PhD Research at ACIL

Research Programme: The International Rule of Law

Junior researchers

1. Heather Bray
   Historical analysis of private-public arbitration commissions as global regulatory governance mechanisms
2. Teresa Cabrita
   The European Union as a Contributor to the Development of International Law: The Case of Area of Freedom, Security and Justice Policies
3. Yu Chen
   Responsibility of multilateral development banks (MDBs) in relation to environmental effects of their development financing
4. Kathryn Greenman
   The History and Legacy of State Responsibility for Rebels 1839-1930: Protecting Trade and Investment against Revolution in the Decolonised World
5. Jackson Oldfield
   Smuggling in international law
6. Vessela Terzieva
   Victims of International Crimes in Domestic Proceedings: a Study on the Rights to Justice, Reparation, and Truth
7. Roman Teshome
   The  Legal Protection  of  People  Affected  by  Development-induced Displacement:  Towards  a  Comprehensive  Human  Rights  Framework
8. Katrine Tvede
   On the grid: patterns of norm diffusion in international arbitration
9. Vincent Vleugel
10. The use of the margin of appreciation doctrine in the UN human rights treaty body system
11. Sander Wirken
    Transitional justice and the rule of law
12. Wim Zimmermann
    Reputation and the Dynamics of Interpretation in International Law

Junior Researchers Rethinking SLIC project

Three of ACIL's PhD students are jointly working on Prof. Göran Sluiter's Rethinking SLIC project:

1. Jindan-Karena Mann
   Secondary tort liability for international crimes and serious human rights violations
2. Sean Shun Ming Yau
   Secondary criminal liability for international crimes and serious human rights violations
3. Joëlle Trampert
   Secondary state liability for international crimes and serious human rights violations

Junior researchers (external)

1. Christiane Ahlborn
   Responsibility of member states of an international organization
2. Jane Bulmer
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3. Nicolò Bussolati
   Delocalizing the revolution: cyber political 'hacktivism' and implications for criminal law
4. Evelyn Campos Sanchez
   Remedies in cases of aggravated international responsibility
5. Tom Diederen
   The right to protest at sea
6. Yaron Gottlieb
   International cooperation in combating maritime piracy: institutions, networks, and other forms of collaboration 
7. Hoora Hashemi
   Climate change-induced displacement and development of international law
8. Mark Klein
   ClimaHarmonization ahead! The road to common evidentiary standards in European criminal procedure
9. Edda Kristjansdottir [   ]
10. Maiko Meguro
    Creation of Legal Bindingness in International Law: Whose Voice Matters?
11. Anne van Mulligen 
    The normativity of international law
12. Peter Mutesasira
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13. Sadie O'Mahoney
    To what extent is the right to food, or should the right to food be, a justiciable right in Malawi?
14. Ieva Miluna
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15. Gerrit Jan Pulles
    Application of international economic and social human rights by domestic courts
16. Evelien van Roemburg
    Sixty years of exclusion: a problematic marriage of international refugee law and criminal law
17. Isabelle Swerissen 
    Responsibility and burden sharing agreements in international refugee law
18. Stanislas Talontsi
    Mechanisms to enforce the cooperation of States in the arrest and surrender to the ICC within the ICC, the ASP and the UN SC
19. William Worster
    A New Legal Framework for Diplomatic Assurances
20. Hasan Yucel
    Responsibility of Transnational Corporations for Environmental Crimes
21. Amr Arafa
    Reform of Egypt Foreign Direct Investment Programme
22. Daley Birkett
    The relationship between the International Criminal Court and United Nations Security Council sanctions regimes with respect to asset freezing

Research Programme: The Role of Law in Armed Conflict and Peace Operations

Junior researchers (external)

1. Rogier Bartels
   The legal regime of transnational armed conflicts under international humanitarian law
2. Jeroen van den Boogaard
   Proportionality as a guiding principle in the law of armed conflict
3. Bart van den Bosch
   Fighting war without violence. Applicability of the law of armed conflict to military cyber operations below the threshold of attack
4. Tom Coppen
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5. Jelle van Haaster
   Cyber Operational Capabilities
6. Jonathan Herbach 
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7. Mark Roorda
   Unmanned weapon systems in military operations. An interdisciplinary normative framework: combining military operational, legal and ethical aspects in bounding the use of unmanned weapon systems in the targeting process