Successful research students

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

• Boonyarat Chokebandanchai: The Protection and Disclosure of Medical Confidentiality in Court Proceedings in Thailand (2010 - supervised by Beyleveld). Now: Associate Professor at Naseuan University, Thailand.
• Benedict Douglas: The Necessity and Possibility of the Use of the Principle of Generic Consistency by the UK Courts to Answer Fundamental Questions of Convention Rights Interpretation (2012 - supervised by Beyleveld & Pattinson). Now: Associate Professor in Law, Durham University.
• Daniel Fenwick: A Gewirthian Conception of the Right to Enabled Suicide in England and Wales (2015 - supervised by Pattinson & Baker). Now: Assistant Professor, Northumbria University.
• Marianna Iliadou: Surrogacy and the European Convention on Human Rights (2020 - supervised by Pattinson & Cave). Now: Lecturer in Law, University of Sussex
• Joshua Jowitt: The Necessary Moral Foundation of Law: A Gewirthian Critique of Contemporary Inclusive Positivism (2018 - supervised by Beyleveld & Pattinson). Now: Senior Lecturer in Law, Newcastle University.
• Cheryl Lancaster: A History of Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Concepts, laboratory work, and contexts (2017 - supervised by Maehle). Now: Medical Information Specialist, ProPharma Group.
• Feifei Liu: Biofuel Legislative and Policy Framework and Sustainable Development: From Perspectives of Developing Countries (2016 - supervised by Adcock & Tomasic).
• Daniel Lowe, Assessing the Universality of Human Rights in the Context of Health (2018 - supervised by Baker & Pattinson). Now: Teaching Fellow, Warwick University.
• Caterina Milo: Informed Consent to Abortion: reframing the first medical encounter with a registered medical practitioner (2021 - supervised by Cave). Now:  Lecturer in Law, University of Sheffield
• Oluseyi Olayanju, A Critical Examination of the Prospects and Challenges of Applying the International Right to Health Framework for the Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Nigeria (2024 - supervised by Pattinson & Pillay)
• Clayton Ó Néill, Is there Appropriate Weight given to the Abrahamic Religious Beliefs of Patients and Healthcare Professionals in English Medical Law? (2017 - supervised by Pattinson & Leigh). Now: Senior Lecturer in Law, Queens University Belfast
• Sadaf Shariat, The Principle of Generic Consistency as the Surpeme Principle of Human Rights and the Interpretation of Ordre Public and Morality in EU Patent Law (2017 - supervised by Beyleveld & Adcock). Now: Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Bolton
• Zoe Tongue, Recognising a Human Right to Abortion (2023 - supervised by Pattinson & Pillay). Now: Lecturer in Law, University of Leeds
• Yi-Hung (Wesley) Weng: The Balance between the Data Protection Law Regime and Modern Technologies: Collision or Collaboration? − A Comparative Study of Regulatory Instruments in the EU and Taiwan (2013 - supervised by Beyleveld & Leigh). Now: Assistant Professor, Shih Hsin University, Taiwan.

Master of Jurisprudence (MJur)

• John Adenitire: Making Sense of the Disagreements about the Nature of Law: The Puzzles of Legal Normativity and Human Autonomy (2012 - supervised by Beyleveld & Phillipson). Now: Senior Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary, London
• Jessica Birch: Mature Minors and the Refusal of Medical Treatment: A Misused of Gillick? (2017 - supervised by Pattinson & Douglas) Now: Policy Adviser, Sustainability Trade Policy at Department for International Trade (DIT)
• Rebecca Blackburn: Ending One's Own Life: Unjustifiable Injustice (2011 - supervised by Pattinson & Rackley). Now: Solicitor at Eversheds.
• Jordan Buck: Parents and Treatment Decision-making for Very Young Children at the End of Life: A Comparative Analysis (2022 - supervised by Samantha Halliday and Emma Cave) Now: PhD student at Durham University
• Aileen Editha: Is My Body My Property? A Proposal for the .Recognition of Property Rights over Bodily Materials (2021 - supervised by Pattinson & Douglas). Now: PhD researcher, Queen's University, Canada
• Chantell Kimpson (née Burrows): Deconstructing Motherhood: A critique of the regulation of surrogacy (2011 - supervised by Rackely & Pattinson) Now: Bid Director, Novus.
• Daniel Fenwick: Recognition of the Violation of Women's Human Rights Under the European Convention of Human Rights in the Context of Restrictive Abortion Regimes (2011 - supervised by Pattinson & Beyleveld). Now:Assistant Professor, Northumbria University.
• Elizabeth Gibbison (née Robinson): Lessons from Odysseus and Beyond: Why Lacking Morality Means Lacking Totality in the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (2014 - supervised by Pattinson). Now: Solicitor at Hay & Kilner. 
• Rachel Giles, Court-ordered Obstetric Intervention: Capacity, Consent and Compulsion (2020 - supervised by Cave & Halliday). Now: Civil servant
• Lauren McCaughey, Can Ectogestation be ended? The importance of legal personhood 'switching off' artificial amnion and placenta technology (2024 - supervised by Romanis & Halliday.
• Clara McNeil, Mandatory Vaccination for Healthcare Professionals: Preparation for Future Pandemics (2022 - supervised by Cave & Halliday). Now: Capsticks
• Francesca Mesure, De-gendering Gestation: The Final Impetus for Decriminalising Abortion (2024 - supervised by Romanis & Pickles).
• Olivia Verity, Obstetric Violence as a Civil Battery: Exploring the Limitations of Tort Law in the Context of Unauthorised Vaginal Examination (2023 - Pickles & Romanis) 
• Connor Wright: Assisted Dying: Judicial Wrong Turns in the Rights-Based Review of the Suicide Act 1961 and Proposals for Reform (2021 - Pattinson & Fenwick)