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Eclipse of Courage: Technical Reason and the Limits of Self-Affirming Bravery
Courage is among the most popular and least-understood virtues, with a seemingly endless array of paradigms and descriptions. Does courage relate primarily to physical or to moral struggle? Is courage fortitude, or is it ... -
Southern Catchments and the Evolution of New Zealand's Environmental Law
Our research team (the authors of this paper and Professor Jacinta Ruru) based at the School of Law, University of Canterbury and the Faculty of Law, University of Otago has been granted funding from the Building Research ... -
Making health easier: Reducing inequalities in child health through addressing low health literacy
Background: Low health literacy is a major contributor to disparities in child health outcomes between different population groups and a powerful mediator of the social determinants of health. This review aimed to identify ... -
The Scots Statute-Style and Substance
New or renewed legislatures afford opportunities for reassessing old legislatures, and introducing new and improved forms of legislative composition. Thus the North American experience, derived from the breakaway Colonies, ... -
Oliver Cromwell & Mdash; The Grinch that Stole Christmas
Keeping track of legislative history-even within one`s own jurisdiction-is not always easy. Some sources-even primary sources-are obscure. One such instance is the legislation of the English Interregnum. The English Common ... -
Codes, Contracts, and Commerce: Taking the Heat Out of the Contractual Mistakes Act
Is the Contractual Mistakes Act 1977 of the New Zealand legislature a code? The fiercest of controversies rages over this question and its corollaries in the law reviews of its own domestic jurisdiction. The Act is so ... -
ACC Infects the Criminal Law?
This case note critically examines an ACC appeal that decides a point of criminal law. -
Law and New Zealand's 2014 Election Campaign
New Zealand’s 2014 election “did its job”, in the sense that it permitted a government to form and function in a way that those who are governed by it broadly consider legitimate. This article considers why elections are ... -
The Case for Allowing Aid in Dying in New Zealand
This article discusses the sensitive topic of whether and when persons suffering as the result of an incurable and/or terminal medical condition ought to be allowed to end their lives with the active assistance of others. ... -
What Was That Thing You Said? The New Zealand Supreme Court's Vexing Vector Gas Decision
This article examines what the authors consider “the worst decision handed down by New Zealand’s top court in the last quarter-century.” The authors defend their position by arguing that the Vector Gas decision represents ... -
Where to From Kyoto?
This brief paper considers climate change law from an inter- and intra-national perspective. Three issues are touched upon. Firstly, given that New Zealand is likely to fall-short of it’s Kyoto emissions reduction target, ... -
Fog of War: British theatrical responses to the 2003 invasion of Iraq in an "exceptional" political environment
This thesis examines the “post-truth” political environment through a retroactive exploration of issues surrounding the 2003 Invasion of Iraq and how these were depicted on the British stage. By presenting “post-truth” ... -
An Adaptable Long-term Condition Workload Prediction Model for Primary Health Care
The primary health care (PHC) system must manage the growing demand for care due to patients with long-term conditions (LTCs) such as diabetes, hypertension, and asthma. Population-based care can help address this workload ... -
Child Poverty Monitor 2018: Technical Report
Each and every child has the right to grow up to be healthy, strong, well-educated and capable of contributing to their community and wider society, as demonstrated in every international agreement to recognise and protect ... -
Gait stability during shod and barefoot walking and running on a treadmill assessed by correlation entropy
This study tests correlation entropy, 𝐾2, as a measure of stability for gait analysis. An average of 13 strides from 10 participants in each combination of one footwear (barefoot vs shod) condition and one gait mode ... -
The Role of Sustainable Buildings in Climate Change Mitigation
Transforming the built environment will be critical in mitigating global emissions of green house gases. Within OECD states, buildings (in terms of their construction, operation and de-construction) are major emitters of ... -
Environmental Adjudication: Mapping the Spectrum and Identifying the Fulcrum
This paper seeks to make structural sense of environmental adjudication through a comparative examination of environmental adjudication in two jurisdictions – England and Wales, and New Zealand, utilizing Michael Asimow ... -
Prostitution in New Zealand: The Re-Importation of Moral Majoritarianism in Regulating a Decriminalised Industry
In 2003 New Zealand became the only country in the world to decriminalise all aspects of unforced prostitution. The law reform heralded a radical shift; rather than attempting to suppress the industry by criminalising the ...