Dr Jessica Howley holds BCL, MPhil and DPhil degrees from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and a BA/LLB from the University of Queensland. She has worked as a former Legal Officer at the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, as an Associate Legal Officer at the International Court of Justice, and as an Associate to a Justice of the High Court of Australia.