Other Publications

Seeing the World Whole: Essays in Honour of Sir Kenneth Keith
(Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2007)

Edited by Claudia Geiringer and Dean R Knight
(Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2008)

The Rt Hon Judge Sir Kenneth Keith ONZ KBE QC is one of New Zealand’s most eminent jurists. This collection of essays - based on contributions to a conference in 2007 - marks his retirement from the New Zealand Supreme Court, honours his distinguished career as academic, law reformer, legal advisor, international advocate and judge, and celebrates his appointment as a permanent judge of the International Court of Justice - the first and only New Zealander ever to be so appointed. In these essays, leading judges, scholars and practitioners reflect on Sir Kenneth’s contribution to the law and advance dialogue on a range of areas of legal policy and practice of particular interest to Sir Kenneth.

The essays reflect, in particular, Sir Kenneth’s preoccupation with the connections that underlie the legal universe - between the local and the international, the past and the present, the practical and the theoretical; between law and policy, law and history, law and literature; between the varying sources that underlie the law and legal reasoning, and between the varying professional roles that may constitute a legal career. Copies are available from: - Victoria University Press (www.victoria.ac.nz/vup) - VicBooks (www.vicbooks.co.nz).

Maori Property in the Foreshore and Seabed: The Last Frontier

Edited by Claire Charters and Andrew Erueti
(Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2007)

"Applying a Rights-Based Analysis to the Development of Social Policy in New Zealand"

Issues Paper
Claudia Geiringer and Matthew Palmer
September 2003

This issues paper was commissioned from the New Zealand Centre for Public Law by the Human Rights Commission. It aims to to promote discussion about the implications of taking a rights-based approach to social policy-making, with a particular emphasis on the implications of economic, social and cultural rights.

The full length version of the paper, published in September 2003, is available below in PDF format. A shorter and revised version of the paper was published in the Social Policy Journal of New Zealand in March 2007.
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"The Tie that Binds: The Relationship between Ministers and Chief Executives"

Edited by Colin James

At the heart of the government, linking political desire to action, is the nexus between ministers and their departmental chief executives. From ministers the line of authority runs back to the people through Parliament. From chief executives the line of authority runs forward to the staff who deliver the policy and services determined by the ministers (with help). The relationship between ministers and chief executives is crucial to good government. It is the fulcrum on which the levers of democracy pivot.

This book explores these questions, reporting and drawing on discussions held in late 2001, and organised by the Institute of Policy Studies and Centre for Public Law and funded by the State Services Commission, the Treasury and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. There was a wide diversity of views at those forums. This suggests we may be at a turning point, still able to stretch traditional concepts to explain and characterise the relationship but increasingly unconvincingly in some aspects of the relationship and perhaps in the not-too-distant future the relationship's totality. If the latter, it is now time to begin to reformulate the theory, norms and practices.

Copies of this publication are available at a cost of NZ$25 each including GST (plus $10.00 for international P & P) from:

Institute of Policy Studies
Phone: 04 463 5307
Fax: 04 473 1261
Email: ips@vuw.ac.nz

"Property and the Constitution"

Edited by Janet McLean

In this set of essays, public lawyers, property lawyers and legal philosophers examine the public dimensions of private property. At a time when governments across the globe are privatising formerly public property, the public forum is being replaced by the privately owned shopping mall, and an increasing range of ineterests are being described as 'property', an examination of the powers which attach to ownership becomes all the more pressing. The contributers consider whether property is a human right, its role in maing responsible citizens, its relationship to freedom of speech and other values, the proper scope of constitutional protections of private property, impediments to the redistribution of property, and attampts to redress historical wrongs by preoperty settlements to indigenous people. Taking a richly comparative perspective, examples have been drawn from jurisdictions as diverse as the United Kingdom, South Africa, Germany, the United States, and New Zealand.

Copies of this book are available from Hart Publishing.

"Roles and Perspectives in the Law: Essays in Honour of Sir Ivor Richardson"

Edited by David Carter and Prof Matthew Palmer

This collection of essays constitutes the result of the conference to honour Sir Ivor Richardson on his retirement as President of the Court of Appeal. The conference, entitled 'Roles and Perspectives in the Law', was held in April 2002 by the New Zealand Centre for Public Law. These papers were presented at the conference or are papers written specifically in light of that conference, in honour of Sir Ivor.

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