Mr Lachlan Peake
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About
Lachlan is a PhD candidate in Law at the University of Cambridge. His main research interests concern private law, legal history, legal theory and common law method. Lachlan is currently researching the role of historical analysis in judicial decision-making in common law contexts. His PhD research is funded by a W.M. Tapp Studentship at Gonville & Caius College.
Lachlan holds a Master of Law from the University of Cambridge (First Class with Distinction; Chancellor's Medal for English Law) and a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours and the University Medal) and Bachelor of Arts (Distinction) from the University of New South Wales.
Before arriving in Cambridge, Lachlan was a Senior Associate at Allens in Sydney, where he specialised in commercial disputes, and had previously worked as an Associate (Judicial Assistant) at the Federal Court of Australia.
Lachlan supervises undergraduate students in Equity & Trusts.
Research
Private law, legal history, jurisprudence, common law method
Thesis: Historical analysis as an aspect of common law judicial reasoning
Supervisor(s): Professor Jonathan Morgan
Research centres: Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group (CLTDG); Cambridge Private Law Centre (CPLC); Centre for English Legal History (CELH)