Matthew S. R. Palmer

No institutional affiliation

• Deputy Solicitor-General (Public Law), New Zealand
• Contact Information

Expertise

• Constitutional Design
• Indigenous Peoples Rights
• Comparative Constitutional Law
• Law, Economics and Political Organization

Courses/Seminars

• Law and Policy, Faculty of Law Hong Kong University, January 2011
• Law in the Public Sector, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington 2009-2011
• Comparative Indigenous Peoples' Rights: Of Constitutions, Culture and Claims, Yale Law School, Fall 2007
• LAWS 213 Public Law, Victoria University of Wellington, 2004-2006
• LAWS 505 Advanced Public Law, Victoria University of Wellington, 2001-2003
• Comparative Indigenous Peoples Rights Seminar, University of Chicago Law School, Fall 1998
• The Treaty of Waitangi Honours Seminar, Victoria University of Wellington, 1997
• Law and Economics Honours Seminar, Victoria University of Wellington, 1988, 1989

Honors & Awards

• Fellow, Law and Economics Association of New Zealand
• Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Law and Honorary Research Associate, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington
• Awarded the Legal Research Foundation J F Northey Memorial Book Award for the best book published by a New Zealand-based author in 2008: The Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand's Law and Constitution.
• Fulbright New Zealand Senior Scholar, Yale Law School, Fall 2007
• Awarded the Legal Research Foundation Sir Ian Barker Published Article Award for the best article, essay or discrete book chapter published by a New Zealand-based author in 2005 or 2006 (Copy of article in Public Law Review posted on this site).
• Herbert Smith Visitor, Faculty of Law, & Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Lent and Easter Terms, 2007
• Laskin Professor of Public Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, January 2007
• New Zealand Law Foundation's 2005 International Research Fellow (2006-2008)
• 2005 Horace E. Read Memorial Lecture, Dalhousie Law School, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada