Law Research Student Profiles
Newcastle Law School's postgraduates are engaging in rich research projects. They explore legal issues around women's fertility, gender and asylum, and online disputes.
I enrolled at Newcastle University in January 2018 as a PhD student. My PhD thesis focuses on online dispute resolution. I'm under the supervision of Prof. Sophia Tang and Prof. Andrew Griffiths.
I obtained my LLM in International Commercial Law from the University of Exeter. I worked as a legal Advisor in Saudi Arabia (2009-2017).
I attended Queen Mary, University of London for International Foundation Course. I attended University of Aberdeen from where I obtained LLB Hons and LLM. I also attended University of Glasgow to complete Professional Diploma in Legal Practice.
I started a PhD in Banking and Financial Regulation at Newcastle in September 2018. I'm under the supervision of Dr Francesco De Cecco and Dr Abdul Karim Aldohni. A studentship from Newcastle Law School funds my research.
I focus on assessment of feasibility of the post-crisis resolution framework for banks. The global financial crisis of 2008 brought to light the absence of a suitable framework. There was nothing to decisively deal with the crisis in the banking sector.
The absence of a specialised framework to resolve failing banks led to a public bail-out. A large number of banks received trillions of dollars of taxpayers' money. To address this, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision proposed a resolution framework. Continental Europe and beyond have adopted it.
The resolution mechanism aims to achieve several bold objectives. It aims to maintain financial stability. It also aims to allowsystemic banks to fail to disincentivise future bail-out.
My research project investigates how we realise the resolution objectives. It looks at how prudential regulation can provide resolution on failing banks.
Alongside research, I am undertaking some teaching in contract law and business law. I was a graduate teaching assistant from 2019/2020 academic session. This responsibility is likely to further enhance my experience as a researcher. It enables me to hone the essential skills to work as a full-time academic.
My current PhD relates to children’s rights and human germline genetic editing. I'm under the supervision of Prof Kathryn Hollingsworth and Dr Ilke Turkmendag.
I look at if a child-centred approach is best to safeguard interests and/or rights of children. I'm looking at it in the context of human germline modification. This project will explore an identity-based model in achieving the main goal.
I obtained my law degree from Multimedia University, Malaysia in 2015. I was an advocate and solicitor to Malaysian Bar in 2016.
I have a strong interest in medical law. I completed my master’s degree in Medical Law and Ethics at the University of Edinburgh. My LLM dissertation was ‘Legal and Ethical Challenges in Human-Pig Chimera’. Dr Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra supervised me.
Dr Ruth Houghton, Dr Nikki Godden-Rasul and Prof Kathryn Hollingsworth supervise my PhD. It focuses on single women’s access to assisted reproductive technology (ART) in Hong Kong.
I approach this issue from the perspective of reproductive autonomy. I draw on feminist lenses to look at Hong Kong’s legal restrictions on single women’s fertility in ART setting.
Before joining Newcastle, I attended the:
- Southwest University of Political Science and Law (LLB)
- University of Kent (DL)
- University of Hong Kong (MCL)
I have internship experience with the United Nations Headquarters in New York. I also interned in the High Court of Hong Kong SAR. I was shortly with Baker & McKenzie’s Hong Kong office.