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Associate Professor

LLM (Victoria, Wellington), PhD (Auckland)

Contact

Email edward.willis@otago.ac.nz

Teaching

Edward currently teaches Legal System and Competition Law. He also has previous experience teaching Public Law and Administrative Law.

Research

Edward's research interests are in constitutional theory (especially as applied to the New Zealand constitution), all aspects of public law (including rights issues, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and administrative law), competition law and business regulation. He is currently undertaking a major project interrogating the public law dimension of business regulation.

Background

Edward has an LLM with Distinction from Victoria University of Wellington and a PhD from the University of Auckland. He joined the Law Faculty at the University of Otago in 2023. Prior to that he was a practising lawyer for 12 years until joining the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland in 2018. Edward continues to mix practical experience from his time in practice with theoretical insights as part of scholarship.

Publications

Willis, E. (2024). Comity in the courts and in the constitution. New Zealand Law Journal, (8), 288-290. Journal - Research Article

Willis, E. (2023). Competition law reimagined? Competition studies in New Zealand. New Zealand Law Review, (2), 191-212. Journal - Research Article

Burton Crawford, L., Blayden, L., Meagher, D., Wilberg, H., & Willis, E. (2023, July). Protecting rights through statutory interpretation: Perspectives from the antipodes. Verbal presentation at the ICON·S Conference: Islands and Ocean: Public Law in a Plural World, Wellington, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Willis, E. (2023). Judging the minimum voting age. New Zealand Law Journal, (1), 17-19. Journal - Research Article

Willis, E., & Wilberg, H. (2022). Introduction. In S. Bookman, E. Willis, H. Wilberg & M. Harris (Eds.), Pragmatism, principle, and power in common law constitutional systems: Essays in honour of Bruce Harris. (pp. 1-10). Cambridge, UK: Intersentia. doi: 10.1017/9781839702709.003 Chapter in Book - Research

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