PhD Candidates

Ms Rebecca Brown

Rebecca specialises in public law and international law. Her current research adopts a comparative lens to consider how domestic law and policy impact the development of international instruments governing disease management. She is also interested in global health governance more broadly, as well as the regulation of health issues within the administrative law system.

Ms Jinal Dadiya

Jinal is interested in the relationship between human rights discourse and regulation theory, in the field of healthcare governance. Her current research focuses on the relationship between reproductive rights and techniques that are used to regulate assisted reproductive technologies. She is also interested in the regulation of drugs and cosmetics, organ transplantation, the use of AI in healthcare, and other areas of healthcare regulation. 

Dr Dafni Lima

Dafni specialises in family law and criminal law. Her research interests in family law include parenthood, assisted reproduction, regulation of marital and non-marital relationships, and LGBT+ parenting. Her current research focusses on parenthood, assisted reproduction and surrogacy.

Dr Stevie Martin

Stevie is currently conducting an examination of the empirical validity of the justifications for the ongoing blanket ban on assisted dying in the United Kingdom and a consideration of whether or not the ban violates articles 2, 3 and/or 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Stevie has previously provided research and administrative assistance to the LML. 

Ms Jacquelyn Veraldi

Jacquelyn is currently researching the interpretation and application of the European Union abuse of dominance prohibition in pharmaceutical markets, which touches on issues of competition law, intellectual property, and other areas of pharmaceutical sector regulation such as national pricing schemes and marketing authorisation rules. This PhD project is conducted under the supervision of Professor Albertina Albors-Llorens and is generously funded by the Hatton-WYNG Studentship. 

Mr Tony Zhou

Tony is currently researching the intersection between tort law, medical negligence, and moral philosophy.  Specifically, Tony's PhD project aims to develop a moral account of 'harm', which can then be transplanted into the law of torts to illuminate a framework for analysing the legal concept of 'damage', which in turn will used to ultimately assess the viability of 'loss of a chance' claims in the medical negligence sphere.