Rosara Joseph (born 21 February 1982,

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) is a New Zealand

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, active between 2005 and 2012, who won a silver medal for New Zealand in the women's

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event at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. She was a

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Cycling

Joseph began competing in mountain biking in 2005, and in 2006 she won the Oceania Cross Country Championships, held in Melbourne. In 2006, she won silver for New Zealand in the women's

event at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. In 2007, she finished fifth in the cross country at the mountain bike world championships in Scotland. She finished ninth in the

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in the women's cross country race.

Education and career

Joseph studied law at the

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in New Zealand and gained a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours in 2005, winning the university Gold Medal for top graduating law student that year. In 2005, she was also awarded a

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, to study for a Bachelor of Civil Law. She graduated

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in 2011. Her thesis, The War Prerogative, was published by

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in 2013. She also clerked for two Presidents of the New Zealand’s Court of Appeal. As of 2024, she works for the New Zealand Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.

References

External links

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Rosara Joseph
Graduate and Student Profiles, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ
Full text of doctoral thesis, "The war prerogative: history, reform and constitutional design"
via Oxford Research Archive 1982 births Living people New Zealand mountain bikers Cross-country mountain bikers Olympic cyclists for New Zealand Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand Cyclists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games New Zealand Rhodes Scholars Alumni of St John's College, Oxford Cyclists from Christchurch 21st-century New Zealand people Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games silver medallists in cycling {{NewZealand-cycling-bio-stub