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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 teaches Property Law, Wills and Trusts and Advanced Family Property Law. She also provides some teaching in medical law to medical students and supervises postgraduate students in the Law Faculty and the Otago Bioethics Centre doing research in medical law

Research Interests

Family Property and Succession Law, Medical Law

Contact

Room 10C14
10th Floor, Richardson Building
Tel +64 3 479 7154
Email nicola.peart@otago.ac.nz

Publications

Cull, H., & Peart, N. (2022). The challenge of family property ownership. In J. Burrows & J. Finn (Eds.), Challenge and change: Judging in Aotearoa New Zealand. (pp. 247-268). Wellington, New Zealand: LexisNexis NZ.

Peart, N. (2022, May). Enter a relationship at your own risk! The vulnerability of trusts to claims on separation, dissolution and death. Verbal presentation at the Cradle to Grave Conference: The Interface between Trust, Property and Family Law, [Hybrid].

Peart, N. (2022). Trustee information obligations under the Trusts Act 2019. New Zealand Law Review, (1), 9-40.

Moses, J., & Peart, N. (2021, June, October). Reforming succession law. Verbal presentation at the Trusts Conference: A Trust Odyssey, Auckland, Wellington, New Zealand.

Peart, N., & McQueen, H. (2021, May). Problems in succession law and options for reform. Verbal presentation at the Cradle to Grave Conference: The Interface between Trust, Property and Family Law, Christchurch, Auckland, New Zealand.

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