Matt Hasler

Education

2022 - Present: PhD Candidate, Churchill College, University of Cambridge (funded by an Open-Oxford Cambridge AHRC DTP – Churchill College Studentship)

• PhD Fellow of the Cambridge Family Law Centre

2021 - 2022: LLM, Girton College, University of Cambridge (First Class)

• Wright Rogers Law Scholarship
• George Long Prize for Jurisprudence
• Girton College Prize for First Class performance on LLM

2014 - 2015: Legal Practice Course (LPC), BPP University (Distinction)

2013 - 2014: Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL), BPP University (Distinction)

2010 - 2012: BPhil in Philosophy, St Anne's College, University of Oxford (Distinction)

• Thesis title: 'Wittgenstein on the Nature of Philosophy'
• Other papers: Philosophy of Mind and Action, Wittgenstein, Plato

2006 - 2009: BA in Philosophy, Girton College, University of Cambridge (First Class with Distinction: "Starred First")

• Craig Taylor Prize (awarded by the Faculty of Philosophy) for best overall performance in Part II of the Philosophy Tripos
• Emily Davies Scholarship and Christina Barnard Prize (awarded by Girton College) for First Class performance in Part II of the Philosophy Tripos
• Sir Arthur Arnold Scholarship and Isabella Cranshaw Prize (awarded by Girton College) for First Class performance in Part IB of the Philosophy Tripos
• Rosalind, Lady Carlisle Scholarship and Jane Catherine Gamble Prize (awarded by Girton College) for First Class performance in Part IA of the Philosophy Tripos

Selected employment history

Before commencing the LLM I practised as a solicitor of England & Wales for just under six years. I specialised in divorce, financial remedies on relationship breakdown, proceedings under the Children Act, and domestic abuse proceedings under the Family Law Act 1996.