This article is a report on the sixty-fifth meeting of the International Whaling Commission in 2014. The author discusses the important results of this meeting, the first since the Commission moved to biennial meetings, ...

In 2003, New Zealand became the only country in the world to decriminalize all aspects of unforced sex work. The law reform heralded a radical shift. Rather than attempting to suppress the industry by criminalizing the ...

Regulatory control of fishing in response to fishing-related mortality of endemic marine animals in New Zealand waters has been weak and slow. The handful of populations and species that have been ‘protected’ from fishing ...