Nicholas Simoes da Silva

Nicholas is reading for a DPhil in Law as a Merton-Clarendon Scholar. He is supervised by Professor John Armour and Professor Joshua Getzler. His project investigates the legal regulation of defined contribution private pensions in the United Kingdom, with compartor countries including Australia and the United States. He is a Stipendiary Lecturer in EU Law at St Hilda’s College, a co-convenor of the EU Law Discussion Group (EULDG), an Associate Editor of the Oxford Business Law Blog, and research assistant to Professor Luca Enriques at Bocconi University. 

Nicholas has been a Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at St Hugh's College (MT 2024, HT 2025) and was a member of the 2024–25 Faculty of Law teaching team for undergraduate EU Law (six lectures). He has delivered tutorials in EU Law for Exeter College and St Edmund College. He has been a research assistant in the Faculty of Law to Professor Luca Enriques and Professor John Armour, and was previously a research associate at the Australian National University Centre for European Studies (ANUCES). He has been a Tutor at the Australian National University's (ANU) Tjabal Indigenous Higher Education Centre and was appointed as a member of the Australian Capital Territory’s Legal Aid Review Committee by the Territory’s Attorney-General. In 2017, he was part of the ANUCES team awarded the ANU Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Public Policy and Outreach.

Prior to Oxford, Nicholas spent almost six years working in financial services regulation in the Australian Government. He was a Senior Legal Officer on the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Review of the Legislative Framework for Corporations and Financial Services Regulation and an Analyst in the credit, banking and insurance teams of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

Nicholas completed an MPhil in Law at the University of Oxford, supported by a Lionel Murphy Postgraduate Scholarship, and holds a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor of International Relations from the ANU, where he was a recipient of a Canberra Centenary Scholarship. He also holds a Graduate Certificate in Applied Data Analytics (with commendation) and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the ANU. During his undergraduate studies, he spent a semester at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).