Background
Bugg was born in Hull, England, but grew up in Tauranga, New Zealand.
Bugg was born in Hull, England, but grew up in Tauranga, New Zealand.
He attended Tauranga Boys" College and studied politics and law at Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Politics (Bachelor), and completed an honours degree in law (Bachelor of Laws (Honours)), as well as a postgraduate degree in jurisprudence with distinction (M.Jur (District)).
He has worked as a tutor at the Law School, University of Auckland, and as a lecturer at the University of Maryland and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He has been involved in developing training programmes in English, especially in the field of contract law and business communication, for industry and government organisations. He is also co-author of Langenscheidt’s Fachwörterbuch Kompaktrecht Englisch-Deutsch, and Contract in English from C.H. Beck Verlag.
He has also qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and a Legal Practitioner at the Supreme Court ACT, Canberra, Australia.
He is a founding member of efms (European Forum for Migration Studies) associated with the University of Bamberg, Germany. He is a member of the Law Society (England & Wales), Deutscher Anwaltverein, New Zealand Law Society as well as the Nuremberg Regional Law Society (Rechtsanwaltskammer Nürnberg).