Category Archives: News

Executive Director of the Law Foundation, Lynda Hagen, has written her latest article for LawTalk. Lynda highlights the work of Professor Elisabeth McDonald of the University of Canterbury and Paulette Benton-Greig of the University of Waikato, who are conducting research … Continue reading →

Authors Dame Alison Quentin-Baxter and Professor Janet McLean celebrated the launch of their book “This Realm of New Zealand: The Sovereign, the Governor-General, the Crown” at the Grand Hall of Parliament last night. The event was hosted by the Minister … Continue reading →

The Law Foundation welcomes the newly launched Michael and Suzanne Borrin Foundation to New Zealand’s legal research community. We are delighted to announce our collaborative venture with the Borrin Foundation which will contribute up to $150,000 a year to co-funded … Continue reading →

This EDS project is taking a first principles look at how New Zealand’s resource management system operates and will provide an evidence-based perspective on how it could be improved for the coming decades. Working paper 1 is the first of … Continue reading →

We are pleased to announce the appointment of two new trustees to the Law Foundation Board. Both bring a wealth of valuable knowledge and experience to our board. Auckland Barrister, Miriam Dean QC, has had 35 years’ experience in commercial … Continue reading →

Every year Law Foundation support enables many eminent international legal experts to visit New Zealand and speak at conferences, seminars and lectures. We also fund law student attendance at some of these events. In 2018 the Law Foundation is providing … Continue reading →

2017 NZ Law Foundation International Research Fellowship – Te Karahipi Rangahau ā Taiao The Law Foundation is pleased to announce that Dunedin barrister, Warren Forster is the 2017 recipient of the New Zealand Law Foundation’s International Research Fellowship – New … Continue reading →

The Law Foundation has two winners for this year’s Shadow Report Award – Ngā Hau e Whā & Associates and The Human Rights Foundation of Aotearoa New Zealand. Both will receive $10,000 towards the preparation and presentation of their shadow … Continue reading →

This publication is the culmination of a long-running project to produce a collection of alternative judgments, based on feminist legal theory, for significant cases across a broad range of legal issues. The recently released Hart publication, Feminist Judgments of Aotearoa … Continue reading →

In a New Zealand first, a team of researchers from the University of Otago Legal Issues Centre have investigated the length of High Court civil cases. The goal of this research was to examine if, and where, delays occurred, as … Continue reading →