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Centre for Global Constitutionalism

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Global Constitutionalism is an interdisciplinary field of study that draws on insights from politics, law, international relations, political theory, and philosophy to study the basic laws and norms of the international system.

Part of Law, Politics and international relations

About

The Centre for Global Constitutionalism is an interdisciplinary research institute devoted to analysis of the global and transnational aspects of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law.

Faculty and graduate students in political science and international relations, law, and cognate discipline participate in numerous activities, including research workshops, and collaborate with scholars in the UK and abroad. 

The Centre for Global Constitutionalism was founded to mark Southampton’s status as host institution for Global Constitutionalism, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published by the Cambridge University Press. It is a forum for research presentations by external and internal speakers, work-in-progress sessions, and academic workshops and conferences as well as a hub for knowledge transfer activities and grant support. 

The Centre is eager to support further interdisciplinary internal and external collaboration on human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. We welcome inquiries from potential collaborators and external stakeholders with an interest in our primary subject matter. 

Research highlights

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Giving displaced women and girls a voice

Future societies and communities
Health and wellbeing
Professor Pia Riggirozzi highlights the perilous journeys migrant women and young girls from Central America and Venezuela undertake, including the risks they face and failures of current policies to protect them.

People, projects and publications

People

Dr Alun Gibbs

Senior Lecturer
Connect with Alun

Email: A.Gibbs@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3634

Professor Chris Armstrong

Professor of Political Theory

Research interests

  • Global justice
  • Climate justice
  • Ocean justice and ocean politics

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Chris

Email: C.Armstrong@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3072

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Professor David Owen

Professor in Politics

Research interests

  • 1) Post-Kantian social and political philosophy from Nietzsche to Foucault, and the Frankfurt School.
  • 2) The Ethics and Politics of Migration
  • 3) Democratic Theory and Practice

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with David

Email: dowen@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4743

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Professor Emily Reid

Professor of Intl Economic Law & Sus Dev

Research interests

  • International Economic Law
  • Trade and Sustainability

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Emily

Email: E.S.REID@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2594

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Dr Evan Rosevear

Lecturer-Public Law

Research interests

  • Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics
  • Economic and Social Rights
  • Courts and Judging
Connect with Evan

Email: evan.rosevear@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 8199

Dr Haris Psarras LLB, LLM (NKUA), MJur (Oxon), PhD (Edin)

Associate Dean International

Research interests

  • General Jurisprudence
  • Tort Theory and the Philosophy of Private Law
  • Law and Humanities

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Haris

Email: C.Psarras@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 1349

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Miss Mabel Newton

Research interests

  • International Relations
  • Human Rights Law
  • Migrant rights
Connect with Mabel

Email: M.A.Newton@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 7869111517

Dr Michael Da Silva

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Constitutional and administrative law
  • Legal and political philosophy
  • Health law, policy, and ethics

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Michael

Email: M.Da-Silva@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 5705

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Professor Nina Jorgensen LLB (Hons) (Bristol), D.Phil. (Oxon), Barrister

Professor of Public International Law

Research interests

  • Public International Law
  • International Criminal Law and Procedure
  • International Human Rights Law

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Nina

Email: N.H.B.Jorgensen@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 1962

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Professor Pia Riggirozzi

Head of Department

Research interests

  • Political economy of development
  • Global governance and international development
  • Rights-based approaches to health and welfare

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Pia

Email: P.Riggirozzi@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2646

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Michael Da Silva
Associate Professor
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What are ‘rights’? Who should make which policy decisions when? Analyzing such questions benefits from treating their philosophical and institutional components together in interdisciplinary settings
Mabel Newton
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My interdisciplinary research explores how political phenomena impact human rights: how does radical right populism shape and change refugee rights in the UK and US?

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Contact us

For enquiries please contact:
globcon-journal@soton.ac.uk