2011 visitors

John Cook is a former academic of the VUW Law Faculty who has been working and living in the UK for many years. While visiting he was conducting some private consultancy work.

Richard Cornes, Senior Lecturer in Public Law at the University of Essex. Richard visited briefly while conducting some research.
Rebecca Stahl visited on a Fulbright from the United States. She was mainly based in Christchurch but spent a couple of months in Wellington working on her thesis.
Russell Brown, University of Alberta, visited as part of the Regulatory Reform Project.
Christian Vaccaro, Professor and Head of Economic Law Department, Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Concepción, Chile. Christian was awarded a Chilean Scholarship from Victoria University of Wellington for academic researchers who were unduly affected by the Chilean earthquake. This scholarship enabled academics to come to New Zealand to continue their research. His project in association with Susy Frankel involves Trans- Pacific partnership and intellectual property issues in free trade agreements.
Albin Eser, Professor and former Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal law and former judge in German courts. Professor Eser gave a public lecture “Human Rights guarantees in criminal law and procedures from a European perspective.”

Mario Patrono, Sapienza University of Rome, is a regular visitor to the Faculty. Professor Patrono teaches in Community and European Union Law. He continues to research and write on matters of comparative constitutional law and the law of small states.

Ben Boer, Law Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow 2011. Emeritus Professor Ben Boer is at the University of Sydney, where he teaches various units of study in the Master’s programme at the University of Sydney. His latest work, of which he was the main editor, is Environmental Law and Sustainability after Rio with Jamie Benidickson, Antonio Benjamin and Karen Morrow, (eds. Edward Elgar 2011). He is currently the head of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Law Specialist Group. During his visit Professor Boer gave a public lecture “International Human Rights Norms and Environmental Law”.

Larry Helfer, Harry R. Chadwick Sr Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. He also co-directs the Centre for International and Comparative Law at Duke and is a member of the faculty steering committee of the Duke Centre on Human Rights. Professor Helfer has co-authored a book with Professor Graeme Austin entitled Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface. During his visit Professor Helfer and Professor Austin gave a joint public lecture and launched their book.
Mary Boyce, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, visited while she worked on the Legal Maori Project with Mamari Stephens.

Paul Gudel, Professor of Law, California Western School of Law. Paul taught LAWS 330 Jurisprudence on an exchange in the second trimester. Professor Gudel teaches in the areas of contracts, employment discrimination, jurisprudence and labour law.

Carol Rose, Ashby Lohse Professor of Water and Natural Resource Law, University of Arizona & Gordon Bradford Tweedy Emeritus Professor of Law and Organisation, Yale Law School. Professor Rose gave an NZCIEL public lecture entitled “Enlisting Market Forces in Service to the Environment – the Optimists vs the Pessimists”.
Janet McLean, Professor of Law at Auckland University, is a former academic at Victoria and a former Director of the New Zealand Institute of Public Law at Victoria University of Wellington. Professor McLean gave a paper at the BORA Symposium entitled “Rights Against the State?” and a public lecture entitled “Bill of Rights and Constitutional Conventions”.
Rabinder Singh QC was recently a barrister at Matrix Chambers in London, specialising in public law and human rights. He is now The Hon. Mr Justice Singh at the Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London. Justice Singh acted as a Moderator for the BORA Symposium and gave a public lecture entitled “The Moral Force of the UK Human Rights Act”.

Shaunnagh Dorsett, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney. Dr Dorsett is a former academic at the Faculty and continues her involvement with the Lost Cases project. Shaunnagh visited briefly and gave a staff seminar entitled “The Precedent Is India: Hobson’s 1840 Draft Legislation For The Modification Of Criminal Laws In Their Application To Maori”.

Lord Collins of Mapesbury, Inaugural Borrin Fellow 2011, recently retired from the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, where he was one of the first Justices of the new Court. Lord Collins gave a public lecture entitled “With all due respect to the Judiciary?”

Monique Egli Costi is an expert in international securities regulatory affairs. During her visit she is writing a monograph on the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). She is also preparing a paper on IOSCO’s strategic direction for presentation at a conference.
Cheryl Saunders is a laureate professor and holds a personal chair in law at the University of Melbourne. She is presenting the annual Robin Cooke Lecture entitled “Human Rights: Interpretation, Declarations of Inconsistency and the Limits of Judicial Power”.