Many multinational corporations now use global supply chains to produce goods and services. Multinational corporations at the top of global supply chains exert significant control over actors lower in the chain, and thereby contribute to low labour standards in the companies they source goods...

Blockchain-based smart contracts represent a shift towards an automated world. While their immutable and self-executing nature present numerous economic benefits, these characteristics give rise to issues. One of these issues is that the burden of issuing proceedings changes from a party looking...

This paper argues that courts should recognise unjust enrichment as a cause of action, mainly due to the structure and discipline this can bring to New Zealand’s private law. This paper explores the historical development of unjust enrichment, and its relationship to the general law of...

New Zealand’s ageing population has contributed to the rapid expansion of the retirement village sector and will continue to do so in coming decades. It is therefore essential that the regulatory framework governing retirement villages be fit for purpose and that it meet its policy objective...

New Zealand is already experiencing the effects of a warming climate and needs to adapt its built, social and ecological systems to reduce vulnerability to climate impacts. Currently, there is no coordinated approach to climate change adaptation in New Zealand. There is no overarching policy or...

Approaches to law reform must involve a different focus than evidence — instead placing human rights, culture, history, general ideologies or feelings at the forefront. This paper will demonstrate that these alternative approaches provide the foundation for law, while evidence simply acts as a...

The Equal Pay Act 1972 was passed as a piece of social law reform intended to eradicate discrimination in wages between men and women. For over forty years since the passing of the Act, there has been little progress on the implementation of pay equity in New Zealand and it continues to be an...

The advent of behavioural economics and nudge theory provides new challenges for policy designers and regulators. These theories assume a different model of human behaviour than that commonly used by regulators, and also introduce a new type of governance – that of ‘libertarian paternalism'....

Since its first inception, New Zealand's social security system has been guided by the notion of reciprocal obligations. However, obligations required on the part of beneficiaries, particularly those with children, have become increasingly more burdensome. The most recent amendments require...