Michelle Taylor-Sands is skeptical of the sorts of reasons that have typically been advanced in support of creating saviour siblings. The precarious nature of such claims, Taylor-Sands maintains, provides a reason to be ...

This article is a review of Claudia Geiringer, Polly Higbee and Elizabeth McLeay’s book “What’s the Hurry? Urgency in the New Zealand Legislative Process, 1987-2010.” The author provides an overview of the analysis contained ...

The lure of technologies of perfect enforcement can be appealing to the public and irresistible to regulators. In this article, the author investigates both the phenomenon of ‘techno-regulation’, and the concerns it has ...

In this chapter, the author evaluates the extent to which New Zealand private international law may be inconsistent with New Zealand’s international human rights obligations. The chapter focuses on two main areas of potential ...

This article seeks to explain and explore the concept of bodily integrity. The concept is often elided with autonomy in the case law and the academic literature. It argues that bodily integrity is non-reducible to the ...

This article is a review of Michael Robertson’s book “Stanley Fish on Philosophy, Politics and Law: How Fish Works.” The author briefly considers Fish’s contributions to philosophy, politics and law, before discussing the ...

This article is a review of the book “Feminist Judgements of Aotearoa New Zealand Te Rino: A two-stranded rope,” a collection of New Zealand judgments re-written from a feminist perspective. The author concludes that this ...

This paper considers the potential threat legalizing voluntary euthanasia (VE) and assisted suicide (AS) may have upon the autonomy and safety of those diagnosed with, or suspected of being affected by, a depressive disorder. ...

The Court of Appeal decision in PC v City of York illustrates the complexity inconsistency and limits of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA 2005) when applied to decisions about intimate relationships. In commenting on the ...

The breakdown of a marriage, civil union, or de facto relationship inevitably affects children of the relationship. The question this paper addresses is whether the interests of children should be taken into account in the ...