Singapura Scholars
Academic Year 2009-2010
Matthew Dresden
Matthew Dresden is a 1993 graduate of Stanford University, where he studied film and computer science and was awarded a Rebele Foundation Grant for journalism and a full-tuition teaching fellowship for three years of graduate studies in computer science. After graduating, he worked in Hollywood for eight years as an independent filmmaker and a production executive for Roger Corman's Concorde-New Horizons Pictures. In 2006, he earned his J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, where he was Chief Managing Editor of the Asian Pacific American Law Journal, a Teaching Assistant in the Lawyering Skills Program, and a two-year board member of the Public Interest Law Foundation. Also in 2006, he earned a M.A. in Urban Planning from the UCLA School of Public Affairs, where he received a full-tuition University of California Institute of Transportation Studies Fellowship, the Julie Roque Fellowship for Environmental Justice, and the Hildebrand Fellowship for Canadian Studies, and was twice designated a Hagman Conference Scholar.
After graduating from law school, Matthew clerked for the Honorable Jeff Bohm, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of Texas, following which he clerked for the Honorable Vanessa D. Gilmore, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas. During his LL.M. studies in Singapore and Shanghai, Matthew will be concentrating on U.S. and Asian Business and Trade Law, and International and Comparative Law. He is admitted to the State Bars of California and Washington.
Academic Year 2008-2009
Lorraine Finlay
Lorraine Finlay graduated from the University of Western Australia in 2003 with a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts (majoring in Political Science). Both degrees were awarded with First Class Honours. During her time at University she was a member of the moot team that finished second in the 2002 Philip C. Jessup International Mooting Competition and was judged the best individual oralist in the International Grand Final. She also undertook an internship with the Leadership Institute in Washington D.C as a recipient of the Patrick O’Brien Political Science Graduate Internship Award. After graduating she completed her Articles of Clerkship with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (WA) and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia and the High Court of Australia in 2004. Since then, she has worked at the High Court of Australia, both as the Legal Research Officer and as an Associate to The Honorable Justice J.D Heydon, has tutored at the Australian National University in constitutional law, criminal law and evidence law, and is currently employed as a State Prosecutor in Western Australia. Throughout this time she has continued to be actively involved in a variety of community organisations, being awarded a Centenary Medal and the WA Law Society Youth Community Service Award for her volunteer work.
Juliet M. Hanna
Juliet Hanna will be concentrating on Justice and Human Rights and International and Comparative Law during her LL.M. studies in Singapore.
Before starting the program, she was a Senior Associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, where she practiced in the firm's Litigation Department, handling complex commercial litigation and nationwide class actions, with a focus on securities litigation, as well as SEC enforcement proceedings and white collar criminal matters. Her pro bono work focused on immigration and asylum law, involving refugees from Iraq, Haiti, Senegal, Russia and Mexico. She has also worked in the International Relations Division of the Commission des opérations de bourse (now merged into the Autorité des marchés financiers) in Paris.
She earned her law degree from Columbia University in New York City, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and European Law Fellow. She received a Parker School Certificate in International Law, and served as the first Managing Editor of the Columbia Journal of European Law.
Before law school, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Cologne in Cologne, Germany, where her project was entitled "Immigration Law & the Integration of Foreigners in the Federal Republic of Germany." She obtained her undergraduate degree in linguistics and anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating Magna Cum Laude, and was admitted as a member of Phi Beta Kappa.