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Rosara Joseph (born 21 February 1982 in Christchurch) is a New Zealand cyclist who won a silver medal for New Zealand in the Women's mountain bike racing event at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. She is also the current^[when?] Oceania champion^{[clarification needed]}, a Rhodes Scholar at St John's College, Oxford,^[1] and a lawyer.

Cycling

• In training for the 2006 Commonwealth games, in 2005 she finished 16th in the World Cross Country Mountainbiking Championships in Italy
• Silver Medal for New Zealand in the Women's Mountain bike racing event at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games.^[2]
• She finished ninth in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in the women's cross country race.^[3]

Education and prizes

• 2000 – Brooker's Prize in Legal System^[2]
• 2002 – Duncan Cotterill Award in Law^[2]
• 2003 – Minter Ellison Rudd Watts Prize in Law^[2]
• 2003 – Russell McVeagh Prize for Excellence in Intellectual Property^[2]
• 2005 – Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours, Canterbury^[2]
• 2005 – Gold Medal in Law^[2]
• 2005 – Inaugural Gerald Orchard Prize in Law for excellence in the Law of Evidence^[2]
• 2005 – Bachelor of Arts in History^[2]
• 2006 – Commenced Bachelor of Civil Law ("a highly-esteemed master’s-level qualification") at Oxford^[2]
• 2011 – DPhil at Oxford University^[2]

Legal career

• Clerk for the President of the NZ Court of Appeal in Wellington. (Justice Anderson and Justice Glazebrook)^[2]
• Legal and policy consultant, New Zealand Productivity Commission, 2012– ^[4]

References

• Rosara Joseph at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Rosara Joseph, Graduate and Student Profiles, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ

External links

• Full text of doctoral thesis, "The war prerogative: history, reform and constitutional design" via Oxford Research Archive