The New Zealand Women’s Law Journal – Te Aho Kawe Kaupapa Ture a ngā Wāhine focuses on supporting and publishing scholarly research about women.
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Published: 11 March, 2025
Publisher: LexisNexis New Zealand
The primary aims of the Journal are to promote awareness about women’s issues in the law and to support women in the New Zealand legal profession in their careers.
The scope of the Journal is wide: publishing articles related to any domestic or international topic concerning women, gender perspectives and the law. The New Zealand Women’s Law Journal Trust also encourage articles that take an intersectional approach and simultaneously examine issues of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sexual orientation.
The articles and commentaries included are chosen from the work of lawyers, graduate students, and academics.
For further information about the New Zealand Women’s Law Journal Trust, visit http://www.womenslawjournal.co.nz/
Features
The only academic publication solely dedicated to publishing legal scholarship about women's issues in the law and supporting the work of women lawyers in New Zealand.
Provides refreshing perspectives to the dialogue around issues in the legal profession.
A new collection of essays published annually.
Editorial — Kōrero tīmatanga Rachel Bedggood, Nicole Browne and Romy Wales
Foreword — Kupu whakataki Professor Claire Charters
Part I: Wāhine as Rangatira
"It's because I'm young, I'm a woman and I'm Māori" Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, Tamatha Paul, Maringi Kete and Rhianna Morar
Part II: The Resettlement of Afghan Women Judges in Aotearoa New Zealand
Introduction to Leave No Woman Behind: A fundraising event to support the resettlement of Afghan women judges in Aotearoa New Zealand Caroline Rieger
No judge left behind: Rescuing the Afghan women judges Justice Susan Glazebrook
Keynote address: The resettlement of Afghan women judges in Aotearoa New Zealand Judge Venus Azizi
Keynote address: The resettlement of Afghan women judges in Aotearoa New Zealand Judge Jaweed Sikandary
Part III: Protecting and Promoting Human Rights
Dignity: More pathways to human rights protection? Case comment - Marshall v IDEA Services Ltd Michael Timmins and Philippa Mitskevitch
Conversion practices prohibition: Why the Act's symbolic purpose was only partially realised Lara Cable
Part IV: Responding to Abuse
Patriarchy online: Evaluating the legislative response to online gender-based violence in Aotearoa New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Australia Dr Cassandra Mudgway
The ties that bind and trap: How a deeper understanding of culture can improve safety and humanitarian outcomes for victim-survivors of family violence and migrant exploitation in Aotearoa New Zealand's marginalised CALD communities Dhilum Nightingale
Part V: Oppressive Litigation
Seen but not heard: Defamation law in a post #MeToo world Ella Shepherd
Legally justified abuse? Protecting against abusive litigation in family law proceedings in New Zealand Molly Hurley
Part VI: Legal History
My life in law school? The unrecognised contribution of women law students to legal intellectual history in Aotearoa New Zealand Maisy Bentley