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Social conceptions versus legal protections of privacy and information security in the context of encryption
(Taylor & Francis, 2022)This article examines the disconnect between people’s social conceptions of privacy and information security in relation to encryption vis-à-vis the legal protections offered by law. It describes the social conceptions and ... -
Enhancing regulatory compliance by using artificial intelligence text mining to identify penalty clauses in legislation
(Full Court Press, 2018)As regulatory compliance (or compliance governance) becomes ever more challenging, attempts to engage IT solutions and especially artificial intelligence (AI) are on the rise. This paper suggest that regulatory compliance ... -
Laws of encryption: An emerging legal framework
(Elsevier BV, 2021)This article examines the emerging legal framework of encryption. It reviews the different categories of law that make up this legal framework, namely: export control laws, substantive cybercrime laws, criminal procedure ... -
Written submission to the UK's House of Commons Science and Technology Committee for their Commercial Genomics Inquiry
(2019)This is my written submission of suggestions for regulatory reform of Commercial Genomics. -
Civil strategies for future generations
(2018)This paper will examine the barriers to implementing climate justice from a New Zealand perspective. In particular, the paper will focus on the governance arrangements for implementing the Paris Agreement, administrative ... -
Caring for our oceans and their biodiversity
(Edward Elgar Pubulishing, 2020)This paper will explore and critically analyse national strategies for oceans governance and protecting marine biodiversity from a transnational perspective. For example, during 2016 New Zealand launched a public consultation ... -
Connection: how can a teacher help students stay connected?
(2020)This session will discuss the things I tried during 2020 to keep my students connected with each other, with the paper, and with me as their teacher during the transition to online learning and their sudden loss of physical ... -
Encryption laws and regulations in one of the Five Eyes: the case of New Zealand
(2021)This article examines the laws that apply to encryption in New Zealand. Specifically, it analyses the different types of law that constitute an encryption legal framework in the country, namely: export control, substantive ... -
The validity of exemption clauses in contract law: Cases, rules, legislation intervention and implications
(Law Press China, 2021)Exclusion or limitation of liability clauses are commonly seen nowadays in online contracts. This paper analyses the validity of exemption clauses in a variety of circumstances comparing the cases and legislation in different ... -
Adaptive management under the RMA: the tension between finality and flexibility
(University of Auckland, 2020)Adaptive management is commonly used to manage activities that require resource consents under the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) that have uncertain, complex and potentially significant environmental effects. This ... -
Overseas investment through legal, policy and comparative law lenses: An examination of New Zealand’s approach to protecting sensitive land and the interests of future generations including comparisons with Canada and Kuwait
(Kuwait International Law School, 2020)The current entity is the Overseas Investment Office (OIO), which is a regulatory unit within Land Information New Zealand (a government department). The OIO is engaged with “realising the benefits of overseas investment, ... -
Rights, reasons, and international norms
(2020)This article focuses on access to environmental justice. In particular, the article focuses on the right to remedy and redress articulated in Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration 1992 and the effective transposition of the ... -
Antarctic Treaty system: achievements and prospects
(2019)The Antarctic Treaty 1959 has now been in place for 60 years and is regarded by informed commentators as one of the most successful multi-party international treaty systems. This paper provides an opportunity to look back ... -
Ka Māpuna: Towards a rangatiratanga framework for the governance of waterways
(On-line, 2021)Rangatiratanga is thenavigational courseforthis research, the aspiration that guides a frameworkfor thegovernance which, in respect ofwaterways and Te Taiao secures mauri, ecosystem health, and water for domestic and ... -
The use of plastic in beehives
(LexisNexis, 2021)Beekeeping is well entrenched into the plastic age, however the regulations set by our governing body, Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ), and the New Zealand Government seem to be lagging behind developing ... -
In defence of religious charitable trusts—when the ancient and the modern collide
(Oxford University Press, 2021)Religious charitable trusts are no strangers to public and judicial criticism for a range of reasons, and this article considers their continued place within the charity narrative from the unusual perspective of the ... -
To send or not to send nudes: New Zealand girls critically discuss the contradictory gendered pressures of teenage sexting
(Elsevier, 2021)Drawing on principles of participatory action research, we conducted workshop interviews with New Zealand secondary school girls about the dynamics of sexting between girls and boys. We worked with seven small groups of ... -
Dispute resolution clause, mistaken interpretation and cancellation of contract: Jade Residential Limited v Paul
(LexisNexis NZ Limited, 2021)Jade Residential Ltd (Jade) entered into a contract to build a house for a couple, the Pauls. Progress payments were required when certain construction “milestones” were met. Two of the “milestones” were “closed-in” and ... -
Fossil fuel mineral wealth and climate change law: expectations of coal mine development in a time of decarbonisation
(International Bar Association Section on Energy & Natural Resources Law, 2021)International climate change law embodied in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement entails commitments to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, mainly from the use of fossil ... -
Freedom of contract and effect of voluntary restriction on formality of contract
(Law Press China, 2020)Freedom of contract is a fundamental principle in contract law. However, whether a clause in the contract restricting the form of the contract, especially for the variation of the contract, being a voluntary restriction ...
