![handle is hein.journals/nzjpubinl20 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD:
PUBLIC LAW INSTITUTIONS,
NORMS, CULTURE
Dean R Knight*
This special issue of the New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law contains a set of
articles originally developed as part of a postgraduate course in the Faculty of Law at Te Herenga
Waka-Victoria University of Wellington.1 The course invited students, most of whom were studying
LLB(Hons) degrees, to produce a research paper on a public law topic, broadly defined; lines of
enquiry that interrogated public law's institutions, norms or culture were especially encouraged.
The papers were developed over the course of the academic year, preceded by a number of activities
to provide context and inspiration. Students first produced a background paper on an allocated topic
in public law. Topics explored included then proposed amendments supporting parliamentary
responses to declarations of inconsistency under the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990;2 an urgent
inquiry by the Waitangi Tribunal into Oranga Tamariki (Ministry for Children);3 recently enacted
legislation governing the public service;4 the border quarantine regime applying during the Covid-19
pandemic;5 the bespoke public health regime adopted to combat Covid-19;6 the largely unsuccessful
legal challenge to the Covid-19 nationwide lockdown;7 the project to systemise and refine the
* Faculty of Law and New Zealand Centre for Public Law, Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of
Wellington (dean.knight@vuw.ac.nz).
1 LAWS 522 Special Topic: Public Law Institutions, Norms, Culture (2021) Victoria University of
Wellington <www.wgtn.ac.nz>.
2 New Zealand Bill of Rights (Declarations of Inconsistency) Amendment Bill 2020 (230), since enacted as the
New Zealand Bill of Rights (Declarations of Inconsistency) Amendment Act 2022.
3 Waitangi Tribunal He Paharakeke, He Rito Whakakikanga Wharuarua: Oranga Tamariki Urgent Inquiry
(Wai 2915, 2021).
4 Public Service Act 2020.
5 See for example Covid-19 Public Health Response (Air Border) Order (No 2) 2020; and Covid-19 Public
Health Response (Isolation and Quarantine) Order 2020.
6 Covid-19 Public Health Response Act 2020.
7 Borrowdale v Director-General of Health [2020] NZHC 2090, [2020] 2 NZLR 864.
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