AUT Law School
The AUT Law School primary objective is to be a centre of excellence for law and humanities research in New Zealand. The school has particular research strength in; Corporate Governance, Insurance Law, Family Law, Employment Law, Sports Law, Wills and Estates, and Media Law.
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He Ture Kia Tika/Let the Law Be Right: Informing Evidence-Based Policy Through Kaupapa Māori and Co-Production of Lived Experience
(Bristol University Press and Policy Press, 2022)Background: Ninety-one per cent of Aotearoa New Zealand prisoners have been diagnosed with either a mental health or substance use disorder within their lifetime. Challenges exist in how to meet their needs. Diverse pūrākau ... -
Can International Human Rights Law Smash the Patriarchy? A Review of ‘Patriarchy’ According to United Nations Treaty Bodies and Special Procedures
(Springer, 2021)This article interrogates whether and how the concept of ‘patriarchy’ is used by UN human rights treaty monitoring bodies (treaty bodies) and special procedures to interpret state obligations to respect and ensure women’s ... -
Cambodia: Emergency Laws Raise Concerns About Human Rights
(Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative (HADRI). Penrith, NSW: Western Sydney University, 2020)The Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected every state and territory on earth, including those where there are as yet no cases of infection. Some states have recorded mass infection and crippling death ... -
Cryptocurrencies and Consumer Rights in New Zealand: Risky Business?
(Elsevier, 2018)Analysis of the technological, legal, socio-economical, and ethical implications of cryptocurrencies is quickly producing a vast and often interdisciplinary body of literature.Depending on its perceived nature, different ... -
More v Roper: A Comment on Lawrence Solum’s Defence of Originalism
(DPCE, 2017)Constitutions can be seen either as defensive mechanisms for protecting liberty, as suggested by the metaphor of entrenchment, or as weapons to eliminate injustice, as suggested by the metaphor of striking down unconstitutional ... -
What Makes a 'Good' Conference from a Service User Perspective
(Northumbria University Library, 2018)This article started with a question from one academic wearing an editor’s hat to another academic wearing an academic service user’s hat: conversing about a conference both had attended, the question asked was about the ... -
Researching Ngā Kōti Rangatahi –Youth Courts on Marae: Koia te Hāngaitanga?: That’s the Right Way?
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research (WMIER), 2017)Researching in a complex-cultured space that exists to help vulnerable young people has illuminated both tensions and rare insights for our research team. The project aimed to explore Ngā Kōti Rangatahi,[1] which are youth ... -
Accounting for Risk: The Advent of Capped Conveyancing Title Insurance
(LexisNexis, 2015)Title insurance companies originating from America, have, in the past 15 years become part of the Australian conveyancing landscape. However for most residential freehold owners, their activities would be a mystery. A ... -
Anatomy of an international norm entrepreneur: The friends of fossil fuel subsidy reform
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)This comprehensive volume provides the first book-length account on the politics of fossil fuel subsidies. This title is also available as Open Access. -
Constitutional conflict and the development of Canadian aboriginal law
(The University of Notre Dame Australia Law Review, 2017)This paper argues that aboriginal rights in Canada have been greatly affected by 19th Century governmental and social conflicts within the Canadian colonial state. These conflicts, largely over the ownership of land and ... -
Using Spiritual Intelligence to Transform Organizational Cultures
(Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON), 2017)Recently spirituality has become a viable topic of discussion for management scholars seeking a means to enhance work cultures and improve organisational effectiveness. However, the path from spirituality to transforming ... -
Teaching the Virtues of Sustainability As Flourishing to Undergraduate Business Students
(Southern Public Administration Education Foundation (SPAEF), 2016)Business leaders have a major influence over the achievement of a truly sustainable world; however to do this such leaders need knowledge, which can provide them with convictions that alter both their individual behaviour ... -
Was the Supreme Court Right to Change the Law on the Right to a Speedy Trial?
(The Centre for Constitutional Studies, University of Alberta, 2017)In R v Jordan, the Supreme Court of Canada held, by a 5-4 majority and over the vigorous disagreement of the concurrence, that criminal prosecutions in which a trial does not conclude by a set deadline will be presumed to ... -
The Supreme Court and the Conventions of the Constitution
(LexisNexis Canada, 2017)Conventions are among the most important rules of the Canadian constitution. Yet orthodox legal theory does not recognize them as being rules of law, a view which the Supreme Court of Canada endorsed in the Patriation ... -
The changing face of conveyancing responsibility
(Thomson Reuters, 2015)Issues arising out of the introduction of Automation into Australasian conveyancing. -
Climate change law and policy: litigation, negotiations, prospects
(Courts of New Zealand, 2014)No abstract. -
Safe harbours, closed borders? New Zealand legal and policy responses to climate displacement in the South Pacific
(Te Piringa - Faculty of Law, Hamilton, New Zealand, 2014)It is expected that by the mid-late century, large numbers of people facing increased environmental, economic and other pressures associated with climate change will respond by leaving their homes and communities to relocate ...