Katharina Neumann
DPhil Law, 2023
I’m currently pursuing a DPhil in Law, with a specific focus on International Environmental Law. My research is centered on the regulation of agricultural emissions within the framework of the UN climate regime. It attempts to confirm the existence of a regulatory gap in the UN climate regime, leading to a lack of international stimulus on domestic and regional agricultural climate policy implementation compared to other sectors. I am researching options to close the gap, addressing the question of how stricter obligations to reduce agricultural emissions can be imposed under international law by examining methods of interpretation, possible amendments to existing treaties and new instruments to regulate agricultural emissions.
Besides my academic interests, I really enjoy playing sports, spending time outside, and travelling to other countries.
Contact: katharina.neumann@law.ox.ac.uk
DPhil Law, 2023
I am a South African critical legal theory and human rights scholar with a particular interest in critical class, race, feminist, queer, and disability studies. I specialise mainly in discrimination and equality law, as well as having a keen interest in hate speech law, socio-economic rights, and environmental law.
I hold a BA (Law), LLB, and LLM (cum laude) from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. I am a Mandela Rhodes Scholar of 2020 and the recipient of the Shaun Johnson Memorial Scholarship from the Mandela Rhodes Foundation to pursue my full-time DPhil in Law studies at Oxford University.
Before commencing with my DPhil in Law, I was a lecturer in human rights and constitutional law, and legal philosophy at Stellenbosch University, Department of Public Law. My DPhil project looks at the implications of an intersectional substantive equality reading of ‘fortune’ as a prohibited ground of discrimination under the African Human Rights system. I also have my own sketching project called ‘thejusticeoflines,’ where my artwork attempts to be a form of restitutionary storytelling.
Contact: gideon.basson@gtc.ox.ac.uk
DPhil Law
2021
Hi everyone! My name is Sarah, and I am a first-year DPhil in Law candidate. My research will focus on the laws surrounding Canadian sealing activities. Specifically, I will be exploring the conflation of Inuit sealing practices and the commercial sealing industry through a legal lens, with a focus on the intersections of animal, environmental, and Indigenous rights in this context. I chose this topic as I am passionate about both marine wildlife conservation and Inuit issues.
Prior to beginning my DPhil, I completed the Juris Doctor and Master of Environmental Studies program, at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Canada. I wrote my Master’s thesis on the topic of direct-action and international marine wildlife conservation laws, in which I explored the ways in which nongovernmental organisations fill the gap between law and enforcement where nation states fail to institutionalise conservation. Upon completion of my degrees, I fulfilled my Articles of Clerkship at the Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks at the Government of Ontario, and have been called to the Bar of Ontario.
Outside of my studies, I enjoy scuba diving, hiking, painting, reading, traveling, and going to concerts.
Contact: sarah.levy@law.ox.ac.uk
DPhil Law
2019
I am a DPhil in Law candidate, and working on public-private dichotomy under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, considering the transforming characteristics of the online realm.
I am interested in various topics at the intersection of technology, society and governance. I convene the Future of Technology and Society Discussion Group at the Faculty of Law. I also teach data protection law, jurisprudence and philosophy of human rights.
Before coming to Oxford, I was practising law (litigation and consultation) as a member of Istanbul Bar and New York State Bar.
