Robert Tam
Semester Senior Teaching Fellow
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Professional biography
Robert trained at Clifford Chance, London. He specialised in intellectual property with US firm Covington & Burling, and then environmental law at Ashurst, Sydney and Travers Smith, London. After five years in legal practice, Robert became a senior lecturer at the University of Law in London, teaching across the GDL, LPC and LLM for five years.
He then focussed on law and international development work. Robert was a capacity building expert with the Centre for International Legal Cooperation (based in the Hague), with a long-term appointment as a trainer to Uganda’s Law Development Centre. He was Head of Learning for Advocates for International Development, coordinating and presenting lawyer and student programmes and working groups. He was also a consultant to Amnesty on Business and Human Rights, Thomson Reuters TrustLaw on Social Enterprise, and the pro bono charity Carbon Leapfrog on community and renewable energy projects throughout England.
Since 2018 Robert has focussed on global citizenship and sustainable development education, with a critical pedagogy.
Robert is also a Senior Policy Officer of the Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
Teaching expertise
Corporate, contract and environmental law. Sustainable development and global citizenship. Economic and behavioural approaches to law. Sociology.
Professional admissions
- Admitted to Practice - England and Wales
- Admitted to Practice - Supreme Court, NSW and High Court, Australia
- Fellow - Higher Education Academy (UK)
Qualifications
- PhD “Legitimising a critical, global pedagogy in professional legal education” (anticipated 2022) University College London
- • LLM International Economic Law, Justice and Development (Distinction) 2012 Birkbeck College, University of London
- GDLP (Distinction) 2002 College of Law, Sydney
- LLB (Honours) 2000 Queensland University of Technology
- Bachelor of Arts (Communication) 1998 Queensland University of Technology