The Promise of Law: Essays marking the retirement of Dame Sian Elias as Chief Justice of New Zealand

Foreword

 Sir Stephen Sedley

 Introduction

 1. Max Harris and Simon Mount QC

 Common Law Constitutionalism

 2. Common Law Constitutionalism Under A Codified Constitution – Cheryl Saunders

 3. The Principle of Legality, Sovereignty and the Structure of the Constitution – Janet McLean

 Beginnings

 4. Colonial Land Dispossession in Comparative Perspective – Stuart Banner

 5. Foundation – Ned Fletcher

 6. The Elephant in the Court Room: an Essay on the Judiciary’s Silence on the Legitimacy of the New Zealand State – Claire Charters

 Where to for Indigenous Rights and Reconciliation?

 7. Co-existence in Aotearoa? – Justice Joe Williams

 8. The Treaty of Waitangi as a Contract – Sir Kenneth Keith

 Environmental Justice and Climate Change 

 9. Climate Change at the Courts: The Role of the Judiciary in Cases Related to Climate Change – Christina Voigt

 10. Thoughts on Climate Litigation in New Zealand – Davey Salmon

 11. Environmental Justice: The Wheel Turns Full Circle – Tony Randerson

 Topics in Private Law

 12. The Place of Unjust Enrichment in New Zealand Law – Justice Susan Glazebrook

 13. The Release Fee as a Remedy for Breach of Contract – The Judgement of Elias J in Cash Handling in Light of Morris-Garner – Peter Watts QC

 14. Contract and Tort, a Joint Venture of Judges and Parliament – John Burrows QC

 The Supervisory Jurisdiction and Administrative Justice

 15. Thinking About Administrative Law in Cananda: From Doctrine to Principle – Justice Rosalie Abella

 16. New Zealand Administrative Law: Simplicity Gained – or Lost? – Rodney Harrison QC

 Criminal Law

 17. What to Avoid: The American Experience of Sentencing – Nancy Gertner

 18. Dame Sian Elias and Criminal Law – Kris Gledhill

 19. Chief Justice Elias and Criminal Law – Justice William Young

 Human Rights

 20. Contemporary Challenged for Human Rights: A View from South Africa – Kate O’Regan

 21. Human Right Without an Enacted Statement of Rights – Chief Justice Susan Kiefel

 Judging

 22. Remarks in Honour of Chief Justice Elias – Sir Anthony Mason

 23. The Citation of Foreign Law – Jeremy Waldron

 24. Judging – Justice Winkelmann and Panel