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Research Fellow and College Lecturer; Affiliated Lecturer; Access Officer
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CV / Biography
Matilda Gillis is the Hong Kong Link Research Fellow and College Lecturer in Law at Corpus Christi College and an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty. She teaches international law, human rights law, and criminal law, and is a Faculty Access Officer. Matilda is also a Director of Studies for Part 1A and a Postgraduate Tutor at Corpus.
Matilda holds a BA/LLB (Hons) from the Australian National University and an LLM (International Law) from Cambridge, which was fully funded by Trinity College through the Henry Arthur Hollond Studentship and an honorary Lionel Murphy Endowment Postgraduate Scholarship. She won various prizes in the LLM, including the Clive Parry Prize for International Law (for the highest ranked student in the international law designation of the LLM). Matilda also holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, which was fully funded by a Peterhouse Graduate Research Studentship.
She has previously held academic positions at the LSE and ANU, and worked as a solicitor for the Australian Government Solicitor, primarily in the area of constitutional law. Matilda has also worked at various times as an ad hoc consultant for several international organisations and non-governmental organisations.