Professor Kim Economides

Director of the Legal Issues Centre

BA 1975, CNAA; LLM 1976 Lond; FSALS, FHEA.
Professor of Law and Director, Legal Issues Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand (2009-).

Previously, Professor of Legal Ethics (2000-09) and Head of Law (1999-2004); Director, Exeter University Centre for Legal Interdisciplinary Devt (EUCLID) (1989-93) and Acting Director, Centre for Legal Practice, (2005-06), University of Exeter. Before arriving in Exeter in 1979 he was a researcher on the Florence Access to Justice Project based at the European University Institute in Italy. He co-directed the ESRC-funded Access to Justice in Rural Britain Project (1983-1987). Founding Secretary (1990-92) and Vice Chair (1992-93) Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA). From 1993-95 was seconded as Education Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education & Conduct (ACLEC).

Fellow of the Canon Foundation (1997-) and Associate Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London (2001-02). He was Founding General Editor of the international journal Legal Ethics (1998-2008) and in 2004 helped establish the International Legal Ethics Conference (ILEC) series that meets biennially. He is a Founding Director of the International Association of Legal Ethics (IAOLE) (2010-). He was Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Hamlyn Trust (2004-09) and Series Editor, The Hamlyn Lectures (2005-10). He was a member of the Law Society (England & Wales) Education & Training Committee(2003-06) and has advised the Society on skills and ethical training. In 2006 he was appointed Specialist Adviser to the UK Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Draft Legal Services Bill, now the Legal Services Act 2007, and in 2009 advised Lord Hunt’s Legal Regulation Review. He has held visiting posts at universities in Japan (Chuo University, Tokyo, 1997), New Zealand (Chapman Tripp Visiting Fellow, University of Victoria, Wellington, 2002) and Australia (Visiting Professor, School of Law, Flinders University, Adelaide 2005; Distinguished Visiting Mentor and John Fleming Visiting Fellow ANU College of Law, Canberra 2008; Faculty Distinguished Visitor, School of Law, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, 2009).

Editorial advisory posts include:Legal Ethics, (2008-); International Journal of the Legal Profession (1993-); Butterworth’s Law in Context Series (1995-2004); Amicus Curiae (1997-); Law & Society Review (2004-06); International Journal of Law in Context (2005-); Revista de Direito do UniFOA (2007-); Australasian Law Teachers Association Law Research Series (ALRS) (2010-).

Kim teaches Public Law at the 200 level and is willing to supervise doctoral research within the following fields:

Research interests: Comparative Access to Justice, Legal Profession and Legal Services, Legal Ethics and Education, Socio-Legal Studies.

Select Publications:

• M. Blacksell, K. Economides, C. Watkins, Justice Outside the City. Access to Legal Services in Rural Britain (1991) Longman, Harlow. xiii + 250 pp.
  
• K. Economides (ed.), Ethical Challenges to Legal Education and Conduct, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 1998, xxxiii + 366 pp.
• K. Economides et al. (eds.), Fundamental Values. A Volume of Essays to Commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the Law School in Exeter 1923-1998. Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2000, xii + 359pp
• K. Economides and J. Rodgers, Preparatory Ethics Training for Future Solicitors (The Law Society, London, 2009 +94 pp).
• K. Economides and G. Taylor, “New Zealand” [National Report] in The Costs and Funding of Civil Litigation: A Comparative Perspective eds C. Hodges, et al., Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2010, pp.431-451.
• K. Economides and Z. Economides, “Eyes on Law: Making Legal Research, Law and Justice Visible” in Making Research Visible to the World eds H. Westgeest et al, Canon Foundation in Europe, Amstelveen, The Netherlands, 2010, pp. 86-89.
• M. O’Leary and K. Economides, “Understanding Legal Antenarratives” in Storytelling and the Future of Organizations: An Antenarrative Handbook ed D. Boje, Routledge, London & New York, 2011, pp.117-127.
• K. Economides, "Strategies for Meeting Rural Legal Needs - Lessons from Local, Regional and International Experience" Special Issue: Essays from the First National Rural Regional Law and Justice Conference 2010 Deakin Law Rev. Vol.16:1, 2011, pp.47-56.
• K. Economides and A. Clark, "Technology and the Transformation of Legal Practice" in Nuovi Moti Per la Formazione del Diritto eds. G. Piva and F..Spantigati, CEDAM, Padova, 1988, pp.565-612.
• K. Economides and O. Hansen, "Critical Legal Practice - Beyond Abstract Radicalism" in The Critical Lawyers' Handbook eds. I. Grigg-Spall and P. Ireland, Pluto, London, 1992, pp.142-148. 1999.
• K. Economides, "The Country Lawyer: Iconography, Iconoclasm and the Restoration of the Professional Image" in Tomorrow's Lawyers ed. P.A. Thomas, Blackwell, Oxford (1992).
• K. Economides, “Law and Geography: New Frontiers” in Legal Frontiers ed. P.A.Thomas in Applied Legal Philosophy Series gen.ed. T.Campbell, Dartmouth, 1996, pp.180-207.
• K. Economides, “Cynical legal studies” in Educating for Justice: Social Values   and Legal Education  eds. J.Cooper and L.Trubek, Dartmouth, 1997, pp. 26-38.
• K. Economides, “Lendo as ondas do ‘Movimento de Acesso à Justiça’: epistemologia  versus metodologia?” in Cidadania, Justiça E Violência ed. D.Pandolfi et al.,  Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 1999, pp. 61-76.
• K. Economides, “Legal Ethics in Effective Legal Education” in Can Justice be Taught? Social Responsibility and Law School Education ed. S. Brown et al (Kwansei Gakuin University Press, 2006) [in Japanese] pp.47-78.
• K. Economides, "Small Claims and Procedural Justice", British Journal of Law and Society, Vol.7, 1980, pp.111-121.
• K. Economides and B. Garth, "The Determination of Legal Services Policy in the United Kingdom and the United States of America" Government and Policy, Vol.2, 1984, pp.445-460.
• K. Economides, M. Blacksell, C. Watkins, "The Spatial Analysis of Legal Systems Towards a Geography of Law? Journal of Law and Society Vol.13:2, 1986,  pp.161-181.
• M. Blacksell, C. Watkins, K. Economides, "Human Geography and Law: A Case of Separate Development in Social Science" Progress in Human Geography Vol.10:3,  1986, pp.371-396.
• M. Blacksell, K. Economides, C. Watkins, "Country Solicitors: Their Professional Role in Rural Britain" Sociologia Ruralis Vol.25, 1987, pp.181-196.
• K. Economides and M. Blacksell, "Access to Justice in Rural Britain: Final Report" Anglo-American Law Review Vol.16:4, 1987, pp.353-375.
• M. Blacksell, A. Clark, K. Economides, C. Watkins, "Legal Services in Rural Areas: Problems of Access and Local Need" Progress in Human Geography Vol.12:1, 1988, pp.47-65.
• C. Watkins, M. Blacksell, K. Economides, "The Distribution of Solicitors in England and Wales" Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol.13, 1988, pp.39-56.
• A. Clark and K. Economides, "Technics and Praxis: Technological Innovation and Legal Practice in Modern Society" Sociologia del Diritto, 1988, pp.41-67.
• M. Blacksell, A. Clark, K. Economides, C. Watkins, "Citizens Advice Bureaux: Problems of an emerging service in rural areas" Social Policy & Administration Vol.24:3, 1990, pp.212-225.
• K. Economides and J.Webb, “The Ethical Imagination”, Legal Ethics, Vol.1, No.1, 1998, pp.1-15
• K. Economides, “Educating lawyers for the new millennium – the ethical dimension” (Canon Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture) 31:3 Comparative  Law Review, 1997, pp.157-174.
• K. Economides, “Learning the Law of Lawyering”, Current Legal Problems 1999,
• K. Economides, “2002: A Justice Odyssey” Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, Vol.34:1, 2003, pp. 1-17.
• K. Economides, “The Road to Justice Revisited: Current Trends in Professional Legal Ethics”, Recht der Werkelijkheid Vol. 27:1, 2006, pp.3-18.
• K. Economides, “Anglo-American Conceptions of Professional Responsibility and the Reform of Japanese Legal Education: Creating a Virtuous Circle?”, The Law Teacher, Vol. 41:2, 2007, pp. 155-168.
• K. Economides and M. O’Leary, ““The Moral of the Story: Toward an Understanding of Ethics in Organisations and Legal Practice.” Legal Ethics, Vol.10:1, 2007, pp.5-25.
• K. Economidesand J. Webb, “Should Lawyers Swear?”, Legal Ethics Vol.11: 2008, pp. 1-7.
• K. Economides, “Reforming Legal Aid” [2010] New Zealand Law Journal, pp. 5-6,9.
• K. Economides, “’Socio-Legal’ Research and Access to Justice in New Zealand (September, 2010) At The Bar, p.11.
• K. Economides, “A New Zealand Justice Forum?” (2011) NZ Lawyer Issue,154, pp. 22-23.
• K. Economides and J.H.H. Weiler, "Accession of the Communities to the European Convention on Human Rights: Commission Memorandum" Modern Law Review Vol.42, 1979, pp.683-695.
• K. Economides, W. Twining, G. Phillipson, S. Chakrabarti and C. Gearty, “ Can Human Rights Survive? A Symposium on the 2005 Hamlyn Lectures” Public Law Summer, 2007, pp. 209-210.
• K. Economides, "Minimal Impact: Socio-Legal Research and the Reform of the Profession" Socio-Legal Newsletter Vol.2, Autumn 1989, p.2.
• K. Economides, “Legal Education” International Encyclopaedia of Social & Behavioral Sciences Vol. 3.8, Article: 157 Elsevier, Amsterdam, (2002)
• K. Economides, ‘Geography of Legal Profession’ and ‘Professional Ethics and Values’ in The New Oxford Companion to Law Gen. eds. P. Cane & J. Conaghan (OUP, 2008), pp.704, 718-19.

Contact Details

Tel: 03 479 3796
Office: 7th Floor - 7C11
Email: kim.economides@otago.ac.nz