About us

The New Zealand Centre for Law and Business has as its primary aim the goal of facilitating interdisciplinary research connecting law and business, with a strong focus on the interface between the two.

The Centre focuses strongly on maintaining and building links and collaborations with the local legal, accountancy and business community, other research centres in New Zealand and overseas, as well as individual scholars at the University of Auckland and outside whose research falls within the field of law and business.

The New Zealand Centre for Law and Business also seeks to promote teaching and research which falls within the remit of the Centre. This includes both the business law elements of the Master of Laws (LLM) and its associated programme the Master of Legal Studies (MLS). Another important area of law is that studied in the Master of Taxation Studies (MTaxS) programme, which is designed for both law and commerce graduates who intend to make tax advocacy or tax consulting their career and who wish to extend their understanding of the theoretical issues and legal structures that underpin the taxation system. A more recent development is the Business School’s Master of Information Governance, designed in response to an increasing industry demand for graduates equipped to take up specialist roles in organisations related to Information Governance. Apart from privacy and the processing of personal information, the courses deal with issues related to the data economy including AI regulation, dispute resolution and mediation, blockchain, cybersecurity, and data ethics.

The Centre also aims to establish and promote publications in the field of law and business.