2010 has kicked off with a hiss and a roar. Lectures at AUT University are now well underway.  The hum of around 24,000 student brains grappling with course outlines and materials at the start of the academic year is noticeable, and energizing.  I’m teaching a year 2 course in Judicial review in the first semester and part of the year 2 Torts course in the second semester. 

On the research side, I’m working through my programme for the year, which includes revisiting a topic that I buried myself in when studying for my Masters: the use of formal economic analysis in resource management decision-making in NZ. Also on the agenda is a comparative study of waste minimisation law & policy in NZ and Australia, and a similar NZ/Australian comparative assessment of biodiversity law and policy, which I hope to present at an overseas conference in October (in the last few months of the UN’s 2010 International Year of Biodiversity).

Currently I’m working on a review of environmental whistle-blowing laws in NZ: an area that has interested me for a while, but hasn’t been the subject of much academic analysis in NZ to date.

With the conclusion of my consultancy at Chapman Tripp in February, I am now operating as an independent barrister, available for instructions in the resource management/public law area.  I’m keen to hear from you if you have a role that you think would fit my experience, interests and availability.  Or even would like to catch up over a coffee. 

Modified on 10/03/2010 3:53:22 p.m.