NZCPL: Unearthing New Zealand’s Constitutional Traditions

To view sessions from this conference, please see the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCmAfN40pT8BJsrgIe4NwA

Registrations now open, please see the form at the bottom of the page.

It is often said that New Zealand’s dominant constitutional tradition is pragmatism – the “number eight wire” approach to constitutional change. But this hides other, and often richer, narratives from our constitutional past. This conference seeks to take a deeper look at, and to shed more light on, the fundamental ideals on which our constitution is based. It will carry on the Centre for Public Law’s own tradition of inquiry into our constitution by bringing together a number of distinguished scholars from New Zealand and abroad to reflect on these important questions and to begin unearthing the country’s traditions of constitutional thought.

Keynote speakers:

Professor David Hackett Fischer, University Professor and Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University

Emeritus Professor Andrew Sharp, Fellow in New Zealand Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London/ University of Auckland

Opening Address: Rt Hon Dame Sian Elias, Chief Justice of New Zealand

Confirmed speakers include

• Professor Richard Boast, Victoria University of Wellington 
• Dr Petra Butler, Victoria University of Wellington
• Professor Shaunnagh Dorsett, University of Technology Sydney
• Dr Kirsty Gover, Melbourne Law School
• Dr Mark Hickford, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
• Catherine Iorns, Victoria University of Wellington
• Moana Jackson, Te Wananga o Raukawa
• Dr Carwyn Jones, Victoria University of Wellington
• Professor Philip Joseph, University of Canterbury
• Rt Hon Sir Kenneth Keith, International Court of Justice
• Professor Geoff McLay, Law Commission/Victoria University of Wellington
• Professor Janet McLean, The University of Auckland
• Dr Grant Morris, Victoria University of Wellington 
• Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Palmer QC, Victoria University of Wellington
• Dr Matthew Palmer, Thorndon Chambers
• Professor Tony Smith, Victoria University of Wellington
• Mamari Stephens, Victoria University of Wellington
• Dr Damen Ward, Crown Law Office
• Professor David Williams, The University of Auckland

For more information or to register, please contact: Events Coordinator, New Zealand Centre for Public Law, +64-4-4636327, nzcpl@vuw.ac.nz

The NZ Centre for Public Law wishes to acknowledge the generous financial support of the NZ Law Foundation for this event.

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