociu (PhD Student)
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Thesis : "A Critical Evaluation of Enforcement Mechanisms Controlling Companies’ Discretion – through Motivation and Ability in Complying with Double Materiality under the CSRD"
Jizhou Chen (PhD Student)
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Thesis : "Done with Dunne?: The Test for Medical Negligence in Ireland"
Ciara O'Reilly (PhD Student)
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Thesis : "Charting the Course for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence"
Claudia Silva Battagin (PhD Student)
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Thesis : "A Legal Analysis of Double Materiality in the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)"
He Cui (PhD Student)
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Thesis : "Law and Political Economy of Private Housing Provision in Ireland"
Hugh Gallagher (PhD Student)
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Thesis : " Climate Change and the Future of Small Island States: The Quest for the Preservation of Statehood"
Inji Mammadli (PhD Student)
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Thesis : "The Impact of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 on Autonomy and Decision-Making in Palliative Care"
James Watson (PhD Student)
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Thesis : "Criminalising Cultural Genocide: suggestions and solutions for international law reform"
John F Manderscheid (PhD Student)
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Thesis : "If It May Please the Algorithm - Artificial Intelligence, Judicial Discretion and Satisfactory Sentencing"
Jonathon Boylan (PhD Student)
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Thesis : "Integrity as Law: Regulating Carbon Markets through Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence"
Kamil Killan Daniel Akdag (PhD Student)
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Thesis : "Investigating the Effectiveness of Directors’ Duties Under the Irish Companies Act 2014 in the Face of Climate Change Risks – Much Unrealised Potential ?"
Luke James Gibbons (PhD Student)
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Thesis : "Access to Justice in the Digital Era: Ensuring Fairness and Inclusion in the Age of Technology"
Marco Soliman (PhD Student)
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Thesis : "A normative legal framework for Artificial Intelligence governance: Investigating AI liability under a Lockean theory of blameworthiness"
Martin Holohan Jr (PhD Student)
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Thesis : "Towards a TWAIL Reconstruction of International Climate Law"
Maryam Faruk Yabo (PhD Student)
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Thesis : "Understanding how constitutional property rights shape the development of policy interventions in the private rental sector"
Méabh Temple (PhD Student)
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Thesis : "Non-appearance of States before International Courts and Tribunals "
Naphtali Ukamwa (PhD Student)
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Thesis : "The Role of Collective Labour Rights in the Achievement of Broader Sustainability Objectives: An analysis in light of the labour dimension of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive"
Seray Poyraz (PhD Student)
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Thesis : "A Legal Framework for Accessible Autonomous Vehicles"
Tara Kerins Aylmer (PhD Student)
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Thesis : "Regionalising Court-Based Investment Dispute Settlement: Lessons from the European Union’s Multilateral Investment Court"
Zoey Chen (PhD Student)