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[2011] OYLR

Sarah Anderson Nanny in the Pantry - Childhood Obesity and the Role of the State
Nadine Baier Fitting the Time to the Crime: Sentencing for Homicide
Heidi Baillie Joint Ministerial Decision-Making and Legal Accountability
Grace Boos The Domestic and International Protection of Maori Cultural Property
Jordanna Bowman Copying with Culture: Copyright, cultural expression and inadequacy of protection for Maori
Helen Churchman Doomed after Doha? Exploring the Future of Agricultural Trade Regulation
Robert Clarke The devil we knew? Deregulation and misuse of market power in New Zealand's telecommunications industry
Thomas Cleary Gene Patents: Should New Zealand Let the Gene Genie Out of the Patent Bottle?
Nicola de Wit A Gaping Abyss: Environmental Regulation of New Zealand's Oceans
Warren Forster Back to the Future: Compensating Injured Workers for Lost Income
Charlotte Greenfield Alternatives to the Partial Defence of Provocation
Sarah Jacobs Crossing the Line into Crime: How Close is Too Close? Proximity in Attempt Following R v Harpur
Brooke Johnston Prosecuting Hissène Habré: An African Dilemma
Elisha Kemp Rules of War: Legality of the Gaza Blockade and Israeli Defence Force Actions Towards Flotilla Vessels and Passengers
Mark Leslie Putting the Tort in Torture: State Immunity in Civil Cases for Human Rights Abuses Breaching Peremptory Norms
Kate Macey The "Torture Memos": The Legality under International Human Rights Law of the CIA's Use of 'Enhanced Interrogation Techniques' on al-Qaeda Detainees
Liam McNeely The "Irreducible Core" of Trusts in New Zealand
Samuel Mellor Regulating Online Conduct: Conundrums and Spatial Metaphors in the Wild West
Luke Morrison Legal Responses to Non-Life Threatening Medical Neglect
Sophan Tep Pearson The Testamentary Promises Act: To Be or Not to Be? Would a Testamentary Promises Claim by Any Other Means still be as Sweet?
Ben Prebble Should Tax Avoidance be Criminalised? Tax Avoidance and Criminal Law Theory
Zoe Roborgh Examination orders in the search and surveillance bill: Is their bark worse than their bite?
Jeremy Stewart Robbing Peter to pay Paul? Shareholder compensation for violations of continuous disclosure obligations in New Zealand securities law
Elizabeth Thomas "Tinkering in the Constitutional Shed": The Regulatory Standards Bill and Legislative Quality in New Zealand
Deborah Tillett "Did you Not Say No?" How Cross-Examination May Influence Child Witnesses' Accuracy and the Viability of the 'Intermediary' Solution
Tessie von Dadelszen Another Brick in the Wall? Parental Education as a Response to Youth Crime
Samuel Wevers Recognising Rangatiratanga: Sharing Power With Maori Through Co-management
Kirstie Wyss Visual Identification: Is the Current Law Sufficient to Protect Against Misidentification?

 

[2010] OYLR

Laura Ashworth Islamic Arbitration of Family Law Disputes in New Zealand
Catherine Deans Avoiding Arbitrary Detention of People with Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder
Amy Douglas Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Does the Treaty of Waitangi Provide an Avenue for Iwi to Assert Legal Interests in Minerals in the Crown Owned Conservation Estate
Matthew Gale Provoked to Action: The Implications of Repealing to Provocation Defence to Murder
Edward Greig The Māori Right to Development and New Forms of Property
Melissa Hammer Coming to a Consensus: Vector Gas and the Admissibility of Previous Negotiations in Contract Interpretation
Jess Hanning The Resource Management Act 1991: A Free Marketers Dream? The Influence of Libertarianism on the RMA
Sarah Kuper An Immature Step Backward for New Zealand's Youth Justice System? A Discussion fo the Age of Criminal Responsibility
Rachel Laing Down to Business: Patent Protection for Business Methods in New Zealand
Tania Lowe An Uncertain Purpose: The Position of Economic Well-being in Section 5 of the Resource Management Act 1991
Kendal Luskie The Relationship between the New Zealand Crown and Māori: A Future for Fiduciary Obligations?
Anna McConachy 'You shouldn't have been born:' Does the regulation of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis send a discriminatory message to the Disabled Community?
Matt McKillop Emergency Powers of the New Zealand Government: Sources, Limitations, and the Canterbury Earthquake
Jude Murdoch Sound Off? Legal Checks on Religious Noise in New Zealand
Laurie O'Connor Humanitarian Intervention and the Crime of Aggression: The Precarious Position of the "Knights of Humanity"
Antoinette Robinson Children: Heard but not Listened to? Analysis of Children's Views in Decision Making under S6 of the Care of Children Act 2004
Jeremy Sparrow The Truth about the Maori Seats
Dena Valente Enforcing Promises: Consideration and Intention in the Law of Contract
Nat Walker Am I Authorised? Facilitating File Sharing in the Digital Age
Maia Wikaira Māori Ownership of Freshwater: Legal Paradox or Potential?
   

 

[2009] OYLR

Natalie Coates

Me Mau Nga Ringa Maori I Nga Rakaua Te Pakeha? Should Maori Customary Law be Incorporated into Legislation?

Daniel Eyre

Corporate and Catholic? A Critique of Corporate Law Based on the Principles of Catholic Social Teaching"

Heidi Gray

Inequality in Equal Division: Embracing a Canadian Approach to Remedy Economic Inequality Upon Relationship Breakdown

Ricky Hann

An Accident Waiting to Happen: Criminal Liability When Death Occurs During Participation in Adventure Sports in New Zealand

Matthew Harrop

Something for Nothing: Copyright, ISP Liability and P2P File Sharing

Holly Hedley

Doctoring in the Digital Age: A Discussion of Potential Regulatory Solutions for International Telemedicine in New Zealand

Alice Irving

Methamphetamine, Psychosis and the Insanity Defence

Honor Lanham

Walk the Plank: Somali Pirates and International Law

Alex Latu

A Public/Private Power Play: How to Approach the Question of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990’s Direct Application Under Section 3(b)?

Joshua McGettigan

Burying Climate Change Underneath the Ground: A Carbon Capture and Storage Regulatory Framework for New Zealand

Cecilia Milne

Legal Professional Privilege and the ‘Copy Document Conundrum’

Kate Muirhead

Medicine for the Soul: Should the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights Apply to Christian Healing Practices?

Hannah Musgrave

What Makes Race So Special?  Should hate speech provisions under the Human Rights Act 1993 be extended to cover target groups other than race?

Emma Peart

Contracts for Land: The Writing Requirement and the Equitable Exception

Megan Roberts

The Continuing Saga of Swiss-Type Claims: Their Scope and Potential Applicability to Pharmacogenomics

Elizabeth Rutherford

Funding Fair Play In Action Monetary Remedies In Judicial Review

Rupert Sherman

Caught in Limbo: The Palestinian Authority and the Misunderstood State in International Law

Sarah Watson

A corporate bombshell for New Zealand? The Australian High Court case Sons of Gwalia v Margaretic

Anthony Wicks

A Private Law Issue in “Public Law Drag?”: Government Contract Award Processes and Judicial Review in New Zealand

   

 

[2008] OYLR

Amy Elvidge
Michael Forster
Laura Fraser
Natasha Garvan
Nick Hansen
Catherine Helm
Ruth Jeffery
Sandra Jungen
Ronen Lazarovitch
Duncan MacKenzie

Abusing the Corporate Form: Limited Liability, Phoenix Companies, and a Misguided Response

Bridgette Martin
Daniel Pannett
Rebecca Thomson
Asha Trotter
Annalise Vucetich
Fergus Whyte
Joshua Williams
Gina Williamson
   

 

[2007] OYLR

Paul Appleyard

Missing The Mark? Economic theory and optimal penalties for competition offences under New Zealand’s Commerce Act

Tess Bridgman

The Relationship between Women's access to Justice and Development: Papua New Guinea: a case study to link theory with reality

Isabella Clarke

A Kahui Exception? Examining the right to silence in criminal investigations

Sophie Cunliffe

Materiality In Insider Trading: An obstacle to enforcement and compliance.

Emily Harris

Improving the International Climate Change Regime’s Provision for Developing Country Participation

Elspeth Knewstubb

Photography in Public Places and the Privacy of the Individual

Robyn Maher

Ship Mortgages in New Zealand: The conflict between the Personal Property Securities Act 1999 and the Ship Registration Act 1992

Jessica Mark

‘But It Was My Idea!’: A Statutory Compensation Scheme for Employee Inventors?

Stuart McGilvray

Making sense of substantive legitimate expectations in New Zealand
Administrative Law

Marcello Rodriguez-Ferrere

Proportionality as a Distinct Head of Judicial Review in New Zealand

Katharine Reynolds

Unzipping Our Genes for Insurers? Regulating the Use of Genetic Information in Insurance

Jesse Wall

Prospective Overruling – It’s About Time

   

 

[2006] OYLR

Kimberley Beech

The Use of Tradeable Water Rights in New Zealand

Jill Caughey

A Tangible Distinction? - Intangibles and the Public Benefit Trust in the Commerce Act 1986

Rebecca Checketts

Should Big Brother Be Watching? - An Assessment of Home Detention in New Zealand

Kellee Clark

A 'Truth' Universally Acknowledged: Looking Further at Director Independence

Charlotte Harpin

Taming the 'circus': Can select committee witnesses be better protected?

Rachael Irvine

To Bleed or Not to Bleed? - An Investigation into Mandatory Newborn Screening in New Zealand

Lucy James

Creating a Child to Save a Child: New Zealand’s Regulation of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis and Human Leukocyte Antigen Tissue Typing to Create “Saviour Siblings”

Rachel Kennard

The Potential for Maori Customary Claims to Freshwater

Marisa Macpherson

Iran, Uranium and the United Nations - The International Legal Implications of Iran’s Nuclear Programme

Shaun Maloney

Controlling Child Sex Offenders: A Touchy Subject

Aaron Sweet

Making a Killing: A separate corporate manslaughter offence for New Zealand?

Patti Troutbeck

Avian Influenza and International Law: Obligations upon Affected States