Late notice due to being logged off from this place, but huge congratulations to Professor Emerita Nicola Peart on her ONZM for services to the law in the King’s Birthday Honours List this year!!! Richly deserved capstone recognition to a career of note.

I may never make it to the Court of Appeal bench, but I have at least made it as far as the Christine French Room at James Hargest High School. Thanks to all the high school students that turned up to hear about what studying at ⁦Law at Otago⁩ is all about. 🤓🤓🤓

Delighted to see this published today by Elgar Law. Really loved working with Margaret Briggs Law at Otago and all the contributors on this collection exploring Family Property and the Law from a range of different perspectives: Durham Law School e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/resea…

The (majority of the) US Supreme Court ... "Nixon was right!" youtube.com/watch?v=U8YuW0…

Its presentation day at ⁦PublicLaw Conference⁩. Come along at 9.15 if you want to hear from me on why Chevron was wrong and Loper Bright is right.

The fact parties across the spectrum have chosen not to use it says a lot about how necessary this law really was. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/09-07…

Congratulations to Prof Jacinta Ruru for this honour, recognising her groundbreaking legal scholarship. otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/…

Impeccable compliance with journalistic convention displayed ... no notes. Would read again.

The Otago Centre for Law & Society is holding a one-day seminar/symposium/provocation today ... many things to think about and much to discuss!

This is happening this week (and next week ... and the week after ...)! Do come along!! Adam is an excellent speaker and the underlying omnishables he is going to be discussing offers much scope for entertainment and enlightenment!!!

A reminder that this regaling of an epic saga commences tonight ... free and open to all with an interest!

This went fast - my 3rd (& final 😢) De Carle Lecture Law at Otago is tomorrow - covering honesty, executive empowerment and *that* prorogation. A detour into covid means I'll get the chance to introduce my NZ audience to "Eat Out to Help Out". I wonder if they'll even believe me?

If the idea of NZ private law sounds exciting, then please submit an abstract for the Symposium me and Edward Willis are organising on Monday 10 February 2025 Law at Otago. See the attached Call for Papers for more info.

For those of you who haven’t heard, I do private law now! ⁦Law at Otago⁩ is hosting a symposium on private law early next year. See the call for papers below and do reach out if you would like to be involved!

Happy to say that my co-authored article with J M 'The Tiptoe to Crypto: An Analysis and Account of Property in Cryptocurrency' has been accepted for publication in the Common Law World Review. Hope to share an SSRN link soon 🥳 Law at Otago

Happy to announce that my article '‘The King[’s] Courts as the fountain of justice’ and the supremacy of ordinary law: implications for English arbitration' has been published open access in Arbitration International academic.oup.com/arbitration/ad… Law at Otago

My wife used AI to turn my book, "The Structural Limits of the Law: The Event Horizon of Legality" in a podcast (She likes that stuff). I'm blown away. It's only 10 minutes long. If you want to pretend like you've read it, you can listen to it here: youtu.be/GWkotWSZg7M?si…