Nicholas Simoes da Silva

Nicholas is a Stipendiary Lecturer in EU Law at St Hilda’s College. He is also a member of the Faculty of Law teaching team for undergraduate EU Law, and delivers tutorials in EU Law for Exeter College. He is reading for an MPhil in Law as a Lionel Murphy Scholar. In October 2024, he will commence a DPhil in Law in the Faculty of Law as a Merton-Clarendon Scholar. He is supervised by Professor John Armour and Professor Joshua Getzler.

He is a research assistant in the Faculty of Law and was previously a research associate at the Australian National University Centre for European Studies (ANUCES). He has been a Tutor at the Australian National University's (ANU) Tjabal Indigenous Higher Education Centre and was appointed as a member of the Australian Capital Territory’s Legal Aid Review Committee by the Territory’s Attorney-General. In 2017, he was part of the ANUCES team awarded the ANU Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Public Policy and Outreach.

Prior to commencing his MPhil, Nicholas spent almost six years working in financial services regulation in the Australian Government. He was a Senior Legal Officer on the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Review of the Legislative Framework for Corporations and Financial Services Regulation and an Analyst in the credit, banking and insurance teams of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

Nicholas holds a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor of International Relations from the ANU, where he was a recipient of a Canberra Centenary Scholarship. He also holds a Graduate Certificate in Applied Data Analytics (with commendation) and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the ANU. During his undergraduate studies, he spent a semester at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).