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ldmp2@cam.ac.uk

Education CV

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.

Fields of research

Private law, legal history, jurisprudence, common law method

 

Historical analysis as an aspect of common law judicial reasoning

Supervisors

Professor Jonathan Morgan

Start Date

Oct 2025

Selected publications

 

Articles

'"Testing the Regulator's Priorities: To Sanction Wrongdoers or Compensate Victims?"' (2020) 39(2) University of Queensland Law Journal 277

Citation:
(2020) 39(2) University of Queensland Law Journal 277
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.38127/uqlj.v39i2.5027
Published: Aug 2020

Reports

""Saving (and) Care: Closing the Gender Gap in the Australian Superannuation System"" (New Economic Policy Initiative, UNSW, )

Co-Author/s:
Rosalind Dixon and Richard Holden
Body / Institution:
New Economic Policy Initiative, UNSW