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LEGAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ANNUAL WRITING AWARDS FOR 2007
The Legal Research Foundation is delighted to announce the winners of its three annual awards for legal writing for 2007:
1. The JF Northey Memorial Book Award;
2. The Sir Ian Barker Published Article Award; and
3. The Unpublished Student Paper Award.
THE JF NORTHEY MEMORIAL BOOK AWARDThis award, which carries a prize of $2,000.00, was jointly awarded to Dr Don Inglis QC for “New Zealand Family Law in the 21st Century” (Brookers) and Professor Campbell McLachlan QC, Laurence Shore and Matthew Weiniger for their book “International Investment Arbitration: Substantive Principles” (Oxford).
THE SIR IAN BARKER PUBLISHED ARTICLE AWARDThis award is given for the best article, essay or discrete book chapter published by a New Zealand-based author in 2007 and carries a prize of $1,500.00. It was awarded to Professor Bruce Harris of Auckland University, for his article “The “Third Source” of Authority for Government Action Revisited” (2007) 123 LQR 225. The judges commented that the article is an “outstanding paper upon an important area of constitutional law which well deserved its publication in the Law Quarterly Review.”
THE UNPUBLISHED STUDENT PAPER AWARD
This is open to unpublished student papers between 10,000 and 15,000 words written for course credit at a New Zealand university and carries a prize of $1,000.00. For 2007 it was awarded to Jesse Wall of Otago University for his paper “Prospective Overruling – It’s About Time.”
The winning entries for each of the three awards were formally announced at the Legal Research Foundation Annual General Meeting, held on 21 May 2007 at Old Government House at the University of Auckland. Professor McLachlan and Jesse Wall were able to receive their awards in person. The Foundation thanks the law schools and publishers for their continued support of the writing awards. A call for entries for the awards for 2008 will be made in early 2009.
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