I work in law and AI research at the Institute for Law and AI, currently as a Research Manager and previously as a Research Scholar. Before this, I was a technology and corporate lawyer at A&O Shearman (legacy Allen & Overy).
I care about choosing the right sacrifices, making technology go well, understanding the nature of law and properly stewarding its change, and improving human experience.
I grew up in NZ. I’ve always lived by the sea. I can ordinarily be found trying to spin some kind of elaborate yarn.
selected publications
AI
- third author on Law-Following AI: Designing AI Agents to Obey Human Laws – Fordham Law Review (2025) paper
Law
- A Rose by Any Other Name: an Australian court rules that AI can be an inventor – A&O Shearman (2021) article
- The Promise of Law: Essays Marking the Retirement of Dame Sian Elias as Chief Justice of New Zealand – Auckland University Law Review (2019) book review
Crypto
- A Phenomenology of Protocols – Summer of Protocols (Ethereum Foundation) (2024) essay
Literary
- Rojak – Kill Your Darlings (2020) essay
- Return to Places Unknown – The Pantograph Punch (2019), republished in New Asian Voices eds. Alison Wong and Paula Green (2021) Auckland University Press essay
- Homecoming – Proudly Asian Theatre (2019) play
- Micro-chapbook: Late Summer – Ghost City Press (2018) poetry
- Bodies in the Land – awarded second place in Landfall’s Charles Brasch Young Writers’ Essay Competition (2018) essay
- Greenhouse – Starling Magazine (2017) poetry
elsewhere
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