2012 visitors

Yee Wah Chin, an antitrust lawyer and commercial litigator from the United States, has been at the Law Faculty for all of 2012. She has been working on a research project: “Intellectual property rights & remedies after eBay and Google Books”, published several articles, presented papers at various events as well as participating in the life of the Faculty.
Li Luo, Professor at Ranmin University, is the Dan Chan Fellow 2012. She gave a public lecture entitled “Legal Protection of Typeface” and taught LAWS 345 Comparative Law in the second trimester.
Eva Hendriks, a PhD student from the University of Amsterdam, visited for a few months whilst working on her thesis.
Nancy Kim, Professor from California Weston School of Law in San Diego, came on an exchange to teach LAWS 303 Advanced Contract in trimester one.

Mario Patrono, Sapienza University of Rome is a regular visitor to the Faculty. Professor Patrono teaches in Community and European Union Law. He is scheduled to visit again and teach Law in 2013.
Monique Costi, former Head of International Affairs, NZ Securities Commission/FMA, visited in late 2011 and continued during 2012. Monique is researching for a monograph on the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). In August she participated in the NZCIEL symposium on “Investment Issues for New Zealand and Beyond” as a panellist talking about “Foreign direct investments in global context – some trends and policy considerations”. She also presented a paper on IOSCO’s strategic direction post-crisis at the ANZSIL annual conference in July.
Makoto Sano, a Professor from Fukuoka University in Japan, was here for a month to research our accident compensation system.
Andrew Ashworth, the Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford, was the 2012 Law Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow. Professor Ashworth gave a public lecture: “Guilty of Doing Nothing: Omissions, Duties and Crimes”.

Jasper Krommendijk, a PhD student from Maastricht University, visited for a few months whilst working on his thesis in the area of UN human rights treaties.
Mary Boyce, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, returned to the Faculty to work on the Maori Legal Project with Mamari Stephens.
Andrew Byrnes, ANZSIL President, visited with the Faculty in the lead-up to the ANZSIL Conference held at Victoria in July.

Justice Tipping, former Supreme Court Judge, has an office in the Law Faculty while he works on a project for the Council of Legal Education.
Kayla Kingdon-Bebb, a PhD student from the University of Cambridge, will be with the Faculty until early 2013 while working on her thesis, which is a diachronic study of changes made to the land tenure systems of selfgoverning First Nations in British Columbia.

Nur Ezan Rahmat, a PhD student from the International Islamic University of Malaysia, worked on her thesis chapter which required her to study the practice of Family Mediation in other jurisdictions. She was under the supervision of Professor Bill Atkin.

Shaunnagh Dorsett, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney, gave a staff seminar: “Pre-‘fusion’ ‘fusion’? New Zealand 1843-1856 and the Influence of Civil Law”.
Nina Bergmann, a PhD student from Universität Passau, is working on her thesis “Disappearing States – Impact of Climate Change on Small Island States and their peoples”.