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3 Pub. Int. L.J. N.Z. 1 (2016)
The Auspices of Public Interest Law

handle is hein.journals/piljnz3 and id is 5 raw text is: EDITORS' NOTE The Auspices of Public Interest Law JAYDEN HOUGHTON* MARCELO RODRIGUEZ FERREREt A fundamental concern of public interest law is the representation of the underrepresented,' a concern that was reflected in the earliest definitions of the term in the 1970s.2 Since then, public interest law organisations have disagreed about which groups in society are, indeed, underrepresented, and this has led them to adopt and apply the term in vastly different ways, for numerous different purposes.3 The result is that those acting under the auspices of pub/ic interest law have taken opposing sides of nearly every divisive social and economic issue of our time.4 Acknowledging this ambiguity, our public interest law journal continues to adopt a broad conception of the term. Whilst the Journal is inclined to feature articles on civil liberties, environmental protection, consumer protection, employment, education, media reform, healthcare, welfare benefits, housing, voting, and occupational health and safety5-subject areas commonly associated with public interest law-it remains committed to advocating for those with less influence in society and open to * Rereahu Maniapoto. Faculty of Law, University of Auckland. t Faculty of Law, University of Otago. Jayden and Marcelo have written the Editors' Note for this issue on behalf of all members of the editorial team. 1 On the narrow conception of the term particularly, but also on the broad conception of the term. See Jayden Houghton Conceptions of Public Interest Law (2014) 1 PILJNZ 2 at 2. 2 See, for example, Charles R Halpern and John M Cunningham Reflections on the New Public Interest Law: Theory and Practice at the Center for Law and Social Policy (1971) 59 Geo LJ 1095; Gordon Harrison and Sanford M Jaffe Public Interest Law Firms: New Voices for New Constituencies (1972) 58 ABAJ 459 at 459; Council for Public Interest Law Balancing the Scales oflustice: Financing Public interest Law in America (Washington, DC, 1976) at 6; and Burton A Weisbrod Conceptual Perspective on the Public Interest: An Economic Analysis in Burton A Weisbrod, Joel F Handler and Neil K Komesar Public Interest Law: An Economic and Institutional Analysis(University of California Press, Berkeley, 1978) 4 at 22. 3 Ann Southworth What Is Public Interest Law: Empirical Perspectives on an Old Question (2013) 62 DePaul L Rev 493 at 497. 4 At 515. 5 At 497. See Weisbrod Conceptual Perspective, above n 2, at 57.

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