Kirsten joined Matrix as a trainee in 2011. Her main areas of interest are public law, immigration and asylum, human rights, media and information law, and international law.
Kirsten has an interest in a broad range of practice areas, particularly those with an international or cross-border dimension. She is currently supervised by Nick Armstrong, focusing primarily on immigration and asylum and mental health and capacity cases. She hopes to see a wide cross-section of work during her traineeship.
Kirsten completed her undergraduate degree in law from Durham University in 2007, and received an LLM, with distinction, in International Legal Studies, with a Certificate in International Human Rights Law from Georgetown University in 2008. While at Georgetown, Kirsten won the Thomas Bradbury Chetwood, SJ, prize for the most distinguished academic performance leading to a Master of Laws Degree (International Legal Studies) and was awarded prizes for achieving the highest marks in both International Human Rights Law and Contemporary Issues in Human Rights. She has written extensively on issues of public international law and foreign and comparative law and is currently co-authoring an article on the use of the Alien Torts Statute in the United States.
Prior to coming to the Bar, Kirsten worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague, both on the Defence and as an Associate Legal Officer for the judges of the Appeals Chamber.