Our People

Associate Professor Nicole Roughan

Associate Professor Nicole Roughan has research interests in philosophy of law including theories of authority, pluralist jurisprudence, and the relations between law’s institutions and agents. Nicole is the author of Authorities (OUP, 2013) and co-editor (with Andrew Halpin) of In Pursuit of Pluralist Jurisprudence (CUP, 2017). Nicole is currently working on a monograph exploring the idea of the legal official, and a five-year project on Legalities: Jurisprudence without Borders supported by a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship from the Royal Society Te Apārangi.

Tel +64 9 923 8392 | n.roughan@auckland.ac.nz

Dr Arie Rosen

Dr Arie Rosen is a legal theorist with interests in general jurisprudence, constitutional theory and philosophy of private law. His published work covers methodological question in jurisprudence, the theory of authority, statutory interpretation, and the relations between the concept and the nature of law. His current research on democracy and contract law is funded by a Marsden Grant, awarded by the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Tel:+64 9 923 6738 | a.rosen@auckland.ac.nz

Claire Charters – indigenous legal theory and legal pluralism

David Grinlinton – environmental and sustainability theory, property theory

An Hertogen – international legal theory

John Ip – law and emergency, law and popular culture

Nina Khouri  – dispute resolution theory, civil justice theory, general jurisprudence 

Tim Kuhner – corruption, critical approaches to law and political economy, economic and political inequality, democratic theory

Michael Littlewood – tax law

Janet McLean – theories of public law and the public-private distinction

Chris Noonan – Competition Law, Company Law

Arie Rosen – legal philosophy, philosophy of private law, political philosophy, democratic theory

Nicole Roughan – theories of authority, pluralist jurisprudence, the idea of the legal official, law and recognition, theories of indigenous laws, fiduciary theory

Katherine Sanders – theories of property, particularly property in land, law and historiography

Warren Swain – private law theory, history of private law theory

Julia Tolmie – feminist jurisprudence, criminology

Jesse Wall –  Criminal Law and philosophy, medical law, legal theory

Susan Watson – theories of the company and corporate governance, law and economics, institutional theory and legal institutionalism

Hanna Wilberg – tort theory, compensation systems, public law theory, administrative justice, social security policy

David Williams – legal theory and historiography