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Tears and gratitude as financial burden lifted for scholarship awardee

12 August 2023

The first recipient of the Olive Malienafau Nelson Scholarship, law student Hope Parsons, was celebrated at the scholarship's official launch at the Fale Pasifika.
Knowledge is brewing, so raise your glass

4 August 2023

Top academics will speak at Auckland watering holes for free on Tuesday 29 August.
New Zealand’s approach to women’s ‘insanity’ is archaic

3 August 2023

Opinion: Dr Carrie Leonetti and Kayley Smith argue NZ legislation that links childbirth to an ill-defined 'mental disturbance' enforces tropes that men who kill are 'bad' while women who kill are 'mad'
Until women’s lives matter

25 July 2023

Opinion: If the Auckland gunman's violence towards his partner had been taken as seriously as if it had been against a stranger, last week's victims would likely have gone home safely to their families. Carrie Leonetti asks why we treat 'domestics' differently.
The moral and legal case against cluster bombs

12 July 2023

Opinion: If “humanitarianism” means anything the international community should not be turning a blind eye to Ukraine’s use of clusters bombs or the US proposal to transfer those weapons, says Treasa Dunworth
Māori knowledge and kaitiaki key to conservation

11 July 2023

Aotearoa is part of a disturbing global picture that regularly dismisses Indigenous views on protecting the natural world, according to The Indigenous World 2023, which includes a chapter by law academic Fleur Te Aho.
Klaus Bosselmann: an activist for Earth and its inhabitants

1 July 2023

After losing his appointment as a judge, Klaus Bosselmann turned to teaching environmental law. This year he’s assisting the UN Secretary-General with preparations for the Summit of the Future.
The Family Court’s motherhood problem

18 June 2023

Opinion: That judges and lawyers feel comfortable interfering in the intimate relationship women have with their bodies and babies in breastfeeding is emblematic of a larger cultural problem, writes Carrie Leonetti
Seizing tamariki, damaging taonga

7 June 2023

Opinion: Children’s rights are being breached thanks to an outdated Act that’s allowing for their seizure and delivery to a person with a proprietary claim over them, writes Carrie Leonetti.
When our brain takes an educated guess

1 June 2023

Opinion: Carrie Leonetti examines a phenomenon that allows people to accurately observe a basketball game, but not the gorilla that wanders through it – and what that means for the justice system
We have a Privacy Act fit for 2011 – academics

24 May 2023

A lot needs to change to protect people's privacy and enable individuals to act when their rights are breached, say the editors of the country's most comprehensive book on privacy law in New Zealand.
Violence perpetrators are basically con artists

23 May 2023

Opinion: Police, prosecutors, and judges are too often conned into thinking victims are the 'real' perpetrators, that they are overreacting, or brought the abuse on themselves, says Carrie Leonetti.

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