Christ's College

Ph.D. (Cambridge) LL.M. (U.C.L.) LL.B.(Hons) B.A. (Victoria University Wellington)

Junior Research Fellow

Constitutional Law. Administrative Law. Human Rights Law. The Law of Torts. Remedies. Private Law Theory. Public Law Theory. Economic Analysis of Law. Legal Methodology. The Public Law/Private Law Distinction.

Ph.D. (Cambridge) - LL.M. (Distinction) (University College London) - LL.B.(Hons, First Class) B.A.(Economics) (Victoria University of Wellington).

Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand (admitted 2006).

I am currently a Junior Research Fellow and am researching a number of topics including damages under the Human Rights Act 1998, the idea that English administrative law is undergoing a rights-based transformation, the idea of "vindication" in tort law, and the law of standing in public law proceedings. I co-convene the LL.M. Public Law Seminar and am Keeper of the Statutes at Christ's College.

Past positions: Bye-Fellow in Law and Supervisor in Constitutional Law, Downing College, Cambridge (2009-10); Fox International Fellow, Yale University (2009); Junior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington (2006) (previously Legal Research and Writing Tutor (2005) and Tutor in Public Law (2003)); Judge's Clerk to the Honourable Justice O'Regan, New Zealand Court of Appeal (2005-06); Researcher, New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation (2004-05); Internships at the New Zealand Crown Law Office (2003-04) and The New Zealand Treasury (2002-03).

Foreign Correspondent for New Zealand material for the First Supplement to Woolf, Jowell and Le Sueur, De Smith's Judicial Review, 6 ed, Sweet and Maxwell (2009).

Recent awards/scholarships:

University of London Derby/Bryce Prize in Law, for the best results in the final examinations for the LL.M. degree across the Law Schools of the University of London (awarded 2008)

UCL Faculty of Laws Jevons Institute Award for excellence in competition law and economics (2008)

Fox International Fellowship to Yale University (2008)

New Zealand Law Foundation/New Zealand Law Society Cleary Memorial Prize for the young barrister or solicitor adjudged as giving the most promise of service to and through the New Zealand legal profession (2008)

New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship (2007)

Sidney Sussex College Evan Lewis-Thomas Law Scholarship (2007)

Commonwealth Scholarship tenable in the United Kingdom (2006)