This paper considers that there is an issue with substandard property management in New Zealand’s private rental sector because of amateur landlords and that the current regulatory regime does little to raise those standards. ...

This paper examines the potential impact of recent English privacy jurisprudence on the New Zealand tort of privacy. The paper contrasts the New Zealand Court of Appeal’s aversion towards an over-expansive privacy right ...

Obesity is increasingly recognised by policymakers as a threat to public health and wellbeing. Despite obesity’s many causes, one commonly cited concern of public health advocates is the prevalence of food and beverage ...

New Zealand and New Zealanders have a complex and somewhat contradictory relationship with the natural environment. While New Zealanders enjoy their country's significant natural beauty and profit from its “clean, green” ...

Host state counterclaims in investment treaty arbitration are rarely pleaded and never successful, to the extent that one commentator has characterised their use as ‘thirty years of failure’. This paper navigates the ...

This paper explores the relationship between fictional literature and law reform through the treatment of the Court of Chancery in Charles Dickens’s 1852-183 novel Bleak House. It offers a reading of the novel as a law ...

Distributed ledgers, and in particular blockchain technologies, promise to be revolutionary to financial markets, and the uptake of Bitcoin shows that it can also influence wider society. This paper examines the suggested ...