Research

The Victoria Law Faculty is one of New Zealand’s leading centres of research into all aspects of law. The Faculty has built a substantial body of resource material that is invaluable to both current and future law students, policy-makers and practitioners. The Faculty's Associate Dean of Research is Professor Susy Frankel.

Research opportunities at the Faculty are enhanced by the presence of the New Zealand Centre for Public Law and the New Zealand Centre for International Economic Law, focal points for debate in these areas.

The Faculty also has two research publications, the VUW 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 Law School’s two major research degrees, the Master of Laws and the PhD, enable a range of options, from coursework to substantial original research for dissertation and doctoral theses. On the Faculty are a number of specialists in key areas – leading academics of international standing – who are available to supervise a wide range of research topics. The School is also host to Distinguished Fellows Sir Ivor Richardson and Sir Kenneth Keith; and other eminent local and overseas visitors.

The body of student researchers includes a number of international students, from the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe.