Madeleine Flannagan
Madeleine began studying Law at the University of Waikato, New Zealand and is currently in the final stages of her undergraduate degree through the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has a strong interest in philosophy of law and in rights and freedoms and is currently undertaking supervised research on Freedom of Religion. She intends to do a post-graduate degree in Jurisprudence.
She is a former Woman’s Rights Officer and Vice-President of the University of Waikato Students Union and has been involved in both the running and leadership of several civil liberties and charitable organisations. She was working full time as a legal assistant for a large New Zealand firm primarily dealing with contract, intellectual property and employment law until a car accident took her out of the workforce leaving her able to focus on resuming and completing her law degree.
Madeleine has been writing for MandM, since 2006 where she most commonly writes on jurisprudence, public policy and rights and freedoms with a bit of philosophy and ethics thrown in.
