Past Events

An overview of past events hosted by the NZ Centre for Legal Theory.

2019

Public Lectures

The Centre was formally launched in May 2019, with a public lecture delivered by Professor David Dyzenhaus of the University of Toronto. 

Colloquium in Legal Theory

James Penner - 4 April
The Justification of Property Rights

David Dyzenahaus - 3 May 
The Inevitable Social Contract

Benedict Kingsbury - 30 May
Global Administrative Law in the 2020s

Katrina Wyman - 19 September
Property as Intangible Property

Dr. Jesse Wall
Taking the Bundle of Rights Seriously

Workshop: The Idea of Office

In collaboration with Larissa Katz at the University of Toronto, and jointly sponsored by the University of Toronto Law Journal, Nicole Roughan is organising a workshop on ‘The Idea of Office: perspectives from Private Law, Public Law, and Jurisprudence’ to be held in Toronto in June 2019.

2018

Colloquium in Legal Theory

Patrick Taylor Smith
Institutionalism, Distributed Responsibility, and Just War Theory

Dan Priel
New Questions for Jurisprudence

Yvette Russell
The Irrepressibility of Sexual History Evidence in Rape Cases: A Feminist Critique

Richard Collins
Unpicking the ‘Crisis’ of Authority at the Heart of Contemporary International Law

Workshop

Law and Recognition: persons, institutions, and plurality

Nicole Roughan hosted a workshop on Law and Recognition from September 10-11, 2018. The Law and Recognition project examines the relationship between recognition of statuses and recognition of persons, featuring an exchange of ideas amongst those who work on theories of inter-personal recognition, political struggles for recognition, law’s practices of recognition, and recognition between legal orders including tikanga and state law.