• Legal academic + litigation lawyer
• Regular legal commentator on TV, radio, in print + online
• Co-authored Nygh's Conflict of Laws in Australia (10th ed) and Balkin & Davis Law of Torts (6th ed)
• Guest lectured at Harvard Law School
• Research cited by superior courts
• Qualifications: law, philosophy, political science & international relations, MBA

Key legal expertise:

• Conflict of laws / private international law
• Private law: torts, remedies, equity
• Public law: federal jurisdiction

Co-Convenor, UWA Private and Commercial Law Research Cluster

Currently: private international law, defamation, torts

Local:

• Admitted in the Supreme Court of Western Australian and High Court of Australia
• Practising as a consultant in litigation
• Experience in a wide variety of commercial litigation matters; counsel in Supreme Court of Western Australia

International:

• 2019 visiting scholar, Hague Conference on Private International Law, The Netherlands
• Invited expert, 22nd Diplomatic Session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law; assisted during finalisation of the HCCH Judgments Convention
• Former director of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) National Coordination Committee for Australia
• Former intern, UNCITRAL Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific in South Korea; researched investor-state dispute settlement

• Postgraduate Research Support Scheme, University of Sydney: $3,500 (2019)
• BarNetwork Pty Ltd project grant: $10,000 (2018)
• UWA Teaching-Research Nexus grant: $2,500 (2018)
• Walter Reid Scholarship – PhD travel scholarship, University of Sydney: $7,000 (2018)
• Postgraduate Research Support Scheme, University of Sydney: $3,000 (2018)
• CMCL & IPRIA ECR Workshop travel grant, Melbourne Law School (2017)