Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in:
- WTO law
- EU external trade relations law
- UK trade law
- International investment law
- Foreign relations law
Public outreach & key achievements
- Author of EU Deep Trade Agenda Law and Policy (Oxford University Press, 2016)
- Co-Investigator on 'Governance for "a place between": the multilevel dynamics of implementing the Protocol on Northern Ireland (2021-2023)
- Co-Investigator on 'Tensions at the Fringes of the European Union - Regaining the EU's purpose' (2016-2019)
Research students
| PhD area | The role and involvement of subnational entities in international trade |
| Name | Daniela Janikova |
| PhD area |
'One state, two systems': A legal framework for Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trade regime |
| Name | Dylan Wilkinson |
| PhD area | To what extent does the UK internal market act strike the optimal balance of trade liberalisation and regulatory autonomy in relation to services? And its interplay with FTA negotiations |
| Name | Gary Simpson |
| PhD area | Data protection and new technological threats - It is time for global standard for data protection modelled on EU privacy mechanisms? |
| Name | Matthew McNerlin |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD area | Sanctions for copyright infringement in relation to the film industry in developing economies: Nigeria as a case study |
| Name | Dr Nkem Itanyi |
| Years of study | PhD awarded 2022 |
| PhD area |
Big data, surveillance and the digital citizen |
| Name | Dr Jennifer Cobbe |
| Years of study | PhD awarded 2018 |
| Current Position |
Coordinator of Cambridge University's Trust & Technology Initiative |
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- Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- School of Law
- Centre for European and Transnational Legal Studies
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