Mr Tim Cochrane

LLB/BA(Hons) (Otago); LLM(Dist) (UPenn); MPhil(Dist) (Oxon); PhD Candidate (Cantab)

Education 

Tim began his PhD studies at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, in 2020, supported by the Stan Gold PhD Studentship.  His PhD research expands on his 2019-2020 MPhil Law research at Balliol College, University of Oxford, for which he was awarded a Distinction.  While at Cambridge, Tim has supervised Human Rights Law and International Law.  From December 2022 to March 2023, Tim also taught Information and Data Protection Law for the University of Otago in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Tim gained an LLM with Distinction from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2015, where he was a recipient of the Law School's LLM Human Rights Scholarship.  He graduated from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 2010 with an LLB and BA(Hons), majoring in philosophy, politics, and economics.  Tim has worked on various academic law journals, including as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the New Zealand Students' Law Journal in 2009.

Professional Experience

Tim is admitted to practice, and has worked as an attorney, in New York, England and Wales, and New Zealand (all currently non-practising).  Between 2015 and 2019, Tim worked as a Senior Associate in the Disputes teams of the New York and London offices of Baker McKenzie LLP, focusing on white collar crime and commercial litigation.  From 2010 to 2014, Tim trained and worked in the Commercial Litigation and Public Law team of the Wellington office of Kensington Swan (now Dentons).  He has worked on, and appeared as counsel in, matters before first instance and appellate courts and tribunals in New York, England, and New Zealand.  Tim also travelled to London in 2014 as a New Zealand Pegasus Scholar, hosted by the Inner Temple.