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University of Otago

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Professor Anna High is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Otago. She holds a BA and LLB from the University of Queensland, and BCL, MPhil, and DPhil from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar (Queensland and Magdalen College, 2008). Following her doctorate, she served as Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence and American Council of Learned Societies Postdoctoral Fellow at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, teaching criminal law and Chinese law. She also taught as Visiting Assistant Professor at Marquette University Law School in comparative human rights, Asian law, EU law, and criminal law. Since joining the University of Otago in late 2017, she has progressed to Professor, teaching Evidence Law, Jurisprudence, Chinese Law, and Gender and the Law. She is Co-Director of the Otago Centre for Law and Society, Convener of Students in the Faculty of Law, and a regular faculty member at Te Kura Kaiwhakawā Institute of Judicial Studies. Additionally, she is a member of the New Zealand Law Commission's Expert Advisory Group for the third review of the Evidence Act 2006.