CSLS Welcomes Eight New Students for 2025–26

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The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies is delighted to welcome its new student cohort for the 2025–26 academic year. This year, we are joined by eight students, including three MPhil, one part-time DPhil, and four DPhil students, each pursuing exciting and diverse research projects that reflect the richness of socio-legal scholarship at Oxford.

MPhil Students

  • Amina Bold – Neoliberal Penality: Analysing the Notion of the 'Public Interest' in Criminal Cases of Environmental Protestors
  • Flora de Castro Santana – Substantive Democracy within Private Organizations in Global Governance: Investigating the ICANN Internet Regulation Regime
  • Gor Vartazaryan – The Role of Dissenting Opinions at the European Court of Human Rights

DPhil Students

  • Fatima Elhag – Family Law in the Gulf: Judicial Reason, Litigant Strategies, and Gendered Dynamics in Qatar
  • Lauren Gowler – Pathways to Reconciliation: Reimagining Dispute Resolution Processes between Indigenous Communities and Museums in Colonial-Era Repatriation Claims
  • Hanna Oliinyk – Law, Memory and Colonial Power: Legal Production of Collective Memory in Russia-Occupied Ukrainian Territories
  • Keertana Kannabiran Tella – Judicial Meaning-Making, Dignity and Reproductive Justice as Care: A Critical Study of Carceral Governance in Postcolonial India

Part-Time DPhil Student

  • Sothie Keo – The Evolution and Role of Law in Cambodian Nation-Building

We are thrilled to welcome this talented group of students into our vibrant research community. Over the coming year, they will participate in seminars, research clusters, and Centre activities, contributing to the intellectual life and collaborative ethos of CSLS.

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