Rick obtained his Licentiate in Law (summa cum laude) from the University of Ottawa in 2023. Before law school, he obtained a cégep diploma in Honours Social Sciences (international and women's studies) from John Abbott College in Montréal.

Throughout his studies, Rick received a number of awards, including the uOttawa Gold Medal and Faculty of Law Plaque for highest standing in the civil law program, the Brouillette Charpentier Fortin, Davies, and Fasken Awards for academic excellence, and the John Abbott College Political Science Department Outstanding Achievement Award.

During his legal studies, Rick summered at the World Bank and the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General (Treasury Board Secretariat). He was also a Parliamentary Assistant to the Honourable Senator Pierre J. Dalphond and remains involved as a researcher with an international policy consulting firm.

Interested in human rights, Rick volunteered as a research assistant at the uOttawa Human Rights Clinic and worked with several professors in the areas of consumer protection, labour and employment law, and immigration and refugee law. As a recipient of the uOttawa UROP grant, he also completed a supervised research project on the mobility of legal professionals between Canadian jurisdictions. In 2023, Rick was awarded the Emilio Binavince Prize for Best Presenter (English) at the Ottawa Law Review’s Student Research Colloquium, for the presentation of his comparative research paper on the legality of child corporal punishment.

Building on his experience as a tutor in cégep, Rick was a peer mentor to first-year law students. He was also a Pro Bono Students Canada volunteer at l'Accompagnement des femmes immigrantes de l'Outaouais and a member of his faculty's small claims litigation clinic project. Passionate about mental health, Rick has been a member of Kids Help Phone Canada's National Youth Council since 2019.

At Cambridge, Rick will specialize in international and human rights law.