PhD in Law

NUAcT PhD Studentship: Law and the Nonhuman Award Summary Full tuition fees at the Home rate plus an annual stipend equivalent to the National Minimum Doctoral Stipend (£20,780 from October 2025) across 3 years. We cannot, unfortunately, top up the difference between home and international fees. Any candidates who must pay international fees will need to find the additional funding from another source themselves. Overview Newcastle Law School at Newcastle University invites applicants for a doctoral studentship in law and the nonhuman. This is an open call and candidates should apply with their own project proposal based on their own interests. The theme of law and the nonhuman can encompass a wide array of projects, including projects, for example, focusing on the rights of nature, on issues relating to ocean law, on nonhuman animal law, on environmental law, or on more theoretical approaches relevant to the theme of law and the nonhuman (see below for more examples). Projects proposals that take a critical theory lens and which seek to centre relationships between the human and the nonhuman are particularly welcome, including those that draw on, for example, feminist, queer, postcolonial/TWAIL/decolonial, posthuman, Marxist, and other critical legal approaches. Interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary projects are strongly encouraged. In addition, projects that focus on global or transnational issues, either wholly or in part, are welcomed.