Student Research at CEPMLP

The Centre currently has over 40 international PhD research students from 20 countries worldwide including Algeria, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Congo, Germany, Greece, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sudan, Thailand and Trinidad & Tobago.

Admissions

Applicants should have a taught Masters degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline
Candidates should supply a 3-4 page outline of their proposed research topic (general area of interest). For guidance, our Website contains a section on established research themes on which the Centre's academic staff are currently working. It might help to relate your proposal to one of the existing research themes.

Current student research topics include:

The legal character of investment treaty arbitration
Corporate patent and the agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS); the enforcement challenge
The development of a natural gas market: case of the Republic of Congo
Arbitrating soft law in investment arbitration
The sustainability of an independent petroleum retail sector: lessons from the UK and Australian experiences of liberalisation
How to avoid disputes around cross-border oil and gas pipelines: the application of institutional legal regime
Stakeholder perspective of community participation in petroleum development in Nigeria: the role of corporate responsibility and impact assessment in the Delta ethnic minority region
How do natural resource countries build state capacity?
The parameters for regional access to the wholesale electricity market in West Africa: A study of the ECOWAS WAPP electrification project
Green public procurement policies and climate change mitigation: an assessment of the WTO Agreement on government procurement
Emissions trading in China’s power sector – does the reform of the sector matter?
Decommissioning accountability ‘expectations gap’: the perceptions of stakeholders in the Nigerian oil and gas industry
To what extent could an LNG export organisation operating in uniform pricing or volume control mechanisms influence LNG trace in the Atlantic Basin?
Attracting finance where trans-boundary a gas project is based on energy policy and not economic viability
Russian gas policies and their implication for EU energy security
To what extent may the provisions of international groundwater law contribute to the development of an international codified law for the development of on-shore trans-boundary petroleum resources?
Intra and inter-market crude oil price differentials: a cause-effect analysis of the recent behaviour of crude oil price differentials and causal factors behind it
Gas dependence in power generation in Thailand and its effects on the security of energy supply
National oil company reform: rationales, approaches and outcomes; the case of China
Legal regime of pipelines in Kazakhstan and the EU: comparative aspects and future developments
Introducing natural gas into Shanghai: demand estimation, competitiveness evaluation and policy implications