UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND

Professor Catherine Rogers, Pennsylvania State University is giving this year’s lecture. The topic is ‘Procedural Arrangements as a Window into the Soul of International Arbitration Regimes: Arbitrator Selection, Transparency and Stakeholder Interests’.

While in New Zealand, Professor Rogers will also present a paper on ‘Ethics and Arbitration’ to AMINZ* breakfast meetings in Auckland and Wellington, on 25 and 28 November respectively. At 5.30pm on 28 November she will speak at Victoria University Law School. Her topic for this event has yet to be confirmed.

Professor Rogers was heavily involved in the establishment of the Jerusalem Arbitration Centre (JAC). JAC has been described as a ‘ground-breaking dispute resolution forum designed to foster trade and perhaps a greater level of cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians’.

Details about the 2013 NZ Law Foundation International Arbitration Lecture will be available closer to the time of the event.

*Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of NZ Inc

The New Zealand Law Foundation is funding up to $14,000 towards bringing Professor Rogers to New Zealand for this event.

UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO, DUNEDIN

The theme for this years conference is ‘People, Power and Place’. This is an interdisciplinary conference for people interested in the connections between law and history. The conference provides an opportunity to come together, share and be inspired about global, international comparative, national and local ideas of the role of law in configuring historical understandings of people, power and place.

The NZ Law Foundation is providing funding to bring keynote speakers and ten law students to the conference.

Keynote speakers:

• Professor Lauren Benton, Affiliate Professor of Law, Professor of History and Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University, United States of America
• Chief Judge Wilson Isaac, Chief Judge of the Maori Land Court and Chairperson of the Waitangi Tribunal, Aotearoa New Zealand
• Professor Tony Ballantyne, Professor of History, Dean of the Department of History and Art History, and Director of the Research Centre for Colonial Cultures at the University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand
• Professor Jeremy Finn, Professor of Law at the University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand
• Dr Lisa Ford, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Dr Mark Hickford, Legal Advisor, Prime Minister’s Policy Advisory Group, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; Crown Counsel at the Crown Law Office

Details about the Conference and the student scholarships are available on the University of Otago web site

The New Zealand Law Foundation is funding up to $12,576 towards bringing keynote speakers and law students to the Conference

HOSTED BY HON CHRIS FINLAYSON QC, PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS, WELLINGTON

This conference, arranged by NZ Centre for Public Law at VUW, aims to shed light on the fundamental ideals on which our constitution is based. It will carry on the Centre for Public Law’s tradition of inquiry into our constitution by bringing together a number of distinguished scholars from New Zealand and abroad to reflect on this and to begin unearthing the country’s traditions of constitutional thought.

The NZ Law Foundation is providing funding to bring keynote speakers and ten law students to the conference.

Keynote speakers:

• Professor David Hackett Fischer, University Professor and Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University
• Emeritus Professor Andrew Sharp, Fellow in New Zealand Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London/ University of Auckland
• Opening Address: Rt Hon Dame Sian Elias, Chief Justice of New Zealand

Details about the Conference are available on the Victoria University of Wellington web site.

The New Zealand Law Foundation is funding up to $24,330 towards bringing speakers and law students to the Conference, and towards supporting the publication of the conference papers

RYDGES WELLINGTON

The Legal Executives biennial Conference will be held in Wellington 19-20 August. NZILE President Pam Harliwich says ‘this will provide an opportunity for legal executives to upskill and keep abreast of what is happening in areas other than their main practice area’.

The session topics include:

• Best principles in structuring a trust
• Estate administration
• Unit titles
• Mortgagee sales – buyer beware!
• Ethics for legal executives
• Proposed changes to the Land Transfer Act
• LINZ update
• What to wear

Details about the Legal Executives Conference are available on the CLE website

The New Zealand Law Foundation is funding up to $5,000 towards bringing speakers to the Conference.

PULLMAN HOTEL AUCKLAND

The AMINZ Conference, will be held in Auckland 25 – 27 July 2013. The theme of the conference is “Current Issues, Best Practice”. The conference is an important event for anyone interested in dispute resolution. It is expected to attract dispute resolution professionals from around New Zealand, Australia and internationally.

The AMINZ Conference web site has details about the programme and speakers, and about how to register.

The New Zealand Law Foundation is funding up to $27,000 towards the Conference.

This will help bring keynote speakers and law students to the event.

TE PIRINGA – FACULTY OF LAW AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO

The IUCN Academy* annual colloquium is being held in New Zealand for the first time. It is regarded as the premier international environmental law conference, and is important because it enables experts in environmental law to collaborate and network. Over 120 people are expected to attend from around the world.

The theme for the Colloquium is ‘He Tapuwae: The Search for Environmental Justice’. He Tapuwae means ‘footprints left on the land’ and symbolises the human journey into new territory as we explore and develop our world. The programme highlights emerging issues relating to environmental law in the developing world.

The NZ Law Foundation is providing support to bring overseas keynote speakers to the event, and they include:

• Professor Nicholas Robinson, Pace University, New York
• Justice Brian Preston, Chief Judge, Land and Environment Court, NSW
• Lord Carnwath, Supreme Court Justice, UK
• Professor Justin Rose, University of the South Pacific
• Professor Eric Kwa, University of Papua New Guinea
• Professor David Hodas, Widener University, USA

The Colloquium will give New Zealand legal academics, researchers and policy-makers a chance to connect with leading international specialists and exchange ideas about developments in the field of environmental law. With our strong focus on primary production, it is important for the future of this industry that we have a coherent body of sound environmental law.

The Colloquium website has details about the programme and speakers, and about how to register.

The New Zealand Law Foundation is funding up to $20,000 towards the Colloquium.

* The Academy was established by the International Union for Conservation (IUCN) in 2003, and has grown to become a network of over 500 environmental law academics from over 160 universities based in over 50 countries worldwide

SALLY TRAFFORD graduated from University of Auckland in 2011 with a BA / LLB (Hons).

After spending two years as a judges clerk at the High Court in Auckland, Sally joined Shortland Chambers as a junior barrister in 2011. Since January this year Sally has worked as a locum associate for the London office of the law firm McCarthy Tetrault.

During her time at university Sally was involved in the management support group for YouthLaw and spent time mentoring law students at the University of Auckland.  In 2008 she won the Bell Gully National Mooting Competition, and in the following year represented NZ in the team for the Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.

Sally will use the scholarship to assist with studying for her LLM at Harvard University, starting later this year. Her research will consider options for tax law reform in New Zealand, and will focus on addressing issues of inequality, in terms of preventing tax avoidance and in terms of redistribution (of income and wealth).

EMMA PEART graduated from University of Otago in 2010 with a BA / LLB (Hons). She tutored in Law at the University of Otago in 2009, and taught law at Victoria University of Wellington in 2011. From 2010-2012 Emma was employed as a judges’ clerk at the High Court in Wellington and for the past 2+ years has been a solicitor in the litigation team at Chapman Tripp.

While studying at University Emma was winner of the NZ Law Students Association National Negotiation Competition, and has since judged negotiation competitions for the University of Otago and VUW. She was also a co-founder and executive committee member of the Society of Otago University Law Students Tenancy Programme that gave free legal advice to students on tenancy issues.

Emma takes up study at Cambridge later in the year for her LLM in private law. This will include taking papers in Commercial Equity and the Law of Restitution. Emma is planning to study the nature of joint ventures and to focus on whether parties to joint ventures should be subject to fiduciary obligation.

The Ethel Benjamin scholarship honours New Zealand’s first woman barrister and solicitor, who was admitted to the bar in 1897. Since the centenary of this event, the Law Foundation has awarded this scholarship annually to outstanding New Zealand women law graduates for post-graduate study. The award is worth up to $50,000 and details of the award and previous winners can be found on the Foundation’s website.

This is the second publication from the NZ Law Foundation Regulatory Reform Project, led by Professor Susy Frankel of VUW.

Over the past 2+ years the project has looked at key aspects of New Zealand’s regulatory regime and how this could be improved for the benefit of New Zealanders and the New Zealand economy.

This latest publication, released near the end of the project, provides recommendations on how New Zealand could achieve smarter regulation.  It builds on material from the first book* that identified issues relating to regulation in New Zealand.

‘Recalibrating Behaviour: Smarter Regulation in a Global World’ considers factors to be taken into account when deciding whether law reform is desirable. A key theme that is demonstrated throughout the book is the need for policy-makers to take account of the interests of all who might be affected by regulation.

Editors Susy Frankel and Deborah Ryder say ‘The text will appeal to those interested in improving regulation for a globally connected New Zealand.’

The final resource of the NZ Law Foundation Regulatory Reform Project will be a web-based toolkit for policy-makers and the public, based on this latest publication. This is due to be released mid-2013.

The Regulatory Reform Project has been conducted by researchers from VUW’s Law Faculty working with research partners from Chapman Tripp and the NZ Institute of Economic Research.

New Zealand Law Foundation is funding up to $1,844,115 towards the Regulatory Reform Project

BOOK 2:  ‘Recalibrating Behaviour: Smarter Regulation in a Global World’
Information and orders: LexisNexis

*BOOK 1: ‘Learning from the past, adapting for the future: Regulatory Reform in New Zealand’
Information and orders: LexisNexis

This is the first time the IUCN Academy has held their annual colloquium in New Zealand. Trevor Daya-Winterbottom, Chair of the Colloquium Organising Committee, says it is regarded as the premier international environmental law conference. It is important because it enables experts in environmental law to collaborate and network. He anticipates over 120 people will attend from around the world.

He says New Zealand rarely hosts international events on environmental law. The Colloquium will give our legal academics, researchers and policy-makers a chance to connect with leading international specialists and exchange ideas about developments in the field of environmental law.

With New Zealand’s strong focus on primary production, it is important for the future of this industry that we have a coherent body of sound environmental law.

The theme for the Colloquium is ‘He Tapuwae: The Search for Environmental Justice’. He Tapuwae means ‘footprints left on the land’ and symbolises the human journey into new territory as we explore and develop our world. The programme highlights emerging issues relating to environmental law in the developing world. The plenary sessions will cover:

• Justice and the environment
• Indigenous justice and the environment
• Vulnerable communities and climate change
• Access to environmental justice

The Colloquium website has details about the programme and speakers, and about how to register.

The New Zealand Law Foundation is funding up to $20,000 towards the Colloquium.

* The Academy was established by the International Union for Conservation (IUCN) in 2003, and has grown to become a network of over 500 environmental law academics from over 160 universities based in over 50 countries worldwide.

The conference will be held 10-12 May in Auckland and will bring together judges from a range of jurisdictions to discuss issues of common concern. More than 120 judges and judicial officers are expected to attend the event. Delegates will be coming from: Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and the United States.

The programme will cover topics related to culture and human rights; sextortion; women and children; alternative court structures and procedures; child exploitation; judicial appointment processes and women in international roles.

The Law Foundation is funding the keynote speakers for the conference who include Justice Catherine Davani (Papua New Guinea), Justice Shiranee Tilakawardane (Sri Lanka) and Justice Teresa Doherty (Northern Ireland). While in New Zealand they will also deliver these public addresses:

NZLF’s 2013 Ethel Benjamin Commemorative Address 8 May Dunedin, by Justice Davani.

Dame Silvia Cartwright Lecture 10 May Auckland, by Justice Tilakawardane.

2013 Shirley Smith Address, 14 May Wellington, by Justice Doherty.

Public Lecture: ‘Assessing the Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone: Jurisprudential Advances, Reconciliation, and Confrontation of Impunity’ NZ Centre for Human Rights Law Policy and Practice, 9 May, University of Auckland, by Justice Doherty.

Link to the conference
Link to Radio NZ interview with Justice Teresa Doherty

The Law Foundation is providing funding of up to $17,500 for the keynote speakers at this event.