Legal Research in New Zealand

Mary-Rose Russell (BBibl (South Africa); LLB (Hons) (Cant); LLB (Zimbabwe); LLM (Hons) (Auck); Acc M LEADR) is a senior lecturer in the Law School at the Auckland University of Technology. She has practised as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand and was admitted as an advocate in Zimbabwe. She is also a qualified law librarian. Mary-Rose teaches constitutional law, legal research methods, legislation and law making, and mediation and negotiation. Her main research interests are in the areas of public law and legal education.

She is co-author of The New Zealand Legal Method Handbook and co-editor of The Supreme Court of New Zealand 2004–2013.

Natalie Baird (LLB (Hons), BA, LLM (Columbia)) is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law at the University of Canterbury. Her current research interests lie in the areas of international human rights, refugee law and Pacific legal studies. She is particularly interested in the domestic application of international human rights norms in the Pacific region. Natalie teaches International Human Rights and part of the Public Law, Bill of Rights and Immigration and Refugee Law courses. Before commencing her academic career, Natalie worked in the public service at the Crown Law Office, the Cabinet Office and the New Zealand Law Commission.

Allan Beever (BA, MA, PhD (Auck); MSL (Toronto)) is a Professor of Law at the Auckland University of Technology. A well-known tort lawyer and theorist of private law, he has also written or taught in the areas of contract law, the law of unjust enrichment, philosophy of law, comparative law and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. He is the author of five books as well as numerous articles and chapters and has won a number of significant awards for his research, including a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust and a von Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He has previously held positions at the Universities of South Australia, Ottawa, Southampton, Durham and Auckland and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law.

W John Hopkins (BA (Hons) (Strath); PhD (Sheff); PGCert (Cant)) is Associate Professor at the School of Law at the University of Canterbury and a public lawyer whose areas of interest lie in the fields of comparative, European and international law. In 2012 he was a New Zealand Fulbright scholar teaching International Law and Global Governance at the University of Georgetown, Washington DC. John has published in a range of subject area in the field of public law with a particular focus on the non-judicial aspects of administrative law. He is currently working on a major project examining these institutions in New Zealand.

Sara Roberts (BA (Cant); DipLibr (Victoria)) has worked at the University of Canterbury as a law liaison librarian since 2007. She currently works closely with students and academics, providing legal research assistance as well as teaching legal research skills at all levels. Her involvement with law librarianship has spanned 15 years, and has included roles in academic libraries, private law firms and the Parliamentary Library of New Zealand.