Waikato Law Review Restructuring

6 May 2011

The Waikato Law Review has had a major editorial restructuring.

The Law Review is an annual publication put out by the University of Waikato Faculty of Law and features a range of articles from legal academics, practitioners and emerging academic authors and reflects Te Piringa's founding goals of examining the law in context, professionalism and promotion of biculturalism.

Last year the Review began restructuring to express the Law school's goals and promote its unique scholarship qualities, which resulted in a new editorial committee being created..

The new committee includes Professor Margaret Wilson, Dr Robert Joseph, Gay Morgan and Joel Manyam who join 2011 Co-Editors in Chief Juliet Chevalier-Watts and Associate Professor Kate Diesfeld.

Professor Wilson completed her LLB(Hons) and MJur at Auckland University and has worked in private practice and public service including roles as, founding member and Vice President of Auckland Women Lawyers' Association and Member of the Advisory Committee to establish a Ministry of Women's Affairs. She taught at Auckland Law School until 1990 and was the founding Dean of Waikato Law School from 1990 to 1994 and remained part of the teaching staff until 1999.

Professor Wilson has also had a high profile political career; from 1984 to 1987 as President of New Zealand Labour Party, 1989 to 1990 Chief Adviser and Head of Prime Minister's Office, 1999 to 2005 she was Minister of the Crown and a List MP and between 2005 to 2008 she was the Speaker of Parliament.

Dr Robert Joseph completed his Bachelor and Master of Laws degrees at Waikato and was admitted to the Bar in 1998. He is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and was a senior research fellow for the Te Matahauariki Research Institute at the University of Waikato. Dr Joseph was the second Maori in New Zealand - and the first Maori male - to graduate with a PhD in Law in 2006.

Ms Gay Morgan graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics from the University of Colorado, and later graduated Summa Cum Laude with JD from the University of San Diego. She also graduated with Masters in Law from Yale University. Gay is a founding member of the New Zealand Human Rights Foundation, a member of the Australia & New Zealand Law and History Society and a member of several international public law forums. She also spent 11 years in Africa working on public infrastructure and community self-development projects, and three years working for the United States Court of Appeal.

Mr Joel Manyam graduated with a Diploma in Education from the University of the South Pacific, and was awarded the Narseys Limited Gold Medal in Education for being the outstanding graduate in his year. He has acted as Counsel for the Commissioner of Inland Revenue in bankruptcies, liquidations and insolvency-related proceedings in the High Court, tax hearings before the Taxation Review Authority, prosecution action for tax law offences in the District Court, and child support matters in the Family Court. Joel holds a Masters degree in Taxation Studies with First Class Honours from Auckland University, and has served on a national panel of experts writing on the taxation laws of New Zealand.

In addition to the Editorial Committee an Editorial Advisory Board was also established which comprises national and international academics, practitioners and members of the judiciary who fully support and endorse the Review's founding principles.

The 2011 edition of the Law Review will announce the board's membership.