Research
The Victoria University Faculty of Law is a leading centre of legal research in New Zealand.
Law has been taught and researched at Victoria for more than 100 years and the current research environment at the Faculty has never been more dynamic or exciting.
The Faculty’s Associate Dean of Research is Professor Susy Frankel
Research opportunities at the Faculty are enhanced by the following established instruments:
- The New Zealand Centre for Public Law
- The New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law
- The VUW Law Review
- The New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law
- Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Papers
The Victoria University of Wellington Law Review and the New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law offer an opportunity for postgraduate students to have their work published. The Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Papers is an abstracting Journal that publishes abstracts of scholarly papers by VUW staff together with links to those papers.
Two major research degrees, the Master of Laws and the PhD offer students a range of study options, from coursework to original research for dissertation and doctoral theses.
The Faculty has specialists in key areas who supervise a wide range of research topics.
For current major research projects being conducted at the Faculty, click here .