Events

An overview of past events hosted by the New Zealand Centre for Law and Business.

2024

  • The New Zealand Centre for Law and Business celebrated the launch of two new books: International Tax at the Crossroads, edited by Craig Elliffe, and Rethinking Unjust Enrichment, edited by Warren Swain and Sagi Peari. International Tax and the Crossroads provides an in-depth assessment of the key issues impacting the taxation of cross-border transactions. Rethinking Unjust Enrichment collects a range of views which question the dominant position of the unjust enrichment movement, accommodating a broad range of voices.

For more information contact Professor Tana Pistorius.

craig book launch

New Affiliation for the New Zealand Centre for Law and Business.

  • The New Zealand Centre for Law and Business is affiliated with the Z-inspection® initiative.
  • Z-Inspection® is a holistic process for evaluating the trustworthiness of AI-based technologies at different stages of the AI lifecycle. In particular, it focuses on identifying and discussing ethical issues and tensions through the development of socio-technical scenarios.
  • The process has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society.
  • Z-Inspection® is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA).
  • Z-Inspection® is listed in the new OECD Catalogue of AI Tools & Metrics.
    For more information contact Professor Tana Pistorius.
  • The New Zealand Centre for Law and Business is affiliated with the Z-inspection® initiative.
  • Z-Inspection® is a holistic process for evaluating the trustworthiness of AI-based technologies at different stages of the AI lifecycle. In particular, it focuses on identifying and discussing ethical issues and tensions through the development of socio-technical scenarios.
  • The process has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society.
  • Z-Inspection® is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA).
  • Z-Inspection® is listed in the new OECD Catalogue of AI Tools & Metrics.
    For more information contact Professor Tana Pistorius.

2021

2019

  • Reimagining Contract Law Pedagogy
  • International Conference of Chinese Tax and Policy

2018

  • Future of Tax
  • Competition Law in New Zealand book launch
  • Taking Corporate Compliance Seriously

2017

  • US Tax Reform with Professor Reuven Avi-Yonah
  • Equity Crowdfunding
  • Reinterpreting Islamic Law on Issues from Women to War
  • Global Financial Ethics in the Age of Trump
  • India, China and Turbulence in International Trade Law and Policy
  • The future of tax: The profession and tax policy
  • Professor Martin Ruf, professor of International Business Taxation at the Business School of the University of Tuebingen in Germany, presented on Taxation and International Mergers and Acquisitions in late February 2017.
  • Does copyright law in New Zealand support innovation, and has it kept up with changes in the internet and other technologies? Our seminar, hosted by InternetNZ and the Department of Commercial Law on 21 February 2017, explored those questions.

2016

  • Town and Gown Seminar: May 2016
  • Town and Gown Seminar: August 2016
  • Major Conference 2016
  • Australasian Consumer Law Roundtable 2016
  • An event was held in early September 2016 to mark 30 years of GST in New Zealand.
  • Emeritus Professor John Carter presented a public lecture titled: The New Law of Penalties; which coincided with the launch of "Carter's Guide to New Zealand Contract Law" on Wednesday 19 October 2016 in Auckland.