Professor Rex Ahdar

LL.B. (Hons)(1982); LL.M. (1985)(Canterbury); Ph. D. (Otago)(2000)
Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand (1984)

Currently a Professor, having joined the Faculty in September 1985 as a Lecturer.

His current teaching embraces: Competition Law, Contract Law, and Law and Religion.

His research interests include: Competition Law and Policy, Church-State Relations, Religious Freedom.

He has spent his research leave at: Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley (1991); TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland (1991); the Department of Private Law, University of Edinburgh (1998); Sydney University Law School and Emory University Law School (2005).

Honours include: Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at UC Berkeley, 1991, Membership of the Editorial Board of the Australian Business Law Review and the New Zealand Business Law Quarterly.

His major publications include:

Competition Law and Policy in New Zealand (Sydney: Law Book Company, 1991) [editor]; God and Government: The New Zealand Experience (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2000) [co-editor with John Stenhouse]; Law and Religion (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000) [editor]; Worlds Colliding: Conservative Christians and the Law (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001); Religious Freedom in the Liberal State (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) [with Ian Leigh]; Shari'a in the West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) [co-editor with Nicholas Aroney];

He has published articles in journals such as:

The Antitrust Bulletin; Oxford Journal of Legal Studies; McGill Law Journal; Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly; European Competition Law Review; Australian Business Law Review; Competition and Consumer Law Journal; Journal of Contract Law; Utilities Law Review; Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business; International Tax and Business Lawyer; Journal of Law and Religion; The Journal of Church and State; Religion and Human Rights; International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family; International Journal of Law in Context; Emory International Law Review; Brigham Young University Law Review.

He is a New Zealand Contributor for the Australian Business Law Review and the European Competition Law Review.

Research Interests

Law and Religion, Church & State, Competition Law (Antitrust).

Contact Details

Tel 03 479 8842
Office: 9th Floor - 9N4
Email rex.ahdar@otago.ac.nz