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Before law, the work was in systems. Training in electrical engineering at the University of Toronto, followed by enterprise asset-management implementations for public-sector transit agencies, meant asking how a process actually operates: where decisions are made, where information is lost, and where responsibility sits when something fails.

Those questions later shaped research on criminal responsibility for autonomous weapons, where intent and control can be dispersed across commanders, programmers, corporations and machines, and doctrine has to decide where individual culpability properly attaches.

Work in an international financial-markets business serving more than 200 clients, at the intersection of financial markets, technology, business operations and client management, brought sustained exposure to complex commercial and regulatory systems.

Legal study turned these questions towards state power: English and Canadian law at the University of Leicester, a Master of Laws at the University of Toronto, and graduate study in public international law at Queen’s University and in administrative and criminal law at Osgoode Hall Law School.

The breadth has increasingly become concentration. Engineering, markets, criminal law, administrative law and international law converge on the same problem: how decisions with serious consequences for individuals are made, tested and corrected.

The early legal work kept returning to the record. Student research at the University of Leicester Pro Bono Clinic, relating to the Andrew Malkinson miscarriage-of-justice matter, examined identification evidence, witness credibility, forensic evidence and disclosure. Research for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association’s Criminal Justice Program addressed habeas corpus, arbitrary detention and bail. Both reinforced the importance of interrogating the record rather than accepting an adverse conclusion at face value.

In 2026, legal study became international: academic study at Bader College in England and The American University of Paris, with institutional visits to the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice in The Hague and to Canadian diplomatic missions, and institutional programming at the United Nations in Geneva.

Work with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees followed, as International Protection Legal Intern (Refugee Law and Protection). After an initial full-time period, the work continued part-time and remotely from Canada.

That work brought both questions into practice. It meant reviewing extensive and often fragmented records, assessing evidence and credibility, preparing interviews, and addressing detention and asylum access, durable solutions and exclusion under Article 1F of the Refugee Convention. Exclusion analysis in particular requires grave allegations to be separated from what actually determines individual responsibility: knowledge, intent, contribution, what the evidence establishes, and what process is owed before protection is denied.

Protection work is confidential and is described here only in general terms.