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.