Katie Schwarzmann

Katie is a Senior Associate (admitted in England & Wales, not admitted in Australia) at Equity Generation Lawyers. Prior to joining EGL, she worked as a human rights and public law solicitor in London where she brought the first case to challenge the UK government’s policy of indefinitely GPS tagging migrants.

Katie holds a First Class degree in History and Philosophy from the University of Cambridge, receiving the Rowley Mainhood Prize, Arthur Tindal Hart Prize, Owen Scholarship and the Abdul Aziz Prize for her examination performance. She also holds a Masters in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford, where she graduated with Distinction.

Katie trained as a lawyer with the corporate law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and the human rights NGO, Liberty. She then went on to work in the human rights departments of Hickman & Rose and Wilson Solicitors LLP. In 2023, Katie was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to travel to America and Canada to prepare a comparative study on the uses and regulation of automated decision-making tools in the American, Canadian and UK immigration systems.

She works on the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.