Postgraduate research supervision

At Victoria University of Wellington’s Faculty of Law, research supervision at both PhD and Master’s levels is second to none.

Applicants are welcome to contact prospective supervisors—our Faculty members’ areas of interest are listed below. Click on a person’s name to view their detailed profile and contact details.

Subject Area	Faculty Member
Administrative Law	Eddie Clark; Dean Knight
Child Protection	Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown
Children's Rights	Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown
Chinese Law	Ruiping Ye
Citizenship	Ignacio Giuffré; Marnie Lloydd
Climate Change	Alberto Costi; Catherine Iorns; Bjørn-Oliver Magsig
Company law	Da Lin; Victoria Stace
Comparative Law	Richard Boast; Alberto Costi; Ignacio Giuffré; Ruiping Ye
Competition Law	Paul Scott
Constitutional Law	Ignacio Giuffré; Dean Knight
Consumer Law	Victoria Stace
Contract Law	Paul Scott
Copyright	Graeme Austin
Corporate Governance	Da Lin
Counter-Terrorism and foreign fighting	Marnie Lloydd
Criminal Law and Justice	Danica McGovern; Zoë Prebble; Yvette Tinsley
Decolonisation	Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown; Ria Holmes
Democratic Theory	Ignacio Giuffré
Employment Law (relating to personal grievances)	Grant Morris
Environmental law	Catherine Iorns; Bjørn-Oliver Magsig; Joanna Mossop
European Law	Michelle Zang
Family Law	Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown
Feminist Legal Theory	Zoë Prebble
Financial Regulation	Da Lin; Victoria Stace
Government Law	Dean Knight
Human Rights	Alberto Costi; Ignacio Giuffré; Dean Knight; Marnie Lloydd
Immigration and Refugee Law	Marnie Lloydd
Indigenous rights	Richard Boast; Ria Holmes; Catherine Iorns
Insolvency Law	Victoria Stace
Intellectual Property Law	Graeme Austin; Susy Frankel
International Criminal Law	Alberto Costi; Marnie Lloydd
International Economic Law	Meredith Kolsky Lewis; Michelle Zang
International Environmental Law	Alberto Costi; Catherine Iorns; Bjørn-Oliver Magsig
International Humanitarian Law (also known as Law of Armed Conflict)	Alberto Costi; Marnie Lloydd
International Intellectual Property	Graeme Austin
International Law	Alberto Costi; Bjørn-Oliver Magsig
International Trade Law	Susy Frankel; Meredith Kolsky Lewis; Michelle Zang
Judicial review	Ignacio Giuffré; Dean Knight
Kaupapa Māori Research	Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown
Labour and Employment Law (including international labour law)	Ria Holmes; Yvonne Oldfield
Land Law	Richard Boast; Ruiping Ye
Law and Economics	Paul Scott
Law and Forensic Science	Yvette Tinsley
Law and Language	Māmari Stephens
Law and Literature	Grant Morris
Law and Psychology	Danica McGovern; Yvette Tinsley
Law and Religion	Māmari Stephens
Law and Sexuality	Eddie Clark
Law of Freshwater Resources	Bjørn-Oliver Magsig
Law of Privacy	Nicole Moreham
Law of the Sea	Bjørn-Oliver Magsig; Joanna Mossop
Legal History	Richard Boast; Ignacio Giuffré; Grant Morris; Ruiping Ye
Legal Theory/Jurisprudence	Mark Bennett; Ignacio Giuffré; Zoë Prebble
Local Government	Dean Knight
Māori Land Law	Richard Boast
Media Law	Nicole Moreham
Medico-legal	Fiona McDonald
Negotiation and Mediation	Grant Morris
Pacific Law	Mele Tupou Vaitohi
Pacific Legal Systems	Mele Tupou Vaitohi
Peace and Security Law	Marnie Lloydd
Political and Social Theory	Mark Bennett; Ignacio Giuffré
Property Law	Mark Bennett; Victoria Stace; Ruiping Ye
Public Law	Eddie Clark; Alberto Costi; Ignacio Giuffré ; Dean Knight; Fiona McDonald
Resource Management Law	Catherine Iorns
Securities Regulation	Da Lin; Victoria Stace
Sentencing and penal policy	Danica McGovern; Yvette Tinsley
Socio-legal Studies	Ignacio Giuffré; Fiona McDonald; Yvette Tinsley
Space Law	Alberto Costi
Te Tiriti o Waitangi	Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown; Ria Holmes; Dean Knight
Torts	Geoff McLay; Nicole Moreham
Trusts Law	Mark Bennett; Geoff McLay
Welfare Law	Māmari Stephens