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Otago Proctor’s conduct a naked abuse of power

26 September 2018

Opinion: The Proctor of Otago University violated long established legal principles when he seized student property, explains Dr Edward Willis (Law).
Te Arawhiti can’t just tick boxes

25 September 2018

Opinion: Coalition disagreement forced delays but now we have a new Crown agency - the Office of Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti, writes Professor David V Williams (Law).
Refugee quota a win-win investment

24 September 2018

Opinion: While other countries are blocking borders, New Zealand is doubling its refugee quota, write Associate Professor Jay Marlowe.
$5.4 billion in 'excess profits' for generators

14 September 2018

A new report has found that in the seven years from 2010 to 2016, power generators pocketed an extra $5.4 billion in profits over and above what they would have if the wholesale electricity market was truly competitive.
Election lessons to future-proof 2020

14 September 2018

Opinion: It’s nearly a year since the Labour Coalition swept into power. It must now prove it can run a competent government, writes Associate Professor Jennifer Lees-Marshment (Politics and International Relations).
Sir Geoffrey Palmer calls for bold overhaul of ‘unjust and discriminatory’ ACC

11 September 2018

Former Prime Minister the Right Honourable Sir Geoffrey Palmer QC is using the 2018 Sir Owen Woodhouse Memorial Lectures to call for a bold and visionary overhaul of New Zealand’s accident compensation system.
Free speech: more work and fewer causes célèbres

6 September 2018

Opinion: Dr Edward Willis (Law) argues laws around freedom of expression need constant attention rather than loud debate around controversial speakers from overseas.
No free speech crisis in NZ

30 July 2018

Opinion: Despite strongly divided opinions over a visit by Canadian alt-right speakers, there is no freedom of speech crisis in NZ says Dr Jane Calderwell Norton (Law).
NZ judges reject confines of three strike straightjacket

13 July 2018

Opinion: That no New Zealand judge has sentenced a defendant to serve a third strike maximum sentence without parole suggests a judiciary that prizes individualised justice, writes the University of Auckland's James Oleson.
Major conference examines land law developments

11 July 2018

Significant changes to the country’s land law, including security of title, will be the focus of an upcoming conference at the University of Auckland next month.
Data science can tell us which political party is dominating

4 July 2018

Young scientists from the University of Auckland and Victoria University of Wellington have come up with a novel way to figure out which party or parties in New Zealand's Parliament are dominating any particular political debate or discourse.
Five minutes with: a teen-sex researcher

26 June 2018

Interview: Dr Claire Meehan (Criminology) talks to Newsroom about her research around young people and pornography and the importance of preparing teens for the reality of adulthood.

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