Mr Tim Cochrane

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tac60@cam.ac.uk

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Education CV

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.

Fields of research

Tim has broad legal interests and expressly takes a comparative and international approach to his work. Areas of interest include:

Public, Administrative, and Constitutional Law, including human rights
Commercial Litigation and Arbitration, particularly in multi-jurisdictional contexts
Information and Technology Law, including privacy and data protection, freedom of information, and issues raised by evolving technologies
Crime, National Security, and International Humanitarian Law, particularly white collar crime, cybercrime, and cross-border disputes
Public and Private International Law.

Tim's current Cambridge PhD research focuses on methods available to law enforcement to exchange data internationally and in particular the ways in which privacy and data protection rights can be protected during these data flows. This builds on his Oxford MPhil research, titled 'Digital Privacy Rights and the CLOUD Act Regime', which evaluated the impact of a new bilateral US-UK data sharing treaty on rights protected by the US Fourth Amendment and Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

In 2021, Tim completed research funded by the New Zealand Office of the Privacy Commissioner on the costs and benefits for New Zealand from seeking a CLOUD Act data sharing agreement with the US. In 2022, he completed comparative and international research on the scope of data subject access rights during and after armed conflicts, published by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence.