Our People in the Faculty of Law, Faculty of Law

Academic staff

Professor Shelley Griffiths – Dean
Taxation and the regulation of capital markets

Professor Margaret Briggs – Convenor of the Postgraduate Programme
Criminal law, property law, family property law

Associate Professor Anna High – Convenor of Student Experience
Evidence, law and feminism, Chinese law, legal theory

Associate Professor Ben France-Hudson – Convenor of Education
Law and theory of private property, natural resources, land law and climate change

Dr Moshood Abdussalam
Contract law, remedial aspects of private and economic analysis of the law

Henry Benson-Pope
Criminal law, criminal justice, criminal procedure and evidence

Dr Lucas Clover-Alcolea
Equity and trusts, property, dispute resolution, international investment law, legal history, and legal theory (primarily the classical legal tradition)

Associate Professor Simon Connell
Accidents and the law, accident compensation, no-fault, tort law, contract law, contract interpretation, law of obligations theory, private law theory, negligence

Dr Dawn Duncan
Labour law, employment law, labour market regulation and new forms of work, workers' compensation, ACC and work health and safety, social security law, workplace dispute resolution

Professor Andrew Geddis
Election law, constitutional theory, rights law

Associate Professor Maria Hook
Private international law, international law, international litigation and dispute settlement, tort law

Alex Latu – Pacific Island Law Students' Association (PILSA) Liaison
Media law, legal theory, law and global governance

Dr Jan Mihal
General jurisprudence, the philosophy of law

Associate Professor Selene Mize
Legal ethics, civil liberties, negotiation, mediation, media law, law and psychology

Yasmin Olsen
Criminal law, criminal justice, youth justice, tikanga Māori and the law

Professor Jessica Palmer
The law of obligations, restitution, equity and commercial law

Mihiata Pirini (Currently on parental leave)
Public and administrative law, Te Tiriti o Waitangi / Treaty of Waitangi's influence on public decision-making, the relationship between tikanga and state law, legal design

Professor Jacinta Ruru – Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Māori
Tikanga and the law, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Indigenous peoples and the law, Māori scholarship

Professor Struan Scott
Banking law, property law (with particular interest in indefeasibility of title), unjust enrichment, corporate governance

Stephen Eliot Smith
International law, international criminal law, legal history, church and state

Dr Jeanne Snelling
Health law, the regulation of biomedical technologies

Dr Lili Song – Otago Asian Law Students' Association (OALSA) Liaison
Refugee law, Chinese law, Pacific law, law of the sea, public international law issues relating to China or South Pacific island states

Professor Nicki Taylor – Director of Children's Issues Centre
Child and family law, parental separation, relocation, international child abduction, children's participation in legal proceedings

Associate Professor Bridgette Toy-Cronin
Access to justice, litigants and disputants, dispute resolution design, socio-legal methods for civil justice research

Metiria Stanton Turei
Mātāpono Ture o te Māori / Māori legal principles, Te Mātauranga Ture o te Māori / Māori jurisprudence and Te Ariā ā-Ture o ngā Iwi Taketake / Indigenous Legal Theory

Professor Nicola Wheen
Environmental law, public law, Te Tiriti o Waitangi / Treaty of Waitangi, international environmental law

Dr Sean Whittaker
Environmental law, public law, law and technology

Associate Professor Edward Willis
Constitutional theory, public law, competition law, business regulation

Associate Professor Stephen Young
International human rights law, laws and Indigenous peoples, private law, duties and obligations