Enriching minds, honouring legacies, and celebrating milestones
Public lectures are at the heart of our community engagement, here at Te Kauhanganui Tātai Ture—Faculty of Law.
Central to this are a number of philanthropically funded lectures which both commemorate those who have made an outstanding contribution to New Zealand law and bring distinguished international scholars to New Zealand.
The Faculty thanks the generous individuals and organisations who contribute to the success of these activities.
2025 Ian Borrin lecture examines polyvocal constitutionalism
The Borrin Lecture is delivered in honour of Judge Ian Borrin, an esteemed alumnus and major supporter of the Victoria University of Wellington Law Review.
Borrin Foundation Distinguished Fellow Public Lecture
This year's Distinguished Visiting Borrin Fellow, Professor Lusina Ho, explored the basis and practical workings of Asian inheritance models in succession law.
The 2025 Robin Cooke Lecture
The Faculty of Law was honoured to have Dr Síofra O'Leary, former Judge and President of the European Court of Human Rights, deliver the Robin Cooke lecture.
Watch our philanthropically-funded lectures
Ian Borrin Lecture 2025
Polyvocal Constitutionalism—Professor Rosalind Dixon.
Robin Cooke Lecture 2025
Climate change and courts: role, limits and potential—Dr Síofra O'Leary.
Te Kauhanganui Tātai Ture—Faculty of Law inaugural lectures
Inaugural lectures celebrate a key milestone in the academic journey.
This year, the Faculty of Law had the privilege of welcoming Fiona McDonald to the rank of Professor.
In her lecture, Health (in)justice—Examining structural dysfunction in health system law, Professor McDonald examines the ways our use of rules—legal, ethical, policies and standards—raises complex and deeply important questions about how our systems enable health (in)justice.
Reflecting on vignettes of her patient experience, she discusses the implications of these moments for health systems law, policy and ethics.
If our health system is an expression of our values, what are they? And, how can we, and how should we, use the law to ‘better’ express and enable those values?
