Dr Juliet Chevalier-Watts
Senior Lecturer, Co-Director of the Waikato Public Law and Policy Unit, former Associate Dean Research (Law)
Qualifications: BA(Hons), LLB(Hons), LLM(Distinction), PGCLT, PhD
About Me
Dr Juliet Chevalier-Watts is a Senior Lecturer in Law and Co-Director of the Waikato Public Law and Policy Unit at Te Piringa - Faculty of Law at the University of Waikato. She specialises in charity law, trusts and religious law, lecturing and publishing nationally and internationally on this topics.
Papers I Teach
Research Supervised
PhD
- Dimitrov, Dara (in progress). Accountability of Charities.
Juliet welcomes applicants for doctoral and graduate supervision in any subject within the areas of charity law, equity and trusts.
Research Interests
- Charity Law
- Equity
- Trusts
- Religion
Current Research Projects
Juliet is currently writing the 2nd edition of "Equity, Trusts and Succession" and will be publishing "The Law of Religion in New Zealand" ThomsonReuters, Wellington in 2021, along with a variety of peer reviewed journal articles.
Keywords
Law; Legal Education; Teaching; Teaching and Learning; Tertiary Education
Equity, trusts, charity law, religion
Recent Publications
Chevalier-Watts, J. (2021). Lambie Trustee v Addleman [2021] NZSC 54 - [2021] NZLJ 247. New Zealand Law Journal, 7.
Chevalier-Watts, J. (2021). In defence of religious charitable trusts—when the ancient and the modern collide. Trusts and Trustees. Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/14379
Chevalier-Watts, J. (2020). Sutherland v Lane. New Zealand Law Journal, 9, 325-327.
Chevalier-Watts, J. (2020). Post-Greenpeace, better public media trust, and advocacy. The New Zealand law journal : NZLJ, 5(June), 190-195.