Associate Professor
Contact
Email edward.willis@otago.ac.nz
Teaching
Edward currently teaches parts of the Legal System and Jurisprudence courses, as well as Competition Law. He also has previous experience teaching Public Law and Administrative Law.
Research
Edward's research interests are in constitutional theory (especially as applied to the New Zealand constitution), all aspects of public law (including rights issues, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and administrative law), competition law and business regulation. He is currently undertaking a major project interrogating the public law dimension of business regulation.
Background
Edward has an LLM with Distinction from Victoria University of Wellington and a PhD from the University of Auckland. He joined the Law Faculty at the University of Otago in 2023. Prior to that he was a practising lawyer for 12 years until joining the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland in 2018. Edward continues to mix practical experience from his time in practice with theoretical insights as part of scholarship.
Forthcoming publications
“Interpretive Presumptions: Catalysts for Constitutional Reasoning” (forthcoming 2022, accepted for publication by New Zealand Law Review).