Dr. Nick Friedman

Biography

Nick holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics, LLB, and LLM from the University of Cape Town, as well as a BCL, MPhil, and DPhil from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Before joining Cambridge, Nick was a Warburg Junior Research Fellow in Law at St Anne’s College, Oxford, and a Visiting Researcher at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. He previously served as a Procter Fellow at Princeton University and was a law clerk at the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Prior to his academic career, Nick worked as a senior associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York, where he represented clients in litigation, regulatory investigations, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, competition law, and fraud. His research focuses on the application of public law principles in corporate regulation, encompassing legal moral philosophy, constitutional law, human rights, and corporate law. He teaches courses including Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Advanced Public Law (LLM) and supervises public law research.

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