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VICTOR CHATELAIS F RANCE

C victor.chatelais@stx.ox.ac.uk
St Cross College
French
PARALEGAL, CLYDE & CO, UK
Assisting the Energy and Natural Resources Department
on documents disclosure

Class of 2017/18 EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF RENNES I, FRANCE, LLM EUROPEAN
LAW (06/2017)
INTERN, SUBSEA7, UK
Assisting the Compliance Department on document
review
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, ENGLAND, LLB ENGLISH AND
CAREER ASPIRATIONS
FRENCH LAW (06/2017)
Criminal law
Graduated magna cum laude
INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE PROGRAMME
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Currently enrolled on a distance learning Bachelor in
Oxford Criminology I would like to extend a warm welcome to our MSc Criminology INTERN, NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT, FRANCE Philosophy from Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La
is dedicated and Criminal Justice students for 2017/18. Our programme Défense - Paris X, due to be completed in 2019
Assisting the Commodities Department on legal
to delivering has an outstanding international reputation and equips students translation, document review, and legal research
an innovative with an advanced understanding of crime and criminal justice.
programme of Our students take courses in criminological theory and the
criminological study of criminal justice, receive training in research design
teaching and and methodology, and have the opportunity to take optional REBECCA CONCANNON U
K
research. Staff courses in a wide range of subject areas, including policing, rebecca.concannon@worc.ox.ac.uk RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
members are also sentencing, prisons, the sociology of punishment, crime and the Worcester College PRIVATE TUTOR, UK
committed to public engagement. I am family, human rights, race and gender, youth justice, risk and security, and migration EDUCATION
delighted to welcome our new class of and citizenship. We welcome our new students to this stimulating and demanding Voluntary tutoring in GCSE Maths, A-Level Sociology, and
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY, UK, BSC CRIMINOLOGY AND A-Level Psychology
MSc students to join our community. programme, and to our vibrant and collegial research community – and look forward
SOCIOLOGY (06/2017)
They come from around the world and to the year ahead. CAREER ASPIRATIONS
Graduated with first-class honours
a variety of professional and disciplinary Policy advisory; advocacy
backgrounds; united by their passion UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK, USA, BSC
for criminal justice and their academic CRIMINOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY (05/2016)
achievements. Exchange year; 3.9 GPA

Rachel Condry,
Director of Graduate Studies
SANDRO DONATI ITALY
Mary Bosworth,
Director, Centre for Criminology D sandro.donati@oriel.ox.ac.uk
Oriel College
Italian, French, Spanish
EDUCATION
STAFF ATTORNEY, SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP, BELGIUM
Conducting a multi-jurisdictional internal investigation into
allegations of corrupt payments under the Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act (FCPA) and other anti-bribery laws

EXTERNAL ADVISORY BOARD 2017/18 UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE, ITALY, LLM (12/2008) CAREER ASPIRATIONS

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Graduated with honours Law enforcement; criminal investigation; rule of law;
The Advisory Board consists of a group of eminent persons chosen for their
CLASS SIZE international criminal law; public international law; human
academic or professional expertise who can give guidance on the general direction UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE, ITALY, LLB (12/2006) rights
of the Centre and provide a link between the Centre, the wider academic world, and
criminal justice agencies. The Board currently comprises: RELEVANT EXPERIENCE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Admitted to the Bar in Italy, 2013; training on election

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Professor Katja Franko Aas, Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law,
AVERAGE AGE University of Oslo
Hindpal Bhui, HM Inspectorate of Prisons
Professor Adam Crawford, School of Law, University of Leeds
Lady Edwina Grosvenor, Prison Philanthropist
BOARD OF INQUIRY OFFICER, MONUSCO, DEMOCRATIC
observations at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, 2013;
REPUBLIC OF CONGO
completed a summer school entitled ‘Une histoire politique
Conducting investigations into serious crimes, hostile de l’Europe au XX siècle’ at Sciences Po, Paris
actions, kidnapping, and cases of fraud and corruption
LEGAL OFFICER, MONUSCO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF

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Professor Alison Liebling, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge CONGO
AGE Lord Ken Macdonald QC, Warden, Wadham College Handling a range of mission-related legal issues involving
RANGE Professor Kieran McEvoy, Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Queen’s public international law, international criminal law, and
University Belfast human rights
Professor Eugene McLaughlin, University of Southampton

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Professor Stephan Parmentier, Institute of Criminology, Catholic University Leuven,
NATIONALITIES Belgium
Chief Constable Francis Habgood, Thames Valley Police
Sara Thornton, National Police Chiefs’ Council

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 BHAVYA DUTT S
 INGAPORE CHARLOTTE JERRAM U
K
bhavya.dutt@stx.ox.ac.uk
St Cross College
Hindi, German
EDUCATION
HR INTERN, BERNHARD SCHULTE SHIPMANAGEMENT,
SINGAPORE
Working closely with HR director; assisting with
recruitment, data analysis, and research
J charlotte.jerram@new.ox.ac.uk
New College
EDUCATION
SOCIAL SECURITY TRIBUNAL ADVOCATE, NORFOLK
COMMUNITY LAW SERVICE, UK

MINI-PUPIL, OUTER TEMPLE CHAMBERS, UK

UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, UK, BSC PSYCHOLOGY
(07/2017)
Graduated with first-class honours
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
INTERN PSYCHOLOGIST, NHS, UK
Shadowing therapists and nurses in their administration of
medicine to mentally ill patients; conducting home visits;
performing data collection and analysis
VOLUNTEER CALLER, NIGHTLINE, UK
University-run night listening service from 9pm-9am;
attending to phone calls, instant messages, and face to
face visits with students suffering from problems (mental
or otherwise) and in need of an anonymous friend to talk
to
UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA, UK, LLB WITH EUROPEAN
LEGAL SYSTEMS (07/2017) CAREER ASPIRATIONS
CAREER ASPIRATIONS
Barrister; judge
Criminal law; human rights advocacy; criminal profiling; Awarded Ede & Ravenscroft Prize for Excellence, the
security analysis Hodgson Martin Prize for European Law, and the Jeremy RESEARCH INTERESTS
McMullen Scholarship; Pegasus Scholar of the Inner
Mental health law
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Temple
Taught English abroad in China for two months; ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
volunteered in research with Reprieve UK to assist lawyers AARHUS UNIVERSITY, DENMARK, LLB (06/2016)
Member of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
helping those falsely convicted; social secretary for a Erasmus year exchange; placed in top 1% of class with an
travel society and operations director for an environmental average of 11.6/12
society at University of Warwick
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
POLICE CONTACT TELEPHONE OPERATOR, THAMES
VALLEY POLICE, UK
Answering 999 calls directed to the police

KATHRYN KAELIN USA

LUCY HARRY U
K
K kathryn.kaelin@worc.ox.ac.uk RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

H
Worcester College LEGAL INTERN, LAWYERS WITHOUT BORDERS, USA
lucy.harry@new.ox.ac.uk INTERN, ABORIGINAL RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION
New College SERVICES, AUSTRALIA INTERN, CARR CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY,
YALE UNIVERSITY, USA, BA ENGLISH (09/2016)
EDUCATION Assisting with production of a legal dictionary in the HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT, USA
indigenous Yolngu Matha language to assist aboriginal Graduated with distinction
UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, UK, MA (HONS) SOCIAL CAREER ASPIRATIONS
people in court
ANTHROPOLOGY (06/2017) Criminal Law, with a focus on women’s rights
Graduated with first-class honours; Social Anthropology INTERN, PEOPLE AGAINST SUFFERING, OPPRESSION
Honours Degree Prize (for best final year student); Dean’s AND POVERTY, SOUTH AFRICA
List for Academic Excellence 2015-17
Assisting asylum seekers appeal the rejection of their
FLORENCE LEE HONG KONG

L
asylum seeker claims; leading workshops at centres for
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE abused women and juvenile offenders; preparing rape and florence.lee@worc.ox.ac.uk RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
INTERN, CENTER FOR DEATH PENALTY LITIGATION, USA assault cases
Worcester College INTERN, SLAUGHTER AND MAY, HONG KONG
Assisting capital defenders and post-conviction attorneys Cantonese, Mandarin
CAREER ASPIRATIONS
in Durham, North Carolina; visiting a death row client; CAREER ASPIRATIONS
Criminal law; research EDUCATION
reviewing archived files to explore possible avenues of Criminal law research; academia
appeal in historic cases; gathering hearing exhibits for UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK, BA (HONS) LAW
RESEARCH INTERESTS
appeals under North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act 2009 (06/2017) RESEARCH INTERESTS
Capital punishment; wrongful convictions
Graduated with double first-class honours; awarded the Desistance; the interplay between geography and law
Fitzwilliam College Law Scholarship
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Taught abroad in China for six months
HOLLY HEMMING AUSTRALIA
holly.hemming@pmb.ox.ac.uk MINI-PUPIL, ROPEWALK CHAMBERS, UK
Pembroke College
INTERN, FREETHS, UK TANONGSAK MAHAKUSOL THAILAND

M
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, BA LAW (06/2016) INTERN, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, BELGIUM tanongsak.mahakusol@stx.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS
St Cross College Mahakusol, T. ‘Keeping Law and Order in Thailand Modern
Awarded the Butterfield Harvard Award CAREER ASPIRATIONS
Thai Day Slavery towards International Recognition’, Thailand
The Bar; criminal and human rights law Journal of International Law (2015)
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE EDUCATION
Mahakusol, T. ‘The Elimination of Corruption in Thai
MARSHAL, THE UPPER TRIBUNAL FOR ASYLUM AND CORNELL LAW SCHOOL, USA, LLM (05/2011)
Government Procurement’, Journal of Thai Justice System
IMMIGRATION, UK
NYU SCHOOL OF LAW, USA, LLM (05/2010) (2014)

CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY, THAILAND, LLB CAREER ASPIRATIONS

(05/2007) Criminal investigation; prosecution; research; teaching
First-class honours RESEARCH INTERESTS
Transnational organised crime
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL, THAILAND

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 ANTHONY MALONE CANADA
anthony.malone@lincoln.ox.ac.uk
Lincoln College
EDUCATION
YORK UNIVERSITY, CANADA, BA (HONS) CRIMINOLOGY
(06/2017)
Graduated summa cum laude, at top of the class; awarded
the So Pui Ching Scholarship in Sociology for academic
achievement and community service, and the Criminology
Honours Scholarship 2016 (for highest CGPA entering
fourth year of study)
ASHIR MIR U
K
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE ashir.mir@sant.ox.ac.uk ASSOCIATE, DELOITTE, UK
TUTOR AND PEER MENTOR, YORK UNIVERSITY, CANADA St Antony’s College Preparing tax computations for FTSE 100 companies;
EDUCATION assisting with tax compliance and advisory work; attending
Providing tutoring and peer mentoring services to
client meetings and researching new government tax
undergraduate students enrolled in the criminology UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, UK, BSC (HONS)
schemes
programme at York University MANAGEMENT (06/2017)
Graduated in top 5% of class with upper second-class CAREER ASPIRATIONS
CO-FOUNDER AND EDITOR, YORK UNIVERSITY
honours; awarded MSP Scholarship Commercial law; criminal law; policing; public service;
CRIMINOLOGICAL REVIEW, CANADA
intelligence
Assisting in the creation and publication of the first RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
academic journal in criminology at York University ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MENA, THE HUT GROUP, UK
Captained university rugby league 1st team
CAREER ASPIRATIONS Developing e-commerce strategy for a global internet
Research; constitutional and criminal law; social justice FMCG retailer; undertaking cross-functional business
development projects

MARKET LAUNCHER, DELIVEROO, UK

CLAIRE MARCEL FRANCE Commercial responsibility for launching Deliveroo in two
new cities; conducting market research; pitching to and
claire.marcel@oriel.ox.ac.uk PARALEGAL, WESLEY GRYK SOLICITORS, UK signing up twenty three commercial partners; managing
Oriel College Answering client queries at reception; assisting with client relationship for all restaurant accounts
French, Spanish casework
EDUCATION
CAREER ASPIRATIONS
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON, UK, LLB POLITICS, Academic research SEAN MOORE USA
PHILOSOPHY AND LAW
RESEARCH INTERESTS sean.moore@lincoln.ox.ac.uk RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Sociology and history of the police service Lincoln College MENTOR, EMERGECT, USA
LEGAL VOLUNTEER, PRISONER ADVICE SERVICE, UK EDUCATION
CAREER ASPIRATIONS
Answering letters from prisoners; providing pro bono legal YALE UNIVERSITY, USA, BA POLITICAL SCIENCE
advice Work within the field of ex-offender re-entry
(05/2017)

FELEENA MASON U
K
feleena.mason@gtc.ox.ac.uk VOLUNTEER, WILTSHIRE LAW CENTRE, UK
BRITTANY NICKLAUS U
 SA

N
Green Templeton College Providing help and advice on benefits, housing,
EDUCATION immigration, employment, and family law brittany.nicklaus@st-hildas.ox.ac.uk KISHWAUKEE COLLEGE, USA, AS POLITICAL SCIENCE
St Hilda’s College (05/2010)
RUSKIN COLLEGE, UK, BA (HONS) SOCIAL AND CAREER ASPIRATIONS
POLITICAL STUDIES (05/2017) EDUCATION Graduated cum laude
Social policy; applied research
Graduated with distinction UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, USA, BSC CAREER ASPIRATIONS
RESEARCH INTERESTS CRIMINOLOGY (05/2016)
Advocacy for victims of sexual assault; corrections officer;
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Mental health and disability law; addiction and substance Graduated magna cum laude human rights law; international law; public policy
APPROPRIATE ADULT, COUNTRY COMMUNITY misuse; violence in prisons; reoffending
PROJECTS (CCP), UK
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Volunteering with vulnerable adults within the criminal Paper considering the feasibility of the 2017 Prison Safety
justice system; monitoring the wellbeing of detainees and Reform white paper for tackling prison violence
MAULSHREE PATHAK INDIA

and ensuring their rights are upheld according to current
legislation
THAMES VALLEY PROBATION OFFICER, SOVA, UK
Administering support on a case-by-case basis to
clients on probation; writing and delivering a ‘Creating
Opportunities’ programme for residents of a bail hostel in
Oxford, aimed at developing mechanisms for positive life
decision-making
P
currently under review by the Critical Social Policy Journal
maulshree.pathak@gtc.ox.ac.uk LAW CLERK TO HONORABLE MR JUSTICE V GOPALA
Green Templeton College GOWDA, SUPREME COURT, INDIA
Hindi Preparing briefs on matters pending before the bench;
EDUCATION assisting the judge in drafting judgments and other
research work
NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY DELHI, INDIA, BA LLB
(HONS) (06/2015) SENIOR RESEARCHER, DEATH PENALTY INDIA REPORT,
Teaching Assistant to Dr Anup Surendranath on the NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY DELHI, INDIA
Constitutional Law course Research for the Death Penalty India Report, 2016;
compiling documentation for a socio-economic profile of
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE death row prisoners in India, by way of interviews with the
ADVOCATE, CHAMBERS OF MR SANJAY PARIKH, INDIA prisoners and their families

Drafting pleadings and researching on matters involving CAREER ASPIRATIONS

criminal, land acquisition and environmental law. Litigation; criminal law reforms; constitutional law; human
rights

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 KATHARINE PLATT U
K
katharine.platt@sant.ox.ac.uk
St Antony’s College
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, UK, MA PHILOSOPHY
(07/2014)
Undergraduate masters; graduated with first-class
honours; specialised in social cognition and applied ethics
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
EMEA EVENT ANALYST, JP MORGAN CHASE & CO, UK
Managing and co-ordinating corporate entertainment
AUSTIN POWELL USA
austin.powell@gtc.ox.ac.uk
Green Templeton College
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI, USA, BA PHILOSOPHY AND
PUBLIC POLICY LEADERSHIP (06/2017)
Minor in Business Administration; graduated magna cum
laude, with honours distinction from the Sally McDonnell
Barksdale Honours College; awarded Lott Leadership
Scholarship
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
PRESIDENT OF THE STUDENT BODY ASSOCIATION,
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI, USA
Representing 23,000 students in university-wide
leadership meetings; managing a $300,000 budget;
developing strategies for student advocacy opportunities
ALESSANDRA PREZEPIORSKI LEMOS B
 RAZIL
alessandra.prezepiorskilemos@worc.ox.ac.uk
Worcester College
Portuguese, French
EDUCATION
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARANÁ, BRAZIL, LLM
(04/2017)
President of the Postgraduate Law Students' Union
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARANÁ, BRAZIL, LLB
(02/2015)
Honourable mention for the best university students of
2013
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
INTERN, PARANÁ STATE PROSECUTION SERVICE, BRAZIL
PUBLICATIONS
Borges, C M R and Lemos, A P. ‘Rape at Universities: an
Analysis of Heteronormativity and its Myths’, Brazilian
Review of Criminal Sciences (2017)
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CAREER ASPIRATIONS
Global investigations; corporate compliance; anti-
corruption
Q niamh.quille@wadh.ox.ac.uk
RESEARCH INTERESTS
White collar crime and cyber crime
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Observational experience with the Thames Valley Police
Intelligence Department
INTERN, MARSHALL COUNTY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY,
USA
Instructing a group of fifteen prisoners in the Ice House
Entrepreneurship Programme; introducing them to
the essential components of entrepreneurship and the
entrepreneurial mindset, as articulated in Clifton Taulbert’s
Book, Who Owns the Ice House? Eight Life Lessons from
an Unlikely Entrepreneur
R
PUBLICATIONS
Powell, A. ‘Hyper-Incarceration: America’s Deep Rooted
Division in Race’, University of Mississippi Undergraduate
Research Journal (2016)
CAREER ASPIRATIONS
Criminal law practice in the USA
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Race and law; sentencing policy; human rights
Lemos, A P. ‘New Paradigm, New Practices: Citizen
Security and the Need to Reformulate Police Actions at
Protests’, Paraná Lawyer´s Institute Review (2017)
Lemos, A P. ‘Constitutionalism, Democracy and the
Neverending Tension: How the Marriage Equality Litigation
in the United States of America has Undermined the
Backlash Hypothesis’, Social Movements and Conflicts
Journal (2016)
CAREER ASPIRATIONS
Criminal law; teaching
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Criminology; criminal law; human rights
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Chevening Scholar 2017-2018; third place in the
Delegation of the European Union to Brazil’s 6th essay
contest (postgraduate category); fourth place in the
Francisco Cunha Pereira Filho Award, fourth edition
NIAMH QUILLE U
K
Wadham College
EDUCATION
MINI-PUPILLAGES, UK
Including Carmelite Chambers, Matrix Chambers,
Monckton Chambers, and One Crown Office Row
UNIVERSITY OF LAW (BLOOMSBURY), UK, GRADUATE
INTERN, REPRIEVE, UK
DIPLOMA IN LAW (06/2016)
Graduated with commendation; awarded the Princess PUBLICATIONS
Royal Scholarship by the Inner Temple Quille, N. ‘Unprotected, Unguided, Uncertain: Experiences
of Minors in Dunkirk’, Oxford University Border
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, UK, BA POLITICAL Criminologies Blog (2017), available at: http://bit.ly/
SCIENCE (06/2011) BorderCriminologies-unprotected-unguided-uncertain
Graduated with the highest overall first; awarded HS Ferns
CAREER ASPIRATIONS
Prize for outstanding merit in political science
Barrister; criminal law; public law; human rights
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
VOLUNTEER, DUNKIRK LEGAL SUPPORT TEAM, FRANCE Kalisher Trust Wadham Studentship for 2017/18; master
Linking refugees in Dunkirk with legal advice and of speakers, Inner Temple Debating Society (2016/2017)
representation
HUMAN RIGHTS PARALEGAL, LEIGH DAY, UK
Specialising in public law and judicial review
SOPHIE ROSE AUSTRALIA
sophie.rose@exeter.ox.ac.uk process and negotiating with key stakeholders on critical
Exeter College policy decisions
EDUCATION
ADVISER, OFFICE OF THE PREMIER, NEW SOUTH WALES
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, BA (HONS) GOVERNMENT, AUSTRALIA
HISTORY & GOVERNMENT AND INTERNATIONAL
Stakeholder adviser or ‘advancer’ travelling with the
RELATIONS (11/2012)
Premier; responsible for organising public events schedule
Graduated with first-class honours; additional year and liaising with the media and other stakeholders in
honours thesis in history business, the community, and government
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE CAREER ASPIRATIONS
SENIOR POLICY ADVISER, OFFICE OF THE MINISTER FOR Corrections
COUNTER TERRORISM, CORRECTIONS, AND VETERANS’
AFFAIRS, NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT,
RESEARCH INTERESTS
AUSTRALIA Contestability in corrective services; radicalisation and
violent extremism; crime and politics
Providing policy, parliamentary, and political advice to the
minister; drafting cabinet submissions and other policy ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
documents; guiding legislation through the parliamentary Cellist: Associate of Music, Australia (AmusA)
SHANNON RUSSELL S
 COTLAND
shannon.russell@gtc.ox.ac.uk PUBLICATIONS
Green Templeton College Russell, S. ‘The Criminalisation of Extreme Pornography:
EDUCATION Legitimacy and Scope’, Edinburgh Student Law Review
(2017)
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, LLB
(07/2017) Russell, S. ‘The Proculians and Sabinians: A Dogmatic
Explanation?’, Strathclyde Law Review (2016)
First-class honours; awarded W Green Prize for Criminal
Law and McLagan Prize for Medical Jurisprudence; CAREER ASPIRATIONS
recipient of a scholarship to undertake legal research in
Academia and research, specialising in gender and feminist
South East Asia
legal studies
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE RESEARCH INTERESTS
SUMMER VACATION SCHEME, HERBERT SMITH Race; gender; sexuality and law; transgender and queer
FREEHILLS, UK legal issues; criminal law; women’s imprisonment
Finance and Litigation Departments
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
LEGAL VOLUNTEER, ETHNIC MINORITY LAW CENTRE, Reached semi-final of the Lord Jones Mooting
UK Competition; won the Edinburgh Apprentice (the UK’s
largest student-run business competition); selected
Drafting advice letters; conducting legal research; to present comparative research on sexual offences to
managing client relations over 100 delegates at the U21 Undergraduate Research
Conference
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 SA BAHULI SHARMA INDIA

S lisa.saccomano@stx.ox.ac.uk
St Cross College
EDUCATION
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY, TWENTIETH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, BOULDER, COLORADO,
USA
bahuli.sharma@new.ox.ac.uk
New College
Hindi
EDUCATION
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
PARALEGAL, DELHI STATE LEGAL SERVICES AUTHORITY,
INDIA (07/2016)
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LAW SCHOOL, USA, JD CAREER ASPIRATIONS
(06/2012) Prosecuting violations of state criminal code; advising law UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BCL (06/2017) Criminal law
enforcement in criminal investigations
Associate editor of law review; Dufford and Brown Legal 67%
Writing Award and Public Service Pledge Award; assistant
LAW CLERK, COLORADO SUPREME COURT, USA
teacher of the legal writing course
Assisting appellate justices with legal research and writing
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, USA, BA MOLECULAR, support
CELLULAR, DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY (12/2007) BRIANNA SMITH USA
CAREER ASPIRATIONS
Graduated with distinction; awarded Boettcher brianna.smith@worc.ox.ac.uk teenagers from areas in Britain with rampant knife crime
Scholarship; participated in President’s Leadership Class Teaching; research gave their opinions on carrying knives
Worcester College
programme EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS OPERATIONAL RISK ANALYST, CIT, USA
Critical feminism; sentencing and punishment; UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, SCOTLAND, MA (HONS)
comparative and structural justice Executing routine Risk and Compliance Self Assessments
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (06/2016)
(RCSAs); calculating and presenting evidence on my
Dissertation: ‘Rising From the Dead: How did ISIS and the theory that the benefits of lowering the threshold for
Islamic State suddenly appear?’ extreme processing before transfer of large sums of
outgoing money outweighed the potential risks, saving
AILISH SAKER U
K RELEVANT EXPERIENCE time and capital for the company
ailish.saker@st-hildas.ox.ac.uk Supporting juvenile and vulnerable adult detainees while ANALYST, INSTAPANEL, USA
CAREER ASPIRATIONS
St Hilda’s College in police custody; ensuring that the detainee understand Sociological coding in both English and French; organising
their rights; determining whether they be fit for interview, Aiding in the creation of justice for victims of assault and
EDUCATION ethnographic research panels, including a panel in which domestic abuse
then accompanying and ensuring the detainee’s welfare
UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX, UK, BA AMERICAN STUDIES through the interview process; assisting on request in
(05/2016) court appointments, prison interviews and interviews with
Graduated with first-class honours; final year thesis victims
on juvenile rehabilitation was sent by criminal justice EDWARD SMYTH U
K
advocacy groups to the MDOC and relevant US legislators WORKSHOP FACILITATOR, PRISON CREATIVE ARTS
PROGRAM, USA edward.smyth@lincoln.ox.ac.uk VOLUNTEER, UNLOCK, UK
Lincoln College Writing and proofreading text for Unlock’s Information
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, USA, YEAR ABROAD Organising and facilitating a weekly creative arts workshop
EXCHANGE PROGRAMME (05/2015) at a juvenile detention centre in Ypsilanti, Michigan; leading EDUCATION Hub, an online provider of help and advice for people with
team building exercises and facilitating creative writing convictions
GPA: 3.88 UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM, UK, MA (BY RESEARCH)
and art exercises MUSICOLOGY (08/2012) CAREER ASPIRATIONS
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
CAREER ASPIRATIONS UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM, UK, BA MUSIC (06/2011) Charitable organisations; support for ex-offenders; policy;
APPROPRIATE ADULT, THE APPROPRIATE ADULT Juvenile rehabilitation; restorative justice think tanks
SERVICE, UK First-class honours
RESEARCH INTERESTS
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE The role of the third sector in criminal justice; chaplaincy
TRUSTEE, SAFE GROUND, UK in prisons; the arts in prisons; rehabilitation; sentencing
JASMINDER SEKHON CANADA policy
Sitting on the board of Safe Ground, a charity which uses
drama techniques to engage and motivate prisoners to
jasminder.sekhon@stcatz.ox.ac.uk SUMMER STUDENT, SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT,
participate in education and family life
St Catherine’s College MINISTRY OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, CANADA
Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu Conducting statistical analyses into cases resulting in
EDUCATION increased funding and annual reports

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, CANADA, BA (HONS) CAREER ASPIRATIONS

JONATHAN WOOLLGAR UK
(SPECIALIST: CRIMINOLOGY, MAJOR: POLITICAL Policy analysis; international development jonathan.woollgar@worc.ox.ac.uk CAREER ASPIRATIONS
SCIENCE, MINOR: SOCIOLOGY) (06/2017)
Worcester College Public policy
Graduated with distinction; Principal’s Award; UTM RESEARCH INTERESTS
EDUCATION
Student Award of Recognition Intersectionality; security and human rights RESEARCH INTERESTS
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON, UK, MA WAR STUDIES Legal and cultural constructions of childhood; risk society
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (08/2006) and moral panics
Co-founder of ZOR Basketball, a non-profit organisation
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, COMMUNITY LEGAL EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK, BA HISTORY
for the advancement of athletes; president of the Political
ONTARIO, CANADA (06/2005)
Science and Pre-Law Association (Dean’s Academic
Conducting research into McKenzie Friends and the Society Initiative Prize and Academic Society of the Year);
provision of legal education to seniors through technology founder of fashion blog houseofjas.com

RESEARCH ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO,

CANADA
Analysing introductory level political science textbooks to
reveal integrated discussions of immigration and diversity

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