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Awards and Scholarships
International Research Fellowship
The International Research Fellowship enables recipients of high ability to pursue a defined course of research either in New Zealand or overseas with the purpose of making a significant contribution to an area of law in New Zealand.
Applications close at 5pm on 1st September each year.
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2009 International Research Fellowship
Ron Paterson, Former Health and Disability Commissioner, now Professor of Law at Auckland Unviversity »»
Distinguished Visiting Fellowship
In 1998 the Trustees of the New Zealand Law Foundation endowed a scholarship so that each of New Zealand's five law schools should have an opportunity to host a distinguished international scholar for up to three months.
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2009 Distinguished Visiting Fellowship
Professor Dame Hazel Genn, University College of London »»
Ethel Benjamin Scholarship (For Women)
In 1997 the Trustees of the New Zealand Law Foundation decided to mark the centenary of the admission of Ethel Benjamin as the first woman barrister and solicitor in New Zealand.
To that end they established this scholarship as a merit based award to outstanding women law scholars.
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2010 Ethel Benjamin Scholarship (For Women)
Sarah Nolan, BA/LLB (Hons) University of Canterbury »»
The Cleary Memorial Prize (valued at $5,000) is open to any barrister and /or solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand who has been admitted during the period of three years ending on 31 August of the year of the award.
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2009 Cleary Memorial Prize
Jeremy Wiremu Alexander Johnson, »»
New Zealand Law Foundation Doctoral Scholarship (In Law)
The purpose of the New Zealand Law Foundation Doctoral Scholarship is to encourage postgraduate study and research in law in New Zealand. The scholarship will be awarded to a doctoral candidate who will carry out research in a defined area of the law which is for the benefit of New Zealand and its legal system, and which encompasses the wider objectives of the New Zealand Law Foundation.
Every scholarship shall be tenable at a law school in a New Zealand university.
See the terms of reference for more information.