2020 Research Publications
Authored Books
Bill Atkin, Mark Henaghan, Ruth Ballantyne, Shonagh Burnill, John Caldwell and Kirsty Swadling Family Law in New Zealand (LexisNexis, Wellington, 2020).
Bill Atkin Family and Succession Law (Kluwer Law International BV, The Netherlands, 2020).
Bill Atkin Social Security New Zealand in the International Encyclopaedia of Laws (Wolters Kluwer, The Netherlands, 2020).
Joel Colón-Ríos Constituent Power and the Law (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Tony Smith Glanville Williams, Learning the Law (17th ed, Sweet & Maxwell, 2020).
Michelle Zang Judicial Engagement of International Economic Courts and Tribunals (Elgar International Economic Law Series, Edward Elgar, 2020).
Edited Books
Bill Atkin, and Mark Henaghan (eds) Family Law Policy in New Zealand (5th ed, LexisNexis, Wellington, 2020).
Graeme Austin, Andrew F Christie, Andrew T Kenyon and Megan Richardson (eds) Across Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Sam Ricketson (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Alberto Costi (ed) Public International Law: A New Zealand Perspective (LexisNexis, 2020).
Alberto Costi and James Renwick (eds) "In the Eye of the Storm" – Reflections from the Second Pacific Climate Change Conference (VUW, SPREP and New Zealand Association for Comparative Law, 2020).
Meredith Kolsky Lewis, J Nakagawa, R Neuwirth, C Picker, P Stoll (eds) A Post-WTO International Legal Order: Utopian, Dystopian and Other Scenarios (Springer Nature, 2020).
Edited Journals
Susy Frankel Victoria University of Wellington Law Review: Māori and Pasifika Peoples and Intellectual Property (2020) 51(4) pp 519-714.
Guy Fiti Sinclair and Nehal Bhuta (eds) Technologies of Stateness: International Organizations and the Making of States (2020) 10 Humanity Journal.
Guy Fiti Sinclair and Jan Klabbers (eds) Symposium: Theorizing International Organisations Law (2020) 31(2) European Journal of International Law pp 489-619.
Chapters
Bill Atkin "Law and Identity in New Zealand" in L'Identité and le Droit Perspectives Calédoniennes, Nationales et Internationale (Presses universitaires de la Nouvelle‐Calédonie, Nouméa, 2020) pp 143-159.
Graeme Austin, Andrew F Christie, Andrew T Kenyon and Megan Richardson "Introduction" in Graeme Austin, Andrew F Christie, Andrew T Kenyon and Megan Richardson (eds) Across Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Sam Ricketson (Cambridge University Press, March 2020) pp 1-8.
Graeme Austin "Connecting Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Law School Syllabus" in Graeme Austin, Andrew F Christie, Andrew T Kenyon and Megan Richardson (eds) Across Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Sam Ricketson (Cambridge University Press, March 2020) pp 189-200.
Graeme Austin "Anglo and EU Frameworks for Certification and Collective Trademarks" in Irene Calboli and Jane C Ginsburg (eds) The Cambridge Handbook of International and Comparative Trademark Law (Cambridge University Press, September 2020) pp 296-307.
Petra Butler and Ana Stanič "What Can Arbitration and Human Rights as Mechanisms of Dispute Resolution Learn from Each Other in Order to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change" in Jean Kalicki and Mohamed Abdel Raouf (eds) Evolution and Adaptation: The Future of International Arbitration (ICCA Congress Series No 20, Wolters Kluwer, 2020) pp 1036-1057.
Joel Colón-Ríos "Judicial Review and the Democratic Judge" in Khurshid et al (eds) Judicial Review: Process, Powers, and Problems: Essays in Honour of Upendra Baxi (Cambridge University Press, 2020) pp 107-126.
Joel Colón-Ríos "Judge-Made Constitutional Change" in X Contiades and A Fotiadou (eds) Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Change (Routledge, 2020).
Joel Colón-Ríos "Constitution-Making through Law" in Gabriel Negretto (ed) Redrafting Constitutions in Democratic Regimes: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2020) pp 33-52.
Joel Colón-Ríos "Creación Constitucional y Poder Constituyente" en Nicolás Figueroa et al (eds) Poder Constituyente a Debate: Perspectivas desde América Latina (Editorial Universidad de los Andes, 2020) pp 27-62.
Joel Colón-Ríos "The Constitution of Puerto Rico" in Albert, O'Brien, Wheatle (eds) Oxford Handbook of the Constitutions of the Caribbean (Oxford University Press, 2020) pp 391-420.
Alberto Costi "Introduction to International Law" in Alberto Costi (ed) Public International Law: A New Zealand Perspective (LexisNexis, 2020) pp 1-28.
Alberto Costi and Nathan Jon Ross "International Legal Personality" in Alberto Costi (ed) Public International Law: A New Zealand Perspective (LexisNexis, 2020) pp 75-152.
Alberto Costi, Scott Davidson and Lisa Yarwood "The Creation of International Law" in Alberto Costi (ed) Public International Law: A New Zealand Perspective (LexisNexis, 2020) pp 153-238.
Alberto Costi "Jurisdiction" in Alberto Costi (ed) Public International Law: A New Zealand Perspective (LexisNexis, 2020) pp 361-448.
Alberto Costi "Immunities" in Alberto Costi (ed) Public International Law: A New Zealand Perspective (LexisNexis, 2020) pp 449-506.
Alberto Costi and Conor Donohue "State Responsibility" in Alberto Costi (ed) Public International Law: A New Zealand Perspective (LexisNexis, 2020) pp 509-595.
Alberto Costi and Conor Donohue "International Law and the Use of Force" in Alberto Costi (ed) Public International Law: A New Zealand Perspective (LexisNexis, 2020) pp 861-908.
Alberto Costi and James Renwick "The Threat of Climate Change to the Pacific Region: Problems, Solutions and Prospects" in Alberto Costi and James Renwick (eds) "In the Eye of the Storm" – Reflections from the Second Pacific Climate Change Conference (VUW, SPREP and New Zealand Association for Comparative Law, 2020) pp 1-6.
Alberto Costi "Addressing the Challenges to Statehood Arising from Climate Change: Future Bases for Action to Protect Low-Lying Atoll Nations" in Alberto Costi and James Renwick (eds) "In the Eye of the Storm" – Reflections from the Second Pacific Climate Change Conference (VUW, SPREP and New Zealand Association for Comparative Law, 2020) pp 129-154.
Susy Frankel and Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss "Trademarks and Cultural Identity" in Graeme Austin, Andrew F Christie, Andrew T Kenyon and Megan Richardson (eds) Across Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Sam Ricketson (Cambridge University Press, March 2020) pp 227-239.
Susy Frankel "The Object and Purpose of Mingling Intellectual Property, Trade and Investment" in Christophe Geiger (ed) Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Investment Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020) pp 48-62.
Susy Frankel "International Trade Law" in Alberto Costi (ed) Public International Law: A New Zealand Perspective (LexisNexis, 2020) pp 775-820.
Susy Frankel "WIPO and Treaty Interpretation" in Sam Ricketson (ed) Research Handbook on the World Intellectual Property Organization: The First 50 Years and Beyond (Edward Elgar, 2020) pp 342-357.
Susy Frankel "The Trademark Provisions in Post-TRIPS Mega-Regional Trade Agreements" in Irene Calboli and Jane C Ginsburg (eds) The Cambridge Handbook of International and Comparative Trademark Law (Cambridge University Press, September 2020) pp 65-83.
Catherine Iorns "New Zealand" in AR Zelle, G Wilson, R Adam, HF Greene (eds) Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law - A Guide for Practitioners (Wolters Kluwer, 2020) pp 589-622.
Carwyn Jones and M Bargh "Māori Interests and Rights: Four Sites at the Frontier" in E Berman and G Karacaoglu (eds) Public Policy and Governance Frontiers in New Zealand (Public Policy and Governance, Vol. 32, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020) pp 71-89.
Dean Knight "New Zealand, COVID-19 and the Constitution: An Effective Lockdown and Muted Rule of Law Concerns" in José Ma Serna de la Garza COVID-19 and Constitutional Law (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2020) pp 233-241.
Marnie Lloydd "Framing Foreign Fighting: Exploring the Scope of Prevention and the Categorisation of Fighters in International Law" in Christophe Paulussen and Martin Scheinin (eds) Human Dignity and Human Security in Times of Terrorism (Springer, 2020) pp 207-238.
Marnie Lloydd "Challenges in the Application of the Obligation to Ensure Respect for IHL – foreign fighting as an example" in Eve Massingham and Annabel McConnachie (eds) Ensuring Respect for IHL (Routledge, 2020) pp 231-247.
Campbell McLachlan "The double-facing foreign relations function of the executive" in D Dyzenhaus, J Bomhoff & T Poole (eds) The Double-Facing Constitution: Legal Externalities and the Reshaping of the Constitutional Order (Cambridge University Press Jan 2020) pp 376-412.
Campbell McLachlan "Scope for enlarged participation in international arbitration" in J Kalicki and A Raouf (eds) Evolution and Adaptation: The Future of International Arbitration (ICCA Congress Series No 20, Kluwer, The Hague, 24 December 2019).
Joanna Mossop "Antarctica" in Alberto Costi (ed) Public International Law: A New Zealand Perspective (LexisNexis, 2020) pp 273-360.
Joanna Mossop and Scott Davidson "Law of the Sea" in Alberto Costi (ed) Public International Law: A New Zealand Perspective (LexisNexis, 2020) pp 687-730.
Guy Fiti Sinclair and Monique van Alphen Fyfe "The United Nations" in Alberto Costi (ed) Public International Law – A New Zealand Perspective (LexisNexis, 2020) pp 29-74.
Guy Fiti Sinclair and Monique van Alphen Fyfe "Supervisory and Review Procedures: International Labour Organization (ILO)" in Hélène Ruiz Fabri (General Editor) Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Matteo Solinas "Companies and Other Associations - The European Framework" in P Millett, A Alcock and M Todd (eds) Gore-Browne on Companies (Chapter 2, Lexis Nexis 2020).
Matteo Solinas "General Disclosure Requirements -The European Framework " in P Millett, A Alcock and M Todd (eds) Gore-Browne on Companies (Chapter 32, Lexis Nexis 2020).
Māmari Stephens "Social Security Appeals Tribunal" in T Gibbonsd and M Duggal (eds) New Zealand Tribunals Law and Practice (Thomson Reuters, 2020).
Journal Articles
Graeme Austin "Anti-circumvention Prohibitions and the Function of the Work" (2020) 31 Australian Intellectual Property Journal pp 120-132.
Mark Bennett "The Illusory Trust Doctrine: Formal or Substantive" (2020) 51(2) Victoria University of Wellington Law Review pp 193-230.
Mark Bennett and AS Hofri-Winogradow "Against Subversion, a Contribution to the Normative Theory of Trust Law" (2020) 40(4) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.
Petra Butler "International Commercial Arbitration put to the test in the Commonwealth" (2020) 51(3) Victoria University of Wellington Law Review pp 357-378.
Petra Butler "The CISG as the Tool for Successful MSME Participation in Global Trade" in (2019-2020) 38 Journal of Law & Commerce pp 207-244.
Joel Colón-Ríos "Of Omnipotent Things" (2020) 52 Connecticut Law Review pp 3-18.
Joel Colón-Ríos "Arato's Adventures: Between Sovereignty and Constituent Power" (2020) 41 Revus: Journal for Philosophy of Law and Constitutional Theory pp 1-17.
Joel Colón-Ríos "Author Interview: Constituent Power and the Law" (2020) 2 Hong Kong Journal of Law and Public Affairs pp 194-196.
Alberto Costi "Foreword: From the Local to the Global … and Back" (2019) 17(1) New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law vii-x.
Alberto Costi and Taran Molloy "Foreword" (2020) 18(1) NZ Journal of Public and International Law vii-viii.
Claudia Geiringer and Andrew Geddis "Judicial Deference and Emergency Power: A Perspective on Borrowdale v Director-General" (2020) 31(4) New Zealand’s Legal Response to COVID-19: A Symposium: Public Law Review pp 376-383.
Catherine Iorns Magallanes "Views Adopted by the Committee Under Article 5(4) of the Optional Protocol, Concerning Sanila-aikio v Finland, Communication No 2668/2015, and Klemetti Käkkäläjärvi et al, Communication No 2950/2017 (HR Comm'n)" (2020) 59(2) International Legal Materials pp 302-332.
Catherine Iorns Magallanes, V James and P Gerard "Sea Level Rise and Local Government: Policy gaps and opportunities" (Feb 2020) 16(1) Policy Quarterlypp 62-66.
Dean Knight "Contextual review: the instinctive impulse and unstructured normativism in judicial review" (March, 2020) 40(1) Legal Studies pp 1-21.
Dean Knight "Government Expression and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Advising, Nudging, Urging, Commanding" (2020) 31 New Zealand’s Legal Response to COVID-19: A Symposium: Public Law Review pp 391-397.
Dean Knight and Geoff McLay "Is New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown lawful? – an alternative view" (11 May 2020) UK Constitutional Law Association Blog.
Dean Knight "Specifying the corpus of secondary legislation subject to publication, presentation and disallowance" [2020] Public Law 585.
Dean Knight "Brexit, Prorogation and Popcorn: Implications of Miller (No 2) for New Zealand" (2020) 51(2) Victoria University of Wellington Law Review pp 249-264.
Dean Knight "Extradition, human rights protections, diplomatic assurances and China's criminal justice system" [2020] Public Law 190.
Dean Knight "Firearms Regulation, Prohibited Ammunition and the Common Law Right to Property" [2020] Public Law 799.
Nessa Lynch and T Liefaard "What is Left in the 'Too Hard Basket'? Developments and Challenges for the Rights of Children in Conflict with the Law" (2020) 28 The International Journal of Children's Rights pp 1-23.
Bjørn-Oliver Magsig "Water Security: A Litmus Test for International Law" (2020) 29 Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law pp 44-55.
Bjørn-Oliver Magsig and R Moynihan "The role of international regimes and courts in clarifying prevention of harm in freshwater and marine environmental protection" (2020) 20 International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law & Economics.
Bevan Marten "Confronting British Bullies: Shipping Law Reform in Australia and New Zealand, 1888-1907" [2020] 7(1) Law and History pp 30-58.
Bevan Marten "Maritime Law" [2020] NZ Law Review 443-457.
David McLauchlan "Contract formation, incompleteness and implied terms" [2020] Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly pp 30-43.
David McLauchlan "A Misrepresentation Muddle" [2020] NZ Law Journal pp 56-65.
David McLauchlan "Rectification Rectified?" (2020) 36(2) Journal of Contract Law pp 131-156.
David McLauchlan "A New Conservatism in Contract Interpretation?" Part 1 [2020] September NZLJ 273-275, 292
David McLauchlan "A New Conservatism in Contract Interpretation?" Part 2 [2020] NZLJ 311-314
Geoff McLay "How to Read New Zealand's new Trusts Act 2019" (2020) 13 Journal of Equity pp 325-346.
Nicole Moreham "Police Investigations, Privacy and the Marcel Principle in Breach of Confidence" (2020) 12 Journal of Media Law.
Grant Morris "The Final Piece of the Jigsaw: A Longitudinal Study of New Zealand's Commercial Mediation Market" (2020) 26:1 New Zealand Business Law Quarterly pp 41-58.
Joanna Mossop and Clive Schofield "Adjacency and due regard: The role of coastal States in the BBNJ Treaty" (2020) Marine Policy 7pp.
Joanna Mossop "Marine Protected Areas and Area-Based Management in New Zealand" (2020) 5 Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy pp 169-185.
Joanna Mossop, Guillermo Ortuno Crespo, Daniel Dunn, Kristina Gjerde, Elliott Hazen, Gabriel Reygondeau, Robin Warner, Derek Tittensor and Patrick Halpin "Beyond static spatial management: Scientific and legal considerations for dynamic management in the high seas" (2020) Marine Policy pp1-10.
Paul Scott "The Bad Man, the Sound Chap, the Doctrine of Efficient Breach and Expectation Damages" (2019) 25(3) NZ Business Law Quarterly pp 177-198.
Paul Scott "It Ain't Necessarily So: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Pfizer Australia Pty Ltd and the Reasons for Reforming Section 36 of the Commerce Act" (2020) 51(2) Victoria University of Wellington Law Review pp 265-294.
Guy Fiti Sinclair "Forging Modern States with Imperfect Tools: United Nations Technical Assistance for Public Administration in Decolonized States" (2020) 10 Humanity Journal pp 54-83.
Guy Fiti Sinclair and Nehal Bhuta "Technologies of Stateness: International Organizations and State-Making – Introduction to the Dossier" (2020) 10 Humanity Journal.
Guy Fiti Sinclair and Jan Klabbers "On Theorizing International Organizations Law: Editors' Introduction" (2020) 31(2) European Journal of International Law pp 489-496.
Guy Fiti Sinclair "C Wilfred Jenks and the Futures of International Organizations Law" (2020) 31(2) European Journal of International Law pp 525-542.
Matteo Solinas "History Repeating: Trading Restrictions in Europe at the time of Covid 19" (2020) 31 Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice pp 175-179.
Matteo Solinas "Germany's Highest Court Challenges the Legality of the ECB Monetary Tools (and the EU's Entire Legal Order)" (2020) 31 Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice 180-184
Victoria Stace "Compromises with Creditors – New Zealand Supreme Court Considers the Issue of whether Creditors’ Economic Interests are Relevant to Class Composition" (2019) 7 Nottingham Insolvency and Business Law eJournal (NIBLeJ) 04.
Victoria Stace "Consumer Lending by New Zealand Banks after the Royal Commission: Business as Usual or More Responsibility Required?" 2020 31 Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice 28.
Victoria Stace "The Financial Markets (Conduct of Institutions) Amendment Bill - Major Development in Financial Consumer Protection in New Zealand" [2020] 8 NZLJ 276.
Victoria Stace "Debt Collection in New Zealand: Enlivening the Prohibition Against Harassment and Coercion in s 23 of the Fair Trading Act 1986" (2020) New Zealand Business Law Quarterly Review.
Victoria Stace, Chan and Sims "New Zealand's Unfair Contract Terms Law Fails to Incentivise Businesses to Remove Potentially Unfair Terms from Standard Form Contracts" (2020) Competition and Consumer Law Journal.
Yvette Tinsley, Benjamin Spivak, James Ogloff, Jonathan Clough and Warren Young "The Impact of Fact-Based Instructions on Juror Application of the Law: Results from a Trans-Tasman Field Study" (2019) Social Science Quarterly pp 1-16.
Ruiping Ye "Minister of Justice v Kim" [2020] New Zealand Law Journal 148.
Ruiping Ye "Towards Socialist Rule of Law: the Meanings of Fazhi and China's Journey" (2020) 18 International Journal of Constitutional Law.
Reports
Richard Boast "Evidence Summary for RP Boast, 'Ngati Raukawa: Custom, Colonisation and the Crown' Statement of expert evidence" commissioned by the Crown Forestry Rental Trust for presentation at sitting of the Waitangi Tribunal (Porirua ki Manawatu Regional Inquiry) 11 March 2020 (17 pp) (Wai 2200 Doc#A215(b).
Petra Butler and Dharshini Prasad "A Study of International Commercial Arbitration in the Commonwealth" (Commonwealth Secretariat, 2020) pp 663.
Carwyn Jones, J Ruru, M Turei, K Quince et al Inspiring National Indigenous Legal Education for Aotearoa New Zealand’s Bachelor of Laws Degree – Phase One: Strengthening the Ability for Māori Law to Become a Firm Foundational Component of a Legal Education in Aotearoa New Zealand, Michael & Suzanne Borrin Foundation and Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (2020) pp 60.
Dean Knight with Controller and Auditor-General, "Managing conflicts of interest: A guide for the public sector (Office of Auditor-General, Wellington, 2020) 1-52.
Dean Knight "Law-making and accountability in responding to COVID-19: The case of New Zealand" (Constitution Transformation Network, Melbourne Forum: Melbourne Forum: Representation in Democracies During Emergencies, 2020) 1-6.
Nessa Lynch, JJ Asscher, Y van den Brink, HE Creemers, E Huls, SE Rap SE "De strafmaat voor jeugdige daders van ernstige gewelds- en zedenmisdrijven in internationaal perspectief" (WODC, Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid, Den Haag, 2020) 338pp.
Nessa Lynch, Liz Campbell, Joe Purshouse and Marcin Betkier "Facial Recognition Technology in New Zealand: Toward a Legal and Ethical Framework" (New Zealand Law Foundation, 2020).
Grant Morris and S Petrie-McVean "NZ Commercial Mediation Study Report IV: The Mediators - A Longitudinal Approach" (publicly released October 2019 and available on SSRN).
Internet Publications
Claudia Geiringer "No, National, the caretaker convention doesn't apply now - and nor should it be" The Spinoff, 17 August 2020.
Dean Knight "Lockdowns Legality and the Rule of Law" Newsroom 4 August 2020.
Dean Knight "COVID 19 and States of Emergency: Lockdown Bubbles through Layers of Law, Discretion and Nudges – New Zealand" Verfassungsblog (3 and 5 April 2020; 3 May 2020).
Dean Knight and Geoff McLay "Was lockdown legal? An alternative view" Newsroom, 13 May 2020.
Nessa Lynch "Facial Recognition Technology is here. New Zealand's Law is Nowhere near ready" The Spinoff 25 August 2020.
Grant Morris "Mahon, Peter Thomas" Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, October 2019.
Grant Morris "Mediators resolve 80% of disputes" Newsroom (4/12/19).
Grant Morris "Keeping our liberties alive in lockdown" RNZ (31/3/20).
Ruiping Ye "The Legal Basis of China’s Covid-19 Response" (ANU Australian Centre on China in the World The China Story Blog, 21 May 2020).
Ruiping Ye "Kill the Chickens to Scare the Monkeys: China's Enforcement of Laws in the Containment of Covid-19" (Verfassungsblog on Matters Constitutional, 13 May 2020).