Geoff McLay
Professor
School of Law
Qualifications
BA, LLB(Hons) Well, LLM, SJD Mich
Geoff is currently on leave from the Faculty of Law and is working at the Law Commission.
Profile
Geoff McLay has taught at the Faculty of Law since completing an LLM at the University of Michigan in 1994.
Geoff also has a BA and LLB (Hons) (First Class) from Victoria University of Wellington. In 2006 he was a visiting Professor at the University of Iowa College of Law teaching torts and advanced torts and product liability. He has also taught advanced at the University of Western Ontario (Winter 2002).
At Victoria Geoff has taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses including torts, advanced torts, intellectual property, competition (antitrust) law, comparative constitutional law, and ethics. He has published a wide range of articles in these areas.
Geoff's current research interests can be divided into three fields: Accident compensation and modern history of tort law government liability, and the history of New Zealand, and wider British constitutional and public law, . The first two represent his concern with the interaction of public and private law . His research on government liability has been supported by the New Zealand Law Foundation. His research can be found at http://ssrn.com/author=83312.
Geoff is currently working on a source book of early constitutional documents with his colleagues from the Lost Cases project at Victoria, http://www.victoria.ac.nz/law/nzlostcases/default.aspx and is pursuing a project looking at the constitutional and jurisprudential contribution of Sir Robert Stout and Sir John Salmond. He hopes to publish, in the next few years an annotation edition of New Zealand solicitor- generals’ and attorney-generals’ opinion. He is slowly working towards a biography of Sir Robert Stout, Premier and Chief Justice of New Zealand.
Research Interests
Geoff is currently part of a research team "Recovering New Zealand's Lost Cases".
Areas of Supervision (PhD and LLM)
- Torts
- Intellectual Property
- Competition Law
- Regulation