New lecturer joins Faculty
Eddie Clark, a Victoria alumnus, returns to Wellington to join the Faculty of Law as a lecturer mid-February.
After graduating from Victoria in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours, Eddie worked for a number of years at a large corporate firm in Wellington, specialising in commercial public law and says this experience is what piqued his interest in administrative law.
Following a year-long break during his time in practice, Eddie completed his Master of Law at the University of Toronto. His research focused on the possibility of extending procedural fairness to the making of delegated legislation.
After two further years of practice, he returned to Toronto to commence his doctoral studies, which he hopes to complete shortly. His doctoral work builds on his Master’s and argues that one of the motivating factors underlying administrative law is a concern for a legitimate administrative state.
“I also argue that one of the implications of this concern with legitimacy must be an expansion of procedural fairness to cover ‘legislative’ executive decision-making.”
Eddie says that this work, and his practice experience, are really all about a fascination with the minutiae of government: how the everyday practices of the administrative state affect people and businesses.
“I look forward to continuing to puzzle out the role of the law in mediating this relationship between state and citizen at the coalface of government when I start at Victoria.”
“I am very excited to be joining the outstanding community of public law scholars at Victoria.”