AUT Law School
The AUT Law School primary objective is to be a centre of excellence for law and humanities research in New Zealand. The school has particular research strength in; Corporate Governance, Insurance Law, Family Law, Employment Law, Sports Law, Wills and Estates, and Media Law.
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Anatomy of an international norm entrepreneur: The friends of fossil fuel subsidy reform
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)This comprehensive volume provides the first book-length account on the politics of fossil fuel subsidies. This title is also available as Open Access. -
Constitutional conflict and the development of Canadian aboriginal law
(The University of Notre Dame Australia Law Review, 2017)This paper argues that aboriginal rights in Canada have been greatly affected by 19th Century governmental and social conflicts within the Canadian colonial state. These conflicts, largely over the ownership of land and ... -
Using Spiritual Intelligence to Transform Organizational Cultures
(Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON), 2017)Recently spirituality has become a viable topic of discussion for management scholars seeking a means to enhance work cultures and improve organisational effectiveness. However, the path from spirituality to transforming ... -
Teaching the Virtues of Sustainability As Flourishing to Undergraduate Business Students
(Southern Public Administration Education Foundation (SPAEF), 2016)Business leaders have a major influence over the achievement of a truly sustainable world; however to do this such leaders need knowledge, which can provide them with convictions that alter both their individual behaviour ... -
Was the Supreme Court Right to Change the Law on the Right to a Speedy Trial?
(The Centre for Constitutional Studies, University of Alberta, 2017)In R v Jordan, the Supreme Court of Canada held, by a 5-4 majority and over the vigorous disagreement of the concurrence, that criminal prosecutions in which a trial does not conclude by a set deadline will be presumed to ... -
The Supreme Court and the Conventions of the Constitution
(LexisNexis Canada, 2017)Conventions are among the most important rules of the Canadian constitution. Yet orthodox legal theory does not recognize them as being rules of law, a view which the Supreme Court of Canada endorsed in the Patriation ... -
The changing face of conveyancing responsibility
(Thomson Reuters, 2015)Issues arising out of the introduction of Automation into Australasian conveyancing. -
Climate change law and policy: litigation, negotiations, prospects
(Courts of New Zealand, 2014)No abstract. -
Safe harbours, closed borders? New Zealand legal and policy responses to climate displacement in the South Pacific
(Te Piringa - Faculty of Law, Hamilton, New Zealand, 2014)It is expected that by the mid-late century, large numbers of people facing increased environmental, economic and other pressures associated with climate change will respond by leaving their homes and communities to relocate ... -
Rights against unreasonable search and seizure in tax: Canadian and New Zealand approaches compared
(Thomson Reuters, 2013)This article investigates the role that the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 has played in New Zealand taxation case law and provides a comparison with the role played by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms 1982 ... -
The relevance of taxpayers' constitutional rights in the light of revenues' powers of search and seizure
(Commercial Law Department, The University of Auckland, 2013)For the first time in New Zealand, this article investigates the role that the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 has played in New Zealand taxation case law. To determine this, the article analyses the interaction of the ... -
A precautionary approach to compulsory licensing and tempering the data exclusivity obstacle for access to medicines
(University of Liverpool, 2013)This article takes up further on a framework developed for a precautionary approach (PA) which developing countries should adopt for granting compulsory licences in a national health emergency. Working within the legal ... -
Structuring trusts to deflect attack
(Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), 2012)This paper discusses the various statutory and common law methods for attacking trusts, the ways to structure trusts to minimise the risks of attack and alternative structures to protect the interests of clients. -
An empirical study of demographics of perceptions of tax evasion in New Zealand
(CCH Australia; Monash University, Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Business Law and Taxation, 2009)For the first time in New Zealand, this study investigates the relationship between perceptions of tax evasion as a crime and a comprehensive set of demographic variables in New Zealand. A questionnaire survey was administered ...