Books & chapters
Vernon Rive “Common Law at the Coalface: Smith v Fonterra and Others” in Camille Cameron, Patricia Galvão Ferreira and Riley Weyman (eds) Climate Change Litigation Cases in Context (Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2026). (Open access).
Vernon Rive “The Influence of International Environmental Law on Domestic Law in Aotearoa New Zealand” in Peter Salmon and David Grinlinton (eds) Environmental Law in New Zealand (3rd ed, Thomson Reuters New Zealand, Wellington, 2026).
Vernon Rive Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform: an International Law Response (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2019). (Introductory chapter available here.)
Vernon Rive 'International Environmental Law' in A. Costi (ed) Public International Law: A New Zealand Perspective (LexisNexis, Wellington, 2020).
Vernon Rive “Online Digital Platforms for Teaching Law” in Ann Thanaraj and Kris Gledhill (eds) Teaching Legal Education in the Digital Age: Pedagogical Practices to Digitally Empower Law Graduates (Routledge, Oxford, 2023).
Vernon Rive 'Anatomy of an International Norm Entrepreneur: The Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform' in Jakob Skovgaard and Harro van Asselt (eds), The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform (Cambridge University Press 2018) (Open access).
VJC Rive & J Harker, The Laws of New Zealand, Climate Change (LexisNexis New Zealand, Wellington, 2017).
Vernon Rive "Safe harbours, closed borders? New Zealand legal and policy responses to climate displacement in the South Pacific" in P Martin, S Bigdeli, T Daya-Winterbottom, W du Plessis, & A Kennedy (eds), The Search for Environmental Justice (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2015). (Pre-publication version of chapter on SSRN here).
Vernon Rive "Environmental assessment" in D Nolan (ed) Environmental and Resource Management Law (7th ed, LexisNexis, Wellington, 2020).
Vernon Rive "Forests, trees, and native plants" in D Nolan (ed) Environmental and Resource Management Law (7th ed, LexisNexis, Wellington, 2020).
VJC Rive & P Brosnahan "Landscape and visual" in D Nolan (ed) Environmental and Resource Management Law (7th ed, LexisNexis, Wellington, 2020).