Co-Director, Otago Centre for Law and Society
Convenor of Students, Faculty of Law
BA, LLB (Queensland); BCL, MPhil, DPhil (Oxon)
Contact
Tel +64 3 479 8859
Email anna.high@otago.ac.nz
Teaching
Anna teaches Evidence Law, Jurisprudence, Chinese Law, and Gender and the Law.
Research
Anna is a socio-legal scholar who has adopted a “law in action” approach to three main areas of interest: feminist theory/sexual violence, evidence law, and Chinese law. She has also published in the area of legal education/pedagogy. She is co-director of the Otago Centre for Law and Society.
In 2022, Anna was awarded the Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Humanities.
Anna currently holds a research grant from the Royal Society Marsden fund, focusing on sexual dignity, consent and sexual violence law in Aotearoa New Zealand law. Her research in this field has been published in the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism; the New Zealand Law Review; and the New Zealand Law Journal.
Anna is one of New Zealand’s foremost experts on evidence law. She is a regular Faculty member at Te Kura Kaiwhakawā Institute of Judicial Studies annual programme on evidence and procedure law, and has been appointed a member of the New Zealand Law Commission’s Expert Advisory Group for the forthcoming third review of the Evidence Act 2006.
Anna High is a past recipient of the Asian Law and Society Association Distinguished Book Award (2020, “Non-Governmental Orphan Relief in China: Law, Policy, and Practice”); the New Zealand Law Foundation Sir Ian Barker Published Article Award (2020, with Caroline Hickman, “The ‘Any Evidence’ Rule in New Zealand Family Law”); and the New Zealand Law Society Honourable Rex Mason Writing Award (2022, with Mihiata Pirini, “Dignity and Mana in the ‘Third Law’ of Aotearoa New Zealand”).
Otago Centre for Law and Society
Background
Following the completion of her doctorate at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar (Qld & Magdalen 2008), Anna was Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence and American Council of Learned Societies Postdoctoral Fellow at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she taught criminal law and Chinese law. She has also taught comparative human rights, Asian law, EU law and criminal law at Marquette University Law School as Visiting Assistant Professor.
Publications
High, A. (2022). Sexual dignity and rape law. Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, 33(2), 1-36. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/18183
High, A. (2022). Reluctant consent. New Zealand Law Journal, (9), 310-313, 324.
High, A., & Hickman, C. (2020). The 'any evidence' rule in New Zealand family law. New Zealand Universities Law Review, 29, 49-74.
High, A. (2019). Non-governmental orphan relief in China: Law, policy, and practice. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 166p.
High, A. (2018). The case for mindfulness in New Zealand legal education. New Zealand Law Journal, (June), 160-163.
High, A. (2022). Sexual dignity and rape law. Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, 33(2), 1-36. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/18183
Journal - Research Article
High, A. (2022). Reluctant consent. New Zealand Law Journal, (9), 310-313, 324.
Journal - Research Article
High, A., & Hickman, C. (2020). The 'any evidence' rule in New Zealand family law. New Zealand Universities Law Review, 29, 49-74.
Journal - Research Article
High, A. (2019). Non-governmental orphan relief in China: Law, policy, and practice. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 166p.
Authored Book - Research
High, A. (2018). The case for mindfulness in New Zealand legal education. New Zealand Law Journal, (June), 160-163.
Journal - Research Other
High, A. (2022). The "classical" conception of rape and its partial reform in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand Law Review, 2, 173-208.
Journal - Research Article
High, A. (2022). Constraints on sexual offence complainants. New Zealand Law Journal, (5), 144-145, 177.
Journal - Research Article
High, A. (2022, September). Mindfulness for judges. Presentation at the Institute of Judicial Studies Wellbeing Seminar, Christchurch, New Zealand. [Professional Development Seminar].
Other Research Output
Pirini, M., & High, A. (2022). Dignity and mana in Aotearoa New Zealand legislation. Policy Quarterly, 18(1), 52-58. doi: 10.26686/pq.v18i1.7503
Journal - Research Article
High, A. (2022). Sexual orientation as disposition evidence in sexual cases. New Zealand Law Journal, 2, 51-53, 63.
Journal - Research Article
High, A., & Geddis, A. (2022). Trusting China to give a fair trial sets a worrying precedent for extradition in New Zealand. The Guardian, (29 April). Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2022/apr/29/trusting-china-to-give-a-fair-trial-sets-a-worrying-precedent-for-extradition-in-new-zealand
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
High, A. (2022). Response to comments by Anna High [Book discussion]. Asian Journal of Law & Society. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1017/als.2022.15
Journal - Research Other
Downs, M., & High, A. (2022). Evidence Act update. Proceedings of the New Zealand Law Society Continuing Legal Education (NZLS CLE) Intensive: 12th Criminal Law Symposium. (pp. 129-173). Wellington, New Zealand: NZLS CLE. [Full Paper]
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
High, A., & Geddis, A. (2021). Diplomatic assurances as a basis for extradition to the People's Republic of China. New Zealand Law Journal, (7), 226-228 & 254.
Journal - Research Article
Pirini, M., & High, A. (2021). Dignity and mana in the "third law" of Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand Universities Law Review, 29, 623-647.
Journal - Research Article
High, A. (2021, May). Facebook, WhatsApp, what's all that? An evidence law perspective on social media in the Family Court. Invited presentation at the Family Court Judges’ Triennial Conference: Kia rongo ki ā tātou kōrero: Hear Our Voices, Taupō, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Pirini, M., & High, A. (2021). Dignity and mana in Aotearoa law. The Spinoff, (21 September). Retrieved from https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/21-09-2021/dignity-and-mana-in-aotearoa-law
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
High, A. (2021). Cellmate confessions. New Zealand Law Journal, (3), 81-83.
Journal - Research Article
High, A. (2021). The exclusion of prison informant evidence for unreliability in New Zealand. International Journal of Evidence & Proof, 25(3), 217-238. doi: 10.1177/13657127211011236
Journal - Research Article
High, A. (2021, March-April). Sexual dignity in rape law. Verbal presentation at the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Conference, [Online].
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
High, A. (2020). The Red Fox Tavern trial and the evidence act. New Zealand Law Journal, 2, 69.
Journal - Research Article
High, A. (2020). What's a Judge to do? Allegations of police torture in China as evidence in an English court. New Zealand Law Journal, (October), 318-320, 327.
Journal - Research Article
Hickman, C., & High, A. (2019). Anarchy and analysis: Applying the rules to child-related evidence. Proceedings of the New Zealand Law Society (NZLS) Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Family Law Conference. (pp. 49-69). Wellington, New Zealand: NZLS CLE. [Full Paper]
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
High, A. (2018). Christian v R and s 128A(1) Crimes Act 1961. New Zealand Law Journal, (March), 47-49.
Journal - Research Article
High, A. (2018). [Review of the book Feminist judgments of Aotearoa New Zealand Te Rino: A two-stranded rope]. Otago Law Review, 15(2), 317-322. [Book Review].
Journal - Research Other
High, A. (2018). Law and practice of religious orphan welfare in China. Proceedings of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand (LSAANZ), the Canadian Law and Society Association (CLSA) and the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) of the UK Joint International Conference: Inclusion, Exclusion, Democracy. (pp. 34). Retrieved from http://www.uowblogs.com/lsaanz2018
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
High, A. (2018, October). Mindfulness in the classroom. Workshop presentation at the Teaching and Learning Symposium: Rebuilding Your Ship at Sea: Cultivating Identity, Integrity, Community and Collegiality in Times of Change, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
High, A. (2017). "It's grace and favor, it's not law": Extra-legal regulation of foreign foster homes in China. University of Pennsylvania Asian Law Review, 12(3), 357-405.
Journal - Research Article
High, A. (2017, November). "One eye open, one eye closed": The role and regulation of China's foreign-run orphanages. Verbal presentation at the Thomson Reuters New & Emerging Scholars Symposium, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
High, A. J. (2017, January). "It's grace and favor, it's not law": Extra-legal regulation of foreign foster homes in China [Section on East Asian Law and Society]. Verbal presentation at the 111th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS): Why Law Matters, San Francisco, USA.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
High, A. J. (2017). Using restorative practice to teach and uphold dignity in an American school district. McGill Journal of Education / Revue des sciences de l'éducation de McGill, 52(2), 525-534. Retrieved from http://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/9453
Journal - Research Article
High, A. (2016). Good, bad and wrongful juvenile sex: Rethinking the use of statutory rape laws against the protected class. Arkansas Law Review, 69, 787-837.
Journal - Research Article
High, A. J. (2014). Pondering the politicization of intercountry adoption: Russia's ban on American "forever families". Cardozo Journal of International & Comparative Law, 22(3), 497-560.
Journal - Research Article
High, A. J. (2014). Combating domestic violence in China: Problems, progress and prospects. Pandora's Box, 45-51.
Journal - Research Article
High, A. J. (2013). China's orphan welfare system: Laws, policies and filled gaps. University of Pennsylvania East Asia Law Review, 8, 127-176.
Journal - Research Article
High, A. J. (2013). Grassroots NGO regulations and China's local legal culture. Socio-Legal Review, 9(2), 1-50.
Journal - Research Article
High, A. (2013, October). "Non-legal" orphanages and the Chinese state. China Development Brief. Retrieved from http://chinadevelopmentbrief.cn/articles/non-legal-orphanages-and-the-chinese-state/
Other Research Output
High, A. (2013, July). With one eye closed: Illegal orphanages in rural China. The Diplomat. Retrieved from https://thediplomat.com/2013/07/with-one-eye-closed-illegal-orphanages-in-rural-china/
Other Research Output
Kloeden, A. (2012). [Review of the book NGOs in China and Europe: Comparisons and contrasts]. Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 41(3), 517-520. doi: 10.1177/0899764011414171
Journal - Research Other
Kloeden, A. J. (2012). Government beyond law: Exploring charity regulation and spaces of order in China (DPhil). University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Retrieved from https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e48b254a-3316-4a0b-a994-c3c6a6b3624a
Awarded Doctoral Degree
