Staff research areas
- Access to Justice
- Dr Bridgette Toy-Cronin
- Administrative Law
- Marcelo Rodriguez Ferrere
Professor Ceri Warnock - Animals and the Law
- Marcelo Rodriguez Ferrere
- Banking Law
- Professor Struan Scott
- Bioethics and Health Law
- Professor Nicola Peart
Dr Jeanne Snelling
Professor Colin Gavaghan - Chinese Law
- Dr Anna High
Lili Song - Church and State
- Professor Rex Ahdar
Mr Stephen E Smith - Civil Liberties
- Associate Professor Selene Mize
- Civil Procedure
- Associate Professor Barry Allan
- Climate Change Law
- Dr Ben France-Hudson
- Commercial Law
- Professor Rex Ahdar
Associate Professor Barry Allan - Comparative Law
- Dr Stephen Young
- Competition Law (anti-trust)
- Professor Rex Ahdar
- Constitutional Theory
- Professor Andrew Geddis
Marcelo Rodriguez Ferrere - Consumer Credit
- Associate Professor Barry Allan
- Consumer Protection
- Associate Professor Barry Allan
- Contract Law
- Dr Simon Connell
Professor Jessica Palmer
Professor Rex Ahdar
- Corporate Governance
- Professor Struan Scott
- Crime and Psychiatry
- Professor John Dawson
- Criminal Justice
- Dr Danica McGovern
- Criminal Law
- Professor Margaret Briggs
Dr Anna High
Dr Danica McGovern
Mr Stephen E Smith - Defamation and Privacy
- Associate Professor Barry Allan
- Election Law
- Professor Andrew Geddis
- Employment Law
- Dr Dawn Duncan
- Environmental Law
- Professor Jacinta Ruru
Associate Professor Nicola Wheen
Professor Ceri Warnock - Family Law
- Associate Professor Nicki Taylor
- Family Property Law
- Professor Nicola Peart
- Genetics and Law
- Dr Jeanne Snelling
- Indigenous Peoples Comparative Law
- Professor Jacinta Ruru
Dr Stephen Young - International Criminal Law
- Mr Stephen E Smith
- International Economic Law
- Dr Tracey Epps
- International Environmental Law
- Associate Professor Nicola Wheen
Professor Ceri Warnock - International Human Rights Law
- Mr Stephen E Smith
Dr Stephen Young - International Trade Law
- Dr Tracey Epps
- Jurisprudence
- Professor John Dawson
- Land Law
- Dr Ben France-Hudson
- Law and Emerging Technologies
- Professor Colin Gavaghan
- Law and Literature
- Dr Stephen Young
- Law and Religion
- Professor Rex Ahdar
- Law Governing Research
- Professor John Dawson
- Law of Evidence
- Dr Anna High
- Law of Obligations
- Professor Jessica Palmer
- Law of the Sea
- Lili Song
- Law Relating to Children (children's rights, post-separation issues, family violence, medico-legal issues)
- Associate Professor Nicki Taylor
- Legal Ethics
- Associate Professor Selene Mize
Dr Bridgette Toy-Cronin - Legal History
- Mr Stephen E Smith
Professor Jacinta Ruru
Emeritus Professor Stuart Anderson
Dr Stephen Young - Legal Theory
- Dr Stephen Young
Alex Latu - Māori Land Law
- Professor Jacinta Ruru
- Media Law
- Associate Professor Selene Mize
Alex Latu - Mediation
- Dr Dawn Duncan
- Medical Law and Ethics
- Dr Jeanne Snelling
Professor Nicola Peart - Mental Health Law
- Professor John Dawson
- Negligence
- Associate Professor Barry Allan
- Negotiation
- Associate Professor Selene Mize
- Pacific Law
- Lili Song
- Personal Properties Securities Law
- Associate Professor Barry Allan
Professor Struan Scott - Private International Law
- Dr Maria Hook
- Property and Equity
- Professor Jessica Palmer
- Property Law
- Professor Struan Scott
Professor Nicola Peart
Dr Ben France-Hudson - Property Law Theory
- Dr Ben France-Hudson
- Public International Law
- Mr Stephen Smith
Lili Song - Public Law
- Marcelo Rodriguez Ferrere
Professor Ceri Warnock
Associate Professor Nicola Wheen
Professor Andrew Geddis - Refugee Law
- Lili Song
- Regulation and Discipline of Lawyers
- Associate Professor Selene Mize
- Regulation of Capital Markets
- Professor Shelley Griffiths
- Relationship Property Law
- Professor Nicola Peart
Professor Margaret Briggs - Religious Freedom
- Professor Rex Ahdar
- Reparation
- Dr Simon Connell
- Rights Theory
- Professor Andrew Geddis
- Resource Management Law
- Professor Ceri Warnock
Dr Ben France-Hudson - Sentencing
- Emeritus Professor Geoff Hall
Dr Danica McGovern - Social Security Law
- Dr Dawn Duncan
- Socio-Legal Research
- Dr Bridgette Toy-Cronin
Associate Professor Nicki Taylor - Sports Law
- Professor Rex Ahdar
- Succession Law
- Professor Nicola Peart
- Taxation
- Professor Shelley Griffiths
- Teaching Law
- Associate Professor Selene Mize
- Tort Law
- Associate Professor Barry Allan
Dr Stephen Young - Transport Law
- Emeritus Professor Geoff Hall
- Treaty of Waitangi
- Professor Jacinta Ruru
Associate Professor Nicola Wheen
Professor John Dawson - Trusts
- Professor Jessica Palmer
Professor Nicola Peart - Unjust Enrichment
- Professor Struan Scott
Professor Jessica Palmer - Work Health and Safety
- Dr Dawn Duncan
- Workers’ Compensation/ACC
- Dr Dawn Duncan
Dr Simon Connell
Faculty of Law Inaugural Professorial Lectures
- Professor Jessica Palmer, 27 May 2019
- "The Lure of Equity and the Academic Voice"
View the lecture on the University Youtube channel - Professor Margaret Briggs, 5 October 2017
- "Criminal attempts: How close is too close"
View the lecture on our podcast page - Professor Shelley Griffiths, 30 August 2017
- "Tax as law"
View the lecture on our podcast page
- Professor Jacinta Ruru, 12 September 2016
- "Toitū te Whenua, Toitū te Mana"
View the lecture on iTunes U - Professor Struan Scott, August 2012
- ""Mistaken Payments and the Change of Position Defence: Rare Cases and Elegance"
View the lecture on iTunes U - Professor Andrew Geddis, September 2011
- “Of flags and protest: dissent, offence and the limits of free speech"
View the lecture on iTunes U - Professor Kim Economides, September 2010
- "Measuring Law's Impact: The Future of Socio-Legal Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand"
View the lecture on iTunes U - Professor Kevin Dawkins, October 2009
- "Taking Stock of the Jury"
- Professor Nicola Peart, October 2008
- "Can your Trust be Trusted?"
View the lecture on iTunes U - Professor Rex Ahdar, August 2008
- "Slow train coming: religious liberty in the last days"
View the lecture on iTunes U - Professor Geoff Hall, May 2008
- "Bloody Idiots!" Have the drunks behind the wheel reached a cross-roads?"
View the lecture on iTunes U - Professor Paul Roth, March 2008
- "Child Labour in New Zealand - A job for the nanny state?"
- Professor Richard Mahoney, October 2007
- "Is it ever justifiable to torture or to even think about that question?"
- Professor John Dawson, September 2007
- "Concepts of liberty in mental health law"
View the lecture on iTunes U
