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Assisting with drafting and reviewing New Zealand Law Report headnotes for decisions of Te Kōti Mana Nui o Aotearoa | Supreme Court of New Zealand.

Lead tutor for the Contract Law course at the University of Auckland Law School. Responsible for overseeing the delivery of the tutorial programme.

My role is to provide legal and policy advice on the Law Commission's review of the use of DNA in criminal investigations. I also assisted with the Issues Paper on the review of class actions and litigation funding in Aotearoa New Zealand.

The Law Commission, an independent Crown entity, is a law reform agency whose purpose is to promote the systemic review, reform and development of the law of New Zealand. Law Clerks work closely with the Commission's legal and policy advisers and perform a variety of tasks including case and statutory analysis, analysing public submissions, legal and policy research and preparing relevant memoranda. My role also involved drafting sections of Law Commission publications.

Helping Professor Claudia Geiringer to research aspects of Australia's system of human rights law. My role is to conduct a long-term research project scrutinizing the ways in which sub-national Australian human rights instruments have grown a culture of human rights and self-regulation across the public sector. My responsibilities include: synthesizing a complex body of primary source research from multiple Australian jurisdictions; conducting comparative research; and writing a series of comprehensive research memos.

Tutoring groups of 15–20 criminal law students weekly for the Faculty of Law. Tutorials focus on a mixture of skills development alongside substantive criminal law concepts. This role required excellent knowledge of course content and effective communication skills.

Assisting Sir Douglas White QC in researching and writing a law review article on the history of the legislative reform process behind the new Contempt of Court Act 2019. My responsibilities included: conducting legal research on contempt law and the inherent jurisdiction; drafting sections for inclusion in the article ranging from original research and analysis to brief legal summaries; monitoring domestic and international developments in the law of contempt; and editing and proofreading the footnotes and the text of the article before publication.

Working in a team to build and maintain a data management platform to house engineering procedures, policies and documents. My role included basic coding skills.

Working with high-school students to develop their time management skills, to create unique study plans, and to develop a holistic approach to education. I tutored NCEA level physics, chemistry, English, statistics, calculus and history. My role also involved managing a team of six tutors which included mentoring, performance review and reporting responsibilities.