Elective courses for Parts III and IV
Course lists on this page are indicative only. Not all elective courses are offered in both semesters or every year. Please note some courses have limited spaces — get in early to avoid missing out.
NOTE: There are no tutorials in elective courses.
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PILO
Students who are granted permission may present a research paper in lieu of an examination (PILO) in any elective course. Read more.
General Law
| Code | Title | Points | Lectures |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAW 456 | Supervised Research - online form required |
15 | Self-Paced |
| LAW 458* | Legal Ethics |
10 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 406 | Complex Litigation | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 407 | Indigenous Peoples, Criminal Law and Justice | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 408 | Technology Law and Policy | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 410 | Comparative Health Law and Policy | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 411 | History of the Law of Obligations | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 413 | Animals and the Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 414 | "Justice" in Sentencing | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 415 | Evidence | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 418 | Community Law Internship | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 421 | Civil Procedure | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 422 | Women and the Law |
15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 423 | Legal History | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 424 | Negotiation, Mediation and Dispute Resolution |
15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 425 | Psychiatry and the Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 426 | Roman Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 427 | Equitable Remedies | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 428 | South Pacific Legal Studies | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 429 | Law of Family Property | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 430 | Advanced Family Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 432 | Health Care Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 433 | Family Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 434 | Trial Advocacy | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 435 | Theories of Private Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 436 | Air and Space Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 439 | Housing Law and Policy | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL | Privacy Law |
15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 454 | Youth Justice |
15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 458 | Pasifika Peoples and the Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 459 | Special Topic: Race and the Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 462 | Law and Popular Culture | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 465 |
Contemporary Issues in Land Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 467 |
Pacific People in Aotearoa: Legal Peripheries | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 469 | Selected Topics in Health Care Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 470 | Selected Topics in Media Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 471 | Public Authority Liability | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWGENRL 472 | Economic Analysis of Public and Private Law | 15 | Lectures |
p/w = per week
*Although an elective course for the LLB, the Council for Legal Education (CLE) requires students intending to be admitted to the bar to take this course.
Commercial Law
| Code | Title | Points | Teaching Mode |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAWCOMM 400 | Contemporary Commercial and Private Law Litigation | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 412 | Restitution | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 413 | Conflict of Laws | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 414 | Law of Personal Property | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 415 | Financial Markets Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 416 | Tax Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 419 | International Sales and Finance | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 420 | Advanced Tax Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 421 | Commercial Arbitration | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 422 | Competition Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 424 | Insurance Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 425 | International Trade | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 426 | Law and Information Technology | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 427 | Vendor and Purchaser | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 428 | Maritime Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 429 | Advanced Tort | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 432 | Corporate Transactions | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 433 | Copyright and Design | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 434 | Advanced Contract | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 436 | Advanced Company Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 437 | Iwi Corporate Governance | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 450 | International Tax Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 451 | Construction Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 454 | Trade Mark Law | 10 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 457 | Consumer Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 458 | Intellectual Property | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 459 | Special Topic: Franchise Law | 10 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 461 | Corporate Insolvency |
15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 462 | Patents and Related Rights | 15 | Lectures |
| Trade Marks and Related Rights | 15 | Lectures | |
| LAWCOMM 464 | Company Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 465 | Theories of Contract Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 467 |
ST: Corporate Governance | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 471 |
Guarantees and Indemnities | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 472 |
Creditors’ Remedies | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 473 |
Takeovers | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWCOMM 476 |
Franchise Law | 15 | Lectures |
p/w = per week
Environmental Law
| Code | Title | Points | Teaching mode |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAWENVIR 404 | Climate Change Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWENVIR 420 | Global Environmental Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWENVIR 421 | Energy and Natural Resources Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWENVIR 433 | Resource Management Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWENVIR 434 | Environmental Constitutionalism | 15 | Lectures |
p/w = per week
Public Law
| Code | Title | Points | Teaching mode |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAWPUBL 400 |
Social Justice Lawyering | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 405 | Law and Social Justice | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 406 | Advanced Criminal Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 407 | Advanced Employment Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 408 | International Organisations | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 409AB | Social Welfare Law, Policy and Action | 15 | Lectures (only in Semester One) |
| LAWPUBL 410 | International Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 411 | Local Government Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 413 | Protecting Refugees and Forced Displacement in the 21st Century: Contemporary Law and Practice | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 414 | Administrative Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 417 | Special Topic: Comparative Criminal Law: Aotearoa New Zealand and the USA | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 4120 | Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice |
15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 421 | Advanced International Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 422 | Contemporary Tiriti / Treaty Issues | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 425 | Employment Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 426 | Judicial Review | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 427 | Māori Land Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 428 | Rights and Freedoms | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 430 | Criminal Procedure | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 431 | Advanced Public Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 432 | International Economic Regulation | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 434 | International Criminal Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 435 | Law of the Sea and Antarctica | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 436 | International Human Rights | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 441 | Nga Tikanga Māori | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 442 | Researching Indigenous Rights Theory, Law and Practice | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 443 | Refugee Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 444 | Immigration Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 445 | European Union Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 446 | Indigenous Peoples in International Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 448 | Statutory Interpretation: Theory and Practice | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 449 | Counterterrorism Law and Policy | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 461 | Indigenous Rights Legal Clinic | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 462 | Law of the Sea | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 466 | Contemporary Issues in Disarmament Law |
15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 467 | Anti-corruption Law and Democracy |
15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 468 | Mātauranga Māori and Taonga/Cultural Property and Indigenous Intellectual Property | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 472 |
Law of Armed Conflict | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 473 |
International Disputes Settlement | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 477 |
Comparative Indigenous Law Topics | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 479 |
Comparative Constitutional Law | 15 | Lectures |
| LAWPUBL 482 |
International Law in Aotearoa/New Zealand | 15 | Lectures |
p/w = per week