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Tuesday, January 21, 2025
The University of Auckland's Proposal to Merge the Faculties of Law and Business & Economics
On 12 November 2024, the University of Auckland published a proposal to merge the Faculties of Law and of Business and Economics into one Faculty. The proposal includes a division of the Law School into two departments, one focused on private law (including commercial law) and the other on public law.The justification for this radical proposal is stated as follows: “By combining the Faculties of Law and Business & Economics, the aim of the proposal is to create a comprehensive faculty that brings together distinct and complementary disciplinary strength.This proposed combined faculty structure would foster greater collaboration across a wide More...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Why I Did Not Sign "The Letter"
It has been reported publicly that 42 King’s Counsel have signed a letter addressed to the Prime Minister and the Attorney-General. They urge the Prime Minister to “act responsibly now and abandon” the Treaty Principles Bill which had just had its First Reading. This, notwithstanding that Christopher Luxon had (a) committed to the ACT party that National would support the introduction of the Bill as a condition of ACT agreeing to form a Government with National; but (b) stated publicly that he would not support the Bill at its Second Reading. I was asked to sign the letter but More...