NZ Law Review

We publish The New Zealand Law Review quarterly. It has been in publication, in various forms, since our inception in 1966, and is widely regarded as New Zealand's leading law review. It includes refereed articles by leading New Zealand and international scholars, together with regular reviews of the major areas of law, written by specialist contributing editors.

To purchase previous individual articles or issues of the NZ Law Review in PDF format, or to order a hard copy, see Published Issues below.

If you would like to view any issues prior to 2022, please email Julia Clancy at info@legalresearch.org.nz.

New Zealand Law Style Guide

Submissions

The review welcomes the submission of articles. The Editors of the New Zealand Law Review are Michael Littlewood and Jane Norton, from the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Law.

The Editors are experts in the relevant field and assess submissions. Their usual practice is to obtain two such reviews and peer review is on an anonymous basis. Please note that the Editors’ decision on which submission is accepted, is final.

The Editors will not consider articles that have been published elsewhere or are concurrently under consideration for publication elsewhere. As the Author, we ask that you please confirm this is not the case when making your submission(s).

Please submit articles by email to the editors, as an email attachment in Word format. Your article(s) needs to:

- Include an abstract of approximately 150 words, and a short statement of your/the Author’s current affiliations and any other relevant personal details.
- Comply with the New Zealand Law Style Guide (Third Edition), available online via link on this page above
- Be 8,000 to 13,000 words in length (including all footnotes).

If your article is accepted for publication, you will receive a copy of the relevant journal part and a PDF offprint (which is not to be posted online). You will also agree to:

- Assign to the publisher their rights to payments distributed by reproduction rights organisations in relation to the Review.
- Agree to licence the publisher to publish articles appearing in the Review through online databases operated by third parties such as Lexis.com and HeinOnline.
- Agree to offer articles for sale online (as well as in print) individually or as an online subscription.

Email your submission(s) to: Michael Littlewood at m.littlewood@auckland.ac.nz or Jane Norton at jane.norton@auckland.ac.nz.