Staff research areas
- Access to Justice
- Associate Professor Bridgette Toy-Cronin
- Administrative Law
- Mihiata Pirini
- Arbitration
- Dr Lucas Clover-Alcolea
- Banking Law
- Professor Struan Scott
- Bioethics and Health Law
- Emeritus Professor Nicola Peart
Dr Jeanne Snelling - Business Regulation
- Associate Professor Edward Willis
- Chinese Law
- Associate Professor Anna High
Dr Lili Song - Church and State
- Emeritus Professor Rex Ahdar
Stephen E Smith - Civil Liberties
- Associate Professor Selene Mize
- Commercial Law
- Emeritus Professor Rex Ahdar
- Comparative Law
- Associate Professor Stephen Young
- Competition Law (anti-trust)
- Emeritus Professor Rex Ahdar
Associate Professor Edward Willis - Constitutional Theory
- Professor Andrew Geddis
Associate Professor Edward Willis - Contract Law
- Associate Professor Simon Connell
Professor Jessica Palmer
Emeritus Professor Rex Ahdar
Dr Moshood Abdussalam - Corporate Governance
- Professor Struan Scott
- Criminal Law
- Professor Margaret Briggs
Associate Professor Anna High
Stephen E Smith - Election Law
- Professor Andrew Geddis
- Employment Law
- Dr Dawn Duncan
- Environmental Law
- Professor Jacinta Ruru
Professor Nicola Wheen - Family Law
- Professor Nicki Taylor
- Family Property Law
- Emeritus Professor Nicola Peart
- Genetics and Law
- Dr Jeanne Snelling
- Indigenous Peoples Comparative Law
- Professor Jacinta Ruru
Associate Professor Stephen Young - Insurance Law
- Associate Professor Simon Connell
- International Criminal Law
- Stephen E Smith
- International Economic Law
- Dr Tracey Epps
- International Environmental Law
- Professor Nicola Wheen
- International Human Rights Law
- Stephen E Smith
Associate Professor Stephen Young - International Trade Law
- Dr Tracey Epps
- Investment Law
- Dr Lucas Clover-Alcolea
- Jurisprudence
- Dr Jan Mihal
- Law and Literature
- Associate Professor Stephen Young
- Law and Religion
- Emeritus Professor Rex Ahdar
- Law of Evidence
- Associate Professor Anna High
- Law of Obligations
- Professor Jessica Palmer
- Law of the Sea
- Dr Lili Song
- Law Relating to Children (children's rights, post-separation issues, family violence, medico-legal issues)
- Professor Nicki Taylor
- Legal Design
- Mihiata Pirini
- Legal Ethics
- Associate Professor Selene Mize
Associate Professor Bridgette Toy-Cronin - Legal History
- Stephen E Smith
Professor Jacinta Ruru
Emeritus Professor Stuart Anderson
Associate Professor Stephen Young - Legal Theory
- Associate Professor Stephen Young
Alex Latu - Māori Land Law
- Professor Jacinta Ruru
- Mātāpono Ture o te Māori | Māori legal principles
- Metiria Stanton Turei
- Media Law
- Associate Professor Selene Mize
Alex Latu - Mediation
- Dr Dawn Duncan
- Medical Law and Ethics
- Dr Jeanne Snelling
Emeritus Professor Nicola Peart - Negotiation
- Associate Professor Selene Mize
- Pacific Law
- Dr Lili Song
- Personal Properties Securities Law
- Professor Struan Scott
- Philosophy of Law
- Dr Jan Mihal
- Private International Law
- Associate Professor Maria Hook
Dr Lucas Clover-Alcolea - Property and Equity
- Professor Jessica Palmer
- Property Law
- Dr Lucas Clover-Alcolea
Professor Struan Scott
Emeritus Professor Nicola Peart - Public International Law
- Dr Lucas Clover-Alcolea
Stephen E Smith
Dr Lili Song - Public Law
- Mihiata Pirini
Professor Nicola Wheen
Professor Andrew Geddis
Associate Professor Edward Willis - Refugee Law
- Dr Lili Song
- Regulation and Discipline of Lawyers
- Associate Professor Selene Mize
- Regulation of Capital Markets
- Professor Shelley Griffiths
- Relationship Property Law
- Emeritus Professor Nicola Peart
Professor Margaret Briggs - Religious Freedom
- Emeritus Professor Rex Ahdar
- Reparation
- Associate Professor Simon Connell
- Rights Theory
- Professor Andrew Geddis
- Resource Management Law
- Professor Ceri Warnock
- Sentencing
- Emeritus Professor Geoff Hall
- Social Security Law
- Dr Dawn Duncan
- Socio-Legal Research
- Associate Professor Bridgette Toy-Cronin
Professor Nicki Taylor - Sports Law
- Emeritus Professor Rex Ahdar
- Succession Law
- Emeritus Professor Nicola Peart
- Taxation
- Professor Shelley Griffiths
- Teaching Law
- Associate Professor Selene Mize
- Te Mātauranga Ture o te Māori | Māori jurisprudence
- Metiria Stanton Turei
- Te Ariā ā-Ture o ngā Iwi Taketake | Indigenous legal theory
- Metiria Stanton Turei
- Tort Law
- Associate Professor Stephen Young
- Transport Law
- Emeritus Professor Geoff Hall
- Treaty of Waitangi | Te Tiriti o Waitangi
- Professor Jacinta Ruru
Professor Nicola Wheen
Mihiata Pirini - Trusts
- Professor Jessica Palmer
Emeritus Professor Nicola Peart - Unjust Enrichment
- Professor Struan Scott
Professor Jessica Palmer - Work Health and Safety
- Dr Dawn Duncan
- Workers' Compensation/ ACC
- Dr Dawn Duncan
Associate Professor Simon Connell
Faculty of Law Inaugural Professorial Lectures
- Professor Jessica Palmer, May 2019
- “The Lure of Equity and the Academic Voice”
Lecture on YouTube - Professor Margaret Briggs, October 2017
- “Criminal attempts: How close is too close”
Lecture on YouTube - Professor Shelley Griffiths, August 2017
- “Tax as law”
Lecture on YouTube - Professor Jacinta Ruru, September 2016
- “Toitū te Whenua, Toitū te Mana”
Lecture on YouTube - Professor Struan Scott, August 2012
- “Mistaken Payments and the Change of Position Defence: Rare Cases and Elegance”
Watch/listen to the lecture - Professor Andrew Geddis, September 2011
- “Of flags and protest: dissent, offence and the limits of free speech”
Watch/listen to the lecture - Professor Kim Economides, September 2010
- “Measuring Law's Impact: The Future of Socio-Legal Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand”
Watch/listen to the lecture - Professor Kevin Dawkins, October 2009
- “Taking Stock of the Jury”
- Professor Nicola Peart, October 2008
- “Can your Trust be Trusted?”
Watch/listen to the lecture - Professor Rex Ahdar, August 2008
- “Slow train coming: religious liberty in the last days”
Watch/listen to the lecture - Professor Geoff Hall, May 2008
- “Bloody Idiots!" Have the drunks behind the wheel reached a cross-roads?”
Watch/listen to the lecture - Professor Paul Roth, March 2008
- “Child Labour in New Zealand – A job for the nanny state?”
- Professor Richard Mahoney, October 2007
- “Is it ever justifiable to torture or to even think about that question?”
- Professor John Dawson, September 2007
- “Concepts of liberty in mental health law”
Watch/listen to the lecture