Thomas Phillips
School of Law
Faculty of Business and Law
Email: T.J.Phillips@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 231 4738
Dr Thomas Phillips joined LJMU's Law School in August 2018. He teaches on a variety of modules across undergraduate and postgraduate programs, including Public Law, Public International Law, Democracy & Human Rights, and Criminal Law. Prior to joining LJMU, Thomas was a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Liverpool, where he taught undergraduate Public Law and Criminal Law.
Thomas has a particular interest in the rights of Kurdish populations residing in Turkey, Iraq and Syria. He has spoken on that subject at several conferences, including the first ever international conference held at the University of Sulaimani in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. He has also published scholarly work on the subject in edited books and international journals. More broadly, Thomas' research interests lie in the fields of Human Rights Law, Public International Law, and Minority Rights.
Degrees
2020, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, PhD
2014, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom, PGCE (Post-Compulsory Education)
2011, The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, LLM
2010, The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, LLB
Academic appointments
Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Law and Social Justice, The University of Liverpool, 2014 - 2018
Internet publication
Phillips T. 2023. The Implications of the UK's Asylum Policy Defeat Author Url Publisher Url
Phillips T. 2019. Turkey's Local Elections Were Not Free of Fair Author Url Publisher Url
Chapters
Phillips T, Almonte MP. 2021. The Kurdish Ecology Movement and Human Rights Hunt S. Ecological Solidarity in the Kurdish Freedom Movement: Thought, Practice and Challenges Lexington Books. Maryland
Phillips T, Turkut E. 2020. Non-discrimination, minority rights and self-determination: Turkey’s post-coup state of emergency and the position of Turkey’s Kurds Aydin H, Langley W. Human Rights in Turkey: Assaults on Human Dignity :109-129 Springer DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Phillips T. 2019. Democratic Confederalism in Syria: The Nation-State, the Kurds, and International Law Aktoprak E, Akbulut O. Minority Self-Government in Europe and the Middle East: From Theory to Practice :201-227 Brill Public Url
Journal article
Phillips T. 2020. The (In-)Validity of Turkey's Reservation to Article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, 27 :66-93 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Phillips T. The Contradictions of the UK Human Rights Act Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, 8 Public Url
Conference presentation:
The Need for a Political Solution to the Kurdish Question, International Conference on Political Prisoners in Turkey: Where Goes the Path of Freedom and Peace, The European Parliament, Brussels, Oral presentation. 2024
Media Coverage:
BBC Radio Kent Interview 2022
BBC Radio 5 Live interview 2022