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Two Ethel Benjamin Scholarship winners this year
22nd May 2009
Two young lawyers have received this year's New Zealand Law Foundation Ethel Benjamin Scholarship – Kate Wevers, of Wellington, and Grace (Sim Dam) Lee, of Auckland.
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Is the criminal justice system failing victims?
21st May 2009
A change to an inquisitorial system for sexual offence trials, with the investigation supervised by a judge rather than the prosecution, is among the ideas to be considered by a new Law Foundation-sponsored study into improving procedures in sexual offence cases.
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Law contest grants
14th May 2009
Three NZ representative student mooting teams have received Law Foundation grants to travel to international competitions.
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Recent Law Foundation Grants
10th April 2009
Three new grants were awarded by the Foundation board in March 2009.
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Researching Royal Role in NZ
10th March 2009
A research project that could develop an indispensable tool to help shape New Zealand's constitutional future has received a New Zealand Law Foundation grant of $134,769.
The three-year project will study and analyse the constitutional roles of the Queen of New Zealand and her Governor-General.
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Human Genome Project Releases Final Report
4th March 2009
The Human Genome Research Project (HGRP) has released its final report, drawing a line under nearly three-and-a-half years of research, traversing the many legal, ethical, medical and cultural issues surrounding the regulation of human genome-based technologies in New Zealand.
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Latest Law Foundation Grants
27th February 2009
Two initiatives that aim to help young people learn about the law have received New Zealand Law Foundation funding.
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2008 International Research Fellow to focus on NZ constitution
21st November 2008
Dr Mark Hickford, Crown Counsel with the Crown Law Office in Wellington, is the 2008 New Zealand Law Foundation International Research Fellow. The award was announced at the Foundation’s Annual Awards Dinner.
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2008 Cleary Memorial Prize Winner
21st November 2008
Jason Varuhas, currently reading for a PhD in Law at Cambridge University, is the 2008 winner of the Cleary Memorial Prize. The Prize was announced at the Law Foundation’s Annual Awards dinner.
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New Doctoral Scholarship in Law
20th November 2008
The New Zealand Law Foundation has established a new award to encourage people into postgraduate study and research in law.
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Taking Pride in the Law Foundation
13th November 2008
The New Zealand Law Foundation's work deserves to be better known and supported by the legal profession and more widely, according to Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias.
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International Research Fellow’s Book - A work of great practical importance
13th November 2008
The work Matthew Palmer has accomplished with his new book "is of the greatest practical importance to our society and its future direction," according to the Chief Justice, Dame Sian Elias. Her comments came when she formally launched his new book, The Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand's Law and Constitution, on 13 November.
The book contains Matthew Palmer's findings on the major research he undertook on the treaty as the 2005 New Zealand Law Foundation International Research Fellow.
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Law Foundation provides grants for the Arts Community and other projects
17th September 2008
The Law Foundation has approved three more significant grants in recent weeks.
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Cleary prize nominations/applications open
27th May 2008
The Law Foundation now administers the annual Cleary Memorial Prize and applications are now being sought.
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2008 Ethel Benjamin Winner to study at Yale
21st May 2008
JESSICA Kerr is the 2008 recipient of the New Zealand Law Foundation's Ethel Benjamin Scholarship, worth $50,000.
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