Staff Research
Te Piringa - Faculty of Law staff are actively engaged in trend-setting research and debate on a broad range of legal issues in academic, professional and public forums. Publication in nationally and internationally peer-reviewed publications attests to the quality of the research and writing undertaken by leading academics. Staff provide policy and legal advice to government, business and non-governmental organisations. This influence on matters of legal and public importance demonstrates that the Faculty is taking a prominent role in debates of legal importance in the 21st century.
View the Faculty's Research Publications for 2010
.Staff Expertise
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Les Arthur: Commercial transactions; dispute resolution; property issues in family law.
Professor Barry Barton: Natural resources law; energy; electricity; environmental law.
Dr Sadeq Z. Bigdeli: International trade both from public (regulatory) and private (commercial transactions) perspectives; global governance and the evolvement of global administrative law; comparative regulatory policy and trade & climate change.
Dr Claire Breen: International human rights law; children's rights and the UN Convention for the Rights of the Child; Non-Governmental Organisations, human rights and children's rights; the laws of armed confl ict.
Associate Professor Ruth Busch: Law and domestic violence; women, law and policy; custody and access decision-making; matrimonial and de facto property divisions; family law.
Juliet Chevalier-Watts: Tort, contract, equity and trusts and European human rights.
Trevor Daya-Winterbottom: National and international environmental law; corporate law.
Matiu Dickson: Legal education; youth advocacy and the criminal system; resource management and local government law; Maori legal issues.
Professor Alexander Gillespie: International and domestic environmental law and policy; law and societies; human rights.
Dr Robert Joseph: Good governance, tikanga Maori and the law, land law, indigenous peoples' rights and international law, the Treaty of Waitangi, Maori health, constitutional law, Maori legal issues, corporate entities, indigenous corporate governance, biotechnology and matauranga Maori.
Dr Anna Kingsbury: Intellectual property and information technology law; competition law.
Joel Manyam: Revenue law: public law remedies and Commissioner of Inland Revenue; commercial transactions.
Brenda Midson: Evidence; family; child sexual abuse; animal welfare issues.
Gay Morgan: Jurisprudence; public law and legal systems; problem of self government; pluralism; animal rights.
Morné Olivier: Public law, administration of justice, judicial matters, law of interpretation, jurisprudence and human Rights
Professor Bradford Morse: Indigenous issues in Canada, US, Australia and New Zealand: Land claims; self-government; treaty rights; Aboriginal rights; Metis rights; constitutional reform; administration of justice; intergovernmental relations; wildlife harvesting; international indigenous rights; human rights; Northern Governance; territorial governmental jurisdiction; federal-territorial relations; environmental law; water rights, land law; trusts and equity.
Harata Paterson: Maori women and the law.
Wayne Rumbles: Criminal law; information technology; internet crime; indigenous rights; Pakeha relationship with Treaty of Waitangi; discourse analysis of legal texts.
Professor Nan Seuffert: Contracts and contract theory and the convergence of public and private law in structural adjustment policies; jurisprudence; race, gender, sexuality and the law.
Sue Tappenden: Property; equity; jurisprudence.
Linda Te Aho: Maori women and the law; employment law; Maori resource management; Maori legal issues; contracts; legal method.
Christina ter Haar: Dispute resolution and mediation.
Dr Firew Kebede Tiba: International Dispute Settlement; International Criminal Law; International Human Rights Law; Transitional Justice; Legal Education; International Economic and Business Law.
Professor Margaret Wilson: Constitutional law and employment relations.
Research Publications Search
The lists below provide links into the University's Research Publications Search. This database includes all research produced by the University from 1998 to the current year.
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