Faculty of Law

Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Papers

Editor: John Prebble

Professor of Law, Victoria University of Wellington

(john.prebble@vuw.ac.nz)

Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Papers is an abstracting e-Journal that contains scholarly papers published or to be published by the Faculty of Law at Victoria University of Wellington. The journal is hosted by the Social Science Research Network, an electronic database commonly known as SSRN. Each issue of the e-Journal contains abstracts to several scholarly papers with links to full text. Some issues include mainly recent work. Others collect a number of papers on a similar theme to form a suite of papers on a single topic. Past issues may be searched by following the links on the list below. After clicking the links the reader must first log on to SSRN as a subscriber. Downloadable copies of back issues and papers then become available according to the links specified. Subscriptions and downloads are free.

Past Issues

Volume 2 (2012)

  • Issue 1 - Contract Interpretation
  • Issue 2 - Morality, and Retrospective Legislation: Income Tax Law from Perspectives of Normative Jurisprudence
  • Issue 3 - General
  • Issue 4 - Legal Referencing
  • Issue 5 - General

Volume 1 (2011)

  • Issue 1 - General
  • Issue 2 - General
  • Issue 3 - General
  • Issue 4 - Constitutionalism and Democracy as Conflicting Ideals
  • Issue 5 - Ectopia, Fictions, and Autopoiesis: Income Tax Law from Perspectives of Analytical Jurisprudence
  • Issue 6 - Intellectual Property, with Particular Reference to Trade Agreements, Trade Marks and Intellectual Property-Related Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  • Issue 7 - General