Drs (Leiden) LLM (Cape Town)
Nicola graduated from Leiden University with a law degree majoring in International Law and completed an LLM in African Customary Law at the University of Cape Town. She commenced her academic career in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town where she taught Roman Law, Private law and European Union Law. She immigrated to New Zealand in 1986. After a year of study at the University of Otago she took up a lectureship in the Law Faculty in 1987, where she taught Property Law, Wills and Trusts and Advanced Family Property Law and did some teaching in medical law to medical students. She retired in December 2020, but continues to do some teaching in Property Law and remains active in research.
Research Interests
Family Property Law, Trusts and Succession Law
Contact
Room 10C14
10th Floor, Richardson Building
Tel +64 3 479 7154
Email nicola.peart@otago.ac.nz