Previous News & Events

• Law Career Days 2010
• Professor Kevin Dawkins - Inaugrual Professorial Lecture 2009
• New Zealand Law Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow - Dame Hazel Genn
• Summer School 2010
• Application Forms for Admission to Second Year Law for 2010
• F.W. Guest Memorial Lecture 2009
• Research Cluster for Natural Resources Law
• Law Graduation - May 2009
• Pacific and Maori Legal Issues Conference 2009
• Law Career Days 2009
• 2008 NZ Law Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow - Professor Martin Krygier
• James & Jean Davis Prestige Visitor: Professor Stanley Fish
• Otago Yearbook of Legal Research
• Otago Law student gains UN Internship
• Sustainable Building Issues for the 21st Century - Nils Larsson
• Ms Donna Buckingham - Recipient of a National Tertiary Teaching Excellence
• Competition Winners 2007
• Legal Issues Centre
• Otago Law Students win International Negotiation Competition
• 2004 Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition

Law Career Days 2010

Professor Mark Henaghan will be presenting studying Law at Otago to secondary school students and any interested parties. Dates and Times below.

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Professor Kevin Dawkins - Inaugrual Professorial Lecture 2009

Professor Kevin Dawkins presented his Inaugrual Professorial Lecture, "Taking Stock of the Jury" on Thursday the 8th of October at 5:30pm in the Moot Court, 10th Floor Richardson Building.

New Zealand Law Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow - Dame Hazel Genn

Dame Hazel Genn DBE, QC (Hon), FBA, BA (1971), LLB (1985), LLD (1992) Dean of Laws, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies Faculty of Laws at University College London Dame Hazel visited New Zealand in September and October 2009 as the New Zealand Law Foundation's Distinguished Visiting Fellow. Dame Hazel presented a Public Lecture on "Judicial appointment, diversity and decision making" When: Tuesday 15th of September 2009 5:30PM Where: Moot Court 10th Floor, Richardson Building Who: All staff, students, legal practitioners and interested members of the public are welcome to attend. Dame Hazel's Dunedin Programme - Dame Hazel's New Zealand Programme -

Law Summer School Papers for 2010 (please note the locations vary for each LAWS paper)

Faculty of Law Summer School papers for 2010 can be viewed here or on the main Summer School at Otago website.

F.W. Guest Memorial Lecture 2009

The Faculty of Law presented the F.W. Guest Memorial Lecture 2009 on the 22nd of July, 2009.

Who: James Every-Palmer, LLB(Hons), B.A.(Hons), LLM Harvard, D.Phil, Oxford. Partner, Russell McVeagh
What: The State and Monopolies: New Zealand's experience
When: Wednesday 22 July, 5:30pm in the Moot Court, 10th Floor Richardson Building.

Research Cluster for Natural Resources Law

The research cluster hosted two major conferences in July:

• The Future of Public Conservation Lands and Waters Open Symposium, 10th July 2009, Dunedin
• The Indigenous Legal Water Forum, 27th July 2009, Westpac Stadium Centre, Wellington

Law Graduation - May 2009

Congratulations to everyone who graduated on May the 16th.

Pacific and Maori Legal Issues Conference 2009

Please click here for details on the Conference

Law Career Days 2009

Click here to see the times and locations of our 2009 Law Career Day information sessions.

2008 NZ Law Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow - Professor Martin Krygier

The Faculty of Law Presents The University of Otago James and Jean Davis Prestige Visitor for 2008

Professor Stanley Fish (Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Law, Florida International University. Past Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Distinguished Professor of English, Criminal Justice and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago)

Unfortunately Professor Jane Tompkins (Professor of English) was unable to come.

Programme -

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Otago Law student gains UN Internship

Congratulations to Natalie Pierce, an Otago Law student who attended the Oxford International Model United Nations Conference 2007 at Oxford University and has been successful in gaining a Summer Internship with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The UNHCR is mandated by the United Nations to lead and co-ordinate international action for the world wide protection of refugees and the resolution of refugee problems. Based in Canberra, the regional office for Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific provides legal resettlement and information services. Its activities include, inter alia, advising authorities on best international standards vis-a vis legislation, policy and procedures, and intervening in individual cases relating to the application of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.

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Sustainable Building Issues for the 21st Century - Nils Larsson

The Otago Energy Research Centre held the "Sustainable Building Issues for the 21st Century" presented by Nils Larsson on, 19 Nov 2007 - click here for detailed information

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Ms Donna Buckingham - National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award Winner

Congratulations to Donna Buckingham receipent of a National Tertiary Teaching Award for Sustained Excellence in 2007. Conferred at a ceremony on 12 June 2007 at the Banquet Hall Parliament Buildings, Wellington.

Left to Right: Hon Dr Michael Cullen, Minister for Tertiary Education, Ms Donna Buckingham, Professor Mark Henaghan, Dean Faculty of Law University of Otago.

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Competition Winners 2007

Every year SOULS in conjunction with the New Zealand Law Students Association runs four competitions on campus.

• Russell McVeagh Client Interviewing
• Buddle Findlay Negotiation
• Minter Ellison Witness Examination
• Bell Gully Mooting
  

Congratulations to Emma Peart and Honor Lanham winners of the Buddle Findlay Negotiation Competition (Left)

Congratulations to Natasha Garvan & Jeremy Spicer, this years winners of The Russell McVeagh Client Interviewing Competition (Right)

The Minter Ellison Witness Examination Final was contested between Adam de Hamel and Tim Wilson with Adam being victorious (Below)

The winners of these competitions in the semester holidays head to Australia to compete at the Australian Law Students Association Conference.

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Legal Issues Centre

The Legal Issues Centre was established at the Faculty in 2007. Its goal is to research legal issues relating to how a more accessible, affordable and efficient legal system can be created for the benefit of all.

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Otago Law Students win International Negotiation Competition

Law students Charlotte Kirkcaldie and Sophie Atkinson walked away with the International Negotiation Competition shield after being placed first in the prestigious competition in Florida.

Charlotte and Sophie won the Otago regional competition in April, and the national title in September to give them the right to represent New Zealand at the International Competition, pitting their skills against teams from prestigious law schools throughout the world.

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2004 Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition

The Otago Law Faculty Mooting team won the New Zealand Mooting competition in 2003. That gave the team the right to represent New Zealand Universities law faculties at the 2004 Jessup International Law Moot Court competition in Washington DC.

Associate Professor Kevin Dawkins was the coach of the team. The team members were Simon Peart, Jarrod Clyne, Jo Murdoch, Matthew Gillett and Neena Ullal. The team finished 8th overall. This is an outstanding achievement given that 529 law faculties from all over the world compete in this competition. The best 94 teams selected from regional and national finals all over the world go to the international finals in Washington. The Otago team finished ahead Columbia, Duke, Texas and Georgia (USA), Monash (Australia), Toronto, Glasgow, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, to name a few of the other highly ranked law faculties in the competition.

The team completed five moots refereed by international judges. In those moots the team defeated Israel, Colombia, Germany and Hungary. The team was eliminated in the semi-final stage by an Austrian team for the University of Vienna in a very close moot. The overall winner of the competition was a team from the Philippines.

The team, under the expert guidance of Associate Professor Kevin Dawkins, worked very hard in preparing both the written and oral arguments. This result, together with the result in 2002 when the Otago team finished third equal overall with Harvard, shows an outstanding consistency of international excellence. The only other team with an equivalent high ranking over both years is Harvard (USA).

The Law Faculty is very proud of the team result and it is further evidence of the high calibre of teaching and research at the Otago Law Faculty.

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