Law news
AUT a 5-star university across all categories
New Professors and Associate Professors
Alumni earn Beta Gamma Sigma membership
Law School celebrates top students
Valuable experience at moot competition
AUT moves up 50 places in world rankings
19 first in family scholarships awarded
Law degrees open up many avenues
Grace makes global Badass Women list
Why are accused rapists acquitted?
Explainer: how a royal commission will investigate Christchurch shootings
62% increase in AUT researchers
Driving diversity in NZ leadership
Explainer: mosque shootings trial
AUT gets Borrin Foundation support
Celebrating AUT through the years
AUT strengthens ties with Chinese alumni
PhD milestone at AUT Law School
Gaining skills for the workplace
Marsden funding for AUT legal research
Can you help the Foodie Godmother?
New Professors and Associate Professors announced
Minister launches sustainable blueprint
Toxic masculinity and the military
Five questions: Professor Kris Gledhill
THE rankings place AUT in NZ top three
AUT 2019 domestic and international fees
Freedom of speech at risk in draft law
Bachelor of Business undergoes refresh
Trafficking victims and the law
Community contribution celebrated
London calling for AUT law scholar
AUT student links with US-NZ leaders
Law student’s Borrin Foundation support
Indigenous law research to the fore
AUT Law School officially opens legal research centre with a focus on indigenous people in New Zealand and across the Asia-Pacific.
AUT increases presence in QS subject rankings
AUT Law Professor on Law Reform Committee
Professor Bernadette McSherry receives inaugural Kayes Fletcher Walker visiting scholar award
Competition win brings real world learning
Representing AUT in the 2017 Sentencing Advocacy Competition gave law student Abhijit Desai an incredible opportunity to experience the realities of criminal law. Abhijit, who made it to the finals against 23 other participants, impressed the judges with his skill and brought home the win.
AUT Centre for Non-Adversarial Justice launched
On Friday 10 March, the AUT Centre for Non-Adversarial Justice was officially launched. Established in 2016, the Centre aims to identify and promote various models of justice under the broad banner of non-adversarial justice.
Business and Law students attend Global Leader Experience
Six law and 39 business students recently attended ‘Common Purpose - Global Leader Experience’ - an international programme for university students.
First law student cohort at AUT South Campus signals milestone for Manukau
AUT this year has welcomed the first cohort of law students to its South Campus in Manukau.
This opinion piece was first published in Employment Today (May 2016).
New Zealand’s landmark pay equity case is now before a government-initiated Joint Working Group. AUT law honours student Ian McPherson summarises the situation so far and discusses the only legitimate source from which pay equity principles can be derived.
The law is changing and so must we, says new professor
Professor Warren Brookbanks, who joined AUT Law School as a Professor of Criminal Law and Justice Studies in April, says compassion and versatility are ‘must haves’ for new lawyers who want to keep up with a changing legal landscape.
ummer law job the next step for career changer
For AUT Law student Kim Beange, summer 2015/16 is less about taking a break and more about taking another step in her transformation from legal secretary to solicitor.
What is the effect of email disclaimers?
The first thing we discovered was that they aren’t actually disclaimers at all – at least legally. A disclaimer is officially what you get on books, for example, when the author is worried that people are going to read the book and rely on the information (to make an investment decision, for example) and come a cropper and decide to sue. The disclaimer basically says that the author has done their best to make the stuff they have written accurate, but if you choose to rely on it and it isn’t, that’s tough. The law is a real mess in this area, Beever says, hence the need for disclaimers.
For an hour and a half on Sunday evening - in the final excruciating stages of a marathon negotiating session involving through the night meetings on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday - it looked as if a typo in the final draft text might derail proceedings.
AUT students receive AMINZ scholarships
Eight AUT law students received AMINZ scholarships to attend the AMINZ Conference happening 23 – 25 July 2015.
AUT University Law School hosts Public Defence Service workshop
AUT University’s School of Law hosted the 2015 Public Defence Service (PDS) national workshop in April.
International expert says law is the closest we get to applying philosophy
The reputation of New Zealand’s most contemporary law school has attracted not one, but two world-leading academics.
A new book written by AUT Professor of Diversity Dr Edwina Pio offers insights and advice to organisations with minority religions in their workforces.
New law professor starts at AUT
Professor Cassidy is currently working on issues relating to the possible introduction of a capital gains tax into New Zealand. She is also interested in current corporate reforms in regard to directors’ duties. Another area in which she is actively researching is the courts approaches to the reception of international law, particularly human rights norms, in New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.