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The Law School Farewells Nin Tomas and Others Khylee Quince: National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award Winner Student Mooting Thrives CONTENTS MKT 14/131 EdenFACULTY OF LAW ANNUAL 2014 Crescent The Law School Farewells Nin Tomas and Others Khylee Quince: National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award Winner Student Mooting Thrives CONTENTS MKT 14/131 Eden Crescent From the Dean ..................................................................... 3 VISITORS Clive Walker on Protective Security Against Terrorism . 23 The University of Auckland Faculty of Law FEATURES Bringing the United Nations to Auckland to Enhance Alumni magazine Farewell to Nin Tomas ........................................................ 4 the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Worldwide ................. 24 Khylee Quince: National Tertiary Teaching Professor Barry Cushman on the “Lochner Era” ............ 25 Editor: Julia Tolmie Excellence Award Winner .................................................. 6 Visitors in Brief ...................................................................... 25 Editorial support: Alison Lees, Andrew Stockley Professor John Carter on the Construction of Contracts 26 and Rebecca Baylis FACULTY NEWS “When Freedoms Collide”: Professor Helen Alvare’ ..... 26 Design/Production: The University of Auckland Appointments ........................................................................ 8 Approachable Professor Thrives on the Challenge Cover photo: Khylee Quince Promotions ............................................................................. 8 of Complex Research ........................................................... 27 Photographer: Scott Optican Farewell to Pam Ringwood ................................................. 9 Top US Corporate Governance Scholar Visits Auckland 28 Farewell to George Hinde ................................................... 10 Editorial contact details: Distinguished Alumni Award for Dr Julie Maxton ......... 11 STUDENT NEWS Eden Crescent, Faculty of Law Profession Honours a Legal and Literary Luminary ...... 11 Moana Schwalger Memorial Pasifika Scholarship The University of Auckland Teaching Excellence Award for Rohan Havelock ........... 12 Winner .................................................................................... 29 Private Bag 92019, Auckland Auckland Success in Legal Writing Awards .................... 12 Top Law Student Wins Rhodes .......................................... 29 New Zealand Paul Rishworth Appointed QC ........................................... 13 Student Mooting Thrives at Auckland .............................. 30 If alumni wish to update their details or be removed New Books ............................................................................. 14 Law Students Win Prime Minister’s Pacific Youth from the subscription list please email: Contributing to New Zealand’s Constitutional Awards .................................................................................... 32 [email protected] Debates .................................................................................. 15 New Awards Support Outstanding Postgraduate www.law.auckland.ac.nz The Changing Role of International Arbitration ............ 15 Students .................................................................................. 33 Postgraduate Studies at the Law School .......................... 16 International Student Exchanges ....................................... 34 Copyright Verbatim: Tackling Justice Issues through Theatre ........ 17 LGBTI Law Student and Allies’ Network .......................... 34 Articles reflect personal opinions and are not those of the Key Issues in the Design of Capital Gains Taxes ........... 18 Student News in Brief .......................................................... 35 University of Auckland. No parts of this publication may Ownership and Control after the Global Financial be reproduced without prior consent of the University of Crisis ...................................................................................... 19 Auckland. ALUMNI NEWS New Zealand Centre for Human Rights Law, Sir Owen Woodhouse ONZ, KBE, DSC ............................ 36 All rights reserved. Policy and Practice ................................................................ 20 Sir Muir Chilwell QC: 1924-2014 ...................................... 38 ©The University of Auckland 2014 Improving our Response to Family Violence ................... 21 Justice Rodney Hansen Retires from the High Court ... 39 New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law: Tracey Tawhiao: An LLB as a Fine Arts Degree ............. 40 Working for Sustainability ................................................... 22 Nicola Parton: On Leadership and Life Lessons ............ 42 Robert Tibbo: On Acting for the Very Vulnerable .......... 43 Vinerian Scholarship Winners – Then and Now ............ 44 Friendships Renewed at 30-year Law School Reunion .. 44 Alumni News in Brief ........................................................... 45 Donor Wall ............................................................................. 47 2 EDEN CRESCENT 2014 EDITORIAL From the Dean 2014 has been a busy and successful year for staff and students. Auckland The Law School has hosted major conferences on capital gains taxes, has again done extremely well in law student competitions, including corporate ownership and control, and the first ten years of New Zealand’s reaching the quarter-finals of the Vis International Commercial Arbitration Supreme Court. Caroline Foster and David Williams have both won Moot in Vienna (competing against 300 other universities), the quarter- prestigious Marsden Awards. The Auckland Law School won two of the four finals of the International Chamber of Commerce International Mediation New Zealand Legal Writing Awards. Peter Devonshire was the joint winner of Competition in Paris, and the semi-finals of the International Client the JR Northey Memorial Book Award for his book Account of Profits. Consultation Competition in Puerto Rico. Earlier this year an Auckland Law In February this year we were deeply saddened by the death of Faculty School Mooting Society was established. Over 400 students joined and have member Nin Tomas. Nin was someone who was committed to making a participated in its programme of seminars, competitions and social events. difference in the law, for Māori, and in the lives of her students. She was At the recent New Zealand Law Students’ Association Championships we always enthusiastic and passionate about her teaching and her research. again won the President’s Shield for the top law school and Auckland will Nin had a big heart. She was direct, straight forward and said what she represent New Zealand at the Jessup Moot Competition in Washington DC thought. She was unafraid to speak truth to power and to speak up for those for the seventh time in the last eight years. who needed it. Her courage and tenacity were no less evident as she fought As you will see in the magazine, we are continuing to provide more against her final illness. opportunities for our top students. Last year I signed student exchange Former Faculty members George Hinde and Pam Ringwood also died agreements with five of the best law schools in China. Our first students have during 2014. Like Nin, they will be greatly missed by staff in the Law School now arrived from Tsinghua and Renmin Universities in Beijing. The increasing and by the students they taught, inspired and mentored. importance of links with China for New Zealand companies and law firms My thanks to all alumni who have sent their condolences. The Faculty means that the Auckland students who spend a semester studying in Beijing and I are extremely grateful for all the support we continue to receive from and Shanghai will benefit considerably from learning about Chinese law and alumni and friends of the Law School. This has enabled new scholarships practice at the very best Chinese law schools. to be established, including for the best new LLM students and, in the case During the last year the Faculty has hosted visits from a range of of the Moana Schwalger Memorial Pasifika Scholarship, to encourage distinguished visitors, judges and public officials, including the former Prime postgraduate study by Pacific Island law students. The generosity of alumni Minster, Helen Clark, the President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, has allowed us to establish the John Haigh QC Memorial Moot Competition, Sir David Baragwanath, this year’s Cameron Fellow, Professor Stephen which was held for the first time this year with 32 teams competing. We are Bainbridge (University of California, Los Angeles) and the 2014 Legal grateful to everyone who has helped adjudicate our competitions and has Research Foundation Visiting Scholar, Professor Joe McCahery (Tilburg and supported our major events. This has been a very successful year for the Law Amsterdam Universities). We have celebrated Paul Rishworth being made a School, as can be seen in the pages of the magazine, and the support given QC and Khylee Quince winning a national tertiary teaching award. by our alumni has contributed to this. ❙ Andrew Stockley Dean of Law 2014 EDEN CRESCENT 3 FEATURES Farewell to Nin Tomas Academic Programme was founded and developed - a programme based upon fundamental tikanga principles of whanaungatanga, manaakitanga and utu. She placed these principles and Waipapa marae at the centre of our consciousness as Māori law students and her belief in this kaupapa was unwavering. The programme instituted by Nin formed the basis of the Tuākana programme rolled out across the entire university some
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