Dr Matthew Psycharis

Matthew is a Fellow of St Edmund’s College, and is Director of Studies of Undergraduate Law, and College Lecturer in Law, at that college.  He is also a member of the Centre for Public Law, Cambridge. 

Matthew completed his PhD in law at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, supported by a WM Tapp Scholarship, on the topic of ‘Policy Referendums in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia’.  He was supervised by Professor Alison Young, and was examined by Professor David Feldman (Cambridge) and Professor Cheryl Saunders (Melbourne).  In addition to his doctorate, Matthew holds a Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor from the University of Melbourne, and a Master of Law from Cambridge.  

Before Cambridge, Matthew was admitted to legal practice, and worked as an Associate at the Australian firm Allens-Linklaters, practising as a litigator.  He advised clients on a wide range of government investigations and business disputes.  In a pro bono capacity, he instructed in constitutional proceedings concerning democratic rights, and advised peak human rights bodies on issues concerning offshore refugee detention and the drafting of anti-discrimination legislation.  Taking time out of practice, Matthew spent a year working as the Senior Judicial Assistant to a Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria (Australia).  Before coming to the law, Matthew trained as an economist and worked, in 2012, as a policy analyst at the Department of Treasury and Finance (Australia).