Biography
Sophie Ryan is currently a DPhil in Law Candidate at Magdalen College, Oxford. Her doctoral research, supervised by Professor Andrew Dickinson, focuses on civil litigation for cross-border human rights abuses involving State actors. Sophie holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws (Hons I) from the University of Queensland, and a Bachelor of Civil Law (Dist) from the University of Oxford. She has also spent time studying or working in Singapore (as a New Colombo Plan Fellow), Vietnam, Croatia, Greece, and Germany. Immediately before coming to Oxford, Sophie was a Legal Officer at the Australian Law Reform Commission. She is admitted as a Lawyer to the Supreme Court of Queensland.