Human Rights Law

Completed DPhils

Australian Constitutional Values: The Case for Dignity?
Ashleigh Barnes, supervised by Professor Kate O’Regan
Submitted in 2024

Right To Privacy in India: Existence, Scope and Challenges
Mariyam Kamil, supervised by Professor Paul Craig
Submitted in 2023

Methods of Deference In Human Rights Adjudication
Sau Wai Cora Chan, supervised by Professor Paul Craig
Submitted in 2022

Reproductive Rights in India: The Search for a 'New' Constitutional Home
Gauri Pillai, supervised by Professor Sandra Fredman
Submitted in 2022

Evictions and Participation Rights in India and South Africa
Rishika Sahgal, supervised by Professor Sandra Fredman
Submitted in 2022

Strategic Litigation in South Africa: Understanding and Evaluating Impact
Jason Roger Brickhill, supervised by Professor Sandra Fredman
Submitted in 2022

Horizontal Rights: An Institutional Approach
Gautum Bhatia, supervised by Professor Sandra Fredman
Submitted in 2021

The Right of Access to Educational Materials and Copyright: International and Domestic Law
Sanya Samtani, supervised by Professor Kate O'Regan
Submitted in 2021

Towards A Transformative Approach to Affirmative Action in South Africa
Nomfundo Ramalekana, supervised by Professor Sandra Fredman
Submitted in 2021

Climate Change, Human Rights, and Adaptive Mobility
Lauren Nishimura, supervised by Professor Cathryn Costello
Submitted in 2021

Legal and Other Fictions of Civil Forfeiture:  Reconciling the Civil Forfeiture of the Proceeds of Grand Corruption with Criminal Justice and Human Rights
Alexa Virdi, supervised by Professor Liora Lazarus
Submitted in 2021

Offence to Religious Belief in International Human Rights Law
Thiago Alves Pinto, supervised by Professor Nazila Ghanea
Submitted in 2020

Justifying Limitations on the Freedom to Manifest Religion or Belief and the Freedom of Expression under the ICCPR
Gehan Gunatilleke, supervised by Professor Nazila Ghanea
Submitted in 2020

Interpreting Water: The Human Right to Water under the Namibian Constitution
Ndjodi Ndeunyema, supervised by Professor Sandra Fredman
Submitted in 2020

The  Rights of Asylum Seeking Children: Integrating the Best Interest of the Child Principle Through Interpretation
Iuliia Ioffe, supervised by Professor Cathryn Costello
Submitted in 2020

Optimisation through innovation: Judicial exercise of discretionary remedial power to enforce the state's positive human rights duties
Helen Taylor, supervised by Professor Sandra Fredman
Submitted in 2020

Restrictions on Press Freedom in Ethiopia: An Historical Analysis of Ethiopian Laws and Compliance with International Law
Daniel Bekele, supervised by Professor Kate O’Regan
Submitted in 2019

Political Rights and the Challenge of Extremism

Tamas Szigeti, supervised by Professor Jacob Rowbottom
Submitted in 2017
 
 

The Status of the Girl Child Under International Law and her Right to be Protected Against Prenatal Sex Selection, Female Infanticide and Honour-Related Killings: A Semioethic Analysis
Clara Feliciati, supervised by Professor Jonathan Herring
Submitted in 2016
 
Carla Ferstman, supervised by Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill
Submitted 2016
 
Erik Labelle Eastaugh, supervised by Professor Nazila Ghanea
Submitted 2016
 
Shreya Atrey, supervised by Professor Sandra Fredman
Submitted in 2015
 
Chris McConnachie, supervised by Professor Tarunabh Khaitan
Submitted in 2015
 
Normative Underpinnings of the Proscription of Removals Risking Torture or Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment
Tanusri Prasanna, supervised by Professor John Finnis
Submitted in 2015
 
Julie Maher, supervised by Professor Alison Young
Submitted in 2015
 
 
 
Lema Uyar Abatay, supervised by Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill
Submitted in 2014 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Equality Rights, Social Spending and Human Development
Gillian MacNaughton, supervised by Dr Andrew Shacknove
Submitted in 2012
 
Jane Elizabeth Norton, supervised by Professor Paul Craig
Submitted in 2011
 
Irina Vasilu, supervised by Professor Lucia Zedner and Dr Katja Ziegler
Submitted in 2011
 
Andrew Legg, supervised by Professor John Finnis and Professor Dan Sarooshi
Submitted in 2010
 
The Potential and Practice of Weak Remedies in Human Rights Adjudication: A Study of Declarations of Incompatibility in the United Kingdom
Aruna Sathanapally, supervised by Professor Denis Galligan
Submitted in 2010
 
A Constitutional Doctrine of Freedom: On the Moral Structure of Constitutional Rights
Submitted in 2010
 
Destination Europe: Human Rights & Admissions to the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Cathryn Costello, supervised by Professor Stephen Weatherill
Submitted in 2010
 
Formal and Substantive Convergence Between the European Court of Human Rights and the Ad Hoc International Criminal Tribunals in the Treatment of "Implied External Limits" Upon Defence Rights : Towards Global Legal Uncertainty in the Use of Generic and Specific Criteria?
Nicolas Croquet, supervised by Professor Liora Lazarus
Submitted in 2010
 
 
International Minimum Standard and Fair and Equitable Treatment
Mārtiņš Paparinskis, supervised by Professor Vaughan Lowe
Submitted in 2010
 
Rebecca Money-Kyrle, supervised by Professor Denis Galligan
Submitted in 2010 
 
Tarunabh Khaitan, supervised by Nicholas Bamforth
Submitted in 2010
 
The Interface Between Living Customary Law(s) of Succession and South African State Law
Sindiso Mnisi Weeks, supervised by Professor Denis Galligan
Submitted in 2010