All Menzies Memorial Scholars

DR JOSEPHINE BARBARO
2006 Menzies Scholar in the Allied Health Sciences
Josephine Barbaro holds the degree of Bachelor of Behavioural Science from La Trobe University.

Josie's PhD project entitled "Prospective Identification of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Infancy: The Social Attention and Communication Study" was carried out at La Trobe University.
Sep-2008

DR CLARE BARNETT
2008 Robert Gordon Menzies Scholarship to Harvard University

Dr Clare Barnett is a medical resident in neonatal services at Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne. Clare is a graduate of Monash University and will undertake a Masters of Public Health in International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Sep-2008

DR JACQUELINE BARRETT
2006 Menzies Scholar in the Allied Health Sciences

Dr Jacqueline Barrett holds the degree of Master of Nutrition and Dietetics from Deakin University and Bachelor of Science (Biomed) from Monash University. Jaci's PhD project entitled "The Role of FODMAPs in Gastrointestinal Disease" was carried out at Monash University.
Sep-2008

HON JUSTICE ANDREW BEECH
1986 Menzies Scholar in Law

Other awards and achievements
FE Parsons Memorial Prize for outstanding graduand in law

Education
B Juris (Hons), LLB (Hons) UWA, Bachelor of Civil Laws (Oxon)

Current positions
Justice, Supreme Court Western Australia, June 2007
Visiting Fellow, University of Western Australia Law School, since 1997

Career history
1985 - Admitted to practice
1985-1986 - Articles and restricted practice at Northmore Hale (now Minter Ellison)
1989-1991 – Parker & Parker (now Freehills) – commercial litigation
1992-1994 – Crown Prosecution – Office of Director of Public Prosecutions
1994 - Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
1989 to present - Part-time lecturer, UWA Law School;
1997 - Visiting Fellow, UWA Law School - subjects taught include contract, equity, conflict of laws, remedies, criminal law, restitution and forensic advocacy.
Involved as a teacher in numerous weekend workshops on advocacy for practicing lawyers conducted by the Australian Advocacy Institute or by the Law Society.
1997- Editor Western Australian Reports; Consultant Editor since 2002
1999-2000 – Part-time Hearing Commissioner – Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission
2004 - Senior Counsel

Publications
Contributions to Books
1. Chapter on Conflict of Laws in Dickey “Family Provision After Death” (1992).
2. Chapter on “The Remedy for Estoppel” in Carroll (ed) “Civil Remedies: issues and Developments” (1996).
Journal Articles
1. Discretion in the Exercise of Jurisdiction (1989) 19(1) UWALR 8-28.
2. Terminating a Contract: Dispensing with the Requirement of Readiness and Willingness (1992) 5 JCL 47-59. Conference and Seminar Papers
Law Society Seminars: 1990, 1992, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003
Law Society and UWA joint seminar: 1995
Law Society Summer Schools: 1989, 1992
ALTA Conference 1991
WA Law Reform Commission paper on “The Right to Silence” 1998 Professional/Other affiliations
Member Law Society of Western Australia
Member Bar Association of Western Australia
Member Faculty of Law University of WA
Chairman of Directors – Daughters of Charity (Services) WA Ltd

Areas of Professional Interest
Appellate and trial advocacy and advice in a wide range of areas including public law, general civil, commercial litigation and criminal law.

Family/Recreation/Interests
Married to Jane with four children: Tom, Annabel, Joseph and Ella.
Recreation
– see above; also ocean swimming and tennis. [Jun-2007]

SARAH BESHAR
1982 Menzies Scholar in Law

In 1982, I had the great honour of being the first Menzies Scholar in Law. I grew up in Perth and completed the two-year BCL at Magdalen College in Oxford in 1984.

After a brief time in London at Freshfields, I joined Davis, Polk & Wardwell, an old Wall Street law firm. I became a partner in 1994 specializing in corporate finance, with a particular emphasis on initial public offerings of securities and corporate transactions by retailers. In addition, I manage our corporate finance group which numbers over 80 lawyers and have responsibility for the lawyers in our foreign offices. Worldwide, we are always looking for smart, talented young lawyers.

I live just outside New York City in a leafy, green suburb on Long Island Sound. I am married to a New Yorker, and we have three children. Although my job and family keep me firmly tied to New York, we enjoy our annual visits to Australia and our residence in Perth overlooking the Indian Ocean.

DR OREN BIGOS
2002 Menzies Scholar in Law

Education
BCom, Monash
LLB (Hons I), Monash
BCL (Dist) and MPhil, Oxford
DPhil, Oxford - doctoral thesis was on the Conflict of Laws.

Current positions
Member of the Victorian Bar - commercial law matters, including banking and finance, insolvency, corporations, property and equity
Lectures in the Monash University LLM program on Corporate Insolvency and reports for the FCRs and FLRs.

Career history
Freehills - Litigation Department
Senior Associate, Mallesons Stephen Jaques - Banking & Finance group and the Projects Energy & Resources group
Judge's Associate, Federal Court of Australia

Other awards and achievements
Supreme Court Prize (Monash)
Allen & Overy Prize in Global Comparative Financial Law ( Oxford)

Areas of Professional Interest
Financial law, Commercial law, Private international law, E-commerce.
Published several articles on the topics of insolvency and conflict of laws.
Sept 2008

DR DAVID BOND
1994 Menzies Scholar in Engineering

I grew up in the small country Victorian dairy farming town of Panmure, about 250km west of Melbourne. I joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) on completion of my secondary education and moved to Canberra as an engineering cadet at the Australian Defence Force Academy. After military graduation in 1990, I completed my aeronautical engineering bachelors degree at the University of Sydney in 1991 (University Medallist).

From Sydney, the RAAF posted me to No. 492 Squadron to lead the P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft, airframe and engine design office. At the end of 1993 I was awarded the Menzies Memorial Scholarship in Engineering which allowed me to pursue a research interest in the application of adhesively bonded repairs to primary aircraft structure. I read for a PhD at the University of Surrey on the "Adhesively bonded repair of fibre reinforced composites". My research had particular emphasis on examining the effect of environmental exposure on the performance of bonded repairs to aircraft structure (Supervised by Professor Mike Bader and Dr Paul Smith and assessed by Professor Tony Kinloch of Imperial College).

I returned to the RAAF in 1996 as the RAAF design engineer for the F/A-18 full-scale fatigue test and the Australian Defence Force (ADF) Airworthiness Engineer for composite and adhesively bonded aircraft structures.

I am now the Research and Technology Manager at Messier-Dowty Ltd, Gloucester, UK.
Jan-2010

ASSOC PROFESSOR SANDRA BRAUER
1996 Menzies Scholar in the Allied Health Sciences

Sandy Brauer graduated from the University of Queensland with first class honours in physiotherapy and a University Medal in 1991. She worked as a physiotherapist at the Royal Brisbane Hospital before winning an Australian Postgraduate Award to undertake her PhD.

Her PhD research was on the relationship between balance and falls in elderly people. It concentrated on the motor control aspect of balance and used electromyography to monitor muscle activity and dual force platforms to detect body motion.

Dr Brauer is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Physiotherapy, School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences at The University of Queensland.
29-Sep-2009

MATTHEW BROWN
2012 Robert Gordon Menzies Scholar to Harvard University

Matthew is an investment analyst who worked for an investment fund in San Francisco. He was formerly a pilot in the RAAF.

He is undertaking a Master of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and is interested in Australian investment opportunities and improving the management of Australia's superannuation capital.
Nov-2012

ASSOC PROFESSOR CHESTER BROWN
2000 Menzies Scholar in Law

Education
2008: Certificate in Law, War and Human Rights, London School of Economics
2001 – 2004: PhD in public international law, St John’s College, University of Cambridge
2000 – 2001: BCL (Distinction), Magdalen College, University of Oxford
1992 – 1998: BA (German and French) (H1), University of Melbourne   
1992 – 1997: LLB (H1), University of Melbourne

Career
2009 – present: Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, where he is a Programme Coordinator for the Master of International Law. His research interests are public international law, international dispute settlement, international arbitration, international investment law, and private international law.
2007 - Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales
2007 – 2009: Assistant Legal Adviser, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London

2006: Visiting Fellow, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London   

2005 – 2006: Part-time Lecturer in Public International Law, Faculty of Law, Queen Mary College, University of London

2004 – 2007: Associate, and subsequently Senior Associate, International Law and International Arbitration Group, Clifford Chance LLP, London

2003 – 2004: College Supervisor in Public International Law, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Wolfson College, Cambridge

2002 – 2003: Guest Lecturer in Public International Law (undergraduate) and Settlement of International Disputes (LLM), University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law

2000 - Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and the High Court of Australia

1999 – 2000: Articled Clerk and Solicitor, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Melbourne 

Select Publications
* A Common Law of International Adjudication (Oxford University Press, 2007)
* ‘The Inherent Powers of International Courts and Tribunals’ (2005) 76 British Yearbook of International Law 195-244
* ‘The Settlement of Disputes Arising in Flexibility Mechanism Transactions under the Kyoto Protocol’ (2005) 21 Arbitration International 361-389
* ‘Access to International Justice in the Legality of Use of Force Cases’ (2005) 64 Cambridge Law Journal 267-271
* ‘ Strasbourg Follows Suit on Provisional Measures’ (2003) 62 Cambridge Law Journal 532-534
* ‘“Reasonableness” in the Law of the Sea: The Prompt Release of the Volga’ (2003) 16 Leiden Journal of International Law 621-630
* ‘The Evolution and Application of Rules Concerning Independence of the “International Judiciary”’ (2003) 2 Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 63-96
* ‘Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (New Application: 2002) (Democratic Republic of the Congo v Rwanda) Provisional Measures, Order of 10 July 2002’ (2003) 52 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 782-787
* ‘The Proliferation of International Courts and Tribunals: Finding Your Way Through the Maze’ (2002) 3 Melbourne Journal of International Law 453-475
* ‘Provisional Measures before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: The MOX Plant Case’ (2002) 17 International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 267-288

Areas of Professional Interest
Public international law; Private international law; International arbitration
Apr 2009