Thesis title
‘Basis in Natural History: Towards a Historical Materialist Theory of Environmental Law’ [provisional title]
Supervisors
Dr Michael Wilkinson and Professor Veerle Heyvaert
Research interests/areas
Environmental law, legal history, Marxism, constitutional theory, legal and political theory
Jakub Bokes is a PhD candidate at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law School. He holds an LLB (First Class Honours) from ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and a BCL (Distinction) from the University of Oxford. He has won several academic awards and scholarships.
Jakub’s research is funded by an ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ PhD Studentship. His doctoral thesis seeks to better understand the historical relationship between environmental law and capitalism. In his work, Jakub draws on insights from Marxism, Critical Legal Studies (CLS) and the Law and Political Economy (LPE) movement and applies them to the study of environmental law.
Awards / Scholarships
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ PhD Studentship (2021-2025), College Prize for Performance in the BCL (2021), Oxford Faculty of Law Graduate Scholarship (2020-2021), Slaughter & May Prize for Best Overall Degree Performance (2020), Lauterpacht/Higgins Prize for Excellent Performance in Public International Law (2020)