Matthew Parish

Matthew is a PhD candidate in Law at the University of Cambridge. His main academic interests include legal history, jurisprudence, and public international law. His doctoral research explores the influence of natural law philosophy on English common law in the eighteenth century. The research seeks to understand how natural law jurisprudence impacted the development of specific doctrines, as well as legal reasoning more broadly.

Before commencing his PhD, Matthew worked as a Research Assistant at the Law Commission of England and Wales in the Commercial and Common Law Team. Matthew also previously worked as a Research Assistant to Professor Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, focusing on the applicability of international human rights law in times of armed conflict.

Matthew holds an LLB (Law) and an LLM (Public International Law) from the University of Bristol. He finished top of his overall year for the LLM programme.