New Zealand Law Review

About LRF

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The Legal Research Foundation (Inc.) is an independent, non-profit body associated with the University of Auckland Faculty of Law.  

The Foundation publishes the New Zealand Law Review, the leading law review in New Zealand.

Each year, the LRF also sponsors the Legal Research Foundation Visiting Fellow, and the three Legal Research Foundation Writing Awards.

The Foundation also promotes legal education, research, and law reform by running seminars and conferences for the legal and academic communities.  Recent seminar and conference papers are available to purchase: please click here.  For upcoming seminars, please see our News section.

Recent LRF conferences and events include:

  • "Whose Law is it Anyway?: Harmonising Australian and New Zealand Business
    laws"
  • The Modern Reality of Dealing with the Commrecial Regulators
  • Media Law
  • Miscarriages of Justice
  • Charities: Questions and Answers
  • Legal Method III: Law, Social Policy, and the Role of the Courts
  • Tribunals Seminar
  • Corporate Governance at the Crossroads
  • Civil Litigation in Crisis - What Crisis?
  • The Permanent Court of Appeal - A celebration of 50 years
  • Human Rights at the Frontier
For a more complete list of papers available from these events please visit the publications page of this website.

 

The Executive Council of the Legal Research Foundation:

President
The Hon Justice Raynor Asher

Director
Roger Partridge

Editor NZLR 
Chris Hare and Hanna Wilberg, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland 

ADLS Nominee
Laura O’Gorman

District Court Judge
His Honour Judge David Wilson QC

Publications Chair 
Bernard Brown, Faculty of Law

Dean of Commerce Rep 
Alex Sims, Department of Commercial Law

Dean of Law 
Paul Rishworth, Faculty of Law

Co-opted Members
Andrew Brown QC
Jenny Cooper
Miriam Dean QC
Amokura Kawharu
Simon Mount
Campbell Walker

 

Student Members 
Christopher Penk, Caroline Anderson, Ali Shariat

Secretary/Treasurer 
Barbara Relph