2010 visitors

Graeme Austin, Honorary Fellow in the Law Faculty and the J Byron McCormick Professor of Law, University of Arizona College of Law, spent most of 2010 with the Faculty.
Richard Gaskins, Proskauer Chair in Law and Social Welfare, Brandeis University. Professor Gaskins is a regular visitor. His areas of research are American legal culture, legal rhetoric, environmental policy, law, social policy and philosophy.
Verena Murschetz, Professor, University of Innsbruck, taught LAWS 395 (European Union Law) in the 2009-2010 Summer School.
Charles Rickett, former member of the Faculty and Sir Gerard Brennan Professor of Law, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland. His teaching interests include equity, banking law, restitution, theories of obligations and legal ethics. He has published widely in these areas.
Francesco Schurr, Professor, University of Liechtenstein, taught LAWS 395 (European Union Law) in the 2009-2010 Summer School.

Stuart Kaye, Professor, University of Melbourne Law School, spent two months sabbatical at the Faculty. His research areas include law of the sea and international law. During his visit, he gave a public lecture for the International Law Association: “2009 Great Continental Shelf Scramble”.
Yves-Louis Sage, Head of Law, University of French Polynesia. He is a practising French avocat and has a long association with Victoria, including teaching on a number of occasions. His particular interests are in the fields of Private International law and Intellectual Property law. Dr Sage is Editor-in-Chief of the Revue Juridique Polynesienne/Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific, with which the VUWLR has an ongoing arrangement for joint publications.

Kees van Raad, Professor of Law, University of Leiden and chairman of the International Tax Center Leiden.
Ronan Deasley, Professor of Law, University of Glasgow.

Angela Williams, Lecturer, University of Sussex, visited to conduct research for her monograph project: “Climate Change, Law and Justice” forthcoming in 2011.
Sheikh Solaiman, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Wollongong. The major area of his research interest is securities regulation and his doctoral thesis focuses on investor protection in securities markets.

Mary Boyce, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa, worked on the Legal Māori Project with Māmari Stephens.
Sir Bruce Robertson, retired Judge of the Court of Appeal, was with the Law Faculty from May. He was completing a research project with the PVC and Dean of Law, Professor Tony Smith.

Jim Phillips, Professor at the University of Toronto, gave the Salmond Lecture for 2010: “Why Legal History Matters”.

Justice Edward Cameron, of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, who gave a lecture for the New Zealand Centre for Public Law.
Lin Feng, a former LLM student of VUW and now Director of the Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, was working on a research project.
Mark Hickford, Crown Law, completed some research. Mark is now with the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Mark Perry, Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario, visited as an expert guest lecturer.

The Right Hon The Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe gave an address "Treating like cases alike and unlike cases differently: some problems of anti-discrimination law".
Rochelle Dreyfuss, Pauline Newman Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, visited as an expert guest lecturer in Patent Law. Rochelle also gave a public lecture for the NZCIEL: “The Patentability of Genetic Diagnostics in US Law and Policy”.
Li Luo, Professor at Renmin University, was the Dan Chan Fellow 2010. During her visit she gave a public seminar: “Intellectual Property Enforcement Mechanisms of China”.
Graham J Zellick CBE QC, Professor and President of the Valuation Tribunal for England, was the NZ Law Foundation 2010 Distinguished Visiting Fellow. During his visit he gave a staff seminar: “The creation of a unified coherent tribunal system” and a public lecture “The investigation of possible miscarriages of justice and the quashing of wrongful convictions”.

Luigi Palombi, Centre for Governance of Knowledge and Development, The Australian National University, was an expert guest lecturer. Dr Palombi gave a public seminar for the NZCIEL: “Gene Patents: Why you should care who controls your genes”.

Professor Christoph Beater-Graber, University of Lucerne.
Miriam Cherry, Associate Professor, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Sacremento. Miriam is researching social responsibility (both real and false) among multinational companies, the ways in which businesses function in cyberspace/virtual worlds and the impact this will have on both workers and businesses.
Professor Daniel Gervais, Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, Tennessee.
Sir Anthony Mason AC, KBE, QC, former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia presented the annual Robin Cooke Lecture in 2010. His address was “Human Rights: Interpretation, Declarations of Inconsistency and the Limits of Judicial Power”.
Dr Daphne Zografos, University of Reading Law School, UK.