Our People in the Faculty of Law, Faculty of Law

Academic staff

Associate Professor Bridgette Toy-Cronin – Dean
Access to justice, litigants and disputants, dispute resolution design, socio-legal methods for civil justice research

Henry Benson-Pope – Convener of External Engagement
Criminal law, criminal justice, criminal procedure and evidence

Associate Professor Ben France-Hudson – Convener of Education
Law and theory of private property, natural resources, land law and climate change

Professor Struan Scott – Convener of Student Experience
Banking law, property law (with particular interest in indefeasibility of title), unjust enrichment, corporate governance

Associate Professor Stephen Young – Convener of Research
International human rights law, laws and Indigenous peoples, private law, duties and obligations, pseudo Law

Dr Moshood Abdussalam
Contract law, remedial aspects of private and economic analysis of the law

Professor Margaret Briggs
Criminal law, property law, family property law

Associate Professor Simon Connell
Accidents and the law, accident compensation, no-fault, tort law, contract law, contract interpretation, law of obligations theory, private law theory, negligence

Dr Dawn Duncan
Labour law, employment law, labour market regulation and new forms of work, workers' compensation, ACC and work health and safety, social security law, workplace dispute resolution

Professor Andrew Geddis
Election law, constitutional theory, rights law

Professor Shelley Griffiths
Taxation and the regulation of capital markets

Professor Anna High
Evidence, law and feminism, Chinese law, legal theory

Associate Professor Maria Hook
Private international law, international law, international litigation and dispute settlement, tort law

Alex Latu – Pacific Island Law Students' Association (PILSA) Liaison
Media law, legal theory, law and global governance

Dr Jan Mihal
General jurisprudence, the philosophy of law

Associate Professor Selene Mize
Legal ethics, civil liberties, negotiation, mediation, media law, law and psychology

Yasmin Olsen - Faculty liaison for tauira Māori, Te Rōpū Whai Pūtake and Te Huka Mātauraka (the Māori Centre)
Criminal law, criminal justice, youth justice, tikanga Māori and the law

Professor Jessica Palmer – Deputy Vice-Chancellor, External Engagement
The law of obligations, restitution, equity and commercial law

Mihiata Pirini
Public and administrative law, Te Tiriti o Waitangi / Treaty of Waitangi's influence on public decision-making, the relationship between tikanga and state law, legal design

Professor Jacinta Ruru – Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Māori
Tikanga and the law, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Indigenous peoples and the law, Māori scholarship

Stephen Eliot Smith
International law, international criminal law, legal history, church and state

Associate Professor Jeanne Snelling
Health law, the regulation of biomedical technologies

Dr Lili Song – Otago Asian Law Students' Association (OALSA) Liaison
Immigration and refugee law, Pacific legal issues

Professor Nicki Taylor – Director of Children's Issues Centre
Child and family law, parental separation, relocation, international child abduction, children's participation in legal proceedings

Dr Ben Tombs
Property law, resource management law, climate change law

Associate Professor Metiria Stanton Turei
Mātāpono Ture o te Māori / Māori legal principles, Te Mātauranga Ture o te Māori / Māori jurisprudence and Te Ariā ā-Ture o ngā Iwi Taketake / Indigenous Legal Theory

Professor Nicola Wheen
Environmental law, public law, Te Tiriti o Waitangi / Treaty of Waitangi, international environmental law

Dr Sean Whittaker
Environmental law, public law, law and technology

Associate Professor Edward Willis
Constitutional theory, public law, competition law, business regulation