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US Election 2020: Is American democracy too polarised to survive?
26 November 2020
Opinion: Donald Trump's power won’t prove authoritarian enough to compel the other branches and levels of government to undermine the election, writes Associate Professor Tim Kuhner.
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The cruel violence of ‘kindness’ and ‘unity’
19 November 2020
Opinion: Dylan Asafo argues it’s impossible to govern for "all New Zealanders” in an exceptionally unequal society like ours and that there is no honest middle ground.
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Study to recognise and protect independent public service, awarded Marsden
11 November 2020
Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden, the Marsden Fund, has awarded $660,000 to Professor Janet McLean QC for her research project Reconstitutionalising the Public Service in Westminster systems.
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Government terms: three years or four?
4 November 2020
Opinion: While sceptical about extending the government term by a year, Ed Willis says it's a debate worth having. Here, he outlines some structure for that debate.
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Funding for research into Pacific experiences of the criminal justice system
30 October 2020
A research project that aims to capture the experiences of Pacific people in New Zealand’s Criminal Justice System, has received funding of more than $250,000 from the Michael & Suzanne Borrin Foundation.
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Privacy argument wins memorial moot
20 October 2020
Maria Romero De Medeiros and Danica Loulie-Wijtenburg have won the Justice Sir Robert Chambers Memorial Moot 2020 with their legal arguments concerning breach of privacy.
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Research into community land trust ownership model awarded prize
28 September 2020
Congratulations to Samuel Johnston, who won the 2020 Legal Research Foundation’s unpublished postgraduate student paper writing award.
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Trump’s dirty money
28 September 2020
Opinion: Timothy K Kuhner follows the dirty money in this edited extract from his latest book, Tyranny of Greed: Trump, Corruption, and the Revolution to Come.
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The racism behind NZ’s inaction in the Pacific
18 September 2020
Opinion: Dylan Asafo asks why the New Zealand Government is doing nothing in the face of major human rights and climate change crises in the Pacific Islands.
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Using the law as a tool for freedom
14 September 2020
Peter Williams reflects on his legal journey from Auckland Law School to his current role helping to free people trapped in slavery.
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The charity conundrum: should Family First get the same status as Greenpeace?
1 September 2020
Opinion: Jane Calderwood Norton and Jordan Grimmer examine our charity laws.
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Where are our hate speech laws?
28 August 2020
Opinion: More than a year after justice minister Andrew Little described New Zealand’s hate speech laws as ‘woefully inadequate’, nothing has come of the legislative reform that was promised, writes Dylan Asafo.
