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AYUSHI AGARWAL INDIA BCL

A ayushi.agarwal@law.ox.ac.uk
Exeter College
Hindi
PUBLICATIONS
A Agarwal, ‘India’s One Woman Quota on the Board of
Directors Fails to Bring About Gender Equality’, Oxford

Class of 2018/19
Human Rights Hub (2018)
EDUCATION
A Agarwal, ‘The Supreme Court of India Reads Down the
NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY, INDIA,
Marital Rape Exception: A Partial Victory for Women’s
BA LLB (HONS) (06/2018)
Rights Advocates’, Oxford Human Rights Hub (2017)
CGPA 6.64/7.00; editor, Socio-Legal Review
A Agarwal, ‘The Power to Punish for Contempt of the
EMPLOYMENT House: Issues and Conflicts’, Indian Constitutional Law
Review (2017)
INTERN, ALLEN & OVERY LLP, UK

INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE PROGRAMME Providing assistance in drafting agreements CAREERS AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
The Bar; legal policy; academia; human rights; equality and

Oxford is renowned for the size,
strength, and diversity of its
community of legal scholars drawn
from around the world. I am delighted
to welcome our new class of BCL and
MJur students to this community.
The students also come from a
diverse range of backgrounds; they
are united by their previous academic
achievements and shared enthusiasm
for the study of law.
Christopher Hare,
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
(Taught Courses)
BCL AGE
RANGE
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INTERN, JUSTICE DHANANJAYA CHANDRACHUD, anti-discrimination law; constitutional law
he Oxford Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) degree has been a pivotal feature SUPREME COURT OF INDIA, INDIA
of Oxford’s law provision since the sixteenth century. This rich history has Providing research assistance in writing judgments; ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
preparing case briefs Weidenfeld & Hoffman Scholarship (2018-19); Best
helped to maintain its status as the most highly regarded taught masters-level
Defence Counsel Award, 13th International Criminal Court
qualification in the common law world. Since 1991, the Magister Juris (MJur) degree Moot Court Competition (Den Haag, 2017)
INTERN, CHAMBERS OF SENIOR ADVOCATE INDIRA
has established a similar outstanding reputation for students from non-common law JAISING, INDIA
backgrounds.
Drafting submissions regarding trends in rape sentencing
Our students benefit from Oxford’s rigorous tutorial system which makes these
degree courses so challenging. This environment demands exceptional academic
motivation, focused analytical ability, and the capacity for sustained work. Students CANAN AKTAS TURKEY MJUR
from a wide range of jurisdictions and backgrounds refine their wealth of experience, canan.aktas@law.ox.ac.uk LEGAL INTERN, ESIN ATTORNEY PARTNERSHIP, TURKEY
knowledge and understanding through direct and intensive engagement with some of Balliol College Advising clients on contentious and non-contentious IP
the best teachers and researchers in the world across a wide range of legal subjects. Turkish, French matters
Oxford’s Faculty of Law was ranked second in the world in 2016 QS World University EDUCATION
LEGAL INTERN, PEKIN & BAYAR LAW FIRM, TURKEY
Rankings for law, and second in the Guardian’s UK University Guide 2018. ISTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITY, TURKEY, LLM (08/2018)
Advising clients in international arbitration; conducting
3.73/4.00; merit-based scholarship from Bilgi University legal research; assisting on drafting memorandums on law
of obligations
GALATASARAY UNIVERSITY, TURKEY, LLB (06/2013)
State Scholarship of Success from Prime Ministry of PUBLICATIONS
Turkey C Aktas, M Guner, and S Iplıkcıoglu Yılmaz, ‘Legislation
in Turkey: Down with the Decrees’, World Intellectual
EMPLOYMENT Property Review (2017)
ASSOCIATE, ESIN ATTORNEY PARTNERSHIP (MEMBER C Aktas and M Guner, ‘The Legal Framework for Protection
FIRM OF BAKER MCKENZIE), TURKEY of TV Program Formats in Turkey’, Lexology (2015)
BCL AVERAGE BCL Advising local and multinational companies on IP matters
AGE NATIONALITIES including commercial IP, unfair competition, IP transfer CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

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agreements, trademark portfolio management, and IP law; IT law; commercial law
disputes; conducting due diligence for intangible assets

AISHWARYA AMAR INDIA BCL

aishwarya.amar@law.ox.ac.uk INTERN, JANAAGRAHA CENTRE FOR CITIZENSHIP AND
MJUR AGE MJUR AVERAGE MJUR Somerville College DEMOCRACY, INDIA
RANGE AGE NATIONALITIES Kannada, Hindi, Marathi Policy research in collaboration with the State Finance

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EDUCATION Commission and local self-government bodies

SYMBIOSIS LAW SCHOOL, INDIA, BBA LLB (07/2018) PUBLICATIONS

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University Gold Medallist with CGPA 3.778/4; graduated
in top 1% of class; vice president, Student Advisory
Board; Oralist Award at the World Rounds of the Stetson
International Environmental Moot Court Competition;
represented India at the Leiden Child Rights Moot Court
Competition in the Netherlands
EMPLOYMENT
INTERN, DUA ASSOCIATES, INDIA
Conducting legal research; drafting petitions; preparing
briefs
INTERN AZB & PARTNERS, INDIA
Researching company law matters; due diligence; drafting
legal documents
A Amar, ‘Malicious Prosecution in India: A Tool to Curb
Vexatious Litigation’, International Journal of Socio-Legal
Research (2017)
A Amar, ‘An Overview of Municipal Bonds in India:
Investing in Development’, International Journal of Legal
Sciences and Research (2017)
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Environmental law; dispute resolution; human rights law
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Awarded the Cornelia Sorabji Law Scholarship

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 NATALIA ANIKINA RUSSIA M
 JUR SABESH ASOKAN S
 INGAPORE BCL
natalia.anikina@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT sabesh.asokan@law.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS
Worcester College HEAD OF LITIGATION DEPARTMENT, Hertford College S Asokan, ‘Demystifying the “Honest” Infringer:
Russian VNESHECONOMBANK, RUSSIA EDUCATION Reorienting Our Approach to Online Copyright
Infringement Using Behavioural Economics’, Journal of
EDUCATION Focusing on fraud litigation, asset tracing, and debt KING’S COLLEGE LONDON, UK, LLB (06/2017) Intellectual Property Law and Practice (2018)
RUSSIAN SCHOOL OF PRIVATE LAW, RUSSIA, LLM recovery; handling claims against directors and shadow First-class honours; Dickson Poon Scholarship; awarded
PRIVATE LAW (06/2008) directors, board members, auditors and experts, and third CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
prizes in intellectual property law and jurisprudence
parties for contract interference Commercial law; dispute resolution; governance and
Graduated with first-class honours; thesis recommended EMPLOYMENT
for publication; awarded Scholarship of Vienna University accountability of AI; intermediary liability; data protection
LEGAL AFFAIRS EXPERT, LAW OFFICE EGOROV, and privacy; deliberative mechanisms for political
of Economics and Business (2007 and 2008) LEGAL INTERN, BLACKWOOD LAW, UK
PUGINSKY, AFANASIEV & PARTNERS, RUSSIA participation
Preparing a study on online trademark infringement for
NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF Managing experts’ evidence on Russian law issues for
the World Intellectual Property Organisation; helping ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
ECONOMICS, RUSSIA, BA ECONOMICS (04/2006) foreign courts, arising with respect to the proceedings in
draft a CSR policy for an international bank; helping resist
the High Court of Justice, LCIA, and Russian courts as well Co-founder of the King’s Information Technology and
a claim for unlawful interference with trade against a
MOSCOW CITY TEACHERS UNIVERSITY, RUSSIA, LLB Intellectual Property Law Society; helping establish a
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS technology start-up; assisting with GDPR preparations
(06/2002) scholarship fund and Digital Communities Lab at King’s
Academia; consulting; fraud litigation; tort law; commercial College London to support research at the intersection of
Graduated with first-class honours UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOW, KING’S COLLEGE
remedies; law and economics; theory and philosophy of law and technology
LONDON, UK
law
Conducting in-depth research for project on design-based
regulation and LLM module on governing technological
risk
APARAJITA ARYA INDIA BCL
aparajita.arya@law.ox.ac.uk CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Trinity College Commercial arbitration; the Bar; Roman law; technology AYMEN ATI UK BCL
Hindi and human rights law; literary theory
aymen.ati@law.ox.ac.uk MINI-PUPILLAGES, UK
EDUCATION ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Christ Church Including Landmark, 5 Essex Court, Essex Court, 1 Crown
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, UK, LLB (06/2018) Founder of Case in Point, a literary moot court Arabic Office Row, and Furnival Chambers
Graduated with distinction; Muirhead Prize for Civil Law competition at the University of Edinburgh EDUCATION
VOLUNTEER, THE FREEDOM LAW CLINIC, UK
QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, UK, LLB LAW
LADY SHRI RAM COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, UNIVERSITY OF Exploring alleged miscarriages of justice; preparing cases
AND POLITICS (06/2018)
DELHI, INDIA, BA (HONS) ENGLISH (07/2016) for review by the Criminal Cases Review Commission
Graduated with first-class honours; awarded Dechert
Graduated in top 1% of class; first-division honours
Prize for ranking highest in first year; International CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Human Rights Law Prize; School of Law Undergraduate The Bar; public law; commercial law; human rights
Scholarship for Academic Excellence; Cambridge Long
Vacation Scholarship ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
ANNIKA ASCHER G
 ERMANY MJUR Winner of George Hinde Moot Competition 2016-17;
EMPLOYMENT
annika.ascher@law.ox.ac.uk RESEARCH ASSISTANT (DISPUTE RESOLUTION), quarter-finalist of Landmark Chambers Property Moot
FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERRINGER LLP, GERMANY PRESIDENT, QUEEN MARY MOOTING SOCIETY, UK competition 2017-18
St Cross College
German Master of the Moot for George Hinde Moot Competition
RESEARCH ASSISTANT (DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND 2017-18; organising six rounds and 72 moots; running
EDUCATION CAPITAL MARKETS), HENGELER MUELLER, GERMANY moot training workshops
HIGHER REGIONAL COURT OF MUNICH, GERMANY, PUBLICATIONS
SECOND LEGAL STATE EXAMINATION (04/2018)
A Ascher, Social Benefits for European Citizens (Nomos,
Graduated with distinction 2017)
JOSHUA AU YEUNG H
 ONG KONG, CANADA B
 CL
UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG, GERMANY, DOCTORAL A Ascher, ‘The Exclusion of Work Seeking European
Citizens from the German Social Security System’, joshua.auyeung@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT
THESIS (12/2016)
Bayerische Verwaltungsblätter (2016) St Hilda’s College MINI-PUPIL, JASON POW SC’S CHAMBERS, HONG KONG
UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG, GERMANY, FIRST LEGAL Cantonese, Mandarin
A Ascher and Judge J Greiser, ‘Exclusion of European
STATE EXAMINATION (06/2014) EDUCATION MINI-PUPIL, CHENG HUAN SC’S CHAMBERS, HONG
Citizens from the SGB II and the SGB XII: An Interim
Graduated after seven semesters of study; graduated with KONG
Result’, Vierteljahresschrift für Sozialrecht (2016)
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, UK, LLB (07/2018)
distinction CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Graduated with first-class honours; achieved an overall
EMPLOYMENT first for three consecutive years; awarded the School of Commercial law; conflict of laws; competition law;
Capital markets law; commercial law; real estate law;
Law International Undergraduate Merit Scholarship; Head intellectual property law
RESEARCH ASSISTANT (REAL ESTATE), HEUSSEN dispute resolution; legal theory
RECHTSANWALTSGESELLSCHAFT, GERMANY of School’s List (2016, 2017 and 2018)

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 EBUNLOMO AZEEZ NIGERIA B
 CL WILLIAM BARTLETT A
 USTRALIA B
 CL
ebunlomo.azeez@law.ox.ac.uk LEGAL INTERNSHIP, MARTIN SEALE SOLICITORS, LEWES william.bartlett@law.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS
Pembroke College COUNCIL, AND BRIGHTON CITY COUNCIL, UK Wadham College P Stevenson and W Bartlett, ‘Valve v ACCC…’, Inhouse
Yoruba Drafting contracts and leases; conducting title EDUCATION Counsel (2018)
EDUCATION investigations; examining deed packets; performing land W Bartlett, ‘…Will the High Court Find the Workplaces
UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA, BA LLB
registry research; delivering report highlighting risks of an (Protection from Protestors) Act 2014 (Tas)
UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON, UK, BA LAW WITH BUSINESS (12/2016)
airport redevelopment Impermissibly Infringes the Constitutionally Implied
(07/2017) Ranked 2nd; first-class honours in law; WA Finlay Prize for Freedom of Political Communication in Brown?’, University
First-class honours; Lexis Nexis Prize for Public Law; CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS top three entering final-year law; prizes for topping cohort of Tasmania Law Review (2017)
Oxford University Press Law Prize for best second-year The Bar; commercial law; environmental law; employment in first- and second-year law, foundations of private law,
law; public law; academia foundations of public law, criminal law A, and legal theory; W Bartlett, ‘D’Arcy v Myriad Genetics…’, Journal of Law,
student; Martin Searle Prize for best in employment law
student editor, University of Tasmania Law Review (2016) Information and Science (2016)
EMPLOYMENT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION and Journal of Law, Information and Science (2015)
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
VICE PRESIDENT ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE, BRIGHTON Senior editor, NILS Law Review; co-founder, Girls in
EMPLOYMENT Commercial litigation; Bar; law of obligations
STUDENTS’ UNION, UK Leadership UK; volunteer, St Luke’s Advice Centre; trustee,
Brighton Students’ Union SOLICITOR, KING & WOOD MALLESONS, AUSTRALIA
Campaigning, negotiating, and lobbying the University and ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
MPs on student issues Competition litigation team; general commercial litigation;
Sir Henry Baker Memorial Fellowship (2018); Burke
regulatory investigations (PQE: 1 year)
Scholarship (2018); Australian Bicentennial Scholarship
MINI-PUPILLAGES AND JUDICIAL MARSHALLING, UK (2018)
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA,
1 Crown Office Row, Westgate Chambers, and Brighton AUSTRALIA
Family Court
TUTOR, UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA

RAHUL BAJAJ INDIA BCL

B rahul.bajaj@law.ox.ac.uk
Linacre College
Hindi
EDUCATION
NAGPUR UNIVERSITY, INDIA, BA LLP (06/2017)
Secured the 1st position in the University; bagged a
record-equalling tally of 20 medals, including 13 gold
medals
EMPLOYMENT
ASSOCIATE, TRILEGAL, INDIA
Working in the regulatory and litigation vertical;
representing stakeholders in the power sector in various
regulatory fora; offering regulatory and legal advice
PUBLICATIONS
JOEL BASOGAUGANDA BCL
R Bajaj and S Basheer, ‘Who am I? Of Patent Independence joel.basoga@law.ox.ac.uk CONSULTANT PROGRAMME COORDINATOR,
and Adjudicative Regulators’, Kritika (2018) Jesus College INTERNATIONAL LAW INSTITUTE (AFRICAN CENTRE FOR
Luganda LEGAL EXCELLENCE), UGANDA
R Bajaj and D Mukherjee, ‘Creating a Legal Basis for
Intellectual Property through Human Rights: Imperatives, EDUCATION Working in partnership with the Uganda Ministry of Local
Government for the programme strengthening capacity
Impediments and Irreconcilable Tensions’, Amherst College
Law Review (2017) LAW DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, UGANDA, for local council courts
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN LAW (04/2017)
R Bajaj and D Mukherjee, ‘The Right to Be Forgotten CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Graduated in the top 3%; Katende Ssempebwa Moot
in Indian Constitutional Logic: A Functional-Dialogical
Court Award Public international law
Analysis’, NLU Jodhpur Constitutional and Administrative
Law Quarterly (2017) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
UGANDA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, UGANDA, LLB
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS (07/2015) Jinja District Champion 2010; called to the Bar in July
Graduate ranked no. 1; Dean’s Merit List 2018
Litigation; policy formulation
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION EMPLOYMENT
Blind since birth ASSOCIATE, CRISTAL ADVOCATES, UGANDA
Corporate advisory; tax planning; oil and gas

ASHLEIGH BARNES A
 USTRALIA B
 CL
ashleigh.barnes@law.ox.ac.uk TIPSTAFF TO THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE ROBERT DIVYA BEHL INDIA BCL
Lady Margaret Hall MCDOUGALL, SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH divya.behl@law.ox.ac.uk Carrying out extensive research on ‘whether marital rape
French WALES, AUSTRALIA be declared an offence in India?’; assisting the bench in
St Catherine’s College
EDUCATION Legal research; drafting and editing of judgments and Hindi, Punjabi drafting orders and judgments; preparing case briefs
journal articles for His Honour
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, LLB EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS
(08/2017) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS GURU GOBIND SINGH INDRAPRASTHA UNIVERSITY, D Behl, ‘Surrogacy: Issues In and Around’, International
Graduated with first-class honours; University Medal in Advocacy; business and human rights; technology and INDIA, BA LLB (HONS) (07/2018) Journal of Legal Research (2017)
Law human rights; public law
Graduated with distinction; top 2% of class D Behl, ‘Human Rights in Cyber Space’, South Asian Journal
of Law and Human Rights (2016)
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, BA ADDITIONAL INFORMATION EMPLOYMENT
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (08/2017) Casenoter for the LexisNexis Butterworths Corporation D Behl, ‘Investing in the Green: The Role of NGOs and the
INTERN, SHARDUL AMARCHAND MANGALDAS & CO, Corporates’, International Journal of Enviro Legal Research
Law Bulletin; pro bono work for the Refugee Advice
EMPLOYMENT INDIA (2016)
and Casework Service; interned at the United Nations
GRADUATE, HERBERT SMITH FREEHILLS, AUSTRALIA Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials in the Extraordinary Working under firm’s equity partner in dispute resolution
Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia team CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Legal research, drafting and trial preparation in the
International commercial arbitration; dispute resolution;
disputes (corporate crime and corruption) group
INTERN, LUTHRA & LUTHRA LAW OFFICES, INDIA commercial remedies; competition law
CASUAL ACADEMIC, UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Assisting dispute resolution team in ongoing arbitration;
researching arbitration laws ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Young advisor at Legal Education Awareness Foundation
Tutor in ethics, law, and justice (LLB) (LEAF); topped tax law and international trade law
INTERN, THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE GITA MITTAL
(ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE), HIGH COURT OF DELHI, INDIA

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 ALEX BENN UK BCL BLÁTHNAID BRESLIN IRELAND BCL
alex.benn@law.ox.ac.uk PLACEMENTS, UK blathnaid.breslin@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT
University College Various solicitors’ firms, crown and magistrates’ courts, Wolfson College TEACHER, DEBATE CHAMBER, UK
EDUCATION and local government departments EDUCATION Teaching law at a summer camp to students aged 13-18
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE PUBLICATIONS UNIVERSITY OF LAW, UK, BAR PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
(06/2018) COURSE (05/2018) CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, KEEP CALM TALK LAW, UK
A Benn, ‘R (Ngole) v Sheffield University’, Oxford Journal
Graduated top of the year; Wronker Prize for best of Law and Religion (2018) Lincoln’s Inn Lord Denning Scholarship; Lincoln’s Inn Editing and publishing articles for a legal website
overall performance; Gibbs Prize for best combined Residential Award; Buchanan Prize for achieving a final
results in contract, land, tort, and trusts; subject prizes A Benn, ‘R (A and B) v Health Secretary’, OJLR (2017) grade of outstanding CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
in jurisprudence, tort law, criminology, and criminal law; A Benn, ‘Re JS (A Child)’, OJLR (2017) The Bar; property law
David Blank Scholar; various prizes from St Catherine’s UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, UK, LLB LAW WITH NEW
College CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS ZEALAND LAW (06/2017) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Criminal law; discrimination law; legal theory Commendation for coming 5th in the year; J C Smith University of Nottingham Ladies’ II tennis team
EMPLOYMENT
& Punch Coomaraswamy Prize in the Law of Evidence;
MINI-PUPILLAGES, UK ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Dean’s Commendation for coming 1st in jurisprudence (at
Chambers including 2 Bedford Row, 5 Essex Court, Garden 1st-ranked oralist in Europe and overall runner-up team University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Court, Red Lion, Exchange, Deans Court, and Outer (2/100+) in the Price Moot; Lord Denning Scholar of
Temple Lincoln’s Inn; Oxford-Finnis Graduate Scholar of University
College; President of St Catherine’s College Law Society;
Witness Service volunteer; OPAL French Qualification
PHILIPP BUCHS G
 ERMANY MJUR
philipp.buchs@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT
St Cross College RESEARCH ASSISTANT, NOERR LLP, GERMANY
JULIEN BERGER GERMANY MJUR German
Legal research and drafting, primarily on corporate and
julien.berger@law.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS EDUCATION capital markets law; assisting with publications
Lady Margaret Hall J Berger, ‘Intra-EU State Arbitration: The Uncertainty HIGHER REGIONAL COURT OF MUNICH, GERMANY,
German, French Continues: Unpacking the Advocate General’s Opinion in SECOND LEGAL STATE EXAMINATION (10/2016) LEGAL INTERN, ALLIANZ SE, GERMANY
Case C-284/16 (Achmea)’, German Arbitration Journal Drafting memoranda and expert opinions on corporate law
EDUCATION Ranked 3rd out of 749 candidates
(2017)
HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN, GERMANY, FIRST CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
J Berger, ‘Einführung in die internationale Gerichtsbarkeit‘, UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH, GERMANY, FIRST LEGAL STATE
LEGAL STATE EXAMINATION (09/2015) Corporate law; capital markets law; insolvency law
Juristische Schulung (2017) EXAMINATION (07/2014)
Graduated in top 5% of class
Graduated with distinction; specialised in corporate law ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
UNIVERSITÉ (PARIS II) PANTHÉON-ASSAS, FRANCE, Academia; the Bar; international economic law; Due to complete doctoral thesis on shareholders’
MASTER 1 DROIT INTERNATIONAL (07/2015) international development; international dispute rescission suits in Germany in 2019
EMPLOYMENT resolution; constitutional law; European law

RESEARCH ASSISTANT, BERLIN/POTSDAM RESEARCH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

GROUP ‘THE INTERNATIONAL RULE OF LAW: RISE OR RACHEL CARROLL U
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C
Member of the team winning the French Debating
DECLINE?’, GERMANY Association’s National Tournament 2015
rachel.carroll@law.ox.ac.uk MINI-PUPILLAGE, DEANS COURT CHAMBERS, UK
Keble College Observing a wide range of civil areas; sitting in on client
EDUCATION conferences; assisting on visits to court; took part in a
HARRY BITHELL UK BCL number of advocacy/mooting exercises
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, UK, LLB EUROPEAN AND
INTERNATIONAL LAW (06/2018) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
harry.bithell@law.ox.ac.uk Providing supervised legal advice on landlord and tenant
University College disputes Graduated in top 2% of cohort; completed a year abroad The Bar; public international law; human rights; medical
studying at the University of Ottawa law; ethics
EDUCATION
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, UK, LLB (06/2018) EMPLOYMENT
The Bar; commercial and corporate law; traditional and ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Graduated with first-class honours commercial chancery; insolvency; restitution MARSHALLING HIS HONOUR JUDGE LEWIS, Qualified for the European Court of Human Rights Moot
MANCHESTER CROWN COURT, UK Court Competition International Rounds and presented a
EMPLOYMENT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION case before the European Court of Human Rights; winner
Observing a complex rape trial; having in-depth
MINI-PUPILLAGES, UK Member of the Inner Temple; Inner Temple Major BPTC discussions with the presiding judge of the Irwin Mitchell Prize for Torts; Lincoln’s Inn Mary
Scholarship; national-level mooting experience; awarded MacMurray Scholarship
Including Keating Chambers, XXIV Old Buildings, and Pump the Loughman Scholarship by University College, Oxford
Court Tax Chambers

STUDENT LEGAL ADVISOR, UNIVERSITY OF

MANCHESTER LEGAL ADVICE CENTRE, UK

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 RIANA CERMAK A
 USTRALIA B
 CL WEIDONG CHEN C
 HINA MJUR
riana.cermak@law.ox.ac.uk CONSULTANT, HIVOS REGIONAL OFFICE SOUTH EAST weidong.chen@law.ox.ac.uk PARTNER, DENTONS, CHINA
St Cross College ASIA, INDONESIA (01/2015) Hertford College
CO-FOUNDER AND MANAGING PARTNER, LEE & CHEN,
EDUCATION Legal and human rights intern subsequently hired as Mandarin
CHINA
international consultant EDUCATION
FLINDERS UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA, LLB LAW AND
LEGAL PRACTICE AND BINST INTERNATIONAL CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
PUBLICATIONS SHANGHAI MARITIME UNIVERSITY, CHINA, LLM
RELATIONS (DUAL) (07/2017) International commercial and maritime arbitration;
R Cermak, ‘Directors’ Duties to Respect Human Rights (04/2000)
academia; law of obligations; commercial law; international
First-class honours in law; University Medal; 1st in class; in Offshore Operations and Supply Chains: An Emerging
SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY, arbitration; civil procedure
Law Society of SA Award for highest-graduating honours Paradigm’, Company and Securities Law Journal (2018)
student CHINA, BA CHINESE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
(06/1995) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
EMPLOYMENT Supporting member of London Maritime Arbitrators
CSR consulting; financial regulation; corporate governance; EMPLOYMENT Association; visiting professor at Shanghai Maritime
LAWYER, KING & WOOD MALLESONS, AUSTRALIA human rights; international law; public policy
PARTNER, SLOMA & CO, CHINA University Law School; mediator of Shanghai International
(08/2017)
Arbitration Centre
Commercial litigation; insolvency; banking and finance ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Litigation and arbitration with focus on maritime,
Law Foundation of SA Fellowship (2017); Law Council insurance, and international sale of goods
BOARD MEMBER, RED CROSS, AUSTRALIA (09/2015) of Australia Baxt Prize 2017; Francis Regan Scholarship
(2017); Law Foundation of SA Human Rights Scholarship
Volunteers and Members Advisory Committee
(2015)
JOHANN-JAKOB CHERVET SWITZERLAND M
 JUR
johann-jakob.chervet@law.ox.ac.uk SUMMER ASSOCIATE, WENGER PLATTNER AG,
Lincoln College SWITZERLAND
ZENITH CHAN H
 ONG KONG B
 CL
German, French Researching cases in commercial and administrative law;
zenith.chan@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT drafting contracts and court briefs
EDUCATION
Hertford College POLITICAL RESEARCHER, MINISTRY OF FOREIGN
Cantonese, Mandarin, Arabic UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG, SWITZERLAND, LLB PUBLICATIONS
AFFAIRS OF THE STATE OF QATAR
(07/2018) J-J Chervet, ‘Staatliche Beschäftigungsprogramme für
EDUCATION
MINI-PUPIL, PARKSIDE CHAMBERS, HONG KONG Summa cum laude; baccalaureus utriusque iuris; mention Nothilfe-Bezieher: Zwangsarbeit oder berechtigte Hilfe
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG, JD in European law; joint valedictorian address; Fribourg Law zur Selbsthilfe?’, Fribourg Law Review (2016)
(08/2018) MINI-PUPIL, TEMPLE CHAMBERS, HONG KONG Review
Graduated with first-class honours; ranked 2nd overall; CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS EMPLOYMENT The Bar; academia; constitutional law; comparative law;
prizes for best performance in multiple subjects
The Bar; public law; human rights rules of evidence; EU law; competition law
STUDENT ASSISTANT TO PROFESSOR BERNHARD
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG, BA ENGLISH WALDMANN, UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG, SWITZERLAND
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
STUDIES, GERMAN AND ARABIC (07/2013) Researching constitutional law, administrative law, and
Awarded the Des Voeux Chambers Oxford Scholarship for Berrow Foundation Scholarship; Swiss Study Foundation;
Graduated with first-class honours; Dean’s Honours List the BCL federalism
ICC International Commercial Mediation Moor 2018
and other prizes

CHEN CHEN A
 USTRALIA B
 CL JOHN CHEUNG H
 ONG KONG BCL
john.cheung@law.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS
chen.chen@law.ox.ac.uk Nine mini-pupillages including Atkin, 20 Essex Street, and
8 New Square Jesus College J T Cheung, ‘Defective Premises: Rethinking Murphy v
Merton College
Cantonese, Mandarin Brentwood’, Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal
French, Dutch, Mandarin (2017)
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS EDUCATION
EDUCATION Academia; Bar; comparative law; EU law; environmental
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA LAW WITH FRENCH law
(06/2018) The Bar; public law; human rights; trusts; commercial law
LAW (06/2018)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION First-class honours; Jesus College BCL Scholarship; S R
First-class honours; ranked 3rd; Francis Taylor Building ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
International Roman Law Moot 2016 (3rd place), Welson Prize; Open Scholar; First-Year Law Prize; Open
Prize in Environmental Law; 3VB Chambers Scholarship; Named amongst the top three U-21 filmmakers in the
International Price Media Law Moot 2016 (quarter- Exhibitioner
Magdalen Tutorial Prize in Law; 20 Essex Street Prize for UK by the British Film Institute; BFI Future Film Award;
finalist), OLA Public Law Moot 2016 (2nd place), and
best performance in law moderations in Magdalen EMPLOYMENT Grigsby Film Award; Depth of Field International Film
Shearman and Sterling Moot 2016 (semi-finalist); five
accepted conference papers including TCD Law Student MINI-PUPIL, TEMPLE CHAMBERS, HONG KONG Festival Award; Future of Cinema Film Award; Nashville
UNIVERSITÉ PANTHÉON-ASSAS PARIS II, FRANCE, LLB Film Festival Award; finalist, Student Filmmaking Awards;
(06/2017) Colloquium 2016 and 2017, and Oxford IN[SCI]TE
Interdisciplinary Science Conference 2016; research INTERN, MAYER BROWN JSM, HONG KONG accomplished multi-instrumentalist, including cello, piano,
Graduated in top 5% of class coordinator, OxPolicy; panel researcher, Oxford Lawyers guitar, and drums; composer
Without Borders; knowledge of Russian, German, and MARSHAL TO LAM VP, COURT OF APPEAL OF HONG
EMPLOYMENT KONG, HONG KONG
Arabic
MINI-PUPILLAGES, UK

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 PIERRE-BAPTISTE CHIPAULT F RANCE MJUR
pierre-baptiste.chipault@law.ox.ac.uk
Wolfson College
French
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF PARIS-SACLAY (VERSAILLES), FRANCE,
MASTER 2 ARBITRATION AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE
LAW (11/2015)
Graduated summa cum laude; Best Memorandum, finals,
speaker, International Arbitration Moot of Sciences Po
Paris; Spirit of the Moot Award, quarter-finals, speaker,
International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot
UNIVERSITY OF PARIS-SACLAY (VERSAILLES), FRANCE,
MASTER 1 PRIVATE LAW (06/2014)
Graduated magna cum laude
UNIVERSITY OF PARIS-SACLAY (VERSAILLES), FRANCE,
LLB (06/2013)
Graduated cum laude; year at Silesia University
EMPLOYMENT
ASSOCIATE (DISPUTE RESOLUTION), ALLEN & OVERY
LLP, FRANCE
INTERN (DISPUTE RESOLUTION), ALLEN & OVERY LLP,
FRANCE
LAW CLERK (APPEAL AGAINST FIRST INSTANCE COURT
ORDERS), PARIS COURT OF APPEAL, FRANCE
PUBLICATIONS
P Chipault, ‘Comment on the Capital Finance Holdings
Luxembourg SA v Republic of Cameroon Award’,
International Investment Claims (2018)
P Chipault, ‘Comment on the Lundin BV v Tunisia Award’,
International Investment Claims (2017)
P Chipault, ‘The Post-Brexit London Arbitration and
Litigation Market: Should I Stay or Should I Go?’, Journal
de l’Arbitrage (2017)
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
International dispute resolution
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Passed the Paris Bar
ATRAYEE DE INDIA BCL
atrayee.de@law.ox.ac.uk LEGAL INTERN, CYRIL AMARCHAND MANGALDAS, INDIA
Exeter College Performing research; studying IP and M&A
Hindi, Bengali, French
PUBLICATIONS
EDUCATION
A De, ‘Significance of Having Independent Director in the
AMITY LAW SCHOOL, AMITY UNIVERSITY, INDIA, BA Companies Act, 2013’, International Journal of Law and
LLB (HONS) (06/2018) Management Studies (2016)
Ranked 3rd; top 0.83%; first division with distinction;
A De, ‘Judicial Activism in India’, South Asian Journal
9.41/10 SGPA; 9.11/10 CGPA; On-Admission Merit (2016)
Scholarship
A De, ‘Unified Suburbanisation in Northeast India’, Journal
EMPLOYMENT for Environmental Law, Research and Advocacy (2016)
LEGAL INTERN, SHARDUL AMARCHAND MANGALDAS &
CO, INDIA CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Bar; cyber, criminal, commercial, IP, and medical
Writing research papers on traditional knowledge, dark
law; dispute resolution; consultancy; academia; AI;
web, and software patentability
biotechnology
LEGAL INTERN, SHARDUL AMARCHAND MANGALDAS & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
CO, INDIA
Semi-finalist, National Moot Court Competition 2016;
Working with corporate, litigation, real estate, and IP coordinator, debating society; 1st runner-up, Amity law
teams; attending client calls; appraised by head partner School Legal Quiz 2015; associate editor, IJARL&SS and
IRHRL

JOERI DE SMET BELGIUM MJUR

THOMAS EDELGAARD CHRISTENSEN D
 ENMARK M
 JUR joeri.desmet@law.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS
thomas.christensen@law.ox.ac.uk Specialising in maritime law, international private law, and Brasenose College J De Smet, ‘The Road Not Taken: Perspectives from Law
dispute resolution Dutch, French, German and Literature on the Judgments of Belgium’s Court of
Regent’s Park College
Cassation’, Interdisciplinary Matters (2017)
Danish EDUCATION
ASSISTANT ATTORNEY, GORRISSEN FEDERSPIEL, J De Smet, ‘Organisational Contracts: Rethinking the
EDUCATION DENMARK KU LEUVEN, BELGIUM, RESEARCH LLM (07/2018)
European Paradigm’, Jura Falconis (2017)
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, LLM Graduated magna cum laude
PUBLICATIONS J De Smet and P Billiet, ‘Lobbying als activiteit “buiten
(10/2013) de markt” in het licht van het mededingingsrecht’, Revue
T E Christensen, ‘Cape Town Convention and “Qualifying KU LEUVEN, BELGIUM, LLB (07/2016)
Declarations”’, Air and Space Law (2017) Internationale du Droit des Affaires: Internationaal
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, LLB Graduated cum laude Tijdschrift voor Ondernemingsrecht (2016)
(06/2011) T E Christensen, ‘Non-Statutory Recognition of Foreign
EMPLOYMENT
Court Decisions’, The Danish Weekly Law Reports (2015) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY, GERMANY, ERASMUS
SUMMER ASSOCIATE (BANKING AND FINANCE Academia; the Bar; conflict of laws; corporate law; legal
EXCHANGE (02/2011)
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS DEPARTMENT), BAKER MCKENZIE, BELGIUM history
EMPLOYMENT Maritime law; international private law; dispute resolution
SUMMER ASSOCIATE (TAX PRACTICE), LINKLATERS,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, GORRISSEN FEDERSPIEL,
BELGIUM
DENMARK
Preparing research; drafting legal opinions

CALLUM DAVIDSON A
 USTRALIA B
 CL

D
callum.davidson@law.ox.ac.uk
St Cross College
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA, LLB
(HONS) (11/2014)
Graduated 3rd in class with first-class honours;
valedictorian; Jean Rogerson Scholarship; three prizes;
student exchange to University of Vienna
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA, BA
(HONS) PHILOSOPHY (11/2012)
Graduated with first-class honours
EMPLOYMENT
ASSOCIATE, QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & SULLIVAN,
AUSTRALIA
Complex commercial litigation and advice work, including
in class actions (acting for both plaintiffs and defendants),
contract, equity, insurance, corporations law, electoral law,
and constitutional litigation in High Court of Australia
ASSOCIATE TO THE CHIEF JUSTICE, HIGH COURT OF
AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA
Judicial clerk for the Honourable Chief Justice R S French
AC
SOLICITOR, HERBERT SMITH FREEHILLS, AUSTRALIA
General commercial litigation and employment law
PUBLICATIONS
S Ivey and C Davidson, ‘Sorting the Wheat from the
ChAFTA: The Operation of Investor-State Dispute
Settlement Clauses and their Limits in Recent Australian
Free Trade Agreements’, Brief (2015)
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
The Bar; international investment arbitration; public law;
commercial law; private international law
CORMAC DEVLIN IRELAND BCL
cormac.devlin@law.ox.ac.uk Researching immigration policy and its implementation;
St Hugh’s College transgender asylum claims; NHS overseas patient
charging; safeguarding victims of modern slavery in the
EDUCATION
healthcare system
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK, BA LAW (06/2018)
Jesus College Scholarship; Jesus College Prize for Law; PUBLICATION
Rebecca Flower Squire’s Scholarship S Steele, C Devlin, D Stuckler, and M McKee, ‘Tougher
Charging Regime for “Overseas” Patients’, British Medical
EMPLOYMENT Journal (2017)
MINI-PUPILLAGES, UK
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Falcon Chambers, 11KBW, QEB, and Henderson Chambers The Bar; public law; employment law; constitutional law;
human rights; equity; legal theory
INTERN, INTELLECTUAL FORUM, JESUS COLLEGE,
CAMBRIDGE, UK

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 ANA LUCIA DIAZ AZCUNAGA M
 EXICO MJUR
ana.diazazcunaga@law.ox.ac.uk
Wadham College
Spanish
EDUCATION
UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA, MEXICO, LLB
(06/2016)
Graduated 1st in class; awarded an honourable mention
and academic excellence distinction
EMPLOYMENT
LAW CLERK, SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE, MEXICO
Assisting in drafting judgments, as well as dissenting
and concurring opinions in cases regarding human rights
violations and conflicts between branches of government
SARAH DOBBIE AUSTRALIA B
 CL
sarah.dobbie@law.ox.ac.uk
University College
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, MSC REFUGEE AND
FORCED MIGRATION STUDIES (07/2018)
Graduated with distinction
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA, LLB
(07/2016)
Graduated with first-class honours; National Merit
Scholarship (2011-16); prizes for refugee law and
Chinese law
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA, BA
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (07/2016)
EMPLOYMENT
FIELD ATTORNEY, ADVOCATES ABROAD, GREECE
Advising asylum seekers on refugee status determination
procedures, family reunification rights, and other
associated immigration and asylum matters
DARIUS ECKENHAUSEN NETHERLANDS MJUR
LEGAL ANALYST, CENTRO GEO, MEXICO
Conducting research and writing a report for the Mexican
Ministry of Energy in order to design strategic lines of
action to improve gender equality in the institution
E darius.eckenhausen@law.ox.ac.uk
Oriel College
Dutch, French
EDUCATION
Company law; legal philosophy; history
EMPLOYMENT
LEGAL INTERN, STRIBBE LAW FIRM, UK
Commercial litigation; M&A
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF LEIDEN UNIVERSITY, NETHERLANDS, LLM CIVIL LAW
HUMAN RIGHTS, NETHERLANDS (06/2018) LEGAL INTERN, JONES DAY LAW FIRM, NETHERLANDS
Conducting research into human rights law Graduated cum laude; specialisation in international civil Global disputes
law and collective redress; member of student society LSV
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Minerva LEGAL INTERN, PLOUM LODDER PRINCEN LAW FIRM,
Academia; judiciary; constitutional theory; human rights NETHERLANDS
law; legal philosophy CORNELL UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL, USA, EXCHANGE
(12/2016) Contracting; competition law
International commercial arbitration; competition law; INTERN, ROYAL SCHIPHOL GROUP, NETHERLANDS
global M&A; history
Corporate legal
LEIDEN UNIVERSITY, NETHERLANDS, LLB (MINOR:
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
PHILOSOPHY) (07/2015)
Commercial law; litigation; class actions; M&A; academia
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND, ERASMUS
GRADUATE LAWYER, ALLENS, AUSTRALIA EXCHANGE (06/2015)
General corporate litigation; transactional work in energy,
resources, and infrastructure team; pro bono work
FABIAN EICHBERGER GERMANY MJUR
LEGAL ADVISOR, ST ANDREW’S REFUGEE SERVICE, fabian.eichberger@law.ox.ac.uk STUDENT ASSISTANT, MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR
EGYPT COMPARATIVE PUBLIC LAW AND INTERNATIONAL LAW,
Christ Church
Representing asylum seekers, including unaccompanied German, French GERMANY
minors, in the refugee status determination proceedings; Supporting the research project ‘The Unwilling or Unable
EDUCATION
coordinating community outreach engagement State’
BUCERIUS LAW SCHOOL, GERMANY, FIRST LEGAL STATE
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS EXAMINATION (06/2018) INTERN, EMBASSY OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
The Bar; refugee and immigration law; human rights law;
Ranked 1st in the federal state of Hamburg; among top GERMANY, USA
strategic and public interest litigation
0.1% nationwide
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Public international law; international economic law;
WASEDA LAW SCHOOL, JAPAN, EXCHANGE TRIMESTER
Admitted to the Supreme Court of New South Wales; constitutional law
(12/2015)
Rhodes Scholarship (Australia-at-Large, 2017)
EMPLOYMENT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
STUDENT ASSISTANT, LAUTERPACHT CENTRE FOR National champion of the Philip C Jessup International Law
INTERNATIONAL LAW, UK Moot Court 2016; Latham & Watkins Award for the best
speaker in the national final; team ranked 13th worldwide;
Researching current issues in international investment law
co-founder of Germany’s first nationwide constitutional
law moot court; clerk at Bucerius Law Clinic for several years

ANNA DOMINKE G
 ERMANY M
 JUR JORDAN ENGLISH AUSTRALIA B
 CL
anna.dominke@law.ox.ac.uk RESEARCH ASSISTANT, INSTITUTE FOR GERMAN, jordan.english@law.ox.ac.uk Tutor in corporations law
Brasenose College EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW Magdalen College
German AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL LAW, UNIVERSITY OF RESEARCH ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND,
HEIDELBERG, GERMANY EDUCATION
AUSTRALIA
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, LLB (HONS
PUBLICATIONS I) (12/2016) PUBLICATIONS
REGIONAL COURT OF HEIDELBERG, GERMANY, SECOND
LEGAL STATE EXAMINATION (04/2018) A Dominke, ‘Einheitliche Gruppenleitung über die J English and J Hafeez-Baig, The Law of Tracing
Binnengrenzen in Europa. Regelungselemente für Graduated 2nd in class; University Medal in Law; UQ
Excellence Scholarship; T C Beirne School of Law (Federation Press, 2020, forthcoming)
UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG, GERMANY, JD (11/2016) das Gesetzgebungsprojekt “Anerkennung des
Gruppeninteresses”’ (Carl Heymanns Verlag, 2017) Scholarship; subject prizes for highest mark in criminal law, J English and J Hafeez-Baig, ‘The Supreme Court Rectifies
UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG, GERMANY, FIRST LEGAL administrative law, and administrative law and public law a Wrong Turn in Canadian Law’, Oxford University
A Dominke and A Gundel, ‘Neuerungen bei der Auswahl (aggregate) Commonwealth Law Journal (2017)
STATE EXAMINATION (01/2016)
des Abschlussprüfers’, Audit Committee Quarterly (2016)
Ranked 1st out of 920 examinees UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, BCOM J English and J Hafeez-Baig, ‘Lack of Consent as an Unjust
A Dominke, ‘Die SUP als Konzernbaustein und die Factor’, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
EMPLOYMENT fehlenden Organpflichten der Tochtergeschäftsführer‘, (12/2016)
(2017)
StudZR WissOn (2015) EMPLOYMENT
LEGAL TRAINEE, FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER
LLP, GERMANY CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS SOLICITOR, KING & WOOD MALLESONS, AUSTRALIA
The Bar; academia; private law
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, INSTITUTE FOR GERMAN Academia; the Bar; company law; M&A Dispute resolution and insolvency
AND EUROPEAN COMPANY AND COMMERCIAL LAW, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG, GERMANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ASSOCIATE TO THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE JAMES
Zelman Cowen Sir John Monash Scholarship (2018);
Law Faculty-Brasenose College and DAAD Scholarships EDELMAN, HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA
Roberta Sykes Scholarship (2018)
SESSIONAL TUTOR, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL
UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA

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 ALAN EUSTACE IRELAND BCL BENJAMIN FOO S
 INGAPORE BCL
alan.eustace@law.ox.ac.uk INTERN, MASON HAYES & CURRAN, IRELAND benjamin.foo@law.ox.ac.uk Assisting with drafting legal documents and due diligence
St Cross College Working in the public and administrative law department; Magdalen College for mergers
Irish, French conducting legal research Mandarin
LEGAL INTERN, BAKER MCKENZIE, HONG KONG
EDUCATION EDUCATION
PUBLICATIONS Helping conduct legal research; assisting with drafting
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND, LLB (05/2018) A Eustace, ‘Bunreacht Behind Bars: The Irish Prison System UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE articles for publication
Graduated joint 1st in class; Henry Hamilton Hunter Prize in its Constitutional Context’, Trinity College Law Review (07/2018)
2018; Julian Prize 2018; Bloomsbury Prize for Evidence (2018) Graduated with first-class honours; awarded the Gibbs LEGAL INTERN, NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT, SINGAPORE
2018; Foundation Scholar 2016; Tottel Prize for Law and Book Prize Assisting an arbitrator to research legal issues, scrutinise
French 2015; Entrance Exhibitioner 2014 CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS the parties’ pleadings, and draft the judgment
Constitutional law; administrative law; employment law; EMPLOYMENT
EMPLOYMENT litigation CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
LEGAL INTERN, ALLEN & GLEDHILL, SINGAPORE
SENIOR CASE WORKER, IRISH INNOCENCE PROJECT, Commercial litigation and arbitration; trusts; property law
IRELAND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Senior editorial board of the Trinity College Law Review
Investigating potential miscarriages of justice in the Irish
(2015-18); winner of the FLAC Intervarsity Public
criminal justice system
Interest Law Moot 2018; twice delivered papers at the
Trinity Law Colloquium (2016 and 2017)
JONATHAN FUNG HONG KONG BCL
jonathan.fung@law.ox.ac.uk CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Magdalen College Private law
Cantonese, Mandarin
RAKIYA FARAH U
 K BCL

F
EDUCATION
rakiya.farah@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK, BA LAW (06/2018)
Exeter STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT, BELL Graduated with first-class honours
EDUCATION POTTINGER, UK/QATAR
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK, BA LAW (SENIOR PUBLICATIONS
STATUS) (07/2017)
R Farah, ‘Justice and Forgiveness: Self-Responsibility and
DHRUVA GANDHI INDIA BCL

Graduated with first-class honours; St Edmund’s College
Prize for first in law tripos part II; awarded distinction for
dissertation on the relationship between complex litigation
and access to civil justice
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL
SCIENCE, UK, MSC PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC POLICY
(11/2014)
Graduated with distinction; awarded distinction for
dissertation on the ethics of killing with drones in war
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, UK, BA FRENCH
(08/2002)
Graduated with second-class honours, upper division;
studied lettres modernes at the Sorbonne, Paris IV (2000)
ALEXANDER FELDHAUS GERMANY MJUR
G
Human Dignity in the Midst of Conflict’, The International
Journal of Servant-Leadership (2013)
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Law reform; legal policy; consultancy
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Winner, St Edmund’s-Lucy Cavendish Internal Moot
Competition 2016; former England Under-18s and
England National League Division One basketball player;
former junior karate champion in individual and team Kata
discipline; online MA in Organisational Leadership
dhruva.gandhi@law.ox.ac.uk INTERN, CHAMBERS OF SENIOR ADVOCATE SHIRAZ
Wadham College RUSTOMJEE, BOMBAY HIGH COURT, INDIA
Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi
PUBLICATIONS
EDUCATION D Gandhi, ‘Clipping the Wings of the Prosecution in a
NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY, INDIA, Criminal Trial’, National Law School of India Review (2018)
BA LLB (HONS) (06/2018) D Gandhi and G Bhawnani, ‘GAAR to Override DTAAs: Can
CGPA: 6.62/7; awarded the Nani Palkhivala Scholarship for the Constitution or Limitations of Benefits Clauses Prevent
Excellence in Constitutional Law this Menace?’, NUJS Law Review (2017)
EMPLOYMENT CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
INTERN, CHAMBERS OF ADVOCATE SHIVAM SINGH, The Bar; teaching; constitutional law; law of evidence
SUPREME COURT, INDIA
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Preparing written submissions; researching legal
Peter Carter Taught Graduate Scholarship (Wadham,
arguments
2018); K C Mahindra Scholarship (India, 2018); editor,
Socio-Legal Review; member, NLSIU cricket team (2015-
INTERN, LAND RIGHTS INITIATIVE, CENTRE FOR POLICY
RESEARCH, INDIA
18)

alexander.feldhaus@law.ox.ac.uk LEGAL STAFF MEMBER, FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS Researching analysing data; compiling a report
Mansfield College DERINGER LLP, GERMANY
German Drafting legal documents; conducting research
EDUCATION
PUBLICATIONS MARIUS B GASS G
 ERMANY BCL
HIGHER REGIONAL COURT OF BERLIN, GERMANY, J Hinder and A Feldhaus, ‘Verfassungswidrigkeit der
SECOND LEGAL STATE EXAMINATION (02/2018) Vorschriften zur Einheitsbewertung für die Bemessung der marius.gass@law.ox.ac.uk VACATION SCHEME STUDENT, SULLIVAN & CROMWELL
Graduated with distinction Grundsteuer’, GmbH-Rundschau (2018) St John’s College LLP, UK
German, Swedish
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS LEGAL INTERN, SOOK LIN & BOK LLP, SINGAPORE
UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM, GERMANY, FIRST LEGAL EDUCATION
STATE EXAMINATION (09/2014) Taxation; corporate law; M&A CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE
Graduated in top 1% of class; awarded Wolf-Rüdiger- Commercial law; academia; comparative law; public
(ENGLISH LAW WITH LAW STUDIES IN EUROPE)
Bub-Award; specialisation in corporate and tax law international law; law and economics
(07/2018)
EMPLOYMENT Graduated with first-class honours; St John’s College ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, MORRISON FOERSTER LLP, Casberd Scholarship; distinction in law moderations Accepted training contract at White & Case LLP, to
GERMANY commence in September 2020; editor-in-chief of the
LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN, Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal (OUULJ);
Drafting expert opinions on tax law cases GERMANY, ERASMUS EXCHANGE (07/2017) winner of the 2015 Oxford v Cambridge Clifford Chance
EMPLOYMENT LLP Roman Law Moot Court Competition

VACATION SCHEME STUDENT, WHITE & CASE LLP, UK

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 ALEXANDER Y S GEORGIOU HONG KONG, AUSTRALIA B
 CL
alexander.georgiou@law.ox.ac.uk
Brasenose College
Mandarin, Cantonese
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE
(06/2017)
First-class honours; Wronker Prize for best overall
performance in the year (received jointly); Gibbs Prize
(proxime) for second-highest aggregate mark in the
contract, tort, trust, and land law papers (received
jointly); 3 Verulam Buildings Prize for best performance
in the commercial law paper; White & Case Prize for best
performance in the comparative private law paper
EMPLOYMENT
MINI-PUPIL, BRICK COURT, UK
CHARLES HÉBERT CANADA MJUR
MINI-PUPIL, TEMPLE CHAMBERS, HONG KONG charles.herbert@law.ox.ac.uk STUDENT-AT-LAW, AIR CANADA, CANADA
University College Assisting in-house lawyers in litigation, commercial law,
MINI-PUPIL, 3 VERULAM BUILDINGS, UK
French labour, and regulatory matters
VACATION SCHEME, LINKLATERS LLP, UK EDUCATION
INTERN, ACEF OF NORTH MONTREAL, CANADA
VACATION SCHEME, SHERMAN & STERLING LLP, UK UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL, CANADA, LLB (06/2017)
Co-managing a consumer protection service within a
Dean’s Honour List; graduated in top 2% of class; Spiegel community organisation
VACATION SCHEME, HERBERT SMITH FREEHILLS LLP, UK Sohmer Prize for Excellence in Commercial and Tax Law
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
PUBLICATIONS EMPLOYMENT
Corporate law; criminal law; legal practice; legal theory;
A Y S Georgiou, ‘Distinctions between the “In Ius” and “In STUDENT-AT-LAW, DAVIES WARD PHILLIPS & VINEBERG law of obligations
Personam” Trust’, SCELR (2017) LLP, CANADA
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Research; drafting representations and commercial
The Bar; property law; trusts law agreements; support role in public and private M&A and
litigation
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Temple Chambers BCL Scholarship

SOPHIE HEPBURN U
 K BCL
JOE GOURGEY UK BCL sophie.hepburn@law.ox.ac.uk MINI-PUPILLAGES, UK
joseph.gourgey@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT Keble College Temple Garden Chambers, 5 Stone Buildings, 29 Bedford
Worcester College EDUCATION Row, 4 Paper Buildings, and One Pump Court
VACATION SCHEME STUDENT, HOGAN LOVELLS, UK
EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE
Securitisation; energy disputes; commercial real estate VACATION SCHEME, HERBERT SMITH FREEHILLS LLP, UK
(06/2017)
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA (HONS) Sitting in the international arbitration and employment
JURISPRUDENCE (06/2018) LEGAL INTERN, THE LAWFARE PROJECT, USA First-class honours; Harris Prize for best performance in
departments
Legal research; client meetings FHS at Keble College; Keble College Academic Scholarship
Graduated with first-class degree; St Hilda’s Law Network
(2016-17); college examination prizes in jurisprudence, CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Prize; Allen Scholarship
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS land law, and administrative law (2016)
The Bar; family law; administrative law; human rights
The Bar; commercial litigation; trusts; commercial EMPLOYMENT
remedies; civil dispute resolution ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
LEGAL ASSISTANT, OU ENDOWMENT MANAGEMENT, UK Won the LMH Alternative Dispute Resolution Competition
Managing transfer of assets to new vehicle structure; 2016; volunteer with Oxford Legal Assistance at Turpin &
drafting and completing legal documents; corresponding Miller legal aid clinic; Keble College Law Society President
ZOE HARRISON UK BCL

H
with fund managers and solicitors to respond to queries,
zoe.harrison@law.ox.ac.uk TUTOR AND LEGAL ADVISOR, AFRICAN PRISONS negotiate clauses in contracts, and consult on other legal
Merton College PROJECT, UGANDA matters
EDUCATION Teaching a university law course in Luzira Prison, Kampala
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE
MINI-PUPIL, TEMPLE CHAMBERS, HONG KONG
(07/2018)
Shadowing a leading commercial barrister
SAMANTHA HOBSON-JONES SOUTH AFRICA BCL
Awarded the Allen Overy Prize for most promising second-
year law student at Merton, the F E Smith Memorial samantha.hobson-jones@law.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Mooting Prize, and the Barton Scholarship; graduated with Balliol College S Hobson-Jones and S Karjiker, ‘Is South African Trademark
The Bar; family, tax, and human rights law Law Out of Shape?’, Stellenbosch Law Review (2016)
first class EDUCATION
EMPLOYMENT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY, SOUTH AFRICA, LLB S Hobson-Jones and S Karjiker, ‘Registerability of Shape
Runner-up in the Holdsworth Moot Competition 2017; (12/2015) Marks: Europe vs South Africa’, SAIP Publication (2016)
WRITER AND RESEARCHER, RIGHT FOR EDUCATION judicial marshal to Mr Justice Thomas Au in the summer
(NGO), UK 4th in class; semester exchange at Leiden University (with S Hobson-Jones, L Blignaut, and B Ntshinglia, ‘Time to
of 2016 distinction); Golden Key Scholar Overhaul the Merger Review Process?’, Without Prejudice
Writing articles and preparing research reports on legal (2016)
and social policy issues in Sub-Saharan Africa STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY, SOUTH AFRICA, B COM
(ACCOUNTING AND LAW) (12/2013) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Competition law; commercial law; intellectual property law
1st in class; Golden Key Scholar
CARMEN HARTNIGK GERMANY M
 JUR
EMPLOYMENT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
carmen.hartnigk@law.ox.ac.uk Legal research; writing memoranda; assisting with research Admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa;
and drafting of publications in the complex disputes ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY, ENS AFRICA, SOUTH AFRICA
Keble College contributing editor, Lexis Nexis Competition Law Reports
German department Competition/antitrust law; multi-jurisdictional merger (South Africa)
notifications; litigation and advice on restrictive practices
EDUCATION INTERN, HEUKING KÜHN LÜER WOJTEK, GERMANY and abuse of dominance; dawn raids; general compliance
LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY MUNICH AND Legal research; drafting legal documents; writing
UNIVERSITY OF BONN, GERMANY, FIRST LEGAL STATE memoranda CANDIDATE ATTORNEY, ENS AFRICA, SOUTH AFRICA
EXAMINATION (08/2018) Competition/antitrust law; merger notifications; legal
Graduated in top 4% of class; specialised in economic and CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS opinions; competition law litigation; legal research; due
competition law The Bar; competition law; corporate law; financial law; law diligence
and economics
EMPLOYMENT INTERNSHIP, BAKER MCKENZIE, SOUTH AFRICA
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, LUTHER ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
RECHTSANWALTSGESELLSCHAFT, GERMANY Awarded Latham & Watkins LLM Fellowship

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 DEVI JAGANI INDIA BCL GAYATHREE DEVI KALLIYAT THAZHATHUVEETIL INDIA B
 CL

J devi.jagani@law.ox.ac.uk
Wolfson College
Gujarati, Hindi
EDUCATION
INTERN, COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
SOUTHERN REGIONAL CENTRE, INDIA
Performing doctrinal research under the supervision of Dr
Kalpana Kannabiran on disability rights
K gayathree.kalliyatthazhathuveetil@law.ox.ac.uk
Somerville College
Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi
EDUCATION
INTERN, KHAITAN & CO, INDIA
Undertaking research on Indian banking and finance laws

PUBLICATIONS
G Devi, ‘Uighur Conflict’, Eurasian Conflicts Studies Project
NIRMA UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF LAW, INDIA, BA LLB PUBLICATIONS GUJARAT NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY, INDIA, BA LLB (2017)
(HONS) (04/2018) D Jagani, ‘Theorising the Disability Experience: “Power” is (HONS) (06/2018)
G Devi, ‘Economics of Child Labour’, Law and Economics in
Graduated first in class with a GPA of 9.54/10; placed the Key’, Economic and Political Weekly (2017) Graduated with first-class honours; top 1% of class; India: Understanding and Practice (2016)
1st in class for jurisprudence, criminal law, comparative awarded Aditya Birla Scholarship; co-convenor,
constitutional law, and human rights CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS moot court committee; co-convenor, Centre for Law CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Academia; policy-making; jurisprudence; constitutional and Society; student editor, GNLU Journal on Law,
EMPLOYMENT Academia; policy-making; public international law; human
law; social justice Development and Politics rights law; international trade law
INTERN, SENIOR ADVOCATE MR YOGESH LAKHANI,
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION EMPLOYMENT
GUJARAT HIGH COURT, INDIA ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
University Gold Medallist for securing 1st rank in BA LLB TEACHING ASSISTANT, ASHOKA UNIVERSITY, INDIA
Providing research assistance in relation to the criminal Zaiwalla Scholarship (2018); advanced round team
(Hons) and in the stream of constitutional law; Harvard
appeal filed in the 2002 Gujarat Riots Case Assisting with international law course (International Rounds) and winner (National Rounds),
Summer School in jurisprudence and constitutional law;
Philip C Jessup International Law Moot 2018; runner-up,
student editor, Nirma University Law Journal; organised
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, DR ANIRUDDHA RAJPUT Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot 2016 (Regional Rounds);
several legal awareness camps on the rights of women
(MEMBER OF UN INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION), IISL Young Scholar Award 2016
SWITZERLAND
Assisting in drafting statements on immunity of state
LEONIE JAMES U
 K BCL officials and state responsibility after state succession
leonie.james@law.ox.ac.uk Working on reform of surrogacy law and the law of wills
Lady Margaret Hall
TRAINEE SOLICITOR, PENNINGTONS MANCHES LLP, UK
EDUCATION
Working in the family, private client, employment, and SILA KARAKOÇ T
 URKEY MJUR
KAPLAN LAW SCHOOL, UK, LEGAL PRACTICE COURSE
clinical negligence departments sila.karakoc@law.ox.ac.uk Researching analysis and risk assessment related to the
(06/2015)
Worcester College public debt portfolio and treasury guarantees; working
Graduated with distinction CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
French, Turkish on proposals on private sector investment and capital
The Bar; family law; children’s rights; medical law activities
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK, BA LAW (06/2011) EDUCATION
Graduated with first-class honours; Honorary Scholarship; ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INTERN, ALTAŞ ATTORNEY PARTNERSHIP, TURKEY
BILKENT UNIVERSITY, TURKEY, BA LAW (MINOR:
College Prize Volunteered as an extern at JUSTICE; pro bono legal
ECONOMICS) (06/2018) Preparing legal memorandums; analysing court decisions;
advisor at Waterloo Legal Advice Service; voluntary legal
EMPLOYMENT Awarded Comprehensive Scholarship; graduated summa conducting research
advisor at Crisis at Christmas; Free Representation Unit
volunteer; qualified as a solicitor in September 2017 cum laude; highest honour; attended micro and macro
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, LAW COMMISSION, UK CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
theory courses
Academia; legal practice; public international law;
EMPLOYMENT international dispute resolution; international economic
ZIXIN JIANG H
 ONG KONG BCL INTERN, FOUNDATION FOR POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND law; commercial and investment arbitration
SOCIAL RESEARCH, TURKEY
zixin.jiang@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Preparing legal memorandum elaborating on UN resolution
Oriel College Research assistant to Swaraj Barooah for paper on IP
MINI-PUPIL, TEMPLE CHAMBERS, HONG KONG about legal state of Jerusalem
Cantonese, Mandarin and artificial intelligence; represented Turkey in European
MINI-PUPIL, DES VOEUX CHAMBERS, HONG KONG Human Rights Moot Court Competition; ranked 1st in
EDUCATION INTERN, REPUBLIC OF TURKEY PRIME MINISTRY
national Arbitration Lawyer of the Future Competition
UNDERSECRETARIAT OF TREASURY, TURKEY
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG, JD VACATION PLACEMENT, SKADDEN, HONG KONG
(07/2018)
PUBLICATIONS
Graduated with first-class honours
P J Yap and Z Jiang, ‘Co-location is Constitutional’, Hong
Kong Law Journal (2018) TATIANA KAZIM UK BCL
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA PPE (07/2016)
tatiana.kazim@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Harris Manchester College GOVERNING SERVICES OFFICER, HACKNEY LEARNING
The Bar
EDUCATION TRUST, UK
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE Providing support, training, and clerking services to school
(07/2017) governing boards across Hackney
JOE JOHNSON U
 K BCL
Graduated with first-class honours; awarded Gray’s Inn
joseph.johnson@law.ox.ac.uk Including Fountain Court Chambers, South Square TEACHER OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE,
David Karmel Scholarship; awarded Harris Manchester
The Queen’s College Chambers, Maitland Chambers, and Essex Court Chambers AMERICAN LANGUAGE CENTER, TAIWAN
College Scholarship
EDUCATION CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
VACATION SCHEME STUDENT, SLAUGHTER & MAY, UK LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE The Bar; public law; jurisprudence; legal research
SCIENCE, UK, BSC POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY
(06/2018) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
(07/2014)
Graduated with first-class honours; awarded the Honoré The Bar; international human rights law; public law
Graduated with first-class honours; first class in seven out
Scholarship for the BCL and the Michel Scholarship at law of nine qualifying modules; top mark in two out of nine
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
moderations; received the Queen’s College Benefactor’s qualifying modules
Prize for non-academic contribution to the college Winner of the Oxford University Intercollegiate (Cuppers)
Mooting Competition; 3rd place nationally in the BPP
EMPLOYMENT Advocate of the Year Competition 2017
MINI-PUPIL, UK

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 VANDITA KHANNA INDIA BCL FRANZISKA KURZ GERMANY MJUR
vandita.khanna@law.ox.ac.uk Conducting an empirical study to understand forms and franziska.kurz@law.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS
Somerville College mechanisms of rental housing discrimination in Delhi Wadham College F Kurz, ‘Case: German Federal Court of Justice –
Hindi EDUCATION Requirements for deadlines in the Event of Lacking
GROUP LEADER, GENDER VARIANT LAW CLINIC, JINDAL Conformity of Goods’, European Review of Contract Law
EDUCATION GLOBAL LAW SCHOOL, INDIA FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITY ERLANGEN- (2018)
JINDAL GLOBAL LAW SCHOOL, INDIA, BA LLB (HONS) NUREMBERG, GERMANY, FIRST LEGAL STATE
Organising a legal literacy workshop for transgender
(08/2018) EXAMINATION (01/2017) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
activists aimed at legal empowerment
First-class honours; 1st on Dean’s List; CGPA 7.97/8; Gold Graduated in top 1% out of 1,505 candidates Academia; contract law; comparative law; private law;
Medallist PUBLICATIONS remedies
EMPLOYMENT
V Khanna, ‘The Holy Cow: Unravelling the Mystery of its
CORNELL LAW SCHOOL, USA, SEMESTER EXCHANGE Holiness’, Millennial Asia (2017) RESEARCH ASSISTANT, CHAIR OF PRIVATE LAW, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
PROGRAMME (12/2016) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND TECHNOLOGY Current DAAD Scholarship for the MJur programme;
V Khanna, ‘Prohibition on the Use of Force, Counter- awarded Faculty Women’s Prize 2018 for doctoral project
LAW, FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITY ERLANGEN-
Excellence for the Future Award by Center for Computer- Terrorism and the ISIS Crisis’, NLIU Law Review (2017) (Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, Friedrich-
NUREMBERG, GERMANY
Assisted Legal Instruction Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg); academic
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Assisting Professor Dr Franz Hofmann LLM (Cambridge)
EMPLOYMENT visitor at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (Trinity
Academia; human rights; refugee law; equality law with research projects; teaching
2018)
RESEARCH FELLOW, CENTRE FOR HEALTH LAW, ETHICS
AND TECHNOLOGY, INDIA ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Conducting research on reproductive rights, and Teaching assistant for family law, sociology, jurisprudence,
and contract law; recipient of Oxford-Indira Gandhi
transnational law on gender and sexuality RAM LAKSHMAN UK BCL

L
Graduate Scholarship
RESEARCH FELLOW, HOUSING DISCRIMINATION ramganesh.lakshman@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT
PROJECT, CENTRE FOR PUBLIC INTEREST LAW, INDIA The Queen’s College MINI-PUPIL, MAITLAND CHAMBERS, UK
EDUCATION
MINI-PUPIL, SOUTH SQUARE CHAMBERS, UK
JULIANE KOTZUR G
 ERMANY MJUR UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE
(06/2018) WORK EXPERIENCE STUDENT, SLAUGHTER & MAY, UK
juliane.kotzur@law.ox.ac.uk Introductory course on legal research and writing
Lady Margaret Hall Graduated with first-class honours; awarded the 5
Stone Buildings Prize in Trusts, the White & Case Prize in CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
German, French STUDENT ASSISTANT, CHAIR FOR CIVIL LAW AND LAW
AND ECONOMICS, HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN, Comparative Private Law, the 3 Verulam Buildings Prize The Bar; chancery law; commercial law; property law
EDUCATION GERMANY in Commercial Law, the Slaughter & May Prize in Roman
Law, and the Norton Rose Fulbright Prize for best overall ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN, GERMANY, FIRST Assisting Professor Gerhard Wagner with research and
results in law moderations; awarded a full scholarship for Won the Maitland Chambers Intercollegiate (Cuppers)
LEGAL STATE EXAMINATION (03/2017) lectures
the BCL from the Arts and Humanities Research Council Mooting Competition; placed 4th in the UK in the BPP
Graduation Award; specialisation in intellectual property Advocate of the Year Competition
law (1st in class); Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Scholarship Intellectual property law; art law; protection of cultural
assets
SCIENCES PO AIX, FRANCE, CERTIFICAT D’ÉTUDES
POLITIQUES (06/2015) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION JONATHAN LAM HONG KONG BCL
Lady Margaret Hall-Ann Kennedy Graduate Scholarship in jonathan.lam@law.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS
EMPLOYMENT
Law Linacre College J Lam, ‘Rethinking the NPCSC’s Power to Interpret the
LECTURER, HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN, Basic Law’, Hong Kong Law Journal (2017)
Cantonese, Mandarin
GERMANY
EDUCATION J Lam, ‘Vicarious Liability for Assaults after Mohamud v
WM Morrison Supermarkets plc’, Hong Kong Journal of
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG, LLB
TABEA KULSCHEWSKI GERMANY MJUR (06/2018)
Legal Studies (2017)
tabea.kulschewski@law.ox.ac.uk Working at the European desk Graduated with first-class honours CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Brasenose College Commercial law; tort law; IP; public law
German RESEARCH ASSISTANT AND DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, FULL-YEAR VISITING
UNIT ‘CANON LABOUR LAW’, CHAIR FOR CIVIL, STUDENT (06/2017) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
EDUCATION COMMERCIAL AND LABOUR LAW, EBERHARD KARLS
EMPLOYMENT Winner and Best Speaker, HKU Law Faculty Moot 2018;
HIGHER REGIONAL COURT OF TÜBINGEN, GERMANY, UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN, GERMANY
Runner-up, Maitland Chambers Oxford Intercollegiate
SECOND LEGAL STATE EXAMINATION (10/2016) Assisting Professor Hermann Reichold with research, MINI-PUPIL, DES VOEUX CHAMBERS, HONG KONG (Cuppers) Moot 2017; Semi-finalist, Oxford Holdsworth
Graduated with distinction publications, and teaching Law Society Annual Moot 2017
MINI-PUPIL, TEMPLE CHAMBERS, HONG KONG
EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN, PUBLICATIONS
MINI-PUPIL, PARKSIDE CHAMBERS, HONG KONG
GERMANY, FIRST LEGAL STATE EXAMINATION H Reichold and T Kulschewski, ‘Wie funktioniert der
(01/2015) "Dritte Weg" nach dem Streik-Urteil des BAG vom RESEARCH ASSISTANT TO PROFESSOR SIMON YOUNG
20.11.2012? Erste Ergebnisse einer Erhebung der AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CORA CHAN
Graduated in top 1% of class
Tübinger Forschungsstelle für kirchliches Arbeitsrecht im
Juni 2015’, Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht und Tarifpolitik in
KØBENHAVNS UNVERSITET, DENMARK, ERASMUS
Kirche und Caritas (2016)
EXCHANGE (06/2011)
EMPLOYMENT CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
ASSOCIATE, CMS HASCHE SIGLE STUTTGART, GERMANY International commercial law; international litigation and
arbitration
Working in the litigation and dispute resolution
department ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot
TRAINEE LAWYER, BUSE HEBERER FROMM SYDNEY, Court; graduated from secondary schools in Germany and
AUSTRALIA the USA (US Congress-Bundestag Scholarship)

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 EMILY LAW ITALY, UK B
 CL RUIHAN LIU C
 HINA BCL
emily.law@law.ox.ac.uk RESEARCHER AND ANALYST, THE EUROPEAN ruihan.liu@law.ox.ac.uk VACATION SCHEME STUDENT, CLIFFORD CHANCE, UK
Linacre College FOUNDATION (THINK TANK), UK Brasenose College Researching fund vehicles and capital contributions
Italian Conducting research on the history and evolution of EU Mandarin of limited partners to a limited partnership; attending
EDUCATION law, EU administrative law, UK constitutional law, and legal EDUCATION conference calls and client meetings
theory in the context of Brexit
UNIVERSITY OF READING, UK, LLB LAW WITH LEGAL LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
STUDIES IN EUROPE (07/2017) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS SCIENCE, UK, LLB (06/2018) Commercial law; academia; commercial arbitration;
Graduated in top 1% of class; prize for best performance Constitutional law; law and cyberspace; jurisprudence; First-class honours; Sweet & Maxwell Prize for best investor-state arbitration
in ‘global law at Reading’ module political philosophy overall performance; best performance in part I, public
international law, conflict of laws, and jurisprudence ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
EMPLOYMENT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Honourable mentions for both claimant’s and respondent’s
One of four students selected to represent the University EMPLOYMENT memoranda in Vis Moot 2016-17; 10th in Jessup UK
PARLIAMENTARY RESEARCHER, HOUSE OF COMMONS,
UK of reading in the Telders International Law Moot Court LEGAL INTERN, HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL Oral Rounds 2017-18; secretariat member, Cambridge
Competition 2016-17 ARBITRATION CENTRE, HONG KONG International Symposium on Economic Crime 2016 and
Producing articles, briefing papers, and research papers
2017; volunteer, Singapore Pro Bono Services Office
focused on the negotiation on the post-Brexit UK-EU Researching international arbitration; drafting case-
(2014-15)
partnership and the different legislative stages of the related correspondence and internal documents; compiling
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 case summaries and statistics; observing arbitration
proceedings

JONATHAN LEE HONG KONG B

 CL
TIM LUBBERS NETHERLANDS MJUR
jonathan.lee3@law.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS
St Hilda’s College J Lee, ‘Substantiating Substantive Review’, Public Law tim.lubbers@law.ox.ac.uk Conducting research for the litigation and financial law
Cantonese, Mandarin (2018, forthcoming) Lincoln College departments
J Lee, ‘Reforming Parasitic Accessory Liability in English Dutch
EDUCATION INTERN, VAN DIEPEN VAN DER KROEF, NETHERLANDS
Law’, The King’s Student Law Review (2016) EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK, BA LAW (06/2017) Conducting research; preparing presentations on
Graduated with double first-class honours; awarded CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS LEIDEN UNIVERSITY, NETHERLANDS, LLB (06/2018) jurisprudential developments
Eunice & Alton Kramer Prize for Law; Scholar of Churchill The Bar; company law; law of obligations; conflict of laws; Graduated cum laude; top 2% of class; Honours
College Programme PUBLICATIONS
public law
T Lubbers, ‘Art for Law: Gerard de Lairesse’s Paintings
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG, PCLL ADDITIONAL INFORMATION LEIDEN UNIVERSITY, NETHERLANDS, BA ART HISTORY for the Civil Chamber of the High Court of Holland’, Oud
(06/2018) Semi-finalist of OUP-BPP National Mooting Competition (MINOR: LATIN LANGUAGE) (08/2017) Holland (2018, forthcoming)
EMPLOYMENT 2016 (representing University of Cambridge); semi- Graduated cum laude; top 5% of class T Lubbers and J E Esser, ‘The Robotic Judge: Fiction or
finalist of Quadrant Chambers Fledglings Moot 2015; Future?’, De Toekomst van de Toga (2018, forthcoming)
MINI-PUPIL, DES VOEUX CHAMBERS, HONG KONG speaker at Trinity College Dublin Law Student Colloquium EMPLOYMENT
2016; author of thoughtsonthelaw.blogspot.com; STUDENT TEACHER, LEIDEN UNIVERSITY, NETHERLANDS CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
MINI-PUPIL, ESSEX COURT CHAMBERS, UK amateur violinist and conductor
Teaching the propaedeutic course Roman law of Legal practice; academia; Roman law; legal history; legal
VACATION SCHEME STUDENT, SLAUGHTER & MAY, obligations iconography
HONG KONG
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
STUDENT EMPLOYEE, STIBBE, NETHERLANDS
Winner, Cleveringa Moot Court Competition 2018;
Conducting research; drafting memoranda for the Practicum Musicae harpsichord at the Royal Conservatory,
litigation department The Hague
ROBERT LEE IRELAND BCL
INTERN, NAUTADUTILH, NETHERLANDS
robert.lee@law.ox.ac.uk Analysing constitutional law issues, with particular focus
Lady Margaret Hall on electoral issues
Irish
INTERN, ARTHUR COX, IRELAND
EDUCATION
Banking department intern
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND, BCL
(06/2018) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Graduated with first-class honours; awarded UCD The Commercial Bar; public law; jurisprudence;
Ad Astra Scholarship for Academic Merit; received constitutional law
Butterworths Irish Law Prize for placing 1st in stage 1 of
law programme; Stage 2 Scholarship; Entrance Scholarship ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Editor of 80 Years of the Irish Constitution
EMPLOYMENT
LEGAL INTERN, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF
IRELAND, IRELAND

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 ANGELA LUK HONG KONG BCL NYASHA MADYA ZIMBABWE BCL
angela.luk@law.ox.ac.uk VACATION SCHEME, LINKLATERS, HONG KONG nyasha.madya@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT
Pembroke College Financial regulations; equity and debt markets Keble College ACADEMIC ASSOCIATE, MERCANTILE LAW
Cantonese, Mandarin Shona DEPARTMENT, LAW FACULTY, UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA,
EDUCATION VACATION SCHEME, CLIFFORD CHANCE, HONG KONG EDUCATION SOUTH AFRICA
Dispute resolution; debt capital markets Assisting with lecturing, tutoring, and doing research for
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG, PCLL UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA, LLB
(06/2018) (12/2017) lecturers
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Graduated with distinction; Hou De Charitable Foundation Jurisprudence; commercial law; academia Graduated cum laude; received multiple awards including TUTOR, JURISPRUDENCE DEPARTMENT, LAW FACULTY,
Scholarship prizes for the best student in banking law and the best LLB UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION final year dissertation
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG, LLB AND BA Tutoring
Hong Kong Jockey Club Oxford Graduate Scholarship
LITERARY STUDIES (06/2017) (2018); Best Oralist in the Hogan Lovells Cup 2016; CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Graduated with double first-class honours; valedictorian 2nd runner-up in the Slaughter & May Senior Mooting
Academia; corporate law; banking; financial institutions law
of the 2017 LLB cohort; exchange to University College Competition 2016; regional champion in the FDI
London (overall first-class) International Arbitration Moot 2014

EMPLOYMENT
STUDENT EDITOR, ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL ON HUMAN
PAVLO MALYUTA U
 KRAINE MJUR
RIGHTS AND THE LAW, HONG KONG pavlo.malyuta@law.ox.ac.uk UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ, AUSTRIA, ERASMUS EXCHANGE
Brasenose College (02/2015)
Ukrainian, Russian European law

ANNA LUKINA RUSSIA BCL EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT

STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN, LLM INTERN, DISTRICT PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE, UKRAINE
anna.lukina@law.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION
Hertford College A Lukina, ‘Russia and International Human Rights Law: A (06/2018) Assisting in the investigation of the abuse of office
Russian View from the Past’, Russian Discourses on International
Law: Sociological and Philosophical Phenomenon (2018, Swedish Institute Visby Scholarship INTERN (DISPUTE RESOLUTION), AVELLUM, UKRAINE
EDUCATION
forthcoming) Drafting complaints, agency letters, and engagement
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV-MOHYLA ACADEMY,
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE agreements; conducting research; translating legal
A Lukina, ‘Soviet Union and the Universal Declaration of UKRAINE, LLB (06/2017)
(06/2018) documents
Human Rights’, Max Planck Institute for European Legal
Graduated with distinction
Academic scholarship; winner of the 2nd Annual 42 History Research Paper Series (2017)
Bedford Row Essay Prize in Disability Law CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
A Lukina, ‘Semenchuk Case of 1936: Storytelling and International arbitration; commercial law
EMPLOYMENT Propaganda above the Law in the Soviet Criminal Trial’,
Review of Central and East European Law (2016)
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT, REVIEW OF CENTRAL AND EAST
EUROPEAN LAW, ESTONIA CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Academia; public law; legal history; jurisprudence
ELLEN MARTIN UK BCL
SUMMER RESEARCH STUDENT, HERTFORD COLLEGE,
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK ellen.martin@law.ox.ac.uk MINI-PUPIL, ATKIN CHAMBERS, UK
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Pursued a fully funded research project on Russia and Merton College
Awarded Colin B Picker Prize (honourable mention) in MINI-PUPIL, MAITLAND CHAMBERS, UK
ECtHR 2017 at the 6th YCC Conference; 3rd place at the 10th EDUCATION
International Roman Law Moot Competition (2017) UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK, BA LAW (06/2018) WORK EXPERIENCE, WEST MIDLANDS POLICE
(FREEDOM OF INFORMATION DEPARTMENT), UK
Graduated with double first-class honours; recipient of the
James William Squire Scholarship; elected a Leonard Coling CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Scholar of Sidney Sussex College, awarded the college The Bar; academia; public law; employment law;
MARTIN MADEJ CZECH REPUBLIC M
 JUR

M
Lovell White Durrant and Michael Lyndon Stanford Prizes jurisprudence
martin.madej@law.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS EMPLOYMENT
Corpus Christi College M Madej, Meze Základních Práv v České Republice (Leges,
PANELLIST, UNHCR LEGAL RESEARCH PANEL,
Czech, Spanish, German 2018)
SWITZERLAND
EDUCATION M Madej and F Horák, ‘Axioms, Axiomatization and Law’, Conducting research for UNHCR Geneva
The Lawyer Quarterly (2018)
CHARLES UNIVERSITY, CZECH REPUBLIC, MA LAW AND
LEGAL SCIENCE (09/2018) M Madej, ‘Přímluva za Teorii Legitimních Cílů’, Právník
(2018)
EMPLOYMENT
LEGAL TRAINEE, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, YOUTH AND CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
SPORTS, CZECH REPUBLIC Academia; consultancy; theories of rights; legal
Drafting bills; co-creating internal legal documents; philosophy; moral philosophy; constitutional theory
answering questions raised by the public
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
PARALEGAL, AK POLVERINI STRNAD, CZECH REPUBLIC Due to complete PhD in theory, philosophy and sociology
of law at Charles University in June 2022; 1st place in
Legal research in civil, commercial, and corporate law European Student’s Competition in writing the best essay;
holder of 2-year grant from the Grant Agency of Charles
University; co-holder of Miroslav Petrusek Prize

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 JACK MAXWELL AUSTRALIA B
 CL SEBASTIAN MELLAB BELGIUM BCL
jack.maxwell@law.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS sebastian.mellab@law.ox.ac.uk Sitting in the finance and corporate departments
Christ Church J Maxwell, ‘Epistemic Injustice on Palm Island’, Alternative Keble College
EDUCATION Law Journal (2018) French, Dutch VACATION SCHEME, SULLIVAN & CROMWELL, UK
J Maxwell, ‘One Step Forward, One Step Back: The EDUCATION Sitting in the general practice group
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, JD
(12/2015) Victorian Charter in Bare v Independent Broad-Based
Anti-Corruption Commission’, Melbourne University Law UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK, BA LAW (06/2018) VACATION SCHEME, SLAUGHTER & MAY, UK
Placed 3rd in cohort; 2015 valedictorian; awarded Review (2016) Graduated with a double first; ranked 4th of 206 Sitting in the corporate department
Professor Colin Howard Memorial Prize and Raynes students; Herbert Smith Freehills Prize for Conflict of
Dickson Memorial Exhibition for Human Rights Lawyering J Maxwell, ‘“Two Systems of Law Side by Side”: The Role
Laws; Norton Rose Fulbright Prize for Commercial Law; CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
of Indigenous Customary Law in Sentencing’, Australian
best performance in criminal procedure and criminal Commercial law; private law; conflict of laws; public
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, BA (HONS) Indigenous Law Review (2015/2016)
evidence international law
(12/2012)
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Place 1st in cohort; graduated with first-class honours; UTRECHT UNIVERSITY, NETHERLANDS, ERASMUS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Public law; government; public policy; the Bar
awarded Hastie Scholarship EXCHANGE (06/2017) 2nd place at Dutch Junior Figure Skating Championships;
EMPLOYMENT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION EMPLOYMENT 2nd place for the applicant at Telders International Law
Winner of the Sir Zelman Cowen Victorian Championship Moot 2017; Fountain Court Scholarship for the BCL
SOLICITOR, VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT SOLICITOR’S VACATION SCHEME, DAVIS POLK WARDWELL, UK
Moot 2015; winner of the Castan Centre Human Rights
OFFICE, AUSTRALIA
Law Moot 2014 and 2015
Advising on constitutional law, administrative decision-
making and public powers, and environment and planning
law; conducting judicial review and merits review litigation JACQUELINE MEREDITH A
 USTRALIA B
 CL
jacqueline.meredith@law.ox.ac.uk SESSIONAL ACADEMIC, UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE,
Lincoln College AUSTRALIA
REBECCA McEWEN AUSTRALIA B
 CL
EDUCATION Course coordinator and lecturer in workplace health and
rebecca.mcewen@law.ox.ac.uk Legal research; assisting with preparation of judgments safety law; lecturer in advanced legal research
Lincoln College UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA, LLB (HONS I)
SESSIONAL ACADEMIC, UNIVERSITY OF NSW, AUSTRALIA (12/2016)
EDUCATION RESEARCH ASSISTANT TO THE DEAN OF LAW,
Teaching equity and torts University Medal in Law; best law dissertation; 1st place UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA
UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA, LLB (12/2013) in civil procedure, company, criminal law, evidence, family,
First-class honours; Adelaide Law Review student editor; PUBLICATIONS health, legal system/method, property, and workplace PUBLICATIONS
Dean’s Certificate (Moot Court) R McEwen, ‘The Flyash Saga: Chapter Three’, Australian health and safety law J Meredith, ‘The Shifting Work-Related Connecting
Journal of Competition and Consumer Law (2018) Factors in New South Wales’ Workers’ Compensation
UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA BA CLASSICAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE; AUSTRALIA, B COMN Scheme’, Australian Journal of Labour Law (2018)
STUDIES (12/2013) R McEwen, J Eldridge, and David Caruso, ‘Differential (12/2014)
or Deferential to Media?’, The International Journal of J Meredith, S McCarthy, and B Hemsley, ‘Legal and Ethical
J J Bay Prize for Level I Classical Studies; James Gartrell High distinction average; prize for politics Issues surrounding the Use of Older Children’s Electronic
Evidence and Proof (2018)
Prize for Classical Studies Personal Health Records’, Journal of Law and Medicine
R McEwen, ‘Establishing a Quantifiable Benefit or EMPLOYMENT
(2018)
EMPLOYMENT Detriment When Setting Pecuniary Penalties’, Australian ASSOCIATE TO THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE MCDONALD,
ASSOCIATE TO JUSTICE BELL, HIGH COURT OF Journal of Competition and Consumer Law (2017) SUPREME COURT OF VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA Legal research; assisting with the preparation of judgments Academia; tort law; workplace law; private law theory
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
in the Court of Appeal and Common Law Division
TIPSTAFF TO JUSTICE BEAZLEY (PRESIDENT OF THE Commercial law; tort law; gender and the law ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
COURT OF APPEAL), SUPREME COURT OF NSW, Oxford-Australia Scholarship
AUSTRALIA ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Lawyer of Supreme Court of NSW

CHRISTOPHER MCMAHON IRELAND BCL CHRISTOPHER MONAGHAN IRELAND, UK BCL

christopher.monaghan@law.ox.ac.uk SUMMER VACATION SCHEME, A&L GOODBODY, UK
christopher.mcmahon@law.ox.ac.uk INTERN, ARTHUR COX, IRELAND
Linacre College Working in the commercial, property, and litigation
Oriel College
PUBLICATIONS EDUCATION departments
Irish, Spanish, French
C McMahon, ‘The Limits of Separate Legal Personality in
EDUCATION QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST, UK, LLB (HONS) PUBLICATIONS
Ireland’, Irish Law Times (2018, forthcoming)
(07/2018)
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, LLB (POLITICAL SCIENCE) C Monaghan, ‘Does the Doctor Know Best? A
C McMahon, ‘iPromise: How Contract Theory Can Inform Graduated top of class; awards for best performance in
(05/2018) Deconstruction of Informed Consent’, Institute of
Regulation of Online Consumer Contracts’, Trinity College land law, contract law, tort law, and dissertation Advanced Legal Studies (2017)
First-class honours; 1st in class; Bloomsbury Professional Law Review (2018)
Prize in Evidence; Ronald J Hill Prize; elected to EMPLOYMENT
C McMahon, ‘A Reappraisal of Inferences from Silence’, CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Scholarship; Entrance Exhibitioner Irish Law Times (2018) MINI-PUPILLAGES, UK The Bar; commercial law; competition law; remedies;
EMPLOYMENT C McMahon, ‘Reassessing Political Accountability’s Monckton Chambers, Maitland Chambers, Wilberforce private law

JUDICIAL ASSISTANT, SUPREME COURT OF IRELAND,
IRELAND
Assisting and preparing research for a Supreme Court judge
INTERN, SUPREME COURT OF IRELAND, IRELAND
Chief Justice’s Summer Internship Programme
INTERN, MATHESON, IRELAND
INTERN, MCCANN FITZGERALD, IRELAND
Pedestal in Irish Administrative Law’, Irish Law Times (2018)
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Bar; teaching; academia; translation; media law; public law;
administrative law; EU law; evidence
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Senior editorial board member, Trinity College Law Review;
Irish language editor, higher education editor, and editorial
board member, The University Times
Chambers, 3 Verulam Buildings, and 1 Hare Court
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Winner of the LSE Featherstone Moot 2018; One Essex
JUDICIAL EXTERN, FEDERAL CENTRAL DISTRICT OF
CALIFORNIA, USA Court Scholarship for the BCL; managing editor of the
Network for International Law Students UK Law Review;
Extern for Judge Terry J Hatter and Judge Michael
Fordham University New York summer programme 2017
W Fitzgerald; drafting and assisting in preparation of
judgments; reviewing legal submissions; conducting legal
research; attending court proceedings

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 LUCA MORETTI A
 USTRALIA, ITALY B
 CL JAMIL MUSTAFA UK BCL
luca.moretti@law.ox.ac.uk RESEARCH AND EDITORIAL ASSISTANT TO PROFESSOR jamil.mustafa@law.ox.ac.uk Representing clients in social security claims before First-
Christ Church LUKE NOTTAGE, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA St Cross College tier Tribunal of the Social Entitlement Chamber
EDUCATION Providing research and editorial assistance for articles and EDUCATION
book chapters on investment treaty dispute management, PRIVATE LAW EDITOR, KEEP CALM TALK LAW, UK
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, LLB (HONS I) CITY UNIVERSITY LONDON, UK, GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN
international arbitration, and Asian-Pacific law Writer and editor for student-run online law journal
(07/2017) LAW (07/2017)
Ranked within the top five students at graduation PUBLICATIONS 3rd in class; Lord Bowen Scholarship; Lincoln’s Inn CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
L Moretti, ‘Certainty Promissory Estoppel after Crown Hardwicke Entrance Award The Bar
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, BA (HISTORY) Melbourne Ltd v Cosmopolitan Hotel (Vis) Pty Ltd’,
(11/2014) Commercial Law Quarterly (2017) UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK, MPHIL AMERICAN ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
HISTORY (07/2016) Obtained outstanding grade on BPTC from BPP University
EMPLOYMENT L Moretti, ‘Determining Pecuniary Penalties under the
Graduated with distinction; 1st in class Law School; Lincoln’s Inn Lord Denning Scholarship; BPP
GRADUATE SOLICITOR (EQUITY CAPITAL MARKETS National Credit Act and Code: Make It Mine Finance Pty
Advocacy Scholarship; law tutor, Bloomsbury Law Tutors;
AND CLASS ACTIONS) HERBERT SMITH FREEHILLS, Ltd, in the Matter of Make It Mine Finance Pty Ltd (No 2)
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL winner, LSA Student Debating Competition 2016-17;
AUSTRALIA [2015] FCA 1255’, Corporate Law Bulletin (2015)
SCIENCE, UK, BSC GOVERNMENT AND HISTORY semi-finalist, Lincoln’s Inn Internal Mooting Competition
Advising on public and private mergers and acquisitions, CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS (07/2015) 2016-17; secretary, Lincoln’s Inn Debating Club 2017-
capital market transactions, general corporate issues, and 18; due to commence pupillage at South Square in
Contract; equity; corporate restructuring; private First-class honours
class actions September 2019
international law
EMPLOYMENT
VOLUNTEER, FREE REPRESENTATION UNIT, UK

ELIZABETH MORGAN UK BCL

elizabeth.morgan@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT SEH WOON NEO S
 INGAPORE BCL

Brasenose College
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, UK, LLB LAW
(07/2017)
Graduated with first-class honours; Irwin Mitchell Prize
for top performer in healthcare law 2017 (joint winner);
University of Southampton School Certification for
Contribution to the Law School 2015 and 2016
SAMUEL MURRAY AUSTRALIA B
 CL
samuel.murray@law.ox.ac.uk
Lincoln College
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, BA LLB (HONS I)
(11/2015)
First-class honours in law; placed 1st in first and final year
of law; top five overall; finalist for University Convocation
Medal; recipient of Outstanding Achievement Scholarship;
recipient of Academic Merit Prize 2011, 2012, 2013,
2015
EMPLOYMENT
LAWYER, CORRS CHAMBERS WESTGARTH, AUSTRALIA
Commercial litigation; banking and finance
TIPSTAFF TO JUSTICE ARTHUR EMMETT AND JUSTICE
RONALD SACKVILLE, COURT OF APPEAL, NSW
SUPREME COURT, AUSTRALIA
Legal research; editing and preparing judgments
N
CASE PROGRESSION OFFICER, READING BOROUGH
COUNCIL (JOINT LEGAL TEAM), UK sehwoon.neo@law.ox.ac.uk Allen & Gledhill LLP and Morgan Lewis Stamford LLC;
Brasenose College assisting with research and drafting documents relating
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS to criminal law, family law, company law, and commercial
Mandarin
arbitration
Traditional and commercial chancery; property; trusts EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
(07/2018) Commercial law; civil litigation
Graduated with first-class honours
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
EMPLOYMENT Water Polo Blue; represented Singapore at the
Commonwealth Water Polo Championships 2014;
VACATION SCHEME STUDENT, LINKLATERS LLP, UK
quarter-finalist, Maitland Chambers Intercollegiate
Assisting the funds and private equity teams; conducting Mooting Competition 2018; 7 KBW Commercial Law
PUBLICATIONS research; drafting tasks Moot 2017; Oxford ADR Competition 2017; various
S J Murray, ‘The Public Interest, Representative other moots and debates; associate editor of the Oxford
Government and the “Legitimate Ends” of Restricting INTERNSHIPS, SINGAPORE Undergraduate Law Journal
Political Speech’, Monash University Law Review (2017)
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
The Bar; commercial law, particularly insolvency; EVA NEUMANN G
 ERMANY MJUR
constitutional law and rights; Roman law
eva.neumann@law.ox.ac.uk RESEARCH ASSISTANT, MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Wadham College COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE LAW,
World champion, Jessup International Law Moot Court German, French GERMANY
Competition; NSW Young Lawyer of the Year (highly EDUCATION Conducting legal research on property law and family law
commended); executive councillor, NSW Young Lawyers;
Hannah Fullerton Scholarship; Supperstone Scholarship BUCERIUS LAW SCHOOL, GERMANY, FIRST LEGAL STATE STUDENT ASSISTANT, CHAIR FOR PUBLIC LAW,
in Law; tutor and examiner in federal constitutional law, EXAMINATION (12/2017) BUCERIUS LAW SCHOOL, GERMANY
University of Sydney; case reporter, Oxford Reports on Graduated with distinction; specialisation in European law; Researching for Professor Fehling
International Law in Domestic Courts (Oxford University German National Academic Foundation Scholarship
Press) PUBLICATIONS
BUCERIUS LAW SCHOOL, GERMANY, LLB (03/2016) E Neumann, ‘Völkerrechtliche Aspekte einer koreanischen
Graduated in top 5%; exchange programme to Sciences Wiedervereinigung’, Bucerius Law Journal (2015)
Po (2014)
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
EMPLOYMENT European law; constitutional law; public law
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, REDEKER SELLNER DAHS,
GERMANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Finalist, Soldan Moot Court Competition 2016; currently
Assisting with publications and legal research on European
on DAAD and Peters-Beer-Stiftung Scholarships
and constitutional law

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 JONATHAN NG HONG KONG BCL MELTEM ECE OBA TURKEY MJUR
jonathan.ng@law.ox.ac.uk
St Hilda’s College
Cantonese, Mandarin
EDUCATION
PUBLICATIONS
J Ng, ‘Suing Google’s Autocomplete: How Should the Court
Approach Google’s Autocomplete Defamatory Liability’,
Hong Kong Journal of Legal Studies (2016)
O meltem.oba@law.ox.ac.uk
Harris Manchester
Turkish
EDUCATION
Editing and formatting online legal bulletins and Turkish
court decisions for electronic legal publisher

LEGAL INTERN, CHADBOURNE & PARKE LLP, TURKEY

Later combined with Norton Rose Fulbright; drafting due
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG, PCLL CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS KOÇ UNIVERSITY, TURKEY, LLM PRIVATE LAW (WITH diligence reports; legal research in Turkish corporate law
(06/2018) The Bar; commercial litigation THESIS) (07/2018) and investment arbitration
Graduated with distinction Top 1% of class; Full Tuition Scholarship
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PUBLICATIONS
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG, BBA (LAW) Mooted for HKU in the Herbert Smith Freehills KOÇ UNIVERSITY, TURKEY, LLB (06/2016) Z D Tarman and M E Oba, ‘Choice of Court Agreements
(06/2017) Competition Law Moot 2018 and the International under Turkish Law’, Yearbook of Private International Law
Maritime Law Arbitration Moot 2016 27th nationwide in university entrance exams; Scholarship
(2017/2018, forthcoming)
Graduated with first-class honours of Success; graduated with high honours
M E Oba, ‘Non-National Legal Rules and the Scope of their
EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT Application’, Journal of Turkish Bar Association (2017)
MINI-PUPIL, TEMPLE CHAMBERS, HONG KONG RESEARCH AND TEACHING ASSISTANT, KOÇ UNIVERSITY
LAW SCHOOL, TURKEY CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Drafting advice and skeleton submissions
Tutoring weekly problem sessions; assisting the evaluation Academia; international private law; law of foreigners;
of exam papers; conducting research on private refugee law
international law
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
MIMI NKPOSONG N
 IGERIA BCL 22nd Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration
EDITOR, KANUNUM.COM, TURKEY
umaeno.nkposong@law.ox.ac.uk VACATION SCHEME STUDENT, GOVERNMENT LEGAL Moot Court team member
Brasenose College SERVICE, UK
Yoruba, Efik
MINI-PUPIL, NO.5 CHAMBERS, UK
EDUCATION LARA OHNESORGE N
 ETHERLANDS MJUR
PUBLICATIONS
NIGERIAN LAW SCHOOL, NIGERIA, BAR PROFESSIONAL
U M Nkposong, ‘Gender Sensitive Transitional Justice lara.ohnesorge@law.ox.ac.uk Researching intermediated securities ownership
TRAINING COURSE (08/2018)
Mechanisms in Kenya’, Ensuring Gender Equality in St Cross College
Constitutions: UN Women and US Institute of Peace Dutch, German STUDENT ASSOCIATE, NAUTADUTILH, NETHERLANDS
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, UK, LLB (07/2017)
(2017) M&A; financial law
Graduated in top 1% of class; awarded the Sir Henry EDUCATION
Barber Prize CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS LEIDEN UNIVERSITY, NETHERLANDS, LLM FINANCIAL TUTOR; MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY, NETHERLANDS
EMPLOYMENT Corporate law LAW (09/2018)
Teaching undergraduate courses
INTERN, BANWO & IGHODALO, NIGERIA Distinction
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Carrying out research on various legal topics for Awarded the Bronze Prize for Outstanding Achievement in MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY, NETHERLANDS, EUROPEAN Academia; financial law; property law
associates; conducting searches at the Lands Registry; CEPLER Professional Development; awarded the CEPLER LAW SCHOOL (08/2017)
writing legal opinions on cases my supervisors were Prize for Research Excellence ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
working on Distinction
Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Scholarship
EMPLOYMENT
STUDENT ASSISTANT, LEIDEN UNIVERSITY,
NETHERLANDS
JAMES NORTON AUSTRALIA B
 CL
james.norton@law.ox.ac.uk SESSIONAL ACADEMIC, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY,
Magdalen College AUSTRALIA
JANET PANG HONG KONG BCL

German
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA, LLB
(06/2017)
First-class honours; best overall performance in LLB
stages 1 and 3; best subject performance in foundations
of law and remedies
UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA, BINST
(06/2017)
Graduated with distinction; Goethe Prize for the best
performance in German studies
EMPLOYMENT
TIPSTAFF, NEW SOUTH WALES COURT OF APPEAL,
AUSTRALIA
Legal research; in-court assistance to judge
P
Tutor in torts
INTERN, AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY, GERMANY
Researching and drafting diplomatic cables on current
political and economic issues in Germany and Europe
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Public policy; regulation; constitutional design and reform;
causation and damages awards
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Rhodes Scholarship (NSW and Magdalen, 2018);
executive editor, UNSW Law Journal (2015); champion,
UNSW Senior Mooting and Witness Examination
Competitions; admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme
Court of New South Wales
ho.pang@law.ox.ac.uk Researching and advising on constitutional law, public law,
Linacre College law and politics, and policy matters
Cantonese, Mandarin
SOLICITOR, TANG, LEE & CO LLP, HONG KONG
EDUCATION
General legal work
CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG,
PCLL (06/2013) TRAINEE SOLICITOR, BAKER & MCKENZIE, HONG KONG
CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG, Working in property, corporate, and dispute resolution
LLB (06/2012) practice groups
Graduated with first-class honours CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
EMPLOYMENT Public service; constitutional law; human rights law;
international law; legal history; policy and regulation
ASSISTANT (LEGAL AFFAIRS), HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL OFFICE OF THE HONOURABLE DENNIS KWOK,
HONG KONG

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 THOMAS PAUSEY UK BCL SPYRIDOULA PETRATOU GREECE MJUR
thomas.pausey@law.ox.ac.uk MINI-PUPILLAGES, UK spyridoula.petratou@law.ox.ac.uk CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
St Catherine’s College Including Quadrant Chambers and 20 Essex Street St Cross College Academia; constitutional theory; comparative public law;
EDUCATION Greek, German human rights; philosophy of law
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE EDUCATION ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
International trade; commercial law; law of obligations;
(07/2018) NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, Scholarship for postgraduate studies in public law in
property law
Graduated with first-class honours; Quadrant Chambers GREECE, DIPLOMA IN LAW (PTYCHION) (08/2016) National and Kapodistrian University by Lilian Voudouri
Prize for International Trade; Gibbs Book Prize (combined ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Graduated in top 1% of class; 9.29/10 Foundation (2017-18); editor-in-chief of the legal journal
performance in contract, tort, land, and trusts); David University-level mooting; Jonathan Bailey Prize for Applications of Public Law (2016-17), published under
Blank Scholarship Debating; Mr & Mrs Kenny Lam’s Graduate Scholarship EMPLOYMENT the auspices of the Department of Public Law of National
and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Nomiki Bibliothiki
EMPLOYMENT TRAINEE LAWYER, BAKOPOULOS-KATHARIOS LAW
FIRM, GREECE
VACATION SCHEME, SULLIVAN & CROMWELL, UK
Drafting, translating, and editing legal documents;
conducting legal and academic research

OLIVIER PEETERS GERMANY BCL

olivier.peeters@law.ox.ac.uk INTERN, DRAX POWER, UK MARIE-ANDRÉE PLANTE CANADA BCL
Magdalen College
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS marie-andree.plante@law.ox.ac.uk ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, PAUL-ANDRÉ CRÉPEAU CENTRE
German, Dutch, Polish FOR PRIVATE AND COMPARATIVE LAW, MCGILL
International commercial arbitrations, particularly Wadham College
EDUCATION investor-state arbitration; private and public international French UNIVERSITY, CANADA
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON, UK, LLB LAW (HONS) law Coordinating research activities; researching private and
EDUCATION
(08/2018) comparative law; organising academic conferences
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ÉCOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE DE PARIS, ÉCOLE
Graduated first in class; awarded Dickson Poon & Willie DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES AND
Represented King’s College London at Willem C Vis LAW CLERK, QUEBEC COURT OF APPEAL, CANADA
Kwan Scholarships UNIVERSITÉ PARIS NANTERRE, FRANCE, MASTER 2
International Commercial Arbitration Moot; President of Preparing bench memoranda; attending oral arguments;
EMPLOYMENT King’s College London Bar Society LEGAL THEORY (12/2014)
assisting in drafting written opinions
Magna cum laude
INTERN, STANDARD CHARTERED BANK, HONG KONG
PUBLICATIONS
ÉCOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE DE PARIS AND M Plante and Y Emerich, ‘Repenser les Paradigmes:
UNIVERSITÉ PARIS NANTERRE, FRANCE, MASTER 1 Approches Transsystémiques du Droit’, Éditions Yvon Blais
PUBLIC LAW (09/2013) (2018)
GABRIEL PERRY AUSTRALIA B
 CL Magna cum laude; admitted to École Normale Supérieure
gabriel.perry@law.ox.ac.uk ASSOCIATE TO THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE R G de Paris through competitive examination CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Merton College ATKINSON AO, SUPREME COURT OF QUEENSLAND, Academia; philosophy of law; constitutional law and
AUSTRALIA MCGILL UNIVERSITY, CANADA, BCL/LLB (HONS) theory; feminist legal studies; comparative law
EDUCATION (05/2012)
Proofreading judgments; undertaking legal research; ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
COLLEGE OF LAW, AUSTRALIA, GRADUATE DIPLOMA Millennium Excellence award programme Entrance Award;
speech-writing; assisting with the administration of court
LEGAL PRACTICE (05/2016) John G Ahern QC Memorial Award for excellence in moot Member of Quebec Bar
PUBLICATIONS court competition; exchange semester in Sciences Po
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, LLB (HONS)
(07/2015) G Perry, ‘Characterising “Risk” in “Obvious Risk” Cases EMPLOYMENT
under Civil Liability Legislation’, Torts Law Journal (2016)
Graduated with first-class honours; Dean’s Awards for LECTURER, UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE, CANADA
Academic Excellence CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Advocacy; criminal law; human rights law; tort law;
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, BA (HONS) medical law; professional responsibility; rules of evidence;
PSYCHOLOGY (07/2015) legal reasoning; the intersection between psychological PARIDHI PODDAR INDIA BCL
Graduated with first-class honours; awarded University research and the law
Medal in Psychology; Faculty of Humanities and Social paridhi.poddar@law.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS
Sciences Graduate of the Year ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Exeter College P Poddar, ‘Revisiting the Shipbreaking Industry in India:
Awarded UQ Graduate of the Year; Pro Bono Centre Hindi Axing Out Environmental Damage, Labour Rights’
EMPLOYMENT Violation, and Economic Myopia’, NUJS Law Review
advisory panel member (2014-15); mental health
EDUCATION
FEDERAL PROSECUTOR, COMMONWEALTH DIRECTOR volunteer advocate (2015-16); asylum seeker legal clinic (2015)
OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS, AUSTRALIA volunteer (2016-17) WEST BENGAL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF JURIDICAL
SCIENCES, INDIA, BA LLB (HONS) (05/2018) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Assessing briefs of evidence; recommending charges;
prosecuting federal criminal offences in court University Gold Medallist; awarded 7 gold medals; Corporate and commercial law; banking and finance law;
academic distinctions in 42 out of a total 51 subjects; competition law
recipient of NUJS Merit Scholarship
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
EMPLOYMENT Awarded the Dr Mrs Ambriti Salve Scholarship (2018-
LEGAL INTERN, SENIOR ADVOCATE HARISH N SALVE, 19); editor, NUJS Law Review; participant, Willem C Vis
INDIA International Commercial Arbitration Moot; future trainee
solicitor, Allen & Overy LLP
Conducting research on disputes arising out of taxation
matters and commercial contracts

VACATION SCHEME STUDENT, ALLEN & OVERY LLP, UK

Working in the real estate department

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 ARTHUR POON HONG KONG BCL RACHEL RONALD H
 ONG KONG BCL
suen.poon@law.ox.ac.uk Working in the litigation department rachel.ronald@law.ox.ac.uk COURT MARSHAL, DISTRICT COURT, HONG KONG
St Cross College St Hugh’s College Shadowing Deputy District Judge Her Honour Judge B
Cantonese, Putonghua MINI-PUPIL, DES VOEUX CHAMBERS, HONG KONG Cantonese, Mandarin Woo (as she then was)
EDUCATION Drafting skeleton submissions; conducting research EDUCATION
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG, BA SOCIAL MINI-PUPIL, TEMPLE CHAMBERS, HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG, PCLL The Bar; miscarriages of justice; intellectual property law;
SCIENCES (GOVERNMENT AND LAW) (07/2018) (06/2018) medical law
PUBLICATIONS
First-class honours
A Poon, ‘The Road Not Taken: China’s Rugged Path to UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, UK, LLB (06/2016) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG, LLB a Stronger Legal Culture’, Hong Kong Journal of Legal First-class honours; top 5% of class; Faculty Student volunteer assistant, HKU Clinical Legal Education
(07/2018) Studies (2018, forthcoming) Undergraduate Scholarship for Sustained Academic programme; student case investigator, Criminal Justice
Achievement Initiative; represented Sheffield and won all four
First-class honours CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS preliminary rounds in the 14th Oxford International
The Bar EMPLOYMENT
EMPLOYMENT Intellectual Property Mooting (2016); winner, Sheffield
MINI-PUPIL, HONG KONG Varsity Moot 2014 and 2015; finalist, Edward Bramley
SUMMER INTERN, REED SMITH RICHARDS BUTLER,
Temple Chambers, Denis Chang’s Chambers, Plowman Internal Mooting Competition 2014; mooting secretary,
HONG KONG
Chambers, and Kenneth C L Chan’s Chambers Edward Bramley Law Society

SUMMER INTERN, LAW REFORM COMMISSION

ASHPEN RAJAH UK, MALAYSIA B
 CL

R
SECRETARIAT, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, HONG KONG
ashpen.rajah@law.ox.ac.uk MINI-PUPILLAGES, UK
Trinity College One Essex Court Chambers, Wilberforce Chambers,
EDUCATION Maitland Chambers, Serle Court Chambers, Landmark
BRYAN SAN JUAN PHILIPPINES MJUR

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK, BA LAW (06/2018)
Graduated with first-class honours in all three years;
elected as a Foundation Scholar of Downing College and
a John H Morrison OBE Scholar; awarded the Downing
College Platt Prize for especial distinction in University
examinations
EMPLOYMENT
VACATION SCHEME STUDENT, SLAUGHTER & MAY, UK
OLIVIA RETTER UK BCL
olivia.retter@law.ox.ac.uk
Brasenose College
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE
(07/2017)
First-class honours; awarded Gibbs Book Prize and
Archibald McDougall Law Prize
EMPLOYMENT
VACATION SCHEME STUDENT, LINKLATERS LLP, UK
Seats in capital markets and intellectual property
departments; researching legal developments and drafting
notes; participating in mediation exercise
ALASTAIR RICHARDSON IRELAND BCL
alastair.richardson@law.ox.ac.uk
St Hilda’s College
French, Irish
EDUCATION
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND, LLB (06/2018)
Graduated with first-class honours; Scholar; Entrance
Exhibitioner
EMPLOYMENT
INTERN, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND EQUALITY,
IRELAND
INTERN, WILLIAM FRY, IRELAND
INTERN, ARTHUR COX, IRELAND
S
Chambers, and Crown Office Chambers
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
The Bar, particularly commercial and chancery
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Winner of the Blackstone Chambers De Smith Moot 2017
and the Downing v Magdalene Moot 2016; finalist of
the Landmark Chambers Property Moot 2017 and the
Quadrant Chambers Fledglings Moot 2016
MARSHALLING, WOOLWICH CROWN COURT, UK
Sitting on bench to observe court proceedings; taken
through process of writing up summary for jury
WORK EXPERIENCE, 5 STONE BUILDINGS, UK
Commercial chancery and family law; shadowing barristers
in preparation of cases and in court
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Private law; trusts; remedies; human rights
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
JET programme in Tokyo; worked as assistant language
teacher and as AJET representative for five prefectures
PUBLICATIONS
A Richardson, ‘Lateral Thinking: Justifying the Horizontal
Application of Constitutional Rights’, Trinity College Law
Review (2018)
A Richardson, ‘Indeterminacy and Equality: A Conceptual
and Comparative Analysis of Equality Law’, Irish Law Times
(2017)
A Richardson, ‘Stokes v Christian Brothers High School
Clonmel’, Irish Community Development Law Journal
(2015)
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Academia; the Bar; public law; human rights; EU law; legal
philosophy
bryan.sanjuan@law.ox.ac.uk CONSULTANT, PEACE PANEL FOR THE NEGOTIATIONS
Hertford College WITH THE MORO ISLAMIC LIBERATION FRONT,
Filipino PHILIPPINES
EDUCATION Providing legal advice to the Peace Panel in the formulation
of peace agreements with the MILF
COLLEGE OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES,
PHILIPPINES, JD (04/2010)
PRESIDENTIAL STAFF OFFICER, OFFICE OF THE
Valedictorian; cum laude; ACCRA Law-Violeta Calvo Drilon PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES, PHILIPPINES
Scholarship; Gonzalo W Gonzalez Award; Chancellor of the Providing staff work relating to national security and
Order of the Purple Feather peace process for President Arroyo
UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES, PHILIPPINES, BA CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
POLITICAL SCIENCE (04/2002) Antitrust law; M&A; regulatory compliance; merger
Cum laude control; anti-money laundering regulations
EMPLOYMENT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
SENIOR ASSOCIATE, PUNO & PUNO LAW OFFICES, Admitted to the Philippine Bar (2011)
PHILIPPINES
Leading the antitrust department and anti-money
laundering law department; handling complex commercial
law transactions of major conglomerates
SEBASTIAN SCHMITT GERMANY MJUR
sebastian.schmitt@law.ox.ac.uk Assisting Professor Dr Ingo Saenger with research on
Oriel College corporate and civil procedure law; teaching
German, French
INTERN, INSURANCE AND PENSION FUNDS
EDUCATION SUPERVISION, GERMAN FINANCIAL SUPERVISORY
UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER, GERMANY, FIRST LEGAL AUTHORITY, GERMANY
STATE EXAMINATION (06/2014) Conducting legal research
Graduated with distinction; specialising in banking and
capital markets law CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
The Bar; academia; corporate law; law and economics;
UNIVERSITY PARIS NANTERRE (PARIS X), FRANCE, comparative law
EXCHANGE YEAR (06/2011)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Specialising in international and EU law
Studying towards BSc Law and Economics (currently on
EMPLOYMENT hold)
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL
BUSINESS LAW, CHAIR FOR CIVIL LAW, LAW OF CIVIL
PROCEDURE AND CORPORATE LAW, UNIVERSITY OF
MÜNSTER, GERMANY

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 ALIX SCHULZ GERMANY MJUR ARON SENONER ITALY MJUR
alix.schulz@law.x.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS aron.senoner@law.ox.ac.uk RESEARCH INTERN, CHAIR OF EU CONSTITUTIONAL
St Hilda’s College M Weller, L Kaller, and A Schulz, ‘Haftung deutscher The Queen’s College LAW, UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN, NETHERLANDS
German Unternehmen für Menschenrechtsverletzungen im German, Italian Assisting Professor Dr Dimitry Kochenov in researching
Ausland’, Archiv für civilistische Praxis (2016) citizenship rights
EDUCATION EDUCATION
M Weller, I Hauber, and A Schulz, ‘Gleichstellung im
ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITÄT FREIBURG, GERMANY, UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN, NETHERLANDS, LLB INTERN, WÖRNDLE & PARTNER, ITALY
Internationalen Scheidungsrecht: talaq und get im Licht
FIRST LEGAL STATE EXAMINATION (01/2018) INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN LAW (07/2018)
des Art. 10 Rom III-VO’, Praxis des Internationalen Privat- Assisting in drafting legal documents
Graduated with distinction und Verfahrensrechts (2016) Summa cum laude; best student of class; final thesis on EU
Fiscal State Aid graded 10/10; supervised by Professor Dr PUBLICATIONS
UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI, FINLAND, ERASMUS M Weller and A Schulz, ‘Unterhaltsklage nach
Laurence Gormley; awarded Faculty Scholarship L Squintani, A Senoner, et al, ‘Mitigation and Compensation
EXCHANGE (01/2015) Kindesentführung: Zuständigkeit am “unrechtmäßigen”
gewöhnlichen Aufenthalt des Kindes?’, Praxis des Measures under the EU Habitats Directive in Selected
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, UK, VISITING STUDENT Member States’, European Energy and Environmental Law
EMPLOYMENT Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (2015) (05/2017) Review (2018, forthcoming)
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, NOERR LLP, GERMANY First-class average; honours seminars in WTO law,
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Research in the field of international litigation and competition law, internal market law, international CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Conflict of laws; European Union law; women’s and
arbitration minorities’ rights investment law, international commercial litigation, and Academia; public service; consultancy; EU law; competition
taxation law; international economic law; commercial litigation;
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION investment arbitration; financial and monetary law
GERMANY EMPLOYMENT
German National Academic Foundation Scholarship;
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Assisting with publications and lectures German Academic Exchange Service Scholarship;
participant and coach, Willem C Vis International NETHERLANDS Editorial board member, Groningen Journal of International
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG, Commercial Arbitration Moot Law; editor, European Student Think Tank
Researching EU environmental law
GERMANY
Assisting with publications

CHEE CHING SIK H

 ONG KONG BCL
chee.sik@law.ox.ac.uk MINI-PUPIL, DES VOEUX CHAMBERS, HONG KONG
GRETTA SCHUMACHER N
 EW ZEALAND B
 CL
St Anne’s College
gretta.schumacher@law.ox.ac.uk Assisting in research, drafting and delivery of judgments INTERN, FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER, HONG
Cantonese, Mandarin
KONG
Magdalen College EDUCATION
PUBLICATIONS
EDUCATION CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Contributing author, Honourable Justice Mathew Downs UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK, BA LAW (06/2017)
UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, BA LLB The Bar; securities law
(ed.), Cross on Evidence (New Zealand edition, 2017) Graduated with first-class honours; awarded C J Hamson
(HONS) (09/2015)
G E Schumacher, ‘The Deductibility of Expenditure on Prize for Aspects of Obligations; awarded David Clement ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Class rank #2; Dean’s Academic Excellence Award; prize Holiday Homes’, New Zealand Journal of Taxation Law and Davies Prize for Law by Trinity Hall; elected as Bateman Quarter-finalist in Willem C Vis Moot 2017 (representing
for top student in penultimate and final years; prize for Policy (2016) Scholar of Trinity Hall the University of Cambridge)
highest marks in any two final stage papers; subject
award in company law, international law, and advanced EMPLOYMENT
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
international law; Senior Scholar Prize in German and Public and private international law; transnational MINI-PUPIL, TEMPLE CHAMBERS, HONG KONG
political philosophy commercial litigation; Bar; academia; international law of Drafting legal advice
EMPLOYMENT the sea; international environment law

BARRISTER, SHORTLAND CHAMBERS, NEW ZEALAND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Appearing in all levels of New Zealand courts, both led and
unled
JUDGE’S CLERK, COURT OF APPEAL, NEW ZEALAND
PAUL SCHWARTFEGER UK, NEW ZEALAND BCL
paul.schwartfeger@law.ox.ac.uk
Corpus Christi College
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF LAW, UK, LLM (08/2018)
Graduated with distinction
UNIVERSITY OF LAW, UK, BPTC (07/2018)
Graded very competent; Inner Temple BPTC Exhibition
Award
UNIVERSITY OF LAW, UK, LLB (HONS) (08/2017)
Graduated with first-class honours; joint-highest-scoring
University of Law graduate; Ede & Ravenscroft Award
EMPLOYMENT
CASEWORKER, FREE REPRESENTATION UNIT, UK
Speaker rank #14, Jessup International Law Moot
(International Rounds); speaker rank #2 Asia-Pacific
JING EN SIM S
 INGAPORE BCL
International Humanitarian Law Moot Court; New Zealand jing.sim@law.ox.ac.uk INTERN, RAJAH & TANN LLP, SINGAPORE
Jessup Moot team national coach (2017) Christ Church Preparing research in the commercial litigation department
Mandarin
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
EDUCATION
Private international law; family law
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK, BA LAW (06/2018)
Sir David Williams Prize and Dato Ng Kong Yeam ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
VOLUNTEER, BAR PRO BONO UNIT, UK
Prize for best undergraduate performance in Wolfson Served in the Republic of Singapore Air Force as a
DIRECTOR OF STRATEGY, ETRE, UK College, Cambridge; James William Squire Scholarship; conscripted air warfare officer; winner of the Rajah & Tann
Cambridgeshire and District Law Society Prize for best UK Intervarsity Moot 2018
MANAGER, DELOITTE, UK performance in criminology, sentencing and the penal
system
SPECIAL PROJECTS MANAGER, BBC, UK
EMPLOYMENT
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
MINI-PUPIL, DES VOEUX CHAMBERS, HONG KONG
The Bar; property law; immigration law; employment law;
public law; business and technology Assisting in drafting skeletons, submissions, and advices
for several barristers
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Runner-up, Inner Temple Lawson Moot 2018; winner, 5
Pump Court University of Law Moot 2017; semi-finalist,
LSE-Featherstone Moot 2017; winner, 42 Bedford
Row University of Law Moot 2016; governor at a north
London school for children with profound and complex
learning difficulties (2016-present)

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 ASMITA SINGHVI INDIA B
 CL HARRY STRATTON A
 USTRALIA B
 CL
asmita.singhvi@law.ox.ac.uk RESEARCH ASSISTANT, ARGHYA SENGUPTA, VIDHI harry.stratton@law.ox.ac.uk Researching statistical trends in wrongful convictions and
Somerville College CENTRE FOR LEGAL POLICY, INDIA Magdalen College exonerations
Hindi Assisted Delhi High Court Committee on media and fair Latin
trial rights ASSISTANT TO STATISTICS DIRECTOR, NSW LABOR,
EDUCATION EDUCATION AUSTRALIA
JINDAL GLOBAL LAW SCHOOL, INDIA, BA LLB (HONS) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, BSC (ADV) LLB Developing statistical algorithms to model voting
(05/2018) Commercial law; academia; dispute resolution; (HONS I) (06/2018) intention; devising micro-targeted campaign strategies
3rd in year; Dean’s List; Shallu Jindal Outstanding Woman constitutional law and theory; media law Outstanding Merit Scholarship; high distinction average;
Scholarship; Best Mooter 2016; Outstanding Contribution Monahan Prize for 1st in evidence; James Aitken CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
to Mooting; teaching assistant to Professor Michael C ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Scholarship; Walter Reid Memorial Prize; editor of the Law Wrongful convictions; tax avoidance; overthrowing
Davis; exchange to Singapore Management University on Winner, Best Team from Asia-Pacific Region and Best Review and Social Justice Law Journal capitalism
Temasek Learn Foundation Scholarship Team from Non-OECD Country at Frankfurt Investment
Arbitration Moot Court; runner-up, Best Speaker (World), EMPLOYMENT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
EMPLOYMENT and winner, Best Speaker (South Asia), at Oxford Price Winner, Jessup International Law Moot (International
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, ALLENS LINKLATERS,
VACATION SCHEME, HERBERT SMITH FREEHILLS, UK Media Moot Court; treasurer, moot court society; HAS AUSTRALIA/UK Rounds); winner, International Maritime Law Arbitration
Award to pursue BCL Moot; winner, Australia Centre for International
Assisted construction team and public international law Working on Grenfell Tower tragedy, Lehman Brothers
Commercial Arbitration Moot; runner-up, Australian
and international commercial arbitration team insolvency, and Romanian Microsoft corruption scandal
Intervarsity Debating Championships; winner, National
Schools Debating Championship; secretary, NSW Young
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY,
Labor Left
AUSTRALIA
JEROME SQUIRES AUSTRALIA B
 CL
jerome.squires@law.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS
Christ Church J Squires, ‘Do Intentional Commercial Courts Represent DANIEL TAYLOR U
 K BCL

EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA, LLB AND BA
PHILOSOPHY (DUAL) (12/2014)
Graduated with first-class honours in law; subject prizes
for evidence and Adelaide Law Review
EMPLOYMENT
LAWYER, ALLENS LINKLATERS, AUSTRALIA
Working in banking and finance and commercial litigation
practice groups; drafting; legal research; advisory work
TIPSTAFF TO THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE WRIGHT,
SUPREME COURT OF NSW, AUSTRALIA
Undertaking legal research; assisting in the preparation of
judgments; preparing legal bulletins
SESSIONAL ACADEMIC, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL
UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA
Legal theory
T
a Real Challenge to International Arbitration’, Chartered
Institute of Arbitrators Australia News (2015) daniel.taylor@law.ox.ac.uk CASEWORKER, REFUGEE LEGAL SUPPORT ATHENS,
Exeter College GREECE
J Squires, ‘Google Spain SL v Agencia Española de
Protección de Datos (European Court of Justice, French, Italian Voluntary consultations with clients; advising on EU
C-131/12, 13 May 2014), Adelaide Law Review (2014) asylum system
EDUCATION
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE (LAW RESEARCH INTERN, INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION OF
WITH ITALIAN LAW) (06/2017)
The Bar; commercial litigation and arbitration; employment MIGRATION, SWITZERLAND
law; banking and finance law Graduated in top 5% of cohort; awarded Tobias Law Prize
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
for strongest finals mark in Exeter College; awarded Ashe
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Lincoln and Fitzgerald Prizes for finals performance; Amelia The Bar; legal research; the rule of law; immigration and
Jackson Scholarship for BCL study; year abroad study at asylum; equality law; human rights; legal and political
Admitted as a solicitor to the NSW Supreme Court and
the University of Siena philosophy
High Court of Australia; mini-pupillages at One Essex
Court, Keating Chambers, Henderson Chambers, and XXIV EMPLOYMENT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Old Buildings
VOLUNTEER PARALEGAL, ISLINGTON LAW CENTRE, UK Founder of Patchwork, an Oxford-based club night
Immigration team; conducting research; drafting legal
memoranda; attending hearings

DARYL TEO AUSTRALIA B

 CL
daryl.teo@law.ox.ac.uk LAWYER, MINTERELLISON, AUSTRALIA
REBECCA STOPPS U
 K BCL Merton College Law clerk, graduate, and then lawyer in the real estate
rebecca.stopps@law.ox.ac.uk CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Mandarin team
Harris Manchester College Academia; property law; commercial law; constitutional EDUCATION
law CAREERS INTERESTS
EDUCATION GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA, LLB (12/2013) Conflict of laws; dispute resolution; project finance;
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, UK, LLB (06/2018) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Graduated with first-class honours; University Medal banking law; real estate; international law; human rights
First-class honours; ranked 2nd out of 367 students University of Manchester R G Lawson Property Law II in Law; multiple awards for academic excellence; John
Prize winner & Alison Kearney International Scholarship in Law; ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
EMPLOYMENT international exchange to the University of Copenhagen Admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of
VOLUNTEER, LEGAL ADVICE CENTRE, UK Queensland in 2014; finalist, Griffith University Open
EMPLOYMENT Mooting Competition 2013; commissioned as an officer of
Meeting with clients; drafting legal advice letters the Singapore Armed Forces while completing compulsory
ASSOCIATE, ADDLESHAW GODDARD, UAE
national service; received letter of commendation from
Associate working in the real estate team and with the
the Singapore Armed Forces for assisting police in the
banking and finance team across the GCC
arrest of illegal immigrants; volunteer at various pro bono
legal clinics

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 TITUS TEO GUO ZHENG S
 INGAPORE BCL
titus.teoguozheng@law.ox.ac.uk
Balliol College
Mandarin
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL, UK, LLB (07/2018)
Top graduating law student (Sweet & Maxwell Prize);
awarded the LEGU Student Prize, Conkerton Memorial
Prize, and Oxford University Press Prize for top
performance in the cohort in all three years; DLA Piper
Prize (contract law); Liverpool Law Clerks Prize (EU law);
Anthony Hudson Prize and University of Liverpool Law
Association Prize (English legal system and legal skills);
achieved top marks in public law, international arbitration,
and law and social justice
LEGAL INTERN, RAJAH & TANN SINGAPORE LLP,
SINGAPORE
Preforming legal drafting and research for commercial
disputes
LEGAL INTERN, DREW & NAPIER LLC, SINGAPORE
Conducting due diligence; helping draft a company’s
constitution; performing legal research for corporate
disputes
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
International arbitration; conflict of laws; dispute
resolution
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
FRANCISC IOANID TOMA R
 OMANIA BCL
francisc.toma@law.ox.ac.uk LEGAL INTERN, MINISTRY OF EUROPEAN FUNDS,
Lady Margaret Hall ROMANIA
Romanian
PUBLICATIONS
EDUCATION F I Toma, ‘The Impact of Brexit on the Global Financial
KU LEUVEN, BELGIUM, ADVANCED LLM INTERNATIONAL System’, National Bank of Romania Working Paper (2018)
AND EUROPEAN BUSINESS LAW (07/2018) F I Toma, ‘The Challenges of Digital Markets’, SSRN (2017)
2:1 UK equivalent; Master Mind full Scholarship F I Toma, ‘The Drawbacks of CETA and the UK’s Future
Ambitions towards a Canadian-Style Relationship’, Hull
UNIVERSITY OF HULL, UK, LLB LAW (07/2017) Law Journal (2016)
Top 2%; Professor F W Taylor Award for highest grade
in dissertation; highest grade in science, law, and new CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
technologies Bar; EU institutions; competition law and digital markets;
Eurozone’s economy; Islamic finance; Brexit
EMPLOYMENT

EMPLOYMENT Awarded the Balliol College Singapore Law Scholarship INTERN, NATIONAL BANK OF ROMANIA, ROMANIA ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Due to complete BPTC course at BPP London in July
LEGAL INTERN, MICHAEL HWANG CHAMBERS LLC, MINI-PUPILLAGES, UK 2020; Middle Temple Scholarship; Oxford Faculty of Law
SINGAPORE Scholarship; COMBAR Middle Temple Scholarship; MEU
Including One Essex Court, 4 Stones Buildings, and
International arbitration Fountain Court participant in Italy, Estonia, and Poland

ELLEN TIMS UK BCL LIZAVETA TRAKHALINA B

 ELARUS MJUR
ellen.tims@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT lizaveta.trakhalina@law.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS
St John’s College MINI-PUPILLAGES, UK St Cross College E Babkina and L Trakhalina, ‘Some Aspects of Qualifying
EDUCATION Russian the Notion of Investment: Criticism of Salini Test’, Journal
Queen Elizabeth Building, Quadrant Chambers, XXIV Old
of International Law and International Relations (2017)
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE (LAW Buildings, and 9 Bedford Row International EDUCATION
WITH GERMAN LAW) (06/2018) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY, BELARUS, MA LEGAL
VACATION SCHEMES, UK
Graduated with first-class honours; awarded the South SCIENCE (06/2018) International arbitration and litigation; international
Square Scholarship for the BCL; year abroad spent Clifford Chance, Slaughter & May, Skadden, and Sullivan & investment law; international public law; international
at Konstanz University; St John’s College Casberd Cromwell BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY, BELARUS, SPECIALIST economic law
Scholarship; Sweet & Maxwell Prize for performance in law INTERNATIONAL LAW (06/2017)
moderations 2015 CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
EMPLOYMENT
The Bar; commercial law; private law; Roman law; legal In top 16 teams and top 100 oralists, and received Hardy
philosophy ASSOCIATE, SYSOUEV, BONDAR, KHRAPOUTSKI SBH C Dillard Award and Alona E Evans Award for second-
LAW OFFICE, BELARUS best memorial at White & Case International Rounds,
Assisting in and advising on handling investment, at Philip C Jessup Law Moot Court Competition 2016;
commercial, and sport disputes in arbitration grand final winner, Best Speaker in grand final, and Best
FLORIAN TITZ G
 ERMANY MJUR Written Submission at ICC Lex Mercatoria International
Commercial Arbitration Moot 2016
florian.titz@law.ox.ac.uk Teaching private law; assisting with research
St Cross College
German LEGAL TRAINEESHIP, REGIONAL COURT FREIBURG,
GERMANY
EDUCATION CRISTIAN TSANG HONG KONG BCL
Working for judges, a prosecutor, lawyers, and the German
HIGHER REGIONAL COURT KARLSRUHE, GERMANY, Embassy Yangon cristian.tsang@law.ox.ac.uk MINI-PUPIL, DES VOEUX CHAMBERS, HONG KONG
SECOND LEGAL STATE EXAMINATION (10/2016) New College
STUDENT RESEARCH ASSISTANT, INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC MINI-PUPIL, PARKSIDE CHAMBERS, HONG KONG
Cantonese, Mandarin
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL LAW, UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG, GERMANY
SCIENCE, UK, MSC POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT IN THE EDUCATION CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
EU (09/2014) Assisting with lectures, practice courses, and publications The Bar
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS SCIENCE, UK, LLB (07/2017)
UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG, GERMANY, FIRST ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
EXAMINATION IN LAW (06/2013) Dispute resolution; law of obligations; law of succession; Graduated with first-class honours; awarded the LSE Law Marshalled for the Honourable Justice Godfrey Lam Wan-
European law Department Prize Ho; produced draft judgment for Hong Kong’s first ever
Specialised in European and international law; scholar of
the German Academic Scholarship Foundation EMPLOYMENT competition law discovery application

EMPLOYMENT MINI-PUPIL, TEMPLE CHAMBERS, HONG KONG

RESEARCH ASSISTANT, INSTITUTE FOR FOREIGN
AND INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE LAW, UNIVERSITY OF
FREIBURG, GERMANY

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 ION TZIFRAS G
 REECE MJUR RAGHAVI VISWANATH INDIA BCL
ion.tzifras@law.ox.ac.uk TRAINEE, HELLENIC COMPETITION COMMISSION, raghavi.viswanath@law.ox.ac.uk Providing research assistance regarding recognition of
St Cross College GREECE St Anne’s College non-refoulement in India
Greek, French, German Tamil, Hindi
INTERN, N TZIFRAS AND ASSOCIATES, GREECE PUBLICATIONS
EDUCATION EDUCATION R Viswanath and T Chawla, ‘Two-Minute Experiment Gone
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Bad’ NALSAR Student Law Review (2017)
NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, NATIONAL LAW INSTITUTE UNIVERSITY, INDIA, BA LLB
International arbitration; dispute resolution; banking and (HONS) (07/2018)
GREECE, LLB (02/2018) R Viswanath, ‘Demystifying the Indian FRAND Regime’,
finance
First-class honours; graduated 2nd in year out of 500 2nd in class; Shrimati Pratibha Dubey Gold Medal; editor- Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (2016)
students; GPA 9.2/10 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION in-chief, NLIU Law Review
R Viswanath, ‘Industries at Risk due to Economic Crimes’,
EMPLOYMENT Summer course on international investment law; Young EMPLOYMENT National Judicial Academy (2015)
ICCA workshop on cross-examination in international
TRAINEE LAWYER, KYRIAKIDES GEORGOPOULOS, arbitration; 2nd place in INADR Mediation Tournament; RESEARCH ASSISTANT, MINISTRY OF FINANCE, INDIA CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
GREECE board member of the HAEF Alumni Association Analysing judicial intervention in economic policy-making Academia; legal policy; international criminal law; human
Seats in litigation/arbitration and project finance for Economic Survey of India 2018 rights

INTERN, VIDHI CENTRE FOR LEGAL POLICY, INDIA ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Researching legal framework governing privacy in J N Tata Scholarship; quarter-finalist, Philip C Jessup
JOSHUA UNDERWOOD AUSTRALIA B
 CL electronic communications; documenting implementation International Law Moot Court Competition 2017 (World

U
of NDPS Act in Punjab Rounds); legal researcher, Global Freedom of Expression
joshua.underwood@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT Project; international criminal law course, Grotius Centre
St Edmund Hall College INTERN, HUMAN RIGHTS LAW NETWORK, INDIA for International Legal Studies
JUNIOR PROSECUTOR, OFFICE OF DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC
EDUCATION PROSECUTIONS (QLD), AUSTRALIA
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, BA LLB
STEPHEN WAGENER SOUTH AFRICA, UK BCL

W
LAWYER, ASHURST, AUSTRALIA
(06/2014)
First-class honours; prize for overall excellence; prize for ASSOCIATE, JUSTICE KEANE AC, HIGH COURT OF stephen.wagener@law.ox.ac.uk TUTOR, DEPARTMENT OF PRIVATE LAW, UNIVERSITY OF
advanced jurisprudence AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA Regent’s Park College CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Public and criminal law UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, PHD S Wagener, ‘The Abandonment-Mismanagement Rule:
(12/2012) Vicarious Liability for an Employee’s Simultaneous
Commission and Omission’, South African Law Journal
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, LLB (2015)
(12/2005)
MICHAEL UZOR UK BCL S Wagener, ‘The Relationship(s) Giving Rise to Vicarious
EMPLOYMENT Liability in South African Law’, South African Law Journal
michael.uzor@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT (2014)
ADVOCATE OF THE HIGH COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA,
Brasenose College UNDERWRITING ASSISTANT, LIBERTY SPECIALITY MEMBER OF THE CAPE BAR, SOUTH AFRICA S Wagener, ‘K v Minister of Safety and Security and the
EDUCATION MARKETS, UK Increasingly Blurred Line between Personal and Vicarious
Appearing in the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court
UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH, UK, LLB (HONS) LAW Working in the property and casualty department of Appeal, and various divisions of the High Court, as well Liability’, South African Law Journal (2008)
WITH BUSINESS (06/2017) as before private arbitration tribunals
BUSINESS ASSOCIATE, ABN AMRO BANK, UK CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Graduated with first-class honours at top of the class;
Working in the commercial banking department RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR The Bar; commercial law; public law
Oxford University Press Law Prize for best overall
performance COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE LAW,
CAREERS AND RESEARCH INTERESTS GERMANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Conflict of laws; contract law; commercial law; commercial Monograph on vicarious liability in tort to be published in
remedies; international dispute settlement 2019

SAMUEL WALPOLE A
 USTRALIA B
 CL
SHIVANGI VAID INDIA BCL samuel.walpole@law.ox.ac.uk Appellate criminal and civil matters

V
shivangi.vaid@law.ox.ac.uk Assisting in national and international commercial
St Cross College arbitrations and also matters involving issues of
Hindi commercial and corporate laws before the Supreme Court
of India, the High Courts, and other tribunals
EDUCATION
AMITY UNIVERSITY, INDIA, BBA LLB (HONS) (06/2014) PUBLICATIONS
S Vaid and A Ahmad, ‘A Codified Sentencing Policy for
Gold Medallist for 1st in academic performance
India: Need of the Hour’, International Journal for Research
EMPLOYMENT in Law (2016)
JUNIOR COUNSEL, CHAMBERS OF SENIOR ADVOCATE
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
MR GAURAV PACHNANDA, INDIA
The Bar; international commercial arbitration; civil and
commercial law; intellectual property law
Wadham College
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, LLB (HONS
I) (12/2016)
1st in class; University Medal; valedictorian; Vice
Chancellor’s Scholarship; highest mark in corporate law,
contract, maritime law, and unjust enrichment
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, BA
PSYCHOLOGY (12/2016)
George Naylor Prize for First-Year Psychology
EMPLOYMENT
ASSOCIATE TO THE HONOURABLE CHIEF JUSTICE
ALLSOP AO, FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA,
AUSTRALIA
Trial and appellate federal matters
ASSOCIATE TO THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE PHILIPPIDES,
SUPREME COURT OF QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, T C BEIRNE SCHOOL OF LAW,
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
PUBLICATIONS
S Walpole, ‘Justifying the Woolwich Principle’, Restitution
Law Review (2018, forthcoming)
S Walpole and A Moss, ‘Piracy, Negotiation Period
Expenses and Allowance in General Average’, Lloyd’s
Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly (2018)
S C Derrington and S Walpole, ‘International Maritime Law
Arbitration Moot’, Thomson Reuters Guide to Mooting (2016)
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
The Bar; private law; maritime law; crime; comparative law
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Oxford-Hackney BCL Scholarship; legal practitioner,
Queensland; co-author (with Professor K Barker),
Australian regional digest in Restitution Law Review

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 ADAM WALTON U
 KB
 CL
adam.walton@law.ox.ac.uk
Brasenose College
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF YORK, UK, LLB (07/2018)
Graduated with first-class honours; joint 3rd in the
year; highest mark on advanced trusts; Lord Laidlaw
Scholarship; Excellence Award; York Award; York Award
Gold; York Award Leader; winner, York Law School’s 10th
Anniversary Moot (before Baroness Chakrabati); winner,
York Law School’s Student Law Firm of the Year 2015-16
EMPLOYMENT
MINI-PUPILLAGES, UK
Chambers including 5 Stone Buildings, XXIV Old Buildings,
4 New Square, 3 Verulam Buildings, Landmark, and Francis
Taylor Building
KATE WEBSTER UK BCL
MARSHALLING WITH MR JUSTICE SNOWDEN, katharine.webster@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT
CHANCERY DIVISION OF HIGH COURT, UK Brasenose College QUALITY ASSESSOR, CITIZENS ADVICE SOUTH
PUBLICATIONS EDUCATION WARWICKSHIRE, UK
A Walton and M Maciel, ‘When the Music Stops: The UKSC UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, UK, LLB LAW (07/2018) Responsible for internal auditing of quality of advice
Judgment in Akers, Applying the Bona Fide Purchaser Rule Graduated with highest first of the 2018 cohort; J F
and Offshore Trusts: Akers v Samba (2017) UKSC 6’, Trust RESEARCH ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM,
Gregg Memorial Prize; Aitchison Memorial Prize; Sir
and Trustees (2017) UK
Henry Barber Law Scholarship; Undergraduate Research
Scholarship Providing research assistance to Dr Natasa Mavronicola
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
The Bar; trusts; tax; property law; contract law CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Academia; political and legal theory; constitutional law; EU
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION law
Winner, Landmark Chambers National Property Mooting
Competition 2017; Lincoln’s Inn Lord Denning Scholarship;
4 New Square BCL Scholarship; semi-finalist, 2TG National
Mooting Competition 2016; wildcard semi-finalist,
Aspiring Solicitors Commercial Awareness Competition
YEN JEAN WEE S
 INGAPORE BCL
2017; former President of Halifax College, University of yenjean.wee@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT
York Mansfield College INTERN, SUPREME COURT, SINGAPORE
Mandarin
EDUCATION INTERN, ATTORNEY GENERAL’S CHAMBERS, SINGAPORE

CAIDAN WANG CHINA MJUR UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK, BA LAW (06/2018) INTERN (LITIGATION AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION),
Graduated with first-class honours; ranked 3rd in the year; ALLEN & GLEDHILL LLP, SINGAPORE
caidan.wang@law.ox.ac.uk INTERN (DISPUTE RESOLUTION), DENTONS, CHINA
St Hugh’s College awarded the E C S Wade Prize for Constitutional Law by
Drafting case briefs for publications; preparing case the Faculty of Law and various prizes by St John’s College,
Mandarin, German submissions; legal research including the Jacovides Prize for International Law; elected
EDUCATION Scholar of St John’s College
INTERN, BAKER & MCKENZIE LLP, CHINA
TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, CHINA, MA LAW (07/2018)
Searching for alternative litigation strategies; drafting
Specialised in civil and commercial law; one-year exchange client opinions and attorney’s opinions for litigation
at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
JADE TESS WEINER S
 OUTH AFRICA BCL
BEIJING FOREIGN STUDIES UNIVERSITY, CHINA, LLB AND Academia; legal practice; law of obligations; private law jade.weiner@law.ox.ac.uk ARTICLE CLERK, EDWARD NATHAN SONNENBERG (ENS
BA ENGLISH (06/2015) and fundamental rights St Anne’s College AFRICA), SOUTH AFRICA
Graduated top of class; awarded National Scholarship for Hebrew, Afrikaans Banking and finance law; drafting; cross-border
2013 and 2014 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
EDUCATION transactions; preference share structuring
Best Oralist in the 12th Chinese National Round for Jessup
EMPLOYMENT International Law Moot Court 2014; passed PRC Bar UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, SOUTH AFRICA, PUBLICATIONS
RESEARCH ASSISTANT (CIVIL LAW), TSINGHUA exam LLB (12/2012) J T Weiner, ‘Protected Rights and Religious Reform’, South
UNIVERSITY, CHINA Graduated with distinction; 3rd in a class of 306; awarded African Journal on Human Rights (2017)
Assisting Associate Professor Jun Long with publication various prizes and accolades; invited to the Dean’s List and
research the Golden Key International Honour Society CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
International humanitarian organisations; non-profit and
EMPLOYMENT non-governmental work; constitutional and human rights
LEGAL RESEARCHER, HELEN SUZMAN FOUNDATION work; rule of law work
ADAM WARING UK BCL NPO, SOUTH AFRICA
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Research; rule of law work; writing and publication; media
adam.waring@law.ox.ac.uk WORK EXPERIENCE STUDENT, SLAUGHTER & MAY, UK Participated in various leadership conferences and
comment
The Queen’s College programmes; lead and assist with various charitable and
Carrying out legal research into areas such as the
Spanish social upliftment non-profit organisations; qualified notary
allocation of risk in sales contracts; copy-checking LAW CLERK TO CHIEF JUSTICE OF SOUTH AFRICA
public; accredited mediator
EDUCATION documents MOGOENG MOGOENG, CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF
SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTH AFRICA
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, UK, LLB WITH SPANISH LAW MINI-PUPIL, UK
Research; preparation for cases; briefing Justices;
(06/2018)
Pump Court Tax Chambers, 18 St John Street Chambers, attending hearings; providing assistance and opinions
Oxford University Press Law Prize for best performance and Exchange Chambers
in first year; Maxwell Kohler Memorial Prize for best
performance in second year; Vaughan Bevan Memorial CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Prize for best performance in final year; Graham Battersby Legal practice; academia; public law; European Union law;
Mooting Prize for best performance in mooting public international law
EMPLOYMENT
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
STUDENT ADVISOR, FREELAW, UK Semi-finalist, OUP-BPP National Mooting Competition;
Volunteering at the University of Sheffield Law School’s runner-up, ELSA Amicus Essay Competition; awarded the
free legal advice clinic, advising on property and Ewald Scholarship for the BCL
employment law

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 TOM WESTWELL U
 K BCL SNEHA PRIYA YANAPPA INDIA BCL
thomas.westwell@law.ox.ac.uk
St Cross College
Spanish
EDUCATION
TRAINEE SOLICITOR, FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS
DERINGER LLP, UK
Rotating through seats in various departments: corporate,
dispute resolution, employment, pensions and benefits,
Y sneha.yanappa@law.ox.ac.uk
Jesus College
Hindi, Telugu
EDUCATION
PUBLICATIONS
S Yanappa, ‘Protecting the Marine Environment: A Need
for the Last Straw?’, The Maharashtrra Law Journal
(2018)
and competition; undertaking two three-month S Yanappa, ‘Juvenile Justice: Is Age Limit the Right Criteria
BPP LAW SCHOOL, UK, GRADUATE IN DIPLOMA LAW secondments, to Liberty and Tower Hamlets Law Centre SYMBIOSIS LAW SCHOOL, INDIA, BA LLB (04/2018)
to Demarcate a Person from Getting Proper Punishment’,
AND LEGAL PRACTICE COURSE (02/2012) Advocate S K Jain Scholarship for topper in BA LLB; Rostrum’s Law Review (2014)
Graduated with distinction INTERN, LOUISIANA CAPITAL ASSISTANCE CENTER, USA Shantanu Tomar Scholarship for best all-round
Assisting capital defence attorneys representing clients on performance; Best Academic Performer (2013-18); chief CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA CLASSICS (06/2010) death row in Louisiana and Mississippi student advisor, Student Bar Association Public international law; human rights; refugee law;
Graduated with a double first constitutional law
EMPLOYMENT
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
EMPLOYMENT Employment Bar INTERN, JUSTICE ABDUL NAZEER, SUPREME COURT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
ASSOCIATE (EMPLOYMENT, PENSIONS AND BENEFITS), INDIA, INDIA Law Faculty/Jesus College Scholarship; J N Tata
FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER LLP, UK ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Researching and preparing briefs on issues of family law, Scholarship; K C Mahindra Scholarship; runner-up, Best
Solicitors’ Higher Rights of Audience (Civil Proceedings) property law, and criminal law Speaker, Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court
Working for four years as a solicitor assisting clients with Competition 2017 (India Rounds); DAAD New Passage to
(10/2016)
the employment, pensions, and share schemes aspects India Scholarship
of international corporate transactions, complex disputes, INTERN, ADDITIONAL ADVOCATE GENERAL ADITYA
and advisory matters SONDHI, HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA, INDIA
Researching on issues relating to ground rent, federalism,
and affirmative reservation

JACKSON WHERRETT A
 USTRALIA B
 CL
jackson.wherrett@law.ox.ac.uk ASSOCIATE TO THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE KEANE AC, WEISHI YANG UK BCL
Magdalen College HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA
Proofing judgments; undertaking legal research; assisting weishi.yang@law.ox.ac.uk WORK EXPERIENCE, SLAUGHTER & MAY, UK
EDUCATION
in court Lincoln College
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, BA (MEDIA AND TELEPHONE FUNDRAISER, ST JOHN’S COLLEGE,
EDUCATION
COMMUNICATIONS) LLB (11/2014) UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK
PUBLICATIONS
Graduated with first-class honours in law; national winner, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK, BA LAW (06/2018)
J Wherrett et al, ‘Interacting with Parliamentary CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition Committees’, AGS Legal Briefing (2017) James William Squire Scholarship; McAulay Scholarship; St
The Bar; commercial law; chancery law; remedies; contract
2013; Graham Jones Prize for French 2011 John’s College Prize; McMahon Law Studentship
law; trusts law; legal theory; Roman law
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT
Constitutional law; statutory interpretation; equity; ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL (AUSTRALIAN corporations law MINI-PUPILLAGES, UK
Casework volunteer at Bar Pro Bono Unit; winner of Brick
GOVERNMENT SOLICITOR), AUSTRALIA 4 Stone Buildings, One Essex Court, 7 King’s Bench Court Chambers Team Moot 2017, Winfield Society Moot
Advice to Commonwealth departments and agencies, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Walk, 20 Essex Street, 3 Verulam Buildings, and 5 Stone 2016, and Oxford-Cambridge Varsity Roman Law Moot
primarily on constitutional law and statutory interpretation Peter Cameron Sydney-Oxford Scholarship (2018); Buildings 2016; Mistress of Moots at Cambridge University Law
winner, Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Award (Government Society
SESSIONAL ACADEMIC, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL Category, 2018); reporter, New South Wales Law Reports;
UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA winner, Justice William Gummow Cup (Intervarsity Equity
Moot) 2013
Tutor in constitutional law
TIFFANY HIU CHEN YAU HONG KONG BCL
tiffany.yau@law.ox.ac.uk Temple Chambers, Des Voeux Chambers, Denis Chang’s
Exeter College Chambers, and Plowman Chambers
RACHEL WOODWARD U
 K BCL
Cantonese, Mandarin
rachel.woodward@law.ox.ac.uk Interning remotely through Skype and email during my VACATION SCHEME STUDENT, HONG KONG
EDUCATION
Mansfield College year abroad; researching and summarising legislation and Sidley Austin LLP and Mayer Brown JSM
formulating case briefs for the Greenpeace legal team on CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG,
EDUCATION
matters relating to environmental law PCLL (07/2018) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, UK, LLB LAW (EUROPEAN Awarded the HKSAR Government Admission Scholarship Private law; judicial review; international criminal law
AND INTERNATIONAL) (06/2017) PUBLICATIONS
Graduated with first-class honours; highest mark in public R Woodward et al, Anti-Globalisation Trends and the CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
international law; one-year exchange at the University of International Legal Profession: Perceptions, Impacts, LLB (07/2017) Quarter-finalist, International Criminal Court Moot Court
Geneva Responses (2017) Competition 2017
Graduated with first-class honours
EMPLOYMENT CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS EMPLOYMENT
FREELAW STUDENT MANAGER, UNIVERSITY OF Academia; the Bar; human rights law; public international
law; law of armed conflict MINI-PUPIL, HONG KONG
SHEFFIELD, UK
Managing the student-led pro bono clinic; organising ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
workloads and timetables for all 80 student advisors;
Participant, European Human Rights Moot Court
coordinating with the supervising solicitor; raising the
Competition 2018 (Final Round); MUN delegate for
profile of the clinic
GIMUN; events and inclusions officer for the Amnesty
International Society
RESEARCH INTERN, GREENPEACE EAST ASIA,
SWITZERLAND

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 WEILING ZHONG C
 HINA MJUR

Z weiling.zhong@law.ox.ac.uk
St Cross College
Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka
EDUCATION
INTERN, STANDING COMMITTEE OF GUANGDONG
PROVINCIAL PEOPLE’S CONGRESS, CHINA
Coordinating legislative symposia and hearings; reviewing
the legality of local regulations
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, FACULTY OF LAW

RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA, CHINA, LLM (06/2018)

BENEFACTORS
PUBLICATIONS
University First Prize Scholarship; editor of Chao Yang Law W Zhong, ‘The Powerful or the Weak: Changes in the
Review Notions of Worker in the Study of Law in China’, Law and
Social Sciences (2018, forthcoming) CHANCELLOR’S COURT OF BENEFACTORS FOUNDATION BENEFACTORS
SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY, CHINA, LLB (06/2016) The AB Charitable Trust 3 Verulam Buildings
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Leader of the debate team of School of Law; National Allen & Ovary LLP 4 New Square
Scholarship Academia; labour law; law and sociology
Barclays Bank PLC The Bertha Foundation
EMPLOYMENT Frau Anneliese Brost Kathryn Campbell
Clifford Chance LLP Des Voeux Chambers
INTERN, LABOUR DISPUTE TRIBUNAL OF PEOPLE’S
COURT FOR HAIDIAN DISTRICT OF BEIJING, CHINA Mr Ghazi Nahl & Mrs Hind Ali Tabaja The UK Foundation for International Law
The Sir Joseph Hotung Charitable Settlement Fountain Court Chambers
Assisting judges
The Andrew W Mellon Foundation Google
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP HAS Advocates
Travers Smith LLP Kenny Lam
Mayer Brown LLP
VICE CHANCELLOR’S CIRCLE The Morris Trust
John Adams Planethood Foundation
Baker McKenzie LLP Pump Court Tax Chambers
The Brunsfield Foundation in Malaysia Ragnar Söderbergs Stiftelse
CMS LLP South Square
Commonwealth Scholarships for Asia and Africa Patrick Square
Through the generosity of our benefactors, Paul Dodyk Temple Chambers
The European Justice Forum Torsten Söderbergs Stiftelse
the following students have been awarded scholarships Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
for the BCL and MJur programmes in 2018/19: Herbert Smith Freehills LLP Sarosh Zaiwalla
Hogan Lovells LLP
The A G Leventis Foundation and H K Leventis Family GOLDS (GLOBAL OXFORD
ALLAN MYERS SCHOLARSHIP Sir David Lewis DL, Alderman LAW DONOR SCHEME)
Jack Maxwell Linklaters LLP 7 King’s Bench Walk
Allan Myers AC QC 8 New Square
FOUNTAIN COURT SCHOLARSHIP Pinsent Masons LLP Guido Alpa
Shell International BV Facebook
Sebastian Mellab
Shearman & Sterling LLP Francis Taylor Building
Slaughter and May Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP
3 VERULAM BUILDINGS SCHOLARSHIP Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd Goldsmiths Chambers
Chen Chen Daniel Slifkin Professor Sir Roy Goode CBE QC
White & Case LLP The Kalisher Trust
PUMP COURT TAX SCHOLARSHIP Eric L Lewis
Christopher McMahon SENIOR FOUNDATION BENEFACTORS Maitland Chambers
Sir Frank Berman KCMG QC Gabriel Moss QC
DES VOEUX CHAMBERS SCHOLARSHIP Lady Edwina Grosvenor Genevieve Muinzer and Nick Segal
Zenith Chan The Open Society Foundations One Essex Court
The Open Society Institute Youth Initiative Oxford University Press
4 NEW SQUARE SCHOLARSHIP The David and Elaine Potter Foundation The David and Jayne Paterson Educational Trust
Adam Waltonr The Sigrid Rausing Trust Powell Gilbert
Tencent Professor Stephen A Scott
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
SOUTH SQUARE SCHOLARSHIP
Volterra Fietta
Ellen Tims
Alan G Weiler

ONE ESSEX COURT SCHOLARSHIP

Christopher Monaghan

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