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FACULTY OF
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PROFILES BCL AND MJUR
CLASS OF 2017/18
BCL/MJUR Profile
AHNAF ABDUL M
ALAYSIA BCL
A ahnaf.abdul@law.ox.ac.uk
Merton College
Malay
EMPLOYMENT
ASSISTANT VICE-PRESIDENT, KHAZANAH NASIONAL,
MALAYSIA
Class of 2017/18 EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE
(06/2011)
Reviewing contracts, primarily in relation to minority direct
investments, private equity fund investments, and start-
up funding rounds; advising business teams
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Transaction advisory; policy and regulation;
interdisciplinary study of law; tax
INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE PROGRAMME
JESSICA ALLEN UK BCL
T
Oxford is renowned for the size, he Oxford Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) degree has been a pivotal feature
jessica.allen@law.ox.ac.uk VICE-PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES, ELSA UK,
strength, and diversity of its of Oxford’s law provision since the sixteenth century. This rich history has UK
Mansfield College
community of legal scholars drawn helped to maintain its status as the most highly regarded taught masters-level
French Establishing the ELSA Amicus Essay Prize; founding the
from around the world. I am qualification in the common law world. Since 1991, the Magister Juris (MJur) degree Student Comparative and European Law Review; co-
delighted to welcome our new has established a similar outstanding reputation for students from non-common law EDUCATION
ordinating a submission to the Legal Research Group on
class of BCL and MJur students to backgrounds. UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, UK, BA (HONS) LAW Migration Law
this community. The students also WITH FRENCH & FRENCH LAW (07/2017)
come from a diverse range of Our students benefit from Oxford’s rigorous tutorial system which makes these Awarded the law school’s Coomaraswamy Prize 2017; PUBLICATIONS
backgrounds; they are united by their degree courses so challenging. This environment demands exceptional academic highly commended for the Vice-Chancellor’s Global Allen, J and Singh, M. ‘Obstacles to Environmental
motivation, focused analytical ability, and the capacity for sustained work. Students Graduate Prize 2017 Protection: Limitations of Judicial Review and Resistance
previous academic achievements and
from a wide range of jurisdictions and backgrounds refine their wealth of experience, to the EU’, UKELA E-Law Journal (2014)
shared enthusiasm for the study of law. UNIVERSITÉ TOULOUSE 1 CAPITOLE, FRANCE, DIPLÔME
knowledge and understanding through direct and intensive engagement with some of CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
D’ETUDES DU DROIT DE L’UNION EUROPÉENNE
the best teachers and researchers in the world across a wide range of legal subjects. (07/2016) The Bar; international organisations; environmental law;
Mention assez bien international public law
Oxford’s Faculty of Law was ranked second in the world in 2016 QS World University
Rankings for law, and second in the Guardian’s UK University Guide 2018. EMPLOYMENT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Mindy Chen-Wishart, Panellist at the 10th European Pro Bono Forum; finalist in
ELAW EDITORIAL ASSISTANT, UKELA, UK
the LSA Inaugural Debating Competition 2016; member
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies Contacting contributors; editing submissions; drafting of the Organising Committee for the ELSA Moot Court
(Taught Courses) each edition Competition 2016; delegate to the UN Human Rights
Council; winner of the UKELA Andrew Lees Prize 2014
AIKATERINI ANTONIOU GREECE M
JUR
BCL AGE BCL AVERAGE BCL aikaterini.antoniou@law.ox.ac.uk TRAINEE LAWYER, ANTONIOU LAW OFFICE, GREECE
RANGE AGE NATIONALITIES St Peter’s College
21–39 25 22
Assisting in the drafting of legal documents; conducting
Greek, German, French legal research; attending court hearings
EDUCATION
PUBLICATIONS
NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, Antoniou, A. ‘Strengthening the Automatic Exchange
GREECE, LLM EUROPEAN LAW (02/2017) of Tax Information: A Result of the Economic Crisis and
Distinction; valedictorian a Means of Combating it’, Business and Company Law
(forthcoming, 2017)
MJUR AGE MJUR AVERAGE MJUR NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS,
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
RANGE AGE NATIONALITIES GREECE, LLB (09/2015)
21–37 26 18
Distinction; valedictorian among 202 students Teaching and research; taxation; consulting; European
institutions; EU law; international and European tax law;
EMPLOYMENT administrative law
TRAINEE LAWYER, LEGAL COUNCIL OF THE STATE, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
PUBLIC DEBT MANAGEMENT AGENCY AND MINISTRY
Founding member of the European Law Masters Alumni
OF FINANCE, GREECE
Association (ELMAA); assisting in teaching on the LLM
PSI team; assisting in the handling of cases of international European Law course at the University of Athens (seminar
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MARIA-NECTARIA ANTONIOU C
YPRUS B
CL THEA CHRISTINE BAUER GERMANY MJUR
maria-nectaria.antoniou@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT thea.bauer@law.ox.ac.uk RESEARCH ASSISTANT AND LECTURER, CHAIR OF
Brasenose College Wadham College CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE, BUCERIUS LAW
VOLUNTEER ARCHAEOLOGIST, COMMITTEE ON
Greek, French, Spanish German SCHOOL, GERMANY
MISSING PERSONS, CYPRUS
EDUCATION Participating in excavations in search of persons missing EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, MST ARCHAEOLOGY since the 1974 war HIGHER REGIONAL COURT OF HAMBURG, GERMANY, Bauer, T C. Die Neuregelung der Strafbarkeit des
(06/2016) SECOND LEGAL STATE EXAMINATION (02/2017) Jahresabschlussprüfers. Ein Vorschlag de lege ferenda
INTERN, PERMANENT REPRESENTATION OF CYPRUS TO zur Erfassung der strafwürdigen und strafbedürftigen
Graduated with distinction THE EU, BELGIUM Konstellationen von beruflichem Fehlverhalten des
BUCERIUS LAW SCHOOL, GERMANY, JD (10/2016)
Occasionally replacing regular delegates in Council of the Jahresabschlussprüfers (Mohr Siebeck: 2017)
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, BA LAW (06/2015) Graduated summa cum laude; scholar of the
EU working-group meetings; writing reports Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes; awarded Roxin- Bauer, T C. ‘Der Gruppentatbestand § 184j StGB-E im
Graduated with starred first; ranking: 4/201; 3 Verulam
Award for the best doctoral thesis of BLS in the field of verabschiedeten Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Verbesserung
Buildings Prize for best performance in equity; George INTERN, ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S OFFICE, CYPRUS (economic) criminal law, 2016 des Schutzes der sexuellen Selbstbestimmung’, Recht und
Long Prize for best performance in civil law; Christopher
Conducting research in criminal procedure and evidence Politik (2017)
Simpson Prize for international law; Clark Miller Prize for
BUCERIUS LAW SCHOOL, GERMANY, FIRST LEGAL STATE
best results in first-year law at Trinity College; College
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS EXAMINATION (03/2012) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Examination Prize, Tripos Prize, and two Lizette Bentwich
Commercial litigation; property law; obligations; Graduated at top of class Academia; criminal law; criminology; legal theory
Prizes for academic performance
international law
BUCERIUS LAW SCHOOL, GERMANY, LLB (03/2010) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Current scholarships: Peter Carter Taught Graduate
EMPLOYMENT Scholarship in Law, DAAD
Oxford-Robert and Soulla Kyprianou Scholarship for BCL
LEGAL STAFF MEMBER, DISPUTE RESOLUTION
PRACTICE GROUP, FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER
LLP, GERMANY
DAVID BAKER UK BCL
B david.baker@law.ox.ac.uk
Christ Church
EDUCATION
state arbitrations with a practice focusing on energy,
construction and engineering, and infrastructure disputes;
acting as a presenting officer in disciplinary proceedings
for a professional regulator
SIMON BECKER G
ERMANY MJUR
simon.becker@law.ox.ac.uk INTERN, SIMMONS & SIMMONS, GERMANY
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, UK, LLB (06/2013)
Christ Church Providing advice on the enforcement of foreign court
First-class honours; University of Exeter School of Law PUBLICATIONS
German, Spanish judgments in Germany
Prize; Dean’s Commendation; Clifford Parker Mooting Prize Baker, D and Gill, J. ‘The Public Policy Exception under
Article V.2(b) of the New York Convection: Lessons From EDUCATION
EMPLOYMENT Around the World’, Asian Dispute Review (2016) INTERN, HOGAN LOVELLS, GERMANY
UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER, GERMANY, FIRST LEGAL
SOLICITOR, ALLEN & OVERY LLP, UK Drafting memoranda
STATE EXAMINATION (11/2016)
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Trainee solicitor and then associate in the International Dispute resolution (including arbitration and litigation); Graduated in top 1% of class INTERN, TRIBUNAL DE CASACIÓN PENAL, ARGENTINA
Arbitration team; acting in commercial and investor- conflict of laws; contract law; public international law Conducting legal research
UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID, SPAIN,
ERASMUS YEAR (07/2013) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Placed first out of 179 in private international law International dispute settlement; commercial law;
SERDAR REŞAT BAKIR TURKEY MJUR competition law; legal theory
EMPLOYMENT
serdar.bakir@law.ox.ac.uk FATIH UNIVERSITY, TURKEY, BA BUSINESS
LEGAL CONSULTANT, FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
St Cross College ADMINISTRATION (11/2013)
DERINGER, BELGIUM Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot
Turkish Full Academical Merit Scholarship (4/2014)
Advising on a cartel case
EDUCATION
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
ANKARA UNIVERSITY, TURKEY, MA PUBLIC LAW Academia; legal philosophy; constitutional theory; human
(10/2016) rights
LAUREN BIGGS UK BCL
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
lauren.biggs@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT
Five time judiciary test winner in Turkey
Magdalen College VOLUNTEER, LEGAL AID CLINIC, UCT, SOUTH AFRICA
EDUCATION Drafting legal documents; client consultation
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, LLB
ADRIEN BASTIAN SWITZERLAND M
JUR (12/2016) WORK EXPERIENCE, BOWMAN GILFILLAN, SOUTH
AFRICA
adrien.bastian@law.ox.ac.uk TEACHING AND RESEARCH ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF Graduated magna cum laude; ranked first in class; multiple
Lincoln College LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND awards including prizes for top student in penultimate Shadowing associates in the labour and corporate
and final year, D B Molteno Prize for best performance in departments
French, German
STUDENT ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE, public law, and TOM W Price Memorial prize for highest
EDUCATION SWITZERLAND overall marks in private law; three subject class medals; MINI-PUPIL, FURNIVAL CHAMBERS, UK
UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND, MLAW awarded Scheepers Memorial December Scholarship and
PUBLICATIONS Law Faculty Scholarship CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
LITIGATION (06/2012)
Bastian, A. ‘Judaïsme et citoyenneté en Suisse de l’Ancien Private law; contract law; international law
Graduated magna cum laude Régime à 1874’, Mémoires de la Société pour l’Histoire du UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, BA
EMPLOYMENT Droit et des Institutions des anciens pays bourguignons, (MAJOR: ENGLISH LITERATURE & LAW) (12/2014)
comtois et romands (2017)
PART-TIME CLERK TO THE COURT, JUSTICE DE PAIX DU Graduated with distinction
DISTRICT DE LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Intellectual property; arbitration; history and sociology of
law
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MATT BIGNELL UK BCL HANNAH BOGAERT BELGIUM MJUR
matthew.bignell@law.ox.ac.uk MINI-PUPIL, GARDEN COURT CHAMBERS, 9 PARK hannah.bogaert@law.ox.ac.uk STUDENT RESEARCHER, DEPARTMENT OF LEGAL
Wadham College PLACE CHAMBERS, ANGEL CHAMBERS, UK Hertford College HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF GHENT, BELGIUM
EDUCATION Dutch, French Analysing diplomatic correspondence for the research
PUBLICATIONS
EDUCATION project, ‘Foreign Legal Perceptions of 19th Century
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, UK, LLB (07/2016) Bignell, M. ‘Should there be a human right to civil
Belgian Neutrality’
Graduated with first-class honours disobedience?’, Bristol Law Review (2017) UNIVERSITY OF GHENT, BELGIUM, LLM (07/2017)
Graduated summa cum laude; Faculty Prize for best INTERN, PRIVACY INTERNATIONAL, UK
EMPLOYMENT CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
student of LLM and LLB combined; international exchange Conducting research in different languages on the
LEGAL EDITOR, SPARQA, UK Human rights; criminal justice; international law;
to Bucerius Law School, Germany (overall A grade) implementation of the Data Retention Directive
competition law
Conducting legal research on UK business law; creating 2006/24/EC
original and engaging content ADDITIONAL INFORMATION UNIVERSITY OF GHENT, BELGIUM, LLB (07/2015)
Graduated magna cum laude CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Gray’s Inn Scholar (Bedingfield Scholarship); represented
UoB mooting team Academia; the Bar; EU law; international public law;
EMPLOYMENT environmental law; human rights
STUDENT ASSISTANT, EUROPEAN LAW INSTITUTE,
UNIVERSITY OF GHENT, BELGIUM ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Basic knowledge of German and Italian; volunteer at the
MOTUNROLA BISI-AFOLABI N
IGERIA BCL Conducting research into proposed TTIP dispute
Auschwitz Foundation, Brussels
settlement regimes; assisting with preparations for
motunrola.bisi-afolabi@law.ox.ac.uk interviewing and advising clients; planning case strategy; general and advanced EU law courses; reviewing drafts of
St Hugh’s College attending court proceedings; co-ordinating conferences academic articles
Yoruba and meetings
EDUCATION LEGAL INTERN, FIRST COUNSEL SOLICITORS, NIGERIA
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY, UK, LLB (07/2015) Advising clients on various commercial litigation matters; EMMANOUIL BOUGIAKIOTIS GREECE MJUR
Graduated with first-class honours; one of the highest co-ordinating client meetings and diary schedules;
conducting extensive research on relevant areas of law; emmanouil.bougiakiotis@law.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS
performing students in 2014/ 2015; highest mark
achieved in the evidence module reviewing agreements and documents for accuracy; St Catherine’s College Bougiakiotis, E. ‘The Enforcement of the Google Spain
organising and managing legal databases within the firm EDUCATION Ruling’, International Journal of Law and Information
NIGERIAN LAW SCHOOL, NIGERIA, BL (11/2016) Technology (2016)
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE, GREECE, LLB
Called to the Nigerian Bar; barrister and solicitor of the (11/2016) Bougiakiotis, E. ‘A Multilevel Approach to Publicity under
Corporate law; human rights law; legal theory European Law’, Columbia Journal of European Law -
Supreme Court of Nigeria; graduated in top 10% of class
Graduated in top 3% of class Preliminary Reference Blog (2016)
EMPLOYMENT
EMPLOYMENT Bougiakiotis, E. ‘The Expansive Application of the Principle
LEGAL INTERN, OWENS SOLICITORS, UK of Equality’ (in Greek), Modus Legis (2015)
TRAINEE LAWYER, ELENI SOURLI AND ASSOCIATES LAW
Managing the flow of communications with clients; OFFICE, GREECE
drafting various court processes and legal documents; CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Drafting court documents; legal research; pleading before
Academia; regulatory agencies; the judiciary; constitutional
lower courts
law; data protection law
LEGAL INTERN, HELLENIC DATA PROTECTION ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
CASSIE BLOWER UK BCL AUTHORITY, GREECE
Placed third in national debating tournament; best
cassie.blower@law.ox.ac.uk MINI-PUPILLAGES, UK Legal research; preparation of draft decisions submissions for the Respondent Award, EMC2 Moot Court
Wolfson College Six mini-pupillages, including South Square, Landmark, and
EDUCATION 9-12 Bell Yard
UNIVERSITY OF LAW, UK, BPTC (07/2017) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS BJOERN BRAUER GERMANY M
JUR
Graded very competent; Major Scholar of the Inner The Bar; property; trusts; traditional chancery; commercial bjoern.brauer@law.ox.ac.uk EXTERNAL LEGAL EXPERT, FEDERAL MINISTRY OF
Temple chancery; corporate; commercial; insolvency FINANCE, GERMANY
Corpus Christi College
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, UK, LLB (07/2016) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION German Evaluating statutory amendments regarding
EDUCATION crowdinvesting in Germany alongside a team of
First-class honours; award for Best Student in Law and Semi-finalist, Francis Taylor Building Kingsland Cup and
researchers
Policy of the EU II (2016); award for Best Student in Land Prize Moot 2016; runner-up, University of Leicester UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER, GERMANY, FIRST LEGAL
Law (2015); (shared) award for Best Student in Crime, Medical Law Moot 2015 STATE EXAMINATION (06/2015) JUNIOR ASSOCIATE, HENGELER MUELLER, GERMANY
Justice, and Society (2015)
Graduated with distinction; specialised in company law Drafting legal documents and conducting research
EMPLOYMENT
EMPLOYMENT
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
CASE-WORKER, FREE REPRESENTATION UNIT, UK
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, CHAIR FOR CIVIL LAW AND Company law; M&A; financial regulation
Trained to represent clients in both employment and social COMMERCIAL LAW, HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY, GERMANY
security tribunals
Assisting Professor Lars Klöhn with research on financial
regulation and company law; teaching
© TIMOTHY ENDICOTT, © KATIE LIGHT, © STUART COX © STUART COX
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TOBIAS VON BRESSENSDORF GERMANY MJUR MAX CAMPHAUSEN GERMANY M
JUR
tobias.bressensdorf@law.ox.ac.uk
Brasenose College
Germany
EDUCATION
PUBLICATIONS
von Bressensdorf, T and Staake, M (eds). Rechtshandbuch
Wohngemeinschaften – Praktische Fragestellungen,
rechtliche Lösungen (forthcoming)
C maximilian.camphausen@law.ox.ac.uk
Lincoln College
German
EDUCATION
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, CHAIR FOR PUBLIC LAW AND
ADMINISTRATION, UNIVERSITY OF DÜSSEDORF,
GERMANY
Assisting Prof Dr Johannes Dietlein with research in the
von Bressensdorf, T and Drygala, T. ‘Gegenwart und field of public law and administration
UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG, GERMANY, FIRST LEGAL STATE UNIVERSITY OF DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY, LLB
Zukunft grenzüberschreitender Verschmelzungen und
EXAMINATION (06/2015) (03/2017) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Spaltungen’, Neue Zeitschrift für Gesellschaftsrecht
Graduated in top 1% of class (2016) International public law; European Union law; international
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL, USA, UNIVERSITY organisations; NGOs
EMPLOYMENT von Bressendorf, T. ‘Das Sacheinlageverbot bei der EXCHANGE (06/14)
Unternehmergesellschaft (haftungsbeschränkt)’, International law focus
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, CHAIR FOR PRIVATE LAW, TRADE
Juristische Ausbildung (2016)
LAW, COMPANY LAW, AND BUSINESS LAW, UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT
OF LEIPZIG, GERMANY CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
LEGAL ASSISTANT, GLEISS LUTZ, GERMANY
Assisting Prof Dr Tim Drygala with research on corporate Academia; corporate law; property law; tenancy law; tort
law and property law; teaching law Drafting expert opinions on German and European energy
law and public economic law
STUDENT ASSISTANT, CHAIR FOR PRIVATE LAW, TRADE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
LAW, COMPANY LAW, AND BUSINESS LAW, UNIVERSITY Elected student representative to several university bodies
OF LEIPZIG, GERMANY
Assisting with publications and lectures LUISA CASSAR PULLICINO MALTA MJUR
luisa.cassarpullicino@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT
Balliol College TRAINEE ADVOCATE, GANADO ADVOCATES, MALTA
Maltese
AMELIE BROFELDT DENMARK M
JUR Working in the litigation department; drafting legal letters,
EDUCATION warrants, counter-warrants and court applications;
amelie.brofeldt@law.ox.ac.uk ASSISTANT LECTURER, COPENHAGEN BUSINESS conducting research for associates, senior associates, and
SCHOOL, DENMARK UNIVERSITY OF MALTA, MALTA, MASTER OF ADVOCACY
St Anne’s College partners
(08/2017)
Danish Teaching law students in legal method and contract law
Graduated with distinction in top 2% of class CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
EDUCATION
ASSISTANT LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN International commercial litigation and arbitration;
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, LLM DENMARK, DENMARK UNIVERSITY OF MALTA, MALTA, LLB (HONS) (06/2016) corporate insolvency; maritime litigation
(08/2017) Graduated at top of class
Teaching legal method
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK, DENMARK, LLB ASSOCIATED BOARD OF THE ROYAL SCHOOLS OF
PUBLICATIONS LSE Summer School in International Commercial Litigation
(01/2016) MUSIC, MALTA, DIPABRSM PIANO PERFORMANCE
Banke, N and Brofeldt, A. ‘Fair Dismissal Due to Absence and Arbitration; winner of the ESU National Public
Ranked first in year out of 136 students because of Illness’, Erhvervsjuridisk Tidsskrift (2017) (04/2010) Speaking Competition, Malta 2011; top 6 at the ESU
Awarded distinction International Public Speaking Competition, London 2011;
COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL, DENMARK, BSC Banke, N and Brofeldt, A. ‘Recovery of Overpayment of vice-president of the executive board of the Malta Model
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND COMMERCIAL LAW Wages’, Juristen (2015) United Nations Society
(06/2014)
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Ranked first in year out of 119 students
Litigation; arbitration; tort; employment law; intellectual
EMPLOYMENT property law
DAMLA CAY T
URKEY M
JUR
LEGAL INTERN, KAMMERADVOKATEN/LAW FIRM POUL ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
SCHMITH, DENMARK damla.cay@law.ox.ac.uk SUMMER INTERN, GÜNER LAW OFFICE, TURKEY
Deputy head of the study board and board member St Anne’s College
Assisting lawyers with legal tasks; legal research; drawing Analysing court decisions and preparing memoranda on
of the Student Association of Commercial Lawyers at
Turkish, French the right to privacy, freedom of the press, and company
up legal notes and memoranda Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
EDUCATION law; translating legal documents
GALATASARAY UNIVERSITY, TURKEY, LLB (06/2017) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
5th nationwide in university entrance exams; awarded Academia; legal practice; company law; civil and
RACHAEL BYRNE IRELAND BCL Scholarship of Success from the Prime Ministry of Turkey; commercial law; international trade law and dispute
graduated second in class; Erasmus exchange to the resolution; law of obligations
rachael.byrne@law.ox.ac.uk INTERN, A&L GOODBODY, IRELAND
University of Montpellier
Exeter College Carrying out legal research for the Restructuring and ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
EDUCATION Insolvency Litigation Department; preparing court EMPLOYMENT Debater and debate trainer; finalist and semi-finalist of
documents; attending court hearings; compiling numerous nation-wide debate championships; finalist
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND, LLB (05/2017) SUMMER INTERN, ESIN ATTORNEY PARTNERSHIP
attendance notes following court hearings; awarded best in the Turkish National, 2016; Best Speaker in Boğaziçi
(AFFILIATE OF BAKER & MCKENZIE), TURKEY
Graduated with first-class honours; ranked first twice speaker at intern presentations University Rookies Debate Championship, 2013
and second twice in four years of study; awarded Henry Conducting legal research; preparing memoranda for
Hamilton Hunter Prize (2017); awarded Bloomsbury Law CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS problems arisen under Turkish corporate law, law of
Prize (2014); entrance exhibitioner Medical law and ethics; equality law; tort law; criminal law obligations, and commercial enterprise law; participating in
and criminology M&A transactions
EMPLOYMENT
INTERN, MASON HAYES & CURRAN, IRELAND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Undertaking legal research for the Competition and Head mentor for law in Trinity College Dublin, 2015-2016
Antitrust Department; drafting updates for the Tech Law
Blog; attending court hearings; compiling attendance
notes following court hearings and conference calls
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ALISON CHAMBERLAIN NEW ZEALAND B
CL TINNY CHAN H
ONG KONG BCL
alison.chamberlain@law.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS tinny.chan@law.ox.ac.uk VACATION SCHEME STUDENT, LATHAM & WATKINS,
St Peter’s College Chamberlain, A. ‘Unit Titles, Cross-Leases and Retirement Merton College HONG KONG
EDUCATION Villages’, Legal Response to Natural Disasters (Thomson Mandarin Working in the Corporate Finance and Litigation teams
Reuters: 2015)
UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY, NEW ZEALAND, LLB EDUCATION
Chamberlain, A. ‘Cheating to Lose: The Rampant Expansion CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
(12/2015) UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG,
of Match Fixing and Developing Responses to Defend Fair The Bar
Gold medal for first place in class; awarded prizes in POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN LAWS (06/2017)
Competition in New Zealand Sport’, Australian and New
resource management law and land law Zealand Sports Law Journal (2014) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, BA JURISPRUDENCE
Represented the University of Oxford in the Philip C
UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY, NEW ZEALAND, BSC (06/2016)
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition 2015;
GEOLOGY (12/2015) Graduated with first-class honours first runner-up in UK rounds; semi-finalist in international
Environmental law; green project financing; financial
Awarded Dean’s congratulatory letter regulation rounds; fourth best oralist in international rounds
EMPLOYMENT
EMPLOYMENT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION MINI-PUPIL DES VOEUX CHAMBERS, HONG KONG
BANKING AND FINANCE SOLICITOR, RUSSELL Barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand Drafting skeleton arguments and opening submissions
MCVEAGH, NEW ZEALAND
Advising lenders/borrowers in asset, development,
corporate, and acquisition finance transactions
SHANE CHANDRA AUSTRALIA B
CL
shane.chandra@law.ox.ac.uk HEAD COACH OF THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN STATE
Mansfield College DEBATING TEAM, WADL, AUSTRALIA
JOHN CHAN H
ONG KONG B
CL
EDUCATION Selecting and coaching the WA state debating team for
john.chan@law.ox.ac.uk VACATION SCHEME STUDENT, CLIFFORD CHANCE, the national championships
HONG KONG MELBOURNE LAW SCHOOL, AUSTRALIA, JD (11/2017)
Brasenose College
Cantonese, Mandarin First-class honours average; awarded eight prizes and CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
MINI-PUPIL, DES VOEUX CHAMBERS, HONG KONG scholarships Commercial law; the Bar; statutory interpretation;
EDUCATION
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS contractual interpretation; metadata retention laws; law
UNIVERSITY OF LAW, UK, BPTC (07/2017) UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA, of trusts
The Bar; private law; commercial litigation LLB AND BA POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL
Awarded the Provost’s Award for Excellence
RELATIONS (11/2014) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE High distinction average; awarded one prize National and international success in debating and public
Awarded the COSF Brasenose BCL Scholarship; winner of
(07/2016) speaking; national success in mooting; organised major
the Human Rights Lawyers Association Judicial Review EMPLOYMENT events relating to law competitions, debating, and public
Graduated with first-class honours Mooting Competition (2017); honourable mention/
SENIOR PARALEGAL, ALLENS LINKLATERS, AUSTRALIA speaking
member of the Middle Temple team, 24th Willem C Vis
EMPLOYMENT International Commercial Arbitration Moot Legal research; witness preparation; drafting and
MINI-PUPIL, TEMPLE CHAMBERS, HONG KONG document sampling in the Disputes and Investigations
group
EUGENE CHAN A
USTRALIA B
CL
TIMOTHY CHEN SINGAPORE BCL
eugene.chan@law.ox.ac.uk FEDERAL LAW REPORTER, THOMSON REUTERS,
St Hilda’s College AUSTRALIA timothy.chen@law.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS
EDUCATION Author of headnotes for cases from State/Territory Corpus Christi College Chen, T. ‘The Impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on
Courts, the Family Court, the Federal Circuit Court, and Mandarin the Principle of Parliamentary Sovereignty’, Exeter Student
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, LLB (HONS 1) Law Review (2015)
tribunals of Australia EDUCATION
(11/2012)
Graduated in top 5%; topped international comparative RESEARCH ASSISTANT, ROSS PARSONS CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, UK, LLB (07/2017) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
jurisprudence and trademarks/patents; Academic Merit AUSTRALIA Graduated with first-class honours; awarded the Dispute resolution; financial law; conflict of laws;
Prize; Walter Reid Memorial Prize for Academic Merit School of Law Prize, Oxford University Press Law constitutional law; trust law
Researching for Professor Jennifer Hill, Professor Joellen
(2009, 2010); Dean’s List of Academic Excellence (2009, Prize, and Routledge Cavendish Prize for achieving
Riley, and Associate Professor Joanna Bird ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
2010) the top performance in the cohort for all three years;
multiple book prizes for best performance in various Accepted a conditional training contract from White &
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, BSC (ADVANCED) modules, including land law, law of trusts, contract law, Case LLP to commence in September 2019
Taxation, administrative, and intellectual property law;
(MAJOR: PHYSIOLOGY) (06/2011) constitutional and administrative law, and tort law
litigation
Topped pharmacology; Talented Students Program
EMPLOYMENT
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
EMPLOYMENT VACATION SCHEME STUDENT, WHITE & CASE LLP, UK
Associate to the Hon Justice Steven Rares, Federal Court
SOLICITOR, AUSTRALIAN TAXATION OFFICE, AUSTRALIA of Australia, Australia (2019); Government Solicitors
VACATION SCHEME STUDENT, SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP, UK
Litigation lawyer in taxation, insolvency, corporations, and Committee, Law Society of New South Wales, Australia
administrative law matters (2017) LEGAL INTERN, RAJAH & TANN SINGAPORE LLP,
SINGAPORE
It is truly an experience of a lifetime, inspiring and intellectually motivating. The MJur was the most challenging and at the same time most rewarding study experience in my life.
Bojana Vitanova, MJur alumna Josef Weinzierl, MJur alumnus
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ARADHANA CHERUPARA VADEKKETHIL INDIA BCL CYRUS CHUA SINGAPORE BCL
aradhana.cheruparavadekkethil@law.ox.ac.uk RESEARCH ASSISTANT, CENTRE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL cheng.chua@law.ox.ac.uk INTERN, CLEARY GOTTLIEB, STEEN & HAMILTON LLP, UK
Somerville College LAW, POLICY AND GOVERNANCE, NATIONAL LAW Corpus Christi College
UNIVERSITY DELHI, INDIA MINI-PUPIL, ESSEX COURT CHAMBERS, UK
Hindi, Malayalam, Sign Language Mandarin
EDUCATION Documenting under-trial incarceration in Delhi and EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS
availability of bail for under-trial prisoners Chua, C X and Liu, H T. ‘Joint Enterprise Liability as
NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY DELHI, INDIA, BA LLB UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK, BA LAW (06/2017)
Omissions’, Journal of Criminal Law (2016)
(HONS) (06/2017) RESEARCH ASSISTANT, DELHI GOVERNMENT, INDIA Graduated with first-class honours in all three years;
Graduated first in class; convenor, Academic Committee; Providing research assistance with respect to reform of awarded the Clifford Chance Prize for EU Law, Herbert CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
teaching assistant to Dr Amita Punj for courses on legal penalties in rape law Smith Freehills Prize for Conflict of Laws, Falcon The Bar; law of obligations; criminal law; property law
method and jurisprudence; teaching assistant to Dr Mrinal Chambers Prize for Land Law, and One Chancery Lane
Satish for the criminal law course CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Prize for Tort Law; awarded the Schuldham Plate for Best ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Academia; policy-making; criminal justice; family law; Undergraduate Performance in Gonville and Caius College; Winner of the Brick Court Chambers Cambridge Moot
EMPLOYMENT elected Scholar of Gonville and Caius College
human rights (2016) and the Herbert Smith Freehills/NLU Delhi
STUDENT CO-ORDINATOR AND SENIOR FIELD International Negotiation Competition (2016); Best
EMPLOYMENT
RESEARCHER, DEATH PENALTY RESEARCH PROJECT, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Speaker at the Oxford-Cambridge Varsity Moot (2015)
NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY DELHI, INDIA Awarded British Council Goa Education Trust Scholarship MINI-PUPIL, DES VOEUX CHAMBERS, HONG KONG
Documenting the administration of the death penalty in and Cornelia Sorabji Scholarship to pursue BCL
India, disproportionally imposed on the most marginalised
sections
FINNIAN CLARKE UK BCL
finnian.clarke@law.ox.ac.uk MINI-PUPILLAGES, UK
Wadham College Including 1 Pump Court, 1 Mitre Court Buildings,
ANSON CHEUNG H
ONG KONG BCL
French Carmelite Chambers, and 6KBW
yui.cheung@law.ox.ac.uk MINI-PUPIL, TEMPLE CHAMBERS, HONG KONG EDUCATION
University College PUBLICATIONS
Researching and writing legal advices and drafting case
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE (LAW Clarke, F. ‘The Legal Basis for Military Intervention in Syria:
Cantonese, Mandarin skeletons for ongoing court cases
WITH FRENCH LAW) (06/2017) Sound or Spurious?’, The Young Human Rights Lawyer
EDUCATION Journal (2016)
VACATION SCHEME STUDENT, ALLEN & OVERY, HONG Graduated with eighth highest first in the year; Peter
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE KONG Carter Prize for highest performance at Wadham College; Clarke, F et al. ‘Zedekia Gaingob and Two Others v The
(06/2017) Wadham College scholarship and academic grant; year State: A Report on Life Imprisonment for the Supreme
Updated procedural manuals, drafted and proof-read
Graduated with first-class honours; awarded the Swire abroad to l’Université Panthéon-Assas, receiving Certificat Court of Namibia’, Oxford Pro Bono Publico (2016)
contracts, and attended conferences
Undergraduate Scholarship and University College Supérieur de Droit Français et Européen
scholarships CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS EMPLOYMENT CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
The Bar The Bar; public law; criminal law; international law;
EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH INTERN, DEATH PENALTY CLINIC, SAINT employment law; human rights; legal philosophy
MINI-PUPIL, MAITLAND CHAMBERS, UK LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, USA
Research examining relationships between variables ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Shadowing barristers in court, reading case bundles
such as race, wealth, and legal representation with legal University-level mooting; Wadham College Mooting Co-
outcomes ordinator
ALEXANDER CHOY AUSTRALIA B
CL
alexander.choy@law.ox.ac.uk ASSOCIATE TO THE HON JUSTICE RANGIAH, FEDERAL STEPHANIE CROSBIE AUSTRALIA B
CL
Magdalen College COURT, AUSTRALIA
stephanie.crosbie@law.ox.ac.uk RESEARCH ASSISTANT IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY,
EDUCATION Proofing judgments, undertaking legal research, and UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA
Magdalen College
assisting with administration of the court
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA, GDLP EDUCATION LEGAL CLERK, CANCER COUNCIL LEGAL SERVICES,
(05/2015) PUBLICATIONS UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA, LLB AUSTRALIA
Graduated with distinction Choy, A. ‘China’s Foreign Direct Investment: a contextual (12/2014)
examination of the Foreign Investment Review Board’, PUBLICATIONS
GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA, LLB (HONS 1) Placed second in class with first-class honours; Dean’s
Australian Institute of International Affairs Quarterly Crosbie, S. ‘The Limited Impact of Evergreening Practices
(03/2014) List awards for first place in property, equity and trusts,
(2013) in Australia’, Journal of Law, Information and Science
criminal law, consumer law, and income tax law; Academic
Graduated first in class; awarded University Medal in Law (2015)
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Achievement Award; Columbia University International
Human Rights programme Bond, C and Crosbie, S. ‘“Nothing burns like the cold” –
GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA, BINTBUS (03/2014) Commercial law; advocacy and litigation; international
Except for Wildfire: How Patents could Win the Game of
arbitration; securities and financial regulation
Graduated first in class; awarded University Medal in UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA, BSC Thrones’, Media and Arts Law Review (2015)
International Business PSYCHOLOGY (12/2014)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
EMPLOYMENT Admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Graduated with distinction
Commercial law; litigation; international dispute resolution;
Queensland (07/2015) and High Court of Australia EMPLOYMENT
LAWYER, KING & WOOD MALLESONS, AUSTRALIA private international law; intellectual property
(03/2016)
M&A, banking and finance, and dispute resolution ASSOCIATE, GLOBAL DISPUTES, JONES DAY, AUSTRALIA
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Complex commercial litigation and advice work, Admitted to the Supreme Court of New South Wales
including in trade practices, securities, directors’ duties, (2015); UNSW Law Journal Editorial Board (2013-2014)
employment, joint venture, and contract disputes
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ADA MARTINA CUCCINIELLO ITALY MJUR DANIEL DOETSCH GERMANY MJUR
ada.cucciniello@law.ox.ac.uk LAW CLERK TO JUDGE LORENZO CORONA, COURT OF daniel.doetsch@law.ox.ac.uk UNIVERSITIES OF PASSAU AND MUENSTER, GERMANY,
St Catherine’s College FIRST INSTANCE OF NOLA, ITALY Pembroke College FIRST LEGAL STATE EXAMINATION (09/2012)
Italian, Spanish Studying court cases on commercial law, property law, German Graduated in top 1% of year
EDUCATION tort law, and medical law; drafting judgments, attending EDUCATION
hearings, and conferring with the judge in chambers on EMPLOYMENT
UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA, ITALY, COMBINED LLB AND final decisions UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE, GERMANY, PHD LAW ASSOCIATE, HENGELER MUELLER, GERMANY
LLM (04/2014) (01/2015)
Corporate and M&A
Graduated with first-class honours RESEARCH ASSISTANT, PUBLIC LAW DEPARTMENT,
UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA, ITALY HIGHER REGIONAL COURT OF HAMM, GERMANY,
SECOND LEGAL STATE EXAMINATION (04/2014) PUBLICATIONS
EMPLOYMENT
Conducting in-depth research as part of a project PRIN Doetsch, D. ‘Fehlerhafte Gesellschaft und fehlerhaftes
TRAINEE LAWYER, ANGELONE LAW FIRM, ITALY (Research Project of Relevant National Interest), titled Graduated in top 3% of year
Organ’, Duncker & Humblot (2015)
Conducting research, drafting legal memoranda, and ‘Courts, Professors and Inclusive Society: The Impact of
attending hearings Scholarly Opinions on the Highest Courts’ CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Commercial and corporate law
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Academia; legal practice
MARY DOMINIC INDIA BCL
mary.dominic@law.ox.ac.uk INTERN, LABOUR COMMISSION, INDIA
NEIL DEACON SCOTLAND B
CL
D
Linacre College Researching on labour laws; observing conciliation
neil.deacon@law.ox.ac.uk TRAINEE SOLICITOR, GOVERNMENT LEGAL SERVICE Malayalam, Hindi proceedings
St Edmund Hall FOR SCOTLAND, SCOTLAND EDUCATION
PUBLICATIONS
EDUCATION Solicitor’s traineeship within a department of 200+
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ADVANCED LEGAL STUDIES Dominic, M K. ‘Introducing Sex Offenders’ Registry in India
lawyers, responsible for providing Scots law advice to the
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, USA, LLM (05/2017) (NUALS), INDIA, BA LLB (HONS) (05/2017) – Potential Privacy Fissures’, South Asian Journal of Law
Scottish and UK governments; general public law litigation,
including judicial review; drafting legislation Graduated with first-class honours and Policy Review (2017)
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, LLB (HONS)
(06/2012) EMPLOYMENT CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
TRAINEE SOLICITOR (INWARD SECONDEE), CMS
EMPLOYMENT CAMERON MCKENNA, SCOTLAND INTERN, SATISH L MANESHINDE, INDIA International criminal law; law of armed conflict; human
rights
SOLICITOR, PRIVATE OFFICE OF THE LORD PRESIDENT Property finance Conducting legal research; drafting applications; serving
OF THE COURT OF SESSION, SCOTLAND notice ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Advising on implementation of reform to civil courts; Rhodes Scholar (India and Linacre, 2017); Best Counsel,
The Bar (England and Wales; Scotland) INTERN, BHARUCHA & PARTNERS, INDIA
drafting civil procedural rules 4th Amity International Moot Court (Noida, India); student
Researching on company law; assisting in due diligence editor, NUALS Law Journal; gold medallist, educational
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION work assessment by University of New South Wales, Australia;
Kennedy Scholar, Harvard Law School, 2016/17 volunteer, NHRC Survey on Rights of the Elderly
LAURENS DEFORCE BELGIUM M
JUR HUGO DUPREE A
USTRALIA B
CL
laurens.deforce@law.ox.ac.uk KU LEUVEN, BELGIUM, LLB (07/2016) hugo.dupree@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT
St Cross College St Hugh’s College LAWYER, ALLENS, AUSTRALIA
Graduated cum laude
Dutch EDUCATION General corporate litigation; transactional work in
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS technology, media and telecommunications team; pro
EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA, JD
Private international law, negotiation, contract law, and bono work
KU LEUVEN, BELGIUM, LLM (07/2017) (01/2016)
liability law
Graduated magna cum laude Graduated with distinction; joint valedictorian of 2015 JD CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
cohort; first prize in Bills of Rights course
The Bar; innovative models of public interest law; public
law vs private law responses to threats and effects if
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, BACHELOR OF
climate change; constitutional law; law of obligations
ADVANCED SCIENCE (11/2008)
BURTON DEWITT U
SA BCL
First-class honours (majoring in Theoretical Physics); first ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
burton.dewitt@law.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS in General Relativity course Admitted as a solicitor to NSW Supreme Court and High
Wadham College DeWitt, B. ‘The Application and Construction of Rules Court of Australia
EDUCATION of Admissibility in the Federal Rules of Evidence in Cases
Where State Law Provides the Rule of Decision’, The
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LAW SCHOOL, USA, JD Review of Litigation (2015)
CONOR EWING UK BCL
E
(05/2015)
DeWitt, B. ‘A Judgment without Merits: The Recognition
Order of the Coif; cum laude and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Confirming, conor.ewing@law.ox.ac.uk Helped solicitors with house purchases and sales, re
Recognizing, or Enforcing Arbitral Awards’, Texas Wadham College mortgages, transfer of titles and wills
RICE UNIVERSITY, USA, BA HISTORY (05/2010) International Law Journal (2015) EDUCATION
Honours CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE The Bar, particularly human rights law and international
EMPLOYMENT (07/2017)
Academia; conflicts of law; multi-national dispute law
LAW TUTOR, SELF-EMPLOYED, USA resolution Graduated with distinction
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Tutoring law students and preparing them for the Texas
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION EMPLOYMENT Semi-finalist of the Maitland Oxford University
Bar exam
Member of the State Bar of Texas INTERN, SCANLON EWING SOLICITORS, UK Intercollegiate Mooting Championships
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BRIAN FAN HONG KONG BCL FELICITY FOX AUSTRALIA B
CL
F brian.fan@law.ox.ac.uk
Magdalen College
Cantonese, Mandarin
EDUCATION
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
The Bar
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
felicity.fox@law.ox.ac.uk
Mansfield College
EDUCATION
Legal research; assisting in the drafting and preparation
of judgments; working on criminal and civil matters in
the Victorian Court of Appeal; managing his Honour’s
chambers
Mooted in regional and international competitions; winner MONASH UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA, LLB & BA (MAJOR:
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG, LLB of the Herbert Smith Freehills Competition Law Moot CRIMINOLOGY) (HONS) (09/2013) SOLICITOR, HERBERT SMITH FREEHILLS, AUSTRALIA
(06/2017) (2017), Joint University Mooting Festival (2015), and Graduated second in cohort; Vice-Chancellor’s Honours/ Commercial Disputes (class actions and anti-corruption
Graduated with first-class honours Basic Law Mooting Series (2014) PhD Scholarship; three subject prizes work); pro-bono advocacy
EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
MINI-PUPIL, DES VOEUX CHAMBERS, HONG KONG LEGAL ADVISER, DEPARTMENT OF PREMIER AND Dispute resolution; evidence; civil procedure; white collar
CABINET, AUSTRALIA crime and anti-corruption; criminal law; advocacy
Drafting skeleton submissions and conducting research
Integrity legislation reform and legal policy advice
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
LAW FACULTY TUTOR, MONASH UNIVERSITY, Admitted to practice as solicitor in Victoria, Australia
AUSTRALIA (2014); winner of the Monash University General Moot
DEON FANG SINGAPORE BCL 2012; volunteered as solicitor with various Community
Tutoring criminal law and evidence law Legal Centres; Monash Law Review committee member
deon.fang@law.ox.ac.uk INTERNSHIPS, ALLEN & GLEDHILL, RAJAH & TANN,
Exeter College SINGAPORE SENIOR ASSOCIATE TO THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE
Mandarin REDLICH, COURT OF APPEAL, SUPREME COURT OF
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
EDUCATION Technology in legal theory and business: intellectual
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE property in an attention economy, private liability for
(06/2017) autonomous AI acts, privacy, personhood and bodies,
media in democracy TOM FOXTON U
K BCL
First-class honours; Pembroke College Domus Scholar;
awarded all Pembroke College law subject prizes (Crystal, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION thomas.foxton@law.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS
Farthing, Monk Prizes); distinction in law moderations
President and bass, Out of the Blue a capella; legal advisor, Pembroke College Foxton, T. ‘Inaccurate Conception: ACB v Thomson
EMPLOYMENT Oxford Student Publications Ltd; researcher, OxPolicy legal Medical’, Modern Law Review (forthcoming, 2017)
EDUCATION
pluralism project; mooting experience, including at top 12
VACATION SCHEMES, SKADDEN, SLAUGHTER AND MAY, teams of 7 King’s Bench Walk Commercial Law Moot and UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE Foxton, T. ‘Share and Share Alike: Contributory Negligence
UK Oxford Legal Assistance Public Law Moot, quarter-final of (06/2017) and Contractual Claims’, Oxford University Undergraduate
Maitland Chambers Inter-Collegiate Moot, and semi-final Law Journal (2017)
INTERNSHIPS, BAKER MCKENZIE, LINKLATERS, HONG Graduated with first-class honours; represented Oxford
of Holdsworth Moot; 1+ years in full-time army technical in the 2016 Philip C Jessup Moot Court Competition; Foxton, T. ‘Damages in Lieu of Rescission: Salt v
KONG
writing job associate editor of the Oxford University Undergraduate Stratstone’, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law
Law Journal Quarterly (2016)
MINI-PUPILLAGES, UK CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
YUXUE FANG CHINA MJUR One Essex Court, 3 Verulam Buildings, 7 King’s Bench The Bar; commercial law; international arbitration; law of
obligations; remedies; property theory
yuxue.fang@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT Walk, and Maitland Chambers
Keble College INTERNSHIP, PEOPLE’S PROCURATORATE OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
VACATION SCHEME, FRESHFIELDS, UK
Mandarin SHANDONG PROVINCE, CHINA Won the Herbert Smith Freehills Disability Law Moot
Sat with two associates in the Financial Institutions (2016); won the Oxford Legal Assistance Public Law
EDUCATION Attending case discussions; organising case dossiers; Disputes Group Moot (2016); runner-up in the 7KBW Commercial
HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND proof-reading meeting documents in the First Division of
Law Moot (2016); founded the Oxford International
TECHNOLOGY, HONG KONG, MSC GLOBAL CHINA Public Prosecutions VACATION SCHEME, SLAUGHTER AND MAY, UK Arbitration Society
STUDIES (07/2017) Sat with an associate in the Financing Group
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Studied through the 3+1 pathway, a collaboration Academia; legal practice; public law; legal theory
between HKUST and Shandong University; awarded MGCS
Scholarship for top students of the graduating class ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Second runner-up in the 2014 Asia-Pacific round and PAUL FRADLEY U
K BCL
SHANDONG UNIVERSITY, CHINA, LLB AND BA ENGLISH
winner in the 2013 China round of the Price Media Law paul.fradley@law.ox.ac.uk Conducting legal research on competition law
(06/2017)
Moot Court Competition
Brasenose College
Ranked second in the dual-degree programme; awarded VACATION SCHEME, MCFARLANES LLP, UK
China National Scholarships for 2015/2016; exchange to EDUCATION
City University of Hong Kong, 2016 Sitting in the Private Client and Real Estate Departments
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE
(06/2017) PUBLICATIONS
First-class honours; Wronker Proxime (second best overall Fradley, P. ‘Prisoners’ Votes, Referendums, and Common
performance in BA Jurisprudence); Gibbs Proxime (second Law Rights’, Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal
best combined performance in contract, tort, trusts, and (2015)
land law); prizes for best performance in trusts, labour
law, and personal property; Open Exhibition (Brasenose CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
College) The Bar; commercial law; property and trusts law;
employment law
EMPLOYMENT
MINI-PUPILLAGES, UK ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Chambers including Serle Court, Fountain Court, 7KBW, Quarter-finalist, Price Media Law Moot Court
One Essex Court, Maitland, and 3 Verulam Buildings Competition; 1 Essex Court Scholarship; college
scholarship for the BCL; secretary of the Brasenose
VACATION SCHEME, HERBERT SMITH FREEHILLS LLP, UK College Junior Common Room
© STUART COX
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CARMELO FRANCESCHINO ITALY BCL MARTIN GASSLER AUSTRIA MJUR
carmelo.franceschino@law.ox.ac.uk MINI-PUPIL, ESSEX COURT CHAMBERS, UK martin.gassler@law.ox.ac.uk UNDERGRADUATE ASSISTANT, DEPARTMENT OF
Merton College Researching issues concerning covenants related to land; Mansfield College ECONOMICS AT UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA
Italian attending Court of Appeal hearings German Assisting on an advanced module in microeconomics
EDUCATION EDUCATION
INTERN, WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP, UK PUBLICATIONS
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA JURISPRUDENCE BRUSSELS SCHOOL OF COMPETITION, BELGIUM, LLM Gassler, M, Matousek, P, and Weiss, V.
Two weeks working on an international fraud arbitration
(06/2017) COMPETITION LAW (09/2017) ‘Zusammenschlusskontrolle - Neuer Transaktionswerttest’,
case and helping draft client pitches detailing debt-
Graduated with first-class honours; Worcester College restructuring plans Graduated summa cum laude Ecolex (2017)
scholarship Gassler, M. ‘The EU Court’s Concept of an Agreement
INTERN, CENTRO ASTALLI (JESUITS’ REFUGEE SERVICE), UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA, MAG IUR within the Meaning of Art 101(1) TFEU: An Over-
EMPLOYMENT (11/2015)
ITALY Inclusive Interpretation’, Cardiff University Law Society
SUMMER ASSOCIATE, CLEARY GOTTLIEB STEEN & Providing pro bono advice on permits to stay and asylum Awarded three academic excellence scholarships Journal (2014)
HAMILTON LLP, BELGIUM seeking under Italian law
Helping the competition law team draft the reply to the CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, UK, CERTIFICATE IN LEGAL CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
European Commission’s Statement of Objections recently CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS STUDIES (07/2014) Competition law; economics for competition law
issued against Google (Android) Legal practice; commercial law; trusts; intellectual Graduated with distinction
property law ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA, BSC ECONOMICS Winner of the Austrian Competition Law Moot Court
(07/2013) (2016); member of the Dean’s List of the University
of Innsbruck’s Law Faculty for outstanding practical
Awarded two academic excellence scholarships
JAMES GALE B
ARBADOS, UK B
CL achievements
G
EMPLOYMENT
james.gale@law.ox.ac.uk LEGAL TRAINEE, JDSELLIER & CO, TRINIDAD AND
ASSOCIATE, SCHOENHERR ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Lincoln College TOBAGO
BELGIUM
EDUCATION Drafting legal documents
Practising all pillars of EU and Austrian competition law
HUGH WOODING LAW SCHOOL, TRINIDAD AND (merger control, antitrust, abuse of dominance, state aid)
MINI-PUPILLAGES, UK
TOBAGO, LEC (03/2017)
Including Essex Court Chambers, Monckton Chambers,
Assistant coach in the CCJ International Moot Competition
Pump Court Tax Chambers, Devereux Chambers,
Enterprise Chambers, and 3 Hare Court
BPP UNIVERSITY, UK, BPTC (06/2016) MARGOT GIBSON NEW ZEALAND B
CL
Honourable mention in the Willem C Vis International PUBLICATIONS margot.gibson@law.ox.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT
Commercial Arbitration Moot 2016 Gale, J. ‘Between the Pillars of Liberalism and Capitalism: A Lady Margaret Hall INTERN, NEW ZEALAND EMBASSY AND PERMANENT
Comparison of Theories of Exploitation’, The Manchester
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, UK, LLB (06/2015) Review of Law, Crime and Ethics (2015) EDUCATION MISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS, AUSTRIA
Graduated with first-class honours; R G Lawson Award for UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY, NEW ZEALAND, LLB AND Drafting statements for UN conferences and assemblies;
ranking first in Advocacy and the Law class CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS BA POLITICAL SCIENCE AND HISTORY (02/2016) conducting research on international law topics, focusing
The Bar; commercial law; public law; international on international criminal law
EMPLOYMENT Graduated with first-class honours; University of
arbitration; cryptocurrency regulation Canterbury Award for Overall Academic Distinction in
ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY, HASTINGS ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, SUMMER CLERK, RUSSELL MCVEAGH, NEW ZEALAND
Law; placed first in class for immigration and refugee law,
BARBADOS international human rights law, and public law; Duncan Drafting; discovery; legal research, focusing on privacy
Drafting pleadings, opinions, applications, correspondence, Cotterill Prize for best overall student in second and third and commercial litigation
and affidavits year law
CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
International human rights law; international criminal law;
counter-terrorism and security
ZHEN GAO CHINA MJUR
zhen.gao@law.ox.ac.uk Gao, Z. ‘Experimentalist Governance in Food Safety
St Cross College Regulation in China’, Remapping (区域) (2016) JORDAN GIFFORD-MOORE A
USTRALIA B
CL
Mandarin Gao, Z. ‘Experimentalist Police Reform in the US’, The jordan.gifford-moore@law.ox.ac.uk INTERN, UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
EDUCATION Paper (澎湃新闻·思想市场) (2016) USA
Balliol College
FUDAN UNIVERSITY, CHINA, LLB (07/2011) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS EDUCATION Assisted Congressman Westmoreland (GA-03) and staff
National Scholarship; Outstanding Graduate International investment arbitration; international public FLINDERS UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA, LLB LAW & LEGAL CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
law PRACTICE AND BA POLITICS (04/2017)
EMPLOYMENT Public policy; financial regulation; international
First-class honours in law; University Medal; Admitted to development and legal framework; litigation;
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, CHINA ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Supreme Court of South Australia infrastructure; finance
In the course of a PhD in Public Policy and Management at
PUBLICATIONS Tsinghua University (due to be completed January 2018); EMPLOYMENT
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Gao, Z. ‘More is Better? Overcompensation in Takings in visiting researcher at Columbia University
LAWYER, KING & WOOD MALLESONS, AUSTRALIA Rhodes Scholar (SA, 2017); Prime Minister’s Australia-
China’, Baku State University Law Review (2017)
Asset finance; project finance; insolvency Asia Endeavour Undergraduate awardee (2015)
SESSIONAL TUTOR, FLINDERS UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA
Medical law and ethics
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