Terrorism

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Book Review of Counter-Terrorism: The Culture of Law and Justice after 9/11, [2011] Public Law 663 (2011)

This is a largely complimentary book review focussing on the theme of law and culture...

 

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What is Distinctive about Terrorism and Anti-Terrorism Law?, Raoul Wallenberg International Human Rights Symposium (2007)

Criminal offending and terrorist offending are similar in quality – the acts which constitute such...

 

Constitutions

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Book Review of Counter-Terrorism: The Culture of Law and Justice after 9/11, [2011] Public Law 663 (2011)

This is a largely complimentary book review focussing on the theme of law and culture...

 

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"Open the Doors and Where are the People?: Constitutional Dialogue in the Shadow of the People", We, The Peoples: Participation in Governance (2011)

The chapter applies an approach of ‘constitutional realism’ in addressing the question ‘where are the...

 

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The Law Officers and Departmental Lawyers, New Zealand Law Journal (2011)

This short article explains the constitutional relationship between the law officers of the Crown and...

 

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The Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand's Law and Constitution, reviewed by Sir Edmund Thomas, New Zealand Law Journal (2009)

Sir Edmund Thomas, former judge of the New Zealand Court of Appeal and Supreme Court,...

 

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The Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand's Law and Constitution (2008)

Part I of this book uses the approach of constitutional realism to examine the meaning...

 

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Evidence to the Short Inquiry into Executive/Judiciary Relations, The Select Committee on the Constitution, House of Lords (2007)

On Wednesday 9 May 2007 I gave evidence to the House of Lords Constitution Committee...

 

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New Zealand Constitutional Culture, New Zealand Universities Law Review (2007)

This article takes seriously the relationship between culture and a constitution. It suggests that three...

 

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The Languages of Constitutional Dialogue: Bargaining in the Shadow of the People, 2007 Laskin Lecture, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (2007)

The 2007 Bora Laskin Annual Lecture at Osgoode Hall Law School analyzes law and policy...

 

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Constitutional Realism about Constitutional Protection: Indigenous Rights under a Judicialized and a Politicized Constitution, Dalhousie Law Journal (2006)

This article assesses the comparative effectiveness of constitutional protection of indigenous rights in Canada and...

 

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Using Constitutional Realism to Identify the Complete Constitution: Lessons From an Unwritten Constitution, American Journal of Comparative Law (2006)

This article offers a way of more fully understanding the nature of the United States...

 

Bridled Power: New Zealand Government under MMP (with Geoffrey Palmer) (1997)

This book outlines how New Zealand's constitutiona and government works. This comprehensive revision of the...

 

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Toward an Economics of Comparative Political Organization: Examining Ministerial Responsibility, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization (1995)

This article takes a step toward developing a general theoretical framework for analyzing comparative constitutional...

 

Collective Cabinet Decision-Making in New Zealand, Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentary Government (1994)

This chapter outlines the theory and reality of Cabinet Government in New Zealand at the...

 

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Constitutional Design and Law: The Political Economy of Cabinet and Congressional Government, Doctoral Dissertation, Yale Law School (1993)

The dissertation takes a political economy approach to constitutional design and legislation in the Westminster...

 

The Conventional Wisdom of Ministerial Responsibility in New Zealand, Public Law in New Zealand: Cases and Materials (1993)

This chapter outlines the operation of the doctrines of collective Cabinet responsibility and individual ministerial...

 

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The State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986: Accountability?, Victoria University of Wellington Law Review (1988)

This article examines the accountability framework of State-Owned Enterprises in New Zealand.

 

Law & Policy

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Human Rights and Social Policy in New Zealand (with Claudia Geiringer), Social Policy Journal of New Zealand (2007)

This article aims to facilitate debate about the implications for New Zealand social policy making...

 

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Thinking about Law and Policy: Lessons for Lawyers, Crown Law Office & Law Commission (2006)

The paper outlines a simplified view of the paradigmatic approaches of the disciplines of law...

 

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Constitutional Design and Law: The Political Economy of Cabinet and Congressional Government, Doctoral Dissertation, Yale Law School (1993)

The dissertation takes a political economy approach to constitutional design and legislation in the Westminster...

 

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Privatization in Ukraine: Economics, Law, and Politics, Yale Journal of International Law (1991)

This article examines the process of privatization in the context of the economic transformation of...

 

Law, Economics and Organization

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Toward an Economics of Comparative Political Organization: Examining Ministerial Responsibility, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization (1995)

This article takes a step toward developing a general theoretical framework for analyzing comparative constitutional...

 

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Constitutional Design and Law: The Political Economy of Cabinet and Congressional Government, Doctoral Dissertation, Yale Law School (1993)

The dissertation takes a political economy approach to constitutional design and legislation in the Westminster...

 

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The Economics of Law: the Sharebrokers Act 1908, Victoria University of Wellington Law Review (1986)

This article uses a law and economics framework to analyze the regulation of sharebroking in...

 

Indigenous Peoples

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The Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand's Law and Constitution, reviewed by Sir Edmund Thomas, New Zealand Law Journal (2009)

Sir Edmund Thomas, former judge of the New Zealand Court of Appeal and Supreme Court,...

 

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The Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand's Law and Constitution (2008)

Part I of this book uses the approach of constitutional realism to examine the meaning...

 

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International Law/Intercultural Relations, Chicago Journal of International Law (2000)

In this inaugural issue of a new journal about international law, I offer a perspective...

 

The International Practice, Recognising the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (1998)

This chapter outlines how a "relationships" perspective of indigenous peoples and states, as offered in...

 

No subject area

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"Resolving the Foreshore and Seabed Dispute", Political Leadership in New Zealand (2006)

There has been serious political and legal conflict in New Zealand in recent years between...

 

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“What is New Zealand’s Constitution and Who Interprets it? Constitutional Realism and the Importance of Public Office-holders”, Public Law Review (2006)

In May 2007 this article was awarded the Legal Research Foundation's Sir Ian Barker Published...

 

Bridled Power: New Zealand's Constitution and Government (with Geoffrey Palmer) (2004)

Bridled Power, and its predecessor Unbridled Power, have provided a guide to New Zealand's constitutional...

 

A Perspective on Balance and the Role of Law, Roles & Perspectives in the Law: Essays in Honour of Sir Ivor Richardson (2002)

This article examines the patterns discernible from the different areas of law examined at the...

 

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“Counter-Terrorism Law”, New Zealand Law Journal (2002)

I suggest that there is no conceptually distinct and coherent body of law we can...

 

"Constitutional Issues", Treaty of Waitangi (2002)

At the level of constitutional principle, the Treaty of Waitangi gives symbolic expression, at the...

 

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The Treaty of Waitangi in Legislation , New Zealand Law Journal (2001)

Whether and how the Treaty of Waitangi should be referred to in legislation are current...