Dr Matilda Gillis

Matilda Gillis has been the Hong Kong Link Research Fellow and College Lecturer in Law at Corpus Christi College since September 2022, and an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty since September 2023. She teaches criminal law, international law, the law on the use of force, and human rights law. Her current research looks in particular at the intersection between criminal law and justice, and human rights law. Matilda is a Director of Studies for Part 1A and a Postgraduate Tutor at Corpus. 

Matilda holds a BA/LLB (Hons) from the Australian National University and an LLM (International Law) from Cambridge, which was fully funded by Trinity College through the Henry Arthur Hollond Studentship and an honorary Lionel Murphy Endowment Postgraduate Scholarship. She won various prizes in the LLM, including the Clive Parry Prize for International Law (for the highest ranked student in the LLM (international law). Matilda also holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, which was fully funded by a Peterhouse Graduate Research Studentship.

She has previously held academic positions at the LSE, UCL and ANU, and worked as a solicitor for the Australian Government Solicitor, primarily in the area of constitutional law. Matilda also works as an ad hoc consultant for several international organisations and non-governmental organisations.