“Judicial supervision is a function that is vulnerable if it isn’t valued,” the Right Honourable Dame Sian Elias recently told a capacity crowd at Victoria University of Wellington.
The Faculty of Law’s Professor Petra Butler and alumnus Audley Sheppard QC are among those selected to lead an international study on settling cross-border commercial disputes.
Victoria University of Wellington’s Faculty of Law recently hosted Samoa’s first female judge, Justice Mata Keli Tuatagaloa, for a panel discussion about legal issues facing Samoa and New Zealand.
Excessive IP restrictions lock up innovation in the name of protecting it, and can only harm a small economy such as New Zealand, argues Victoria University of Wellington’s Professor Susy Frankel.
Victoria University of Wellington Professor of Law Susy Frankel has been inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi. She is one of 20 Fellows, including three others from Victoria University, inducted as part of the Society‘s Academy Centenary, which marks 100 years since the first 20 Fellows were inducted in 1919.
The symbolism of renaming the country ‘Aotearoa New Zealand’ could then be enhanced by reflecting the Te Tiriti o Waitangi partnership in our constitutional arrangements, writes Dr Carwyn Jones.
In light of the ruling against sexual abuse victim Mariya Taylor, Dr Zoë Prebble questions how limitation periods work in such cases of historical sexual and gendered harm.
Fleur Knowsley is a Senior Counsel at Google Inc. in San Francisco. She graduated from Victoria University of Wellington in 2003 with an LLB and a BCA in Economics.
Victoria University of Wellington environmental law expert Catherine Iorns calls for a radical overhaul of New Zealand’s pesticide approval process.
Victoria University of Wellington student Bruce Thomas’ path to completing his Doctor of Philosophy in Law was more difficult than most, but his research could have a significant impact on how countries share customs intelligence.
