Mr Nicholas Petrie

LLM (First) (LSE); Grad Dip Legal Practice (College of Law); LLB (Hons) (Melbourne); BA (First Class Hons average) (Melbourne)

PhD in Law, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge (2017 - )

• Gates Cambridge Scholar
• Executive Commitee Member, Cambridge Pro Bono Project (2017-18)
• Learning for Purpose Co-Ordinator, Gates Cambridge Scholar Council (2017-18)
• Visiting Doctoral Candidate, Melbourne Law School (2018-19)  

LLM, London School of Economics and Political Science (2015 - 2016)

• Specialising in Public International Law and Public Law
• ‘Georg Schwarzenberger Prize’ for outstanding performance in International Law (one recipient across the six University of London Law Schools)
• ‘Blackstone Chambers Prize’ for best performance in Public International Law 
• Distinction overall, with Distinctions (equivalent to Australian High Distinction) in seven of eight courses
• Top student in four courses (Theory of Human Rights Law, Rethinking International Law, International Dispute Resolution and Use of Force)
• Other courses taken: Comparative Constitutional Law: Rights, UK Human Rights Law, Terrorism and the Rule of Law, Dissertation (on the topic of universal human rights jurisdiction, and supervised by Professor Gerry Simpson)

Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, College of Law (2011)

• Admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria (2011)
• Added to the Roll of the High Court of Australia (2012)
• Practising Certificate as Barrister and Solicitor, Northern Territory of Australia (2013 - 2014)

​BA (Media and Communications); LLB (Hons), University of Melbourne (2005 - 2010)

• 1st Class Honours average in BA; Hons in LLB  
• ‘Global Mobility Scholarship’ (2010): received funding for an internship at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
• ‘Corrs Chambers Westgarth Prize for Media Law’ (top student in Media Law course) (2009)
• ‘Global Mobility Scholarship’ (2007): received funding to study at University College Dublin, Ireland
• Editorial Member, Melbourne Journal of International Law (2009 - 2010)

Selected Legal Research Positions

• Legal Research Assistant to Dr Jason Pobjoy (Barrister, Blackstone Chambers, London) (2016 - 2017)
• Legal Research Assistant to Dr Devika Hovell (Associate Professor, International Law and Public Law Departments, LSE) (2015 - 2016)
• Legal Research Intern to Ms Jill Barrett (Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London) (2014)
• Volunteer Legal Research Assistant to Julian Burnside AO KC (Barrister, Melbourne) (2008 - 2010)

Legal Work

• Associate (Locum), Slaughter and May, London (2017; 2018; 2019)
• Associate (Locum), Herbet Smith Freehills, London (2015; 2016 - 2017)
• Judicial Assistant to The Rt Hon Lord Dyson MR, Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, London (2014 - 2015)
• Lawyer, Public Law Group, Government Legal Department, London (2013 - 2014)
• Solicitor Advocate, North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, Darwin (2012 - 2013)
• Solicitor and Graduate Solicitor, Minter Ellison Lawyers, Melbourne (2011 - 2012)
• Legal Intern, UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Arusha (2010)