Graduate/Doctoral students

Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne is a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Public International Law for the Law Faculty. He is also in the final year of his DPhil, for which he is writing a thesis on ‘International Law and the Procedural Regulation of Internment in Non-International Armed Conflict’. He was also previously a Stipendiary Lecturer and Director of Studies in Law at Merton College, for which he taught the undergraduate course in trusts law.

Other previous positions include British Research Council Fellow at the John W Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington DC, Convenor of the Oxford Public International Law Discussion Group, and Treasurer & Member of the Executive Committee of Oxford Pro Bono Publico.

His research interests lie in the field of public international law and, more specifically, international humanitarian law, human rights law and international criminal law. He is particularly interested in the relationship of these different areas to general international law.

Supervisor: Professor Stefan Talmon

College: Somerville College

Scholarship: Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Programme

Start date: MT 2010

Projected end date: TT 2013

Short bio:

Before commencing his doctoral studies, Kubo earned a master's degree from Charles University in Prague (2007), an MJur from Oxford (2008), and an MPhil from Oxford (2010). He has been a Europaeum visiting researcher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva (2010), a visiting researcher at the Institute of Public International Law at the University of Bonn (2012), and a research fellow at the University of Exeter (2013). He has completed internships at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague (2008) and at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania (2009). He also served as a law clerk to the President of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic (2009). He holds the Diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law (2012). During his time at Oxford, he has been co-convenor of the Public International Law Discussion Group, interviewer for law admissions at Somerville College, and organiser of several Weidenfeld Debates.

Supervisor: Dr. Andrew Shacknove
Start date: September 2009

Areas of Research: International Environmental Law, Human Rights Law, Energy and Natural Resources Law

DPhil topic and short description: The Human Rights Based Approach to Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

This thesis explores the cross cutting linkages between global climate change and international human rights. It examines how climate change mitigation and adaptation projects, particularly clean development mechanisms (CDM) projects could potentially affect the enjoyment of fundamental human rights. It analyses how extant international climate change regimes may be reformed to mainstream human rights protection into climate change project approval and execution. It discusses the legal and theoretical prospects and paradoxes of adopting the United Nations Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) as a framework through which human rights standards may be mainstreamed into climate change regulations.

Short Bio

Damilola is from Nigeria; he is a member of Keble College and a Clarendon Scholar. He holds a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School and another Master of Laws degree from the University of Calgary, Canada. He obtained his LL.B degree from Igbinedion University, Nigeria graduating in First Class Honours; and a BL from the Nigerian Law School, graduating in another First Class Honours. He also holds a Diploma in International Environmental Law from the United Nations Institute for Research and Training (UNITAR), Geneva, Switzerland.

I am a lecturer in law at the University of Reading School of Law;
Editor-in-Chief of the Refugee Law Initiative's Working Paper Series at the School of Advanced Study at the University of London; 
Researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute on questions of immigration, asylum and citizenship (part of the "Constitutional Principles and their Implementation" project);
A regular blog contributor to the Oxford Human Rights Hub and to 'Hatraklin' (Hebrew).
I have read the DPhil and MPhil at Lincoln College, and the BCL at Harris Manchester College.