Rosara Joseph (born 21 February 1982 in

Christchurch Christchurch ( ; mi, Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. Christchurch lies on the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula on Pegasus Bay. The Avon River / ...

) is a New Zealand

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who won a silver medal for New Zealand in the Women's

mountain bike racing Mountain bike racing (shortened MTB or ATB racing) is the competitive cycle sport discipline of mountain biking held on off-road terrain. The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) recognised the discipline relatively late in 1990, when it sanctioned ...

event at the 2006 Melbourne

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exce ...

. She is also the current Oceania champion, a

Rhodes Scholar The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...

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, 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 Mountain bike racing (shortened MTB or ATB racing) is the competitive cycle sport discipline of mountain biking held on off-road terrain. The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) recognised the discipline relatively late in 1990, when it sanctioned ...

event at the 2006 Melbourne

.University of Cantebury *She finished ninth in the

2008 Beijing Olympic Games The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Nati ...

in the women's cross country race.

Education and prizes

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

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at Oxford University

Legal career

*Clerk for the President of the NZ Court of Appeal in Wellington. (Justice Anderson and Justice Glazebrook) *Legal and policy consultant, New Zealand Productivity Commission, 2012–

References

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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 1982 births Living people New Zealand mountain bikers Cross-country mountain bikers Olympic cyclists for New Zealand Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand Cyclists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games New Zealand Rhodes Scholars Alumni of St John's College, Oxford Cyclists from Christchurch Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling 21st-century New Zealand people Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games {{NewZealand-cycling-bio-stub