Bridgette Toy-cronin

Biography

 Bridgette studied law and political studies at the University of Auckland before working as an intern at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and as a High Court Judges' Clerk. From 2004-2005 she attended Harvard Law School as a Frank Knox Fellow, where she completed her LLM degree. She then spent a year in Cambodia working for the Cambodian Defenders Project on Women's Rights before going on to practice civil litigation in New Zealand and Australia. In 2011 she began a PhD at the University of Otago examining litigation in person (self-represented litigants) in the New Zealand civil courts. Her PhD was awarded and listed as exceptional in 2015.

Research Interest

 Bridgette’s research has an empirical focus, furthering the Centre’s aims of investigating access to justice, the legal profession, judging, dispute resolution and civil procedure. Bridgette is interested in socio-legal research methods, as well as studying the intersection of civil justice and poverty. Bridgette has been the Director of the Legal Issues Centre since 2016.