CV

In summary

I have extensive experience across different policy areas including legal policy, asylum seeker policy, counterterrorism policy, health policy, and research policy.

I specialise in quantitative empirical legal analysis.

I bridge evidentiary islands, bringing together data skills, legal skills, and communication skills to inform public discussion.

Highlights from my career include:

  • Managing capacity building projects in southeast Asia

  • Realigning police powers with an increase in the minimum age of criminal responsibility

  • Leading reforms to residential tenancy law and occupancy law

  • Participating in the Working Group for the national review of defamation law.

Not (yet) admitted to practice: please do not contact me for legal advice.

Education

Bachelor of Arts (Classics and Philosophy) (Hons) University of Melbourne

  • Political philosophy

  • Economic philosophy

  • Logic and the philosophy of mathematics

  • Ancient literature

  • Latin and Classical Greek

Juris Doctor (Hons) Australian National University

  • National security law

  • Comparative constitutional law

  • Law of armed conflict

  • Gender, sexualities and law

  • Thesis: Executive Power and Extraterritoriality in Regional Cooperation Frameworks

Graduate Diploma Communications Law University of Melbourne

  • Defamation law

  • Freedom of speech

  • Broadcast regulation

  • Censorship/content classification

  • Intellectual property law

  • New media and the law

Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice Australian National University

  • Criminal law practice

  • Consumer law practice

Experience

Department of Immigration and Citizenship,
Commonwealth

  • Southeast Asia and Bali Process

  • United Nations and International Organisations

  • Internal audit

  • Detention monitoring unit

  • Strategic policy unit

Justice and Community Safety,
Australian Capital Territory

  • Criminal law

  • Police powers

  • Sentencing law

  • Residential tenancy law

  • Unit titles law

  • Electoral law

  • Defamation law

Teaching

Head Tutor

  • Introduction to Politics (ANU)

Guest lecturer

  • Australian Legal Responses to National Security Law and Counterterrorism (ANU)

Teaching assistant

  • Political Text Analysis (ANU)

  • Statistics Bootcamp (ANU)

Tutor/Seminar convenor

  • Bureaucracy, Politics and Power (ANU)

  • Contemporary Political Analysis (ANU)

  • Legal Practice and Ethics (Deakin)

Marking tutor

  • Administrative Law (Deakin)

  • Contract Law (Deakin)

  • Legal Method and Statutory Interpretation (Deakin)

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