Abstract

The Doctoral Research Triangle is a shared initiative between the Human Rights Centres based at the Universities of Essex and Cambridge and at LSE . Its aim is to encourage the widest participation and collaboration by PhD students working in human rights and related areas in these three universities and across multiple disciplines.

• Mollie Gerver (LSE) ‘Unconscionability of Contracts for the Facilitation of Voluntary Repatriation for Refugees: The Case of Israel’
• Filippo Dionigi (LSE) ‘Hezbollah’s participation in the parliament and international human rights norms.’
• Charlie Laderman (Cambridge) ‘The invasion of America by an Englishman: E.D. Morel and the Anglo-American Intervention in the Congo’

• Natasa Mavronicola (Cambridge) ‘The concept of ‘relativism’ and its relationship with the absolute nature of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights: thoughts on theory, law, and context’
• Katya Ivanova (LSE) ‘The Development of the Indirect Discrimination Concept – from American to European Law’
• Melhik Abebe Bekele (Pretoria; visiting scholar at CGHR Cambridge) ‘International law and democratisation: The status of democratic governance in international human rights law’

• Anne Saab (LSE) ‘“Climate-ready seeds”: on intellectual property rights and human rights’
• Tara van Ho (Essex)‘Corporate Complicity for Human Rights Violations: Using Transnational Civil and Criminal Litigation’

Chetan Bhatt & Sharath Srinivasan (LSE & Cambridge) “Life after the PhD”