Category Archives: Events

24-25 NOV 2017, UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY The conference will focus on labour law in transition in a global and technological world – this theme is intended to encompass new developments and emerging areas in labour law. Papers will cover a … Continue reading →

23-26 OCT 2017, VUW – LAW FACULTY ATRIP, Advancement of Teaching and Research of Intellectual Property, is the preeminent global association of intellectual property teachers and researchers. Its current president, Professor Susy Frankel, will host their 2017 conference at Victoria … Continue reading →

9-10 OCT 2017, AUT – CENTRE FOR NON-ADVERSARIAL JUSTICE AUT’s Centre for Non-Adversarial Justice is running a two-day conference titled “Perils and Portents of Unfitness to Stand Trial: International and Comparative Perspectives”. The conference is being run with support from … Continue reading →

8 SEPT 2017, VUW – LAW FACULTY On 1 Aug 2017 the Evidence Act 2006 will have been in force for 10 years. To mark this occasion as well as the Law Commission’s work on the second five-yearly review of … Continue reading →

1-31 AUG 2017, AUT – FACULTY OF LAW (HOST) 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 … Continue reading →

~~~~28 JULY 2017, HERITAGE AUCKLAND Professor Jeremy Waldron is giving the Maxim Institute’s 10th Sir John Graham Lecture at Heritage Auckland at 6pm on Friday 28th July 2017. The lecture titled “Polls Apart – Reclaiming respect in a time of … Continue reading →

~~~~27-29 JULY, AMINZ – STAMFORD PLAZA, AUCKLAND The Law Foundation is funding the attendance of Rashda Rana SC, who will give a keynote address at the conference. Rashda is an arbitration specialist, educator and presenter and President of Arbital Women. … Continue reading →

~~~~12 JULY 2017, VUW – LAW FACULTY International speakers will contribute to a symposium (13th July) and a public lecture (12th July) and seek to investigate the nature and the structure of business corporations and other legal entities. They aim … Continue reading →

~~~~1 July 2017 – AUCKLAND The Conference, being run by the New Zealand Animal Law Association (NZALA), will be the first of its kind in New Zealand on the topic of animal law. It will provide a unique opportunity to … Continue reading →

~~~~26-27 JUNE 2017, VUW & UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO The aim of this conference is to discuss the legal case Huakina Development Trust v Waikato Valley Authority [1987] 2 NZLR 188 – the first case to explicitly require the Treaty of … Continue reading →