Our people

Meet the members of the New Zealand Centre for Legal and Political Theory.

Directors

NZCLPT Dirctors

Dr Arie Rosen

Arie Rosen is a legal theorist with interests in general jurisprudence, constitutional theory and philosophy of private law. Arie’s work in legal and political philosophy focuses on political authority, the grounds for its exercise, the ideology that sustains it, and the impact it has on law and practical reasoning. His work appears in various edited volumes and leading journals, including Legal Theory, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the University of Toronto Law Journal, and the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence.

Associate Professor Nicole Roughan

Nicole Roughan has research interests in philosophy of law including theories of authority, pluralist jurisprudence, and the relations between law’s officials and subjects. Nicole is the author of Authorities (OUP, 2013) and co-editor (with Andrew Halpin) of In Pursuit of Pluralist Jurisprudence (CUP, 2017). Nicole is working on a monograph exploring the idea of the legal official, and a project on Legalities: Jurisprudence without Borders supported by a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship from the Royal Society Te Apārangi.

Executive committee members

Janet McLean (Law)
Jane Norton (Law)
Arie Rosen (Law)
Nicole Roughan (Law)
Matheson Russell (Philosophy)
Jesse Wall (Law)
Steven Winter (Politics)
Student Fellow: Jack McKenzie