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Law Foundation-sponsored Waikato Law students were rewarded for their negotiating skills at an international competition in Denmark. Ben Gilbert and Andrew Cameron were representing New Zealand at the international negotiation competition in Copenhagen, and came home with the Joint Maximising … Continue reading →

There are three Ethel Benjamin scholarship winners for 2011. The three recipients of this New Zealand Law Foundation award are Charlotte Leslie, Anna Crowe and Natalie Coates and all three intend to study for an LLM at Harvard University. Charlotte … Continue reading →

Emeritus Professor in Environmental Law Ben Boer from the University of Sydney is the 2011 New Zealand Law Foundation’s Distinguished Visiting Fellow. Between 2006 and 2008, he was the international Co-Director of the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of … Continue reading →

Professor Campbell McLachlan QC has received New Zealand’s premier legal research award, the 2010 NZ Law Foundation International Research Fellowship. The award was made at the Law Foundation’s Annual Awards Dinner on 24 November. Worth up to $125,000 annually, it … Continue reading →

At its recent board meeting the Law Foundation provided funding assistance to a variety of interesting projects. A study of the effectiveness of Youth Justice Family Group Conferences 21 years on has received a Law Foundation grant of $32,700. The … Continue reading →

Badly designed and poorly implemented regulation can cost the taxpayer billions, as evidenced by the leaky home issue. Good regulation can be expensive, but is often worth the investment. A $1.75 million research project led by Victoria University and funded … Continue reading →

This conference,”Reconstituting the Constitution”, builds on an earlier conference “Building the Constitution”, hosted by Victoria University’s Institute of Policy Studies, and will discuss recent issues relevant to major constitutional change. 17-year-old Wellington College student Rayhan Langdana is looking forward to … Continue reading →

Relocation disputes are widely regarded as one of the most controversial and difficult issues in family law internationally. The New Zealand Law Foundation funded a socio-legal research team from the University of Otago to undertake a three-year study on relocation … Continue reading →

A former Chairman of the world’s first independent body established to review miscarriages of justice will deliver public lectures at New Zealand law schools in August. Professor Graham Zellick will be the New Zealand Law Foundation’s Distinguished Visiting Fellow for … Continue reading →

Auckland women win prestigious Law Foundation Ethel Benjamin Scholarship The winners of this year’s New Zealand Law Foundation Ethel Benjamin Scholarship were announced at the annual New Zealand Law Foundation Ethel Benjamin Commemorative Address held in Dunedin on 7 May. … Continue reading →