News: Privacy Law Scholarship at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Dr Nicole Moreham has asked us to draw the attention of our readers to a scholarship which is being offered by Victoria University of Wellington, in the Faculty of Law, for a student wishing to complete an LLM thesis on the law of privacy.  This is a one year scholarship, commencing in March or July 2014 and will cover living expenses and tuition fees.

The scholarship is to enable a student to complete a 50,000 word thesis which could include research into the protection of privacy in English, Commonwealth or US common law; the concept of privacy in search and seizure cases; press regulation; data protection; or privacy in Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The thesis will be supervised by Dr Moreham [pictured], the co-editor of Tugendhat and Christie, The Law of Privacy and the Media (2nd Edn). The closing date for applications is 22 November 2013.  If a suitable candidate is not found, the scholarship will be re-advertised after that date.  Scholarships will also be available in subsequent years.

Application forms and further information

For further information and application forms, please click on this link

About Dr Nicole Moreham

Dr Nicole Moreham is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington.  As well as being co-editor of and contributor to The Law of Privacy and the Media (2^nd ed, Oxford University Press, 2011, 952 pp), she has published numerous articles on the protection of privacy in England and Wales, New Zealand, and Europe. Her other research interests include the law of tort and media law.  Before joining the Victoria Faculty in 2006, Dr Moreham spent seven years at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge; first as an LLM and PhD student and then as a Fellow and Lecturer in Law.  In 2011, Dr Moreham was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship by the Royal Society of New Zealand which is providing the funding for this scholarship.

About Law at Victoria University of Wellington

The Faculty of Law at Victoria University of Wellington is based in an historic building opposite New Zealand’s Parliament Buildings and the Supreme Court.  It was judged the best law faculty in New Zealand in the 2011 PBRF (Performance Based Research Funding) evaluation. It is also ranked 19th in the 2013 QS World University Rankings Survey, making it the only faculty in New Zealand to reach the top 20.