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First report from Law Foundation's ground-breaking research project
1st August 2006
The first report from an international, ground-breaking study commissioned by the New Zealand Law Foundation poses important challenges about the emergence of genetic technologies in medicine.
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Al Gillespie appointed World Heritage Convention Rapporteur
1st June 2006
NZ Law Foundation International Research Fellow Professor Al Gillespie is the first New Zealander to be named rapporteur for the World Heritage Convention.
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Canada and NZ share treaty heritage
1st May 2006
WHILE there are parallels between Canada and New Zealand when it comes to treaties between colonising forces and indigenous people, there are also some significant differences as to how those treaties are regarded in the legal system, says Dr John Borrows, the NZ Law Foundation's Distinguished Visiting Fellow for 2006.
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Ethel Benjamin prizewinners off to Yale
1st May 2006
THE two 2006 Ethel Benjamin prizewinners - Nicole Roughan and Katherine Sanders - have several things in common. Both are from Wellington, both will attend Yale University, both will study towards an LLM and both are also 2006 Fulbright Award recipients.
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Law Foundation funds major Treaty project
1st December 2005
The New Zealand Law Foundation has announced funding for a major research project on how New Zealand's law and constitution should deal with the Treaty of Waitangi.
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Law Foundation Fellow Appointed to UN Working Group on Human Rights
1st December 2005
New Zealand Law Foundation International Research Fellow, Dr Alex Conte, has been appointed to the newly established Working Group on Human Rights to the UN Secretary-General's Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force.
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Index to Common Law Festschriften
1st October 2005
IN 1985, Lord Denning admitted: "Festschrift is not a word known to me". He would not be alone. Like the PhD and the Christmas tree, the Festschrift is a German import. Although the word does not trip easily off the Anglo-Saxon tongue, it is now the universally accepted term in the legal academy for a published collection of essays written by several authors to honour a distinguished jurist or to mark a significant legal event.
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Compulsory community psychiatric care satisfactory
1st August 2005
NEW Zealand's community treatment order regime for involuntary psychiatric outpatients is satisfactory, says the New Zealand Law Foundation's inaugural international research fellow, Professor John Dawson of Otago University.
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First woman NZLS president to deliver Ethel Benjamin address
1st July 2005
THE first woman president of the NZLS and one of the country's most senior High Court Judges, Justice Judith Potter will deliver the 9th annual Ethel Benjamin Commemorative Address in Dunedin on 10 August.
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Executive detention is award-winner's research focus
1st May 2005
THIS year's recipient of the New Zealand Law Foundation Ethel Benjamin Prize will use the award to further her doctoral research on a subject that has received both court and media attention in New Zealand recently - the topic of executive detention.
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Law Foundation awards six grants
1st February 2005
THE New Zealand Law Foundation awarded six grants totalling $152,000 in its latest funding round in December 2005.
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Counter-terrorism law draws major research grant
8th December 2004
THE New Zealand Law Foundation's International Research Fellowship for 2004 has been awarded to Canterbury law lecturer and barrister Alex Conte. This is the third time the fellowship, valued at up to $100,000, has been awarded. Alex Conte has been awarded the full amount.
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Human genome research funding approved
1st May 2004
THE New Zealand Law Foundation has approved a budget of $2.1 million for phase II of the Human Genome Project, its most significant undertaking ever. However, this amount is split over three years and for now final approval has been given to only $733,572. The balance will depend on the progress made this year, with the research being subject to peer review.
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Latest Law Foundation grants
29th April 2004
AS well as substantial funding for the Foundation funded project into the Legal Implications and Policy Options for New Zealand relating to Human Genome-Based Technologies (see News item 2003), a total of $110,540 has been granted to eight recipients in the latest New Zealand Law Foundation funding round.
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Latest Law Foundation funding round
18th November 2003
A TOTAL of $166,995 has been granted to eight recipients in the latest New Zealand Law Foundation funding round.
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