Postgraduate research supervision
At Victoria University of Wellington’s Faculty of Law, research supervision at both PhD and Master’s levels is second to none.
Applicants are welcome to contact prospective supervisors—our Faculty members’ areas of interest are listed below. Click on a person’s name to view their detailed profile and contact details.
| Subject Area | Faculty Member |
|---|---|
| Administrative Law | Eddie Clark; Dean Knight |
| Child Protection | Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown |
| Children's Rights | Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown |
| Chinese Law | Ruiping Ye |
| Citizenship | Marnie Lloydd; Ignacio Giuffré |
| Climate Change | Bjørn-Oliver Magsig; Catherine Iorns |
| Company law | Victoria Stace; Da Lin |
| Comparative Law | Richard Boast; Alberto Costi; Ruiping Ye; Ignacio Giuffré |
| Competition Law | Paul Scott |
| Constitutional Law | Dean Knight; Ignacio Giuffré |
| Consumer Law | Victoria Stace |
| Contract Law | Paul Scott |
| Copyright | Graeme Austin |
| Corporate Governance | Da Lin |
| Counter-Terrorism and foreign fighting | Marnie Lloydd |
| Criminal Law and Justice | Danica McGovern; Zoë Prebble; Yvette Tinsley |
| Decolonisation | Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown |
| Democratic Theory | Ignacio Giuffré |
| Employment Law (relating to personal grievances) | Grant Morris |
| Environmental law | Alberto Costi; Catherine Iorns; Bjørn-Oliver Magsig Joanna Mossop |
| European Law | Michelle Zang |
| Family Law | Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown |
| Feminist Legal Theory | Zoë Prebble |
| Financial Regulation | Da Lin; Victoria Stace |
| Government Law | Dean Knight |
| Human Rights | Marnie Lloydd; Ignacio Giuffré; Dean Knight |
| Immigration and Refugee Law | Marnie Lloydd |
| Indigenous rights | Richard Boast; Catherine Iorns |
| Insolvency Law | Victoria Stace |
| Intellectual Property Law | Graeme Austin; Susy Frankel |
| International Criminal Law | Marnie Lloydd |
| International Economic Law | Meredith Kolsky Lewis; Michelle Zang |
| International Environmental Law | Catherine Iorns; Bjørn-Oliver Magsig |
| International Humanitarian Law | Marnie Lloydd |
| International Intellectual Property | Graeme Austin |
| International Law | Alberto Costi; Bjørn-Oliver Magsig |
| International Trade Law | Susy Frankel; Meredith Kolsky Lewis; Michelle Zang |
| Judicial review | Dean Knight; Ignacio Giuffré |
| Kaupapa Māori Research | Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown |
| Labour and Employment Law (including international labour law) | Yvonne Oldfield |
| Land Law | Richard Boast; Ruiping Ye |
| Law and Economics | Paul Scott |
| Law and Forensic Science | Yvette Tinsley |
| Law and Language | Māmari Stephens |
| Law and Literature | Grant Morris |
| Law and Psychology | Yvette Tinsley; Danica McGovern |
| Law and Religion | Māmari Stephens |
| Law and Sexuality | Eddie Clark |
| Law of Armed Conflict | Alberto Costi |
| Law of Freshwater Resources | Bjørn-Oliver Magsig |
| Law of Privacy | Nicole Moreham |
| Law of the Sea | Bjørn-Oliver Magsig; Joanna Mossop |
| Legal History | Richard Boast; Grant Morris; Ruiping Ye; Ignacio Giuffré |
| Legal Theory/Jurisprudence | Mark Bennett; Ignacio Giuffré; Zoë Prebble |
| Local Government | Dean Knight |
| Māori Land Law | Richard Boast |
| Media Law | Nicole Moreham |
| Medico-legal | Fiona McDonald |
| Negotiation and Mediation | Grant Morris |
| Pacific Law | Mele Tupou Vaitohi |
| Pacific Legal Systems | Mele Tupou Vaitohi |
| Peace and Security Law | Marnie Lloydd |
| Political and Social Theory | Mark Bennett; Ignacio Giuffré |
| Property Law | Mark Bennett; Victoria Stace; Ruiping Ye |
| Public Law | Eddie Clark; Alberto Costi; Dean Knight; Fiona McDonald; Ignacio Giuffré |
| Resource Management Law | Catherine Iorns |
| Securities Regulation | Victoria Stace; Da Lin |
| Sentencing and penal policy | Yvette Tinsley; Danica McGovern |
| Socio-legal Studies | Yvette Tinsley; Fiona McDonald; Ignacio Giuffré |
| Te Tiriti o Waitangi | Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown; Dean Knight |
| Torts | Geoff McLay; Nicole Moreham |
| Trusts Law | Mark Bennett; Geoff McLay |
| Welfare Law | Māmari Stephens |