Law news

Law School celebrates top students

Laughter and waiata marked this year’s AUT Law School awards, an annual event celebrating its top academic students along with their whānau and families.

Valuable experience at moot competition

Law students Tessa Whale, Joshua de Vries and Julie Cleaver recently represented AUT at the 8th annual NZ IHL Moot Court Competition in Wellington.

AUT moves up 50 places in world rankings

AUT is now in the top 1% of world universities and in the top 50 for research citations.

19 first in family scholarships awarded

19 AUT students were awarded Woolf Fisher First-in-Family AUT Scholarships at a celebration event at the AUT South Campus on Thursday 29 August.

Law degrees open up many avenues

A law degree doesn’t only lead to working in a law firm as the variety of employers at the AUT Law Career Fair indicated on Monday.

Grace makes global Badass Women list

AUT Law and Communications student Grace Stratton joins Rihanna, Marie Kondo and Nobel prize winner in global list

Challenging thinking at SAL

AUT and high school students got an inside look at the work days of top New Zealand’s business people recently at the 2019 Shadow a Leader event.

Why are accused rapists acquitted?

AUT Law School's Professor Kris Gledhill explains how an accused rapist can be acquitted even after compelling evidence is presented by a victim.

Explainer: how a royal commission will investigate Christchurch shootings

The trial of the man accused of the murders and attempted murders in the Christchurch mosque attacks is one small but important legal process.

62% increase in AUT researchers

Growing expertise to help New Zealand and the world