Other publications
Vernon Rive “Is an enhanced non-refoulement regime under the ICCPR the answer to climate change-related human mobility challenges in the Pacific? Reflections on Teitiota v New Zealand in the Human Rights Committee” (2020) 75 Questions of International Law: Zoom-in 7.
Vernon Rive “The Year in Review—International Environmental Law” (2020) 18 New Zealand Yearbook of International Law 248.
Vernon Rive “International Environmental Law” (2019) 17 New Zealand Yearbook of International Law.
Rive, V. J. C. "Fossil fuel subsidy reform: a New Zealand perspective on the international law framework" (2016) 27 NZULR 73. (Pre-publication version of article on SSRN here.)
Rive, V. J. C. "Reflections on the Paris Agreement" (2016) 11 BRMB No 11 at 140. (Pre-publication version of article on SSRN here.)
Rive, V. J. C. "For good measure: the Environmental Reporting Act 2015" (2015) Resource Management Bulletin, 11(7), 81-82
Rive, V. J. C. "PCE Report on sea level rise and editorial changes" (2015) Resource Management Bulletin, 11(8), 95-96.
Rive, V. J. C. "The ongoing relevance of Discount Brands to notification decisions: a question unresolved" (2015) Resource Management Bulletin, 11(5), 53-54.
Rive, V. J. C. "Re Waiheke Marinas Ltd" (2015) Resource Management Bulletin, 11(3), 32-34.
Rive, V. J. C. "Book Review: J. Bell, Climate Change and Coastal Development Law in Australia" (2014) Resource Management Journal, November 2014, 34-36.
Rive, V. J. C. (2014). Environmental legislation and policy priorities: what is on the horizon for 2015 and beyond?. Resource Management Bulletin, 10(16), 183-187.
Rive, V. J. C. (2014). Climate refugee, protected person and complementary protection claims under the microscope in New Zealand's Immigration and Protection Tribunal. Australia Environment Review, 29(9), 270-274. (Pre-publication version of article available on SSRN here.)
Rive, V. J. C. (2013). RM reforms phase 2: return of the economists. Resource Management Bulletin, 10(1), 1-2.
Rive, V. J. C. (2013). Biodiversity offsets and compensation: another round. Resource Management Bulletin, 10(4), 44-48.
Conference presentations
Vernon Rive “Climate Litigation in Aotearoa New Zealand” at Climate Litigation in Comparative Contexts Conference (2023, Auckland).
"Implications and issues of technology on law teaching" Panel presentation, Technology in Legal Education New Zealand Symposium, Auckland University of Technology (September 2022, University of Technology)
"Developments on a regional response to climate change- related human mobility in the Pacific", Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Beeby Exchange on International Law Auckland (30 August 2022, Invited presenter, Auckland University).
"Climate change law & policy" (Invited Conference Address, Local Government New Zealand Annual Conference, 7 September 2018, Wellington).
"With a little help from the Friends: a critical account of the origins, development and efficacy of the ‘Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform'" at the Joint Lund University and Stockholm Environment Institute Workshop: The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform, Stockholm, Sweden, 16-17 June 2016.
"Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform: A New Zealand Perspective on the International Law Framework" at University of Melbourne Law School Institute for International Law and the Humanities Seminar, 7 October 2015.
"Climate change displacement in the South Pacific: a New Zealand perspective on the international Law Framework" at the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law 22nd Annual Conference 4 July 2014.
"New Zealand Law Society Continuing Legal Education - Update on Environmental Case Law" at New Zealand Law Society Continuing Legal Education - Update on Environmental Case Law Webinar, 23 May 2014, Wellington, New Zealand.
"Climate change law and policy: litigation, negotiations, prospects" at New Zealand Higher Courts Judges Annual Conference, Nelson, New Zealand 12 April 2014.
International Climate Change Negotiations: Status and Prospects at New Thinking on Sustainability Conference, Victoria University 15 February 2014.
Reports
Rive, V. J. C. "Biodiversity offsets in New Zealand: Challenges, opportunities, options" a discussion paper prepared for Landcare Research Ltd, December 2013.
Rive, V.J.C. " Nutrient trading in Lake Rotorua: Design, implementation and enforcement - legal issues", 2012, Report for Motu Economic and Public Policy Research.
Selected publications are also available on my SSRN author page.