LLB (hons), BCom (hons) (Otago), LLM (Cambridge)
Senior Lecturer, School of Law

Scott Sheeran joined the School of Law in 2009. He teaches in the Law of International Peacekeeping, UN and International Organisations Law, International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law.

Scott graduated from the University of Otago in 2000 with an LLB (Hons) and BCom (Hons) and from Cambridge University in 2002 with a LLM in International Law. He also has a diploma from the Rhodes Academy in Oceans Law and Policy, and completed the International Law Seminar at the UN International Law Commission in Geneva. He has presented academic papers at conferences in the USA, Australia and New Zealand and has guest lectured at the University of Virginia. In 2009 he was a UNITAR Fellow at Columbia Law School, New York.

From 2004 to 2009, Scott worked as a legal adviser for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand. From 2006 to 2009, he was New Zealand’s legal adviser at its Mission to UN Headquarters in New York. During that time, he was appointed as a Vice-Chairman of the UN Legal (Sixth) Committee, and as a Vice-President of the Meeting of States Parties to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Scott has also previously worked in a specialist public law firm in New Zealand, and as an intern at the UN Office of Legal Affairs in New York. He is admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.