2017 news
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Dear Gareth: Look to Ireland and Scotland, not just Germany
Opinion Gareth Morgan's push for better renters' rights is praiseworthy but risks missing the best solutions, argues Mark Bennett.
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US Chief Justice in conversation at Victoria’s Law School
Victoria University this week hosted one of the world's most high profile and respected legal minds, the Honourable John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States.
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Victoria Law wins big at Legal Research Foundation Writing Awards
Joanna Mossop, a Senior Lecturer at Victoria’s Faculty of Law, has jointly won the prestigious JF Northey Memorial Book Award for her book The Continental Shelf Beyond 200 Nautical Miles: Rights and Responsibilities (Oxford University Press, 2016).
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Learning on the job
A unique internship programme at Victoria University of Wellington is providing Master of Laws (LLM) students with the experience of a lifetime.
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Bringing it home
An indigenous scholar from Canada says the work she is doing at Victoria University of Wellington will help her benefit indigenous communities in her home country.
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Guardian mindset could save our flora and fauna
If we have a responsibility to care for and nurture nature, perhaps each species could be given personhood and guardians to exercise it on behalf of the members of that species, suggests Victoria University's Catherine Iorns Magallanes
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Does family violence call for a new court system?
Zoë Lawton discusses whether an integrated approach to managing court proceedings concerning the same family should be adopted in New Zealand.
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From PhD to publishing success
She may have only started learning English intensively in 2002, but a Victoria University of Wellington law graduate has gone on to write a book about international trade with a leading British academic publisher.
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A new normal: flipping the work-care balance
The University of Toronto's Jennifer Nedelsky proposes new norms that would generate a collectively supported shift in how people allocate their time.