Photo of Elizabeth CraigElizabeth Craig
Emeritus Associate Professor
minority rights, League of Nations, minority mechanisms, minority rights monitoring, European minority rights, internalisation

Research

My research interests lie primarily within international human rights and comparative law, with a particular emphasis on the development and application of European minority rights law.  My research to date has focused primarily on culture, identity and language issues within a minority rights framework.  Please see publications list for further info. 

I am currently working on the internalisation of minority rights in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly through the adoption of minority (or community) rights legislation and with an initial focus on the Western Balkans. 

PhD/Postgraduate Supervision

I am particularly keen to supervise DPhil students who intend to focus on the following areas: culture, identity and language rights; rights to religious freedom; European and international minority rights law; the internalization of human rights law, including through domestic Bills of Rights, and regional and international human rights systems.  

Current PhD Supervision

Isilay Taban, The Rights of Minority Refugees under International Law  (50%, joint supervisor)

 

Previous DPhil/PhD Supervision

Gizem Guney, The Istanbul Convention: A Radical Feminist Instrument, graduated 2020 (40% supervision)

Michele Wilkinson, The law empowering local authorities in England to remove Travellers from unauthorised encampments: a critique, graduated 2019 (50% joint supervisor)

Haydar Karaman, The Right of Conscientious Ojjection to Military Service in Turkey: Challenging State Hegemony, graduated 2018 (50% joint supervisor)  

Thomas Southerden, ESRC 1+3 funded student, Migrants’ Human Rights in the UK, graduated 2017 (50% - joint supervisor)

Suliman Alkharashi, Criminal Justice Rights in Saudi Arabia, completed 2015 (20% - second supervisor)

Khalid Alhaiyaf, The Role of the Gulf Cooperation Council, graduated 2014 (20% - second supervisor)

Katya Salmi, Race Discrimination and French Political Culture, graduated 2012 (50% - joint supervisor)