Category Archives: News

The Law Foundation is pleased to announce the release of a report entitled “Finding Ecological Justice in New Zealand”, by Claire Browning. The Foundation-funded report assesses environmental law and injustice in Aotearoa. The report argues that, objectively, environmental law exists … Continue reading →

The Law Foundation is pleased to announce that Nikita Melashchenko has been awarded a Doctoral Scholarship to research issues surrounding data localisation. Nikita is studying for his PhD at Victoria University’s Law Faculty and is examining how data localisation measures … Continue reading →

Executive Director of the Law Foundation, Lynda Hagen, has written her latest article for LawTalk. Lynda highlights the work of the Human Rights Foundation, who are developing a best practice model for New Zealand authorities working with the NZ Muslim … Continue reading →

Having a baby may never be the same again with increasingly sophisticated genetic testing likely to raise thorny ethical issues, according to this new report. Lead author of the Law Foundation funded report, Dr Jeanne Snelling of the University of … Continue reading →

Women lawyers have had to navigate special challenges to reach the top of the New Zealand legal profession. The career and family experiences of many pre-eminent New Zealand women judges have been recorded in a Law Foundation-backed oral history project … Continue reading →

Professor Stephen Smith, from McGill University in Canada and also the Law Foundation’s 2017 Distinguished Visiting Fellow, is now part-way through his tour of New Zealand law schools. On 10th August he gave a very well received public lecture at … Continue reading →

Professor Jeremy Waldron gave the Maxim Institute’s 10th Sir John Graham Lecture in Auckland on Friday 28th July 2017. His lecture set out to address the many divides in contemporary political culture, and suggest a framework of civility that enables … Continue reading →

A BRANZ research report co-funded by the Law Foundation was released on 21 July entitled Revised Legal Frameworks for Ownership and Use of Multi-Dwelling Units, written by Elizabeth Toomey, Jeremy Finn, Ben France-Hudson and Jacinta Ruru. The research aimed to … Continue reading →

The Law Foundation congratulates Joanna Mossop, Senior Lecturer in law at VUW, on becoming the joint winner of the 2016 JF Northey Memorial Book Award. Her book published in 2016, “The Continental Shelf Beyond 200 Nautical Miles – Rights and … Continue reading →

PROFESSOR STEPHEN SMITH is visiting New Zealand during August as the New Zealand Law Foundation’s 2017 Distinguished Visiting Fellow. While in New Zealand he will be hosted by the Faculty of Law at AUT and tour all law schools giving … Continue reading →