Rachel Amamoo

Barrister

About Rachel

Rachel accepts briefs in a broad range of areas, including public law (constitutional and administrative), commercial law and tax. She also has expertise in common law proceedings involving novel claims in tort and in matters concerning complex questions of statutory construction.

Before coming to the Bar, Rachel first worked in commercial litigation at Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst) in Sydney, Fried Frank in New York and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London. She then gained experience in public law at the Victorian Government Solicitor’s Office.

Rachel was admitted to practice in South Australia (1998), NSW (1998), Victoria (2007), New York (2002) and, as a solicitor, in England and Wales (2007).

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Qualifications

  • Bec (Adel), Hons Politics (Adel), LLB(Hons) (Adel)
  • LLM (Columbia University)
  • MPub&IntLaw (Melb)

Rachel holds a Master of Laws from Columbia University in New York, where she was named a Kent Scholar in recognition of outstanding academic achievement, and a Master of Public and International Law from Melbourne Law School.

Rachel also holds first class honours degrees in politics and in law from the University of Adelaide, where she received several academic prizes in law. And she holds a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Adelaide.

Memberships & Associations

  • Australian Association of Constitutional Law

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