New Zealand Centre for Law and Business

The New Zealand Centre for Law and Business has as its primary aim the goal of facilitating interdisciplinary research connecting law and business, with a strong focus on the interface between the two.

The Centre focuses strongly on maintaining and building links and collaborations with the local legal, accountancy and business community, other research centres in New Zealand and overseas, as well as individual scholars at the University of Auckland and outside whose research falls within the field of law and business.

The New Zealand Centre for Law and Business also seeks to promote teaching and research which falls within the remit of the Centre. This includes both the business law elements of the Master of Laws (LLM) and its associated programme the Master of Legal Studies (MLS). Another important area of law is that studied in the Master of Taxation Studies (MTaxS) programme, which is designed for both law and commerce graduates who intend to make tax advocacy or tax consulting their career and who wish to extend their understanding of the theoretical issues and legal structures that underpin the taxation system. A more recent development is the Business School’s Master of Information Governance, designed in response to an increasing industry demand for graduates equipped to take up specialist roles in organisations related to Information Governance. Apart from privacy and the processing of personal information, the courses deal with issues related to the data economy including AI regulation, dispute resolution and mediation, blockchain, cybersecurity, and data ethics.

The Centre also aims to establish and promote publications in the field of law and business.

The Patron of the New Zealand Centre for Law and Business is Sir Peter Blanchard. The Directors oversees the day-to-day activities of the Centre. The current Directors are Professor Craig Elliffe (Chair), Professor Tana and Marcus Roberts. Other members comprise Auckland Law School, Business School academics and honorary members.Pistorius 

Centre Directors

Professor Craig Elliffe

Professor Tana Pistorius

2024

• The New Zealand Centre for Law and Business celebrated the launch of two new books: International Tax at the Crossroads, edited by Craig Elliffe, and Rethinking Unjust Enrichment, edited by Warren Swain and Sagi Peari. International Tax and the Crossroads provides an in-depth assessment of the key issues impacting the taxation of cross-border transactions. Rethinking Unjust Enrichment collects a range of views which question the dominant position of the unjust enrichment movement, accommodating a broad range of voices.

2021

• Taxation: The Ticking Time Bomb of our Generation. Four questions for 2021
• Taxing the Digital Economy: Theory, Policy and Practice
• Who's doing what with your data? Information governance in a digital world (28 June 2021)
• International Tax Law and its Influence on National Tax Systems (14 July 2021)
  

2019

• Reimagining Contract Law Pedagogy
• International Conference of Chinese Tax and Policy
  

2018

• Future of Tax
• Competition Law in New Zealand book launch
• Taking Corporate Compliance Seriously

2017

• US Tax Reform with Professor Reuven Avi-Yonah
• Equity Crowdfunding
• Reinterpreting Islamic Law on Issues from Women to War
• Global Financial Ethics in the Age of Trump
• India, China and Turbulence in International Trade Law and Policy
• The future of tax: The profession and tax policy
• Professor Martin Ruf, professor of International Business Taxation at the Business School of the University of Tuebingen in Germany, presented on Taxation and International Mergers and Acquisitions in late February 2017.
• Does copyright law in New Zealand support innovation, and has it kept up with changes in the internet and other technologies? Our seminar, hosted by InternetNZ and the Department of Commercial Law on 21 February 2017, explored those questions.

2016

• Town and Gown Seminar: May 2016
• Town and Gown Seminar: August 2016
• Major Conference 2016
• Australasian Consumer Law Roundtable 2016
• An event was held in early September 2016 to mark 30 years of GST in New Zealand.
• Emeritus Professor John Carter presented a public lecture titled: The New Law of Penalties; which coincided with the launch of "Carter's Guide to New Zealand Contract Law" on Wednesday 19 October 2016 in Auckland.

The members of the New Zealand Centre for Law and Business have written extensively in the field of law and business. A full list of publications can be found under the individual profiles of Centre members.

• Professor Craig Elliffe
• Mr Rob Batty
• Ms Nadia Dabee
• Professor Peter Devonshire
• Professor Michael Gedye
• Professor David Grinlinton
• Associate Professor Gehan Gunasekara
• Dr An Hertogen
• Mr Michael Josling
• Ms Nina Khouri
• Professor Michael Littlewood
• Mr Benjamin Liu
• Associate Professor Joanna Manning
• Professor Janet McLean
• Associate Professor Chris Nicoll
• Associate Professor Chris Noonan
• Dr Jane Norton
• Professor Tana Pistorius
• Mr Marcus Roberts
• Dr Arie Rosen
• Dr Jagdeep Singh-Ladhar
• Associate Professor Alex Sims
• Professor Warren Swain
• Mr Alan Toy
• Dr Bram Van Wiele
• Professor Susan Watson

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Auckland Law School and Business School

The University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland Mail Centre
Auckland 1142
New Zealand

For more information, contact the Director, Professor Craig Elliffe, at Auckland Law School or Professor Tana Pistorius, at the Business School.

Craig Elliffe
Email: c.elliffe@auckland.ac.nz
Phone: +64 (0) 9 923 8990

Tana Pistorius
Email: tana.pistorius@auckland.ac.nz
Phone: +64 (0) 9 923 7735.