CAJI and the Law School at the University of Essex Present: The Video for the Webinar Let’s Talk Everything PhD

All of us here at the Law School at the University of Essex, and Essex Constitutional and Administrative Justice Initiative (CAJI), would like to express our thanks to our colleagues who were able to attend this session, and also to the attendees for joining the Webinar. We would also like to express our gratitude to Tatjana Grote for coming along to talk about what it is like to be a PhD student, and to share a little more information about her role as one of our PGR Reps.

This session was designed to create an informal space to find out some information about the stages of doing a PhD, such as: writing a PhD proposal; applying to do a PhD; and what it is like to be a PhD student. We also had a discussion on what opportunities are available for PhD students here at the University of Essex in relation to research, presenting, and teaching.

The session was recorded and we wanted to share this here as a resource. The links referred to during the session and information on the academic staff are also below.

The links referred to during the discussion:

Anastasia shared this link to our blog here at the University of Essex for research going on here: https://essexlawresearch.uk/

This also relates to the diversity of training our Uni offers for new researchers: https://library.essex.ac.uk/ld.php?content_id=35591671

Koldo shared the Human Rights Local link: https://www.essex.ac.uk/research-projects/human-rights-local

The Link shared by Richard is: https://www.essex.ac.uk/departments/psychosocial-and-psychoanalytic-studies/research/psychoanalysis,-law-and-social-phenomena

Further information on our academic staff

The academic staff who were part of this event, together with the other members of CAJI are also listed below. Please do feel free to reach out to them if your idea for a PhD proposal falls within their area of expertise, or if you would like to find out more about their research. There are links via their names to the profiles on the University of Essex’s website where their contact details and further information can be found.

Staff who feature in the video:

Staff – Click on the name to see their profile in more detail	Research areas and areas of interest
Theodore Konstadinides	Professor of Law: public law; UK constitutional and administrative law; EU constitutional law; comparative constitutional law and theory
Maurice Sunkin	Professor of Public Law and Socio-Legal Studies: judicial review; public law and human rights litigation; judicial decisions and quality of public services; administrative justice
Joel Colón-Ríos	Professor of Law: constitutional and democratic theory; comparative constitutional law; constitution-making; Latin American constitutionalism.
Dimitrios Kyritsis	Reader in Constitutional Law and Legal Theory: legal and political philosophy; constitutional theory and human rights law
Yseult Marique	Professor of Law: European and comparative administrative law; local government (UK, Europe); public finances (UK, Europe, local levels); insolvency and public law; judicial review; procurement; good administration; bias; intergenerational solidarity; ethics (of justice and of care); long term decision-making; legal geography; emotions and law; transfer of legal ideas via networks
Dr Katya Al Khateeb	Senior Research Officer: the intersection of armed conflict and international law, with particular expertise in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and transitional justice; interdisciplinary approach exploring the relationship between human rights and the arts; examining how cultural expression interfaces with legal frameworks in conflict and post-conflict settings.
Dr Alexandros Antoniou	Senior Lecturer: Communications law, incl. the role of the media and public bodies, cybercrime and offensive communications, obscene publications, advertising regulation (with a particular interest in issues around harm and offence in advertising content)
Dr Koldo Casla	Senior Lecturer: international constitutional justice; international relations and human rights; activism, social movements and human rights; social justice; human rights; human rights law, comparative law, and property theory
Dr Richard Cornes	Senior Lecturer: constitutional & administrative law; comparative public law; comparative judicial branch studies; law and politics; psychoanalysis and law
Dr Tom Flynn	Lecturer: UK, European and international constitutional law, theory and history; constitutional pluralism; European and international human rights law; administrative law
Dr Giulia Gentile	Lecturer: European constitutional and administrative law; digital justice; human rights; digital regulation
Dr Anastasia Karatzia	Senior Lecturer: European constitutional law; citizens’ participation in law-making; accountability of institutional actors involved in financial assistance mechanisms
Dr Esin Küçük	Lecturer: European constitutional law; EU asylum and immigration law; constitutional aspects of economic governance of the EU; constitutional principles and values; EU constitutional review; comparative constitutional law
Dr Nikos Vogiatzis	Senior Lecturer: administrative law; ombuds; Council of Europe; EU administrative and constitutional law; avenues of extra-judicial accountability; questions of contemporary governance

Other CAJI members:

Staff – Click on the name to see their profile in more detail	Research areas and areas of interest
Andrew Le Sueur	Professor of Constitutional Justice: the constitutional role of the judiciary; administrative law and justice; tiny legal systems; human rights in the British crown dependences; nineteenth century English constitutional and justice system; constitutional and public law; social justice; judicial review
Dr Tom Cornford	Senior Lecturer: constitutional law; jurisprudence and legal theory
Dr Etienne Durand	Lecturer: French & European comparative public law; energy law; climate change; state aid law; EU Law; EU Constitutional Law; EU Market Law
Dr Sophie Duroy	Lecturer: International constitutional law; public international law; intelligence and security; human rights; social sciences approaches to international law
Dr Eugenie Duval	Lecturer: French & comparative administrative law; animal law; environmental law
Dr Konstantinos Kalliris	Lecturer: legal theory & political philosophy; access to justice; legal theory and criminology
Dr Jessica Lawrence	Senior Lecturer: European constitutional law; public international trade law; governmentality; international investment law; human rights; critical theory; critical approaches to international law; EU trade and investment policy; trade and environment
Dr Edward Mitchell	Lecturer: compulsory purchase law & town planning law
Dr Charilaos Nikolaidis	Senior Lecturer: constitutional justice; Council of Europe; judicial reasoning; law and politics; human rights; equality law

We hope that all the attendees enjoyed the session, and found it useful. If you have any queries about this session or anything discussed, please do reach out to us at caji@essex.ac.uk.