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Daldorf, Tallara(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
In less than six months, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) will review its 2018 Initial Strategy for reducing the carbon emissions of the global shipping industry. The international shipping industry has long ...
Becconsall-Ryan, Isabelle(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
Urgent global action is necessary to limit global warming to no more than 2°C above preindustrial levels and avoid irreversible damage to the environment and its inhabitants. However, current multilateral climate agreements ...
Goodwin, Louise(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
Climate change is presenting an existential threat to our world as we know it. Yet, the international community has thus far failed to enact adequate climate policies to combat this threat. This paper explores how a rule ...
Holden, Grace(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
New Zealand – currently – does not have effective climate litigation. The approaches deployed in climate cases fail to produce favourable outcomes for both the plaintiff and the planet. This existing deficiency in what ...
Lee, Catharina(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
"All models are simplified versions of reality, full of limitations". Game theory models applied in the context of the international climate negotiation game are no different. Every model of the climate negotiation game ...
Manning, Holly(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
As the effects of climate change worsen, loss and damage is an unavoidable reality. A defining feature of the climate crisis is the unequal distribution of its causes and effects. Loss and damage will be most devastating ...
Mills, Jordan(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
There is a twin challenge to reduce carbon emissions to at least net zero, but also to achieve energy security and equity. This article assesses climate litigation in New Zealand within the framework of the energy trilemma ...
Schoonees, Anna(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
Whether collective obligations exist, or should exist, in public international law has been tiptoed around by international legal scholars, court judges, and instrument drafters for decades. However, the unprecedented ...
Sasha, Rita(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
Indigenous peoples face disproportionate burdens caused by climate change. Making up less than 5 per cent of our population, they care for 80 per cent of its biodiversity. As their environment degrades, so too does the ...
Tu'inukuafe, Max(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
Litigation funding is prominent in many parts of the world but not in New Zealand. This is likely to change in the coming years and this paper inquires into how the practice interacts with public law. Initially, this paper ...
Murray-Ragg, Nadia(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
The judiciary contributes to the legislative process through a spectrum of inter-government branch dialogue methods. This spectrum ranges from informal conversations to public select committee submissions. The debate on ...
Morrisey, Thomas(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
In recent years other Westminster systems, specifically the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, have been wrestling with how to deal with high profile ministerial integrity scandals. The same could potentially happen ...
Moir, Phoebe(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
As one of the most significant disaster responses in recent history, it appears inevitable that there will be an inquiry into the response of the New Zealand government to the Covid-19 pandemic. While we have already seen ...
Sim, Murray(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
This essay is a doctrinal examination of Hu v Immigration and Protection Tribunal. That case was a recent decision of Palmer J in which he developed a new test for the ground of unreasonableness in judicial review. The ...
McConnell, Rachel(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
The nature of policing and the significant power police are granted by the state means they have the power to cause harm to individuals or groups. Policing requires legitimacy. The state in turn provides public forums to ...
Mander, Alice(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
Phillip Pettit’s republicanism offers a useful framework through which one can assess the constitutional position of disabled people in New Zealand society. For Pettit, a relationship is characterised by domination if one ...
Hughes, Alister(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
Projects of constitutionalism, nation-building, and law-making are woven together by exercises of storytelling. Underneath administrative law’s doctrinal facia, stories guide its development and animates its application. ...
Hollywood, Cait(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
This paper considers whether New Zealand’s immigration laws should be reformed to facilitate the deportation of protected persons in the interests of national security. I examine protected persons’ rights using the case ...
Colson, Sophie(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
The New Zealand Bill of Rights (Declarations of Inconsistency) Amendment Act is a significant constitutional change. It requires Parliamentary response to the courts when a declaration is issued, and therefore results in ...
Chan, Sean(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022)
The Commerce Commission’s Market Study into the Retail Grocery Sector was widely criticised by the media for recanting on its bold draft report recommendations to stimulate competition in New Zealand’s duopoly grocery ...