Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D (Cantab); LL.M (First) (Cantab); Grad Dip Legal Practice (Griffith University); LL.B (First) (Griffith University); BSc (Psychological Science) (Griffith University)

PhD in Law, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge (2016-2019) 

• Gonville and Caius Tapp Scholarship
• Cambridge Australia Scholarships Fulton Scholarship

LL.M (First), Trinity Hall College, University of Cambridge (2014 – 2015)

• Sir William Wade Prize for Civil Liberties and Human Rights
• Trinity Hall Bateman Scholarship
• Executive Member, Cambridge Pro Bono Project
• Editor, Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law

Queensland Bar Association Bar Practice Course (2014)

• Successfully completed March 2014

Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice (2012)

• Admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland

Bachelor of Laws (First Class Hons) / Bachelor of Psychological Science (Griffith University) (2004-2009)

• Law School Medal (awarded to the first-ranked graduate)
• University Medal (awarded for academic excellence)
• Griffith Award for Academic Excellence (2005 – 2009)
• Top Student Award for Research Extension (Honours Thesis) (2009)
• Top Student Award for Innocence Project II (2009)
• Top Student Award for Law of Politics (2009)
• Social Justice Award (2009)
• Top Student Award for Evidence Law (2008)
• Top Student Award for the Innocence Project I (2008)

Teaching experience

• Lecturer in Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (2019 – ongoing). Includes delivering lectures in constitutional law, administrative law and the LL.M Law and Information subject, and supervising dissertations in the Puplic Law seminar
• Supervisor, constitutional law and tort law University of Cambridge (2019  – ongoing)
• Teaching Associate, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (2015 – 2019). Included overseeing LL.M workshops in Civil Liberties and Human Rights, providing supervisions in human rights law and running the case law analysis seminars in the Legal Skills and Methodolgy undergraduate course
• Guest lecturer, Kings College London, Professor Penney Lewis's 'Medical Ethics and Law' seminar (7 November 2017)
• Tutor: Villiers Park ‘Inspiring Excellence Programme’ in Law (March 2016; March 2017)
• Sessional Lecturer: Griffith Law School (2013)
• Tutor: Department of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University (2008-2009)
• Tutor: Griffith University, GUMURRII Student Support Unit (2007-2009)

Research experience

• Headnoter for ‘European Human Rights Reports’: 2016 – 2019
• Provision of research assistance to Dr Kristy Hughes (University Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge): 2015 – 2018
• Provision of research assistance to Dr Kathleen Liddell (University Senior Lecturer; Director Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences): 2016
• Provision of research assistance to Dr Stephanie Palmer (Senior University Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge): 2015 – 2019
• Provision of research assistance to Professor Dapo Akande (Professor of Public International Law, University of Oxford): 2015 – 2016
• Provision of research assistance to Ms Jo Miles (Fellow and Director of Studies (Trinity College); University Senior Lecturer in Law): 2016
• Provision of research assistance to Dr Veronika Fikfak (Lecturer and Fellow in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge): 2015, 2017-18, including assistance with the preparation of a research memorandum for use in litigation before the United Kingdom Supreme Court concerning withdrawal of CANH of patients in a PVS
• Research Assistant to Head of Griffith Law School Griffith University: 2008-2009

Other experience

• Presenter, Third International Conference on End of Life, Law, Ethics, Policy, and Practice, Ghent, Belgium, March 2019
• Presenter, Trinity College Law Student Colloquium, 3 February 2018
• Presenter, Second International Conference on End of Life, Law, Ethics, Policy, and Practice, Halifax NS, 15 September 2017
• Declarations Human Rights Podcast, Centre for Governance & Human Rights (University of Cambrige), 'Is there a right to die?'
• Presenter, Cambridge Cancer Centre Early Detection Programme Annual Symposium, 16 January 2017
• Presenter, The Future of Registered Partnerships (a Durham-Cambridge Family Law Conference), 11 & 12 July 2015

Publications

• Assisted suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights (Routledge: Forthcoming)
• ‘False imprisonment vis-à-vis deprivation of liberty: Smashing the ossuary’ (2020) 79 Cambridge Law Journal 2
• ‘A domestic court’s attempts to derogate from the ECHR on behalf of the United Kingdom: the implications of Covid-19 on judicial decision-making in the UK’ EJIL:Talk! (Blog of the European Journal of International Law), 9 April 2020 (https://www.ejiltalk.org/a-domestic-courts-attempt-to-derogate-from-the-echr-on-behalf-of-the-united-kingdom-the-implications-of-covid-19-on-judicial-decision-making-in-the-united-kingdom/)
• ‘The meaning of “Public Assembly”: Policing Protest in the 21^st Century: R (Jones) v Metropolitan Police Commissioner [2019] EWHC 2957’ (2020) 79 The Cambridge Law Journal 1
• 'Who Gets the Ventilator? Important Legal Rights in the Covid-19 Pandemic', Journal of Medical Ethics (forthcoming) (with Drs Liddell, Skopek, Palmer and J Anderson and A Sagar)
• 'Deciding who gets the ventilator: Will some lives be lost unlawfully?', BMJ Blog, 12 April 2020 (with Drs Liddell, Skopek, Palmer and J Anderson and A Sagar) (https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2020/04/12/deciding-who-gets-the-ventilator-will-some-lives-be-lost-unlawfully)
• 'A Domestic Court’s Attempt to Derogate from the ECHR on behalf of the United Kingdom: the implications of Covid-19 on judicial decision-making in the United Kingdom', EJIL:Talk! (Blog of the European Journal of International Law), 9 April 2020 (https://www.ejiltalk.org/a-domestic-courts-attempt-to-derogate-from-the-echr-on-behalf-of-the-united-kingdom-the-implications-of-covid-19-on-judicial-decision-making-in-the-united-kingdom/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ejil-tal)
• Insight, Medical Treatment of Children, 25 July 2018 (Westlaw)
• Book review: 'Principled Reasoning in Human Rights Adjudication. By Se-Shauna Wheatle' [Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2017. xvi 234 pp. Hardback £64.99. ISBN 978-1-78225-981-7.] (2018) 77 The Cambridge Law Journal (2) 435-438
• 'Assisted Dying in Victoria – Part I: An Overview of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Vic)' (2018) ILA Reporter (http://ilareporter.org.au/2018/04/assisted-dying-in-victoria-part-i-an-o...) 
• 'Assisted Dying in Victoria – Part II: Implications of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Vic) for Human Rights Protection Abroad' (2018) ILA Reporter (http://ilareporter.org.au/2018/04/assisted-dying-in-victoria-part-ii-imp...)
• 'Declaratory misgivings: assisted suicide in a post-Nicklinson context' (2018) 2 Public Law 209
• 'Assisted suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights: A critical analysis of the case law' (2018) 21 Trinity College Law Review 244
• 'A human rights perspective of assisted suicide: accounting for disparate jurisprudence', (2018) 26 Medical Law Review 1
• 'The Charlie Gard case: behind the hyperbole', EJIL:Talk! (Blog of the European Journal of International Law), 21 July 17 (https://www.ejiltalk.org/the-charlie-gard-case-behind-the-hyperbole/)
• 'Assisted suicide and the right to private life: the enduring repercussions of Nicklinson', UK Human Rights Blog, 22 March 17 (https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2017/03/22/assisted-suicide-and-the-right-...) 
• 'Registration of relationships in Australia', in Scherpe and Hayward (eds), The Future of Registered Partnerships (Intersentia, 2017)
• ‘The role of legitimacy and proportionality in the (supposedly absolute) prohibition on inhuman and degrading treatment: the United Kingdom’s High Court decisions in DD v Secretary of State’, EJIL:Talk! (Blog of the European Journal of International Law), 22 December 2015 (http://www.ejiltalk.org/the-role-of-legitimacy-and-proportionality-in-the-supposedly-absolute-prohibition-on-inhuman-and-degrading-treatment-the-united-kingdoms-high-court-decisions-in-dd-v-secretary-of-state/)
• ‘Sovereignty and the responsibility to protect: co-dependent or mutually exclusive?’ (2011) 20 Griffith Law Review 1