Eden Crescent Te Kerehiniti o Itena • Auckland Law School Annual 2015 Appointments Record recruitment round for Auckland Law School Supreme Court 10 year anniversary conference Legal writing New programme launched Eden Crescent The Auckland Law School Alumni Annual. Editor: Susan Watson From the Dean ................................................. 1 RESEARCH Editorial Support: Alison Lees, Andrew Research highlights ......................................... 34 Stockley, Scott Optican, Nicola Hoogenboom FEATURES New books ...................................................... 39 Jo Manning, Ada Marama Biggest appointment round in Auckland Law School’s history ................................................ 2 VISITORS Designer/Production: Studio Ahoy and Faculty hosts major conference on the first ten Michael Kirby ................................................... 43 Corson’s Creative Studio years of the Supreme Court ............................. 10 Professor Jane Ginsburg .................................. 44 Cover Photo: Warren Swain, Chris Noonan, New Legal Research, Writing and Professor Paul Brand ........................................ 44 Anna Hood, Andrew Erueti, An Hertogen and Communication Course for all students .......... 15 Sir Robin Jacob ................................................ 45 Craig Elliffe Top practitioners ............................................. 46 Photographer: Dean Carruthers FACULTY NEWS Visitors news in brief ........................................ 48 New work-friendly postgraduate programmes: Editorial Contact Details: Introducing 15 point courses .......................... 16 STUDENT NEWS Eden Crescent, Auckland Law School Master of Taxation Studies moves to Ron Paterson encourages law students to The University of Auckland Law School ...................................................... 17 follow their hearts at Law Awards .................... 50 Private Bag 92019 2016 postgraduate courses ............................ 18 New Zealand’s first Law Students’ Careers Auckland 1142 Peter Devonshire promoted to Professor ......... 19 Guide ............................................................... 51 New Zealand Stephen Penk promoted to Associate Mooting programme goes from strength to Professor ......................................................... 20 strength ........................................................... 52 If alumni wish to update their details or be Ken Palmer retires after 46 years of service .... 21 Student news in brief ....................................... 54 removed from the subscription list, please email: Margaret Vennell ............................................. 22 [email protected] Professor Jane Kelsey - Critic and conscience.. 24 ALUMNI NEWS Accolades for Peter Watts ............................... 25 Justice Lowell Goddard heads historic British www.law.auckland.ac.nz Grant Huscroft appointed to the bench inquiry ............................................................ 55 in Canada ........................................................ 26 James Hosking and Anne Capelle .................... 56 Copyright Faculty news in brief ........................................ 26 Natalie Walker awarded new Crown warrant Articles reflect personal opinions and are not for Manukau .................................................... 58 those of the University of Auckland. No parts MĀORI AND PACIFIC NEWS Class of 1965 - 50th Anniversary dinner ........ 59 of this publication may be reproduced without Action-packed year for Māori staff Sir Ronald Davison ........................................... 60 prior consent of the University of Auckland. and students ................................................... 27 Judge Mick Brown ........................................... 60 Great year for Pacific staff and students .......... 31 Sir Peter Williams QC ....................................... 61 All rights Reserved. First Pacific Islander appointed at the Former All Black Bryan Williams honoured ©The University of Auckland 2015 Auckland Law School ....................................... 32 by University .................................................... 62 Max Harris elected Prize Fellow at All Souls College Oxford ................................................. 62 Alumni news in brief ........................................ 63 Donor Wall ....................................................... 65 Eden Crescent 2015 SECTION TITLE From the Dean During the last five years I have appointed a third of the Faculty. This number of appointments has brought some exciting new and emerging scholars to the Auckland Law School, as well as new hires with significant and highly regarded publication records, and with extensive connections with the profession and the judiciary. Since the last edition of this magazine I have small groups with fortnightly writing, research again won the President’s Shield for the top law appointed seven new members of the permanent and presentation exercises, drawing upon best school and Auckland will represent New Zealand academic staff. They bring considerable strengths practice experience in many North American and at the Jessup Moot Competition in Washington in areas including Contract, Tax, Company Law, some leading Australian law schools. It will be DC for the eighth time in the last nine years. Over Competition Law, Commercial Law, Securities taught primarily through small group workshops 700 students joined our Mooting Society this Law, Financial Regulation, Equity and Trusts, and intensive mentoring and will help ensure that year and two new internal mooting competitions the Treaty of Waitangi, Māori Land Law, Māori we continue to maintain and enhance the high (for first year and intermediate-level mooting) Customary Law, Public Law, International Law, standards for which this Law School is known. have been established in the last twelve months. Human Rights Law, Legal History, Legal Method In October we won the Australia-New Zealand We have also recently reviewed and extended and Legal Writing. Craig Elliffe, Andrew Erueti, An Aviation Law Moot. our LLM programme. In response to a survey of Hertogen, Anna Hood, Chris Noonan and Warren previous students and legal practitioners, from Earlier this year we were deeply saddened Swain have all started at the Law School during 2016 we will be offering more choice from a by the death of long-serving Faculty member the course of this year and are profiled in the first range of three or five day courses, Saturday Margaret Vennell. I know she is remembered few pages of the magazine. They will be joined courses and half or full semester evening courses. fondly by many of her past students and she will by Jane Norton in February. I am also pleased Full-time or part-time students can choose from be greatly missed. to have been able to appoint Helena Kaho as an a range of courses and six specialisations. The Assistant Lecturer. She is the first Pacific Islander My thanks to all alumni who have shared Law Faculty has also taken on responsibility for to become a member of the Faculty and her memories and sent condolences. The Faculty the MTaxS degree, meaning that considerably appointment has been greeted with enthusiasm and I are extremely grateful for all the support more tax courses will be available to LLM as well by our Pacific students and alumni. we receive from alumni and friends of the as MTaxS students. Law School. To give but one example, our The Auckland Law School is comprehensively As you will see in the magazine, we have participation in mooting competitions would strong across all major areas of the law. Whether celebrated a wide range of staff and student not be possible without the financial support in public and international law, corporate and successes during the course of the year. This has provided by law firms and barristers’ chambers, commercial law, or private law more generally, included Peter Watts being made a Fellow of the and the coaching, mentoring, and adjudicating we have a Faculty of outstanding teachers and Royal Society of New Zealand and being awarded willingly offered by alumni, practitioners and scholars. a prestigious Leverhulme Visiting Professorship, judges. The generosity of our alumni is critical to The Faculty is committed to ensuring that we and Jane Kelsey winning a $600,000 Marsden the success of the Law School in all sorts of ways continually review and update our curriculum grant for a research project on international and we are very grateful for all the contributions and programmes and compare these to best economic regulation. The Auckland Law School that have supported and enabled what has been overseas practice. We are in the process of won three of the four New Zealand Legal Writing a very busy and successful year, as reflected in introducing a more comprehensive legal writing Awards for 2015. the pages of this magazine. programme and, as part of this, all our second Our success in student mooting competitions year students will be required to take a new continues unabated. At the recent New Zealand Andrew Stockley - Dean of Law legal research, writing and communication Law Students’ Association Championships we course beginning in 2016. This will be taught in 2015 Eden Crescent 1 FEATURES Back2 Eden row: Chris Crescent Noonan, 2015 An Hertogen, Andrew Erueti. Front row: Helena Kaho, Anna Hood, Craig Elliffe FEATURES Biggest appointment round in Auckland Law School’s history The strength of a law school is built on its