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Elizabeth Toomey
Born1951
NationalityNew Zealand
Alma materUniversity of Canterbury
Scientific career
Fieldsreal estate, disaster recovery
InstitutionsUniversity of Canterbury

Elizabeth Toomey (born 1951) is a New Zealand law academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Canterbury.[1][2]

Academic career

Toomey did her undergraduate studies at the University of Otago, followed by an MLaws at the University of Canterbury and joining the faculty.[2]

Toomey's research interests include real property / real estate, several aspects related to the 2010 Canterbury earthquake and commercial law. She is a member of the Legal Aid Review Panel.[2] Along with Jeremy Finn she got funding from the New Zealand Law Foundation to study the legal implications of disasters,[3] which resulted in a book 'Legal Response to Natural Disasters' [4][5] and select committee submissions.[6]

Selected works

  • Toomey, Elizabeth. "The slow road to recovery: a city rebuilds under the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Act 2011." In Asia-Pacific Disaster Management, pp. 217-243. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.
  • Taylor, Lynne, Ursula Cheer, Debra Wilson, Elizabeth Toomey, and Sascha Mueller. "Improving the Effectiveness of Large Class Teaching in Law Degrees." New Zealand Law Review 2013, no. 1 (2013): 100-135.
  • Toomey, Elizabeth. "The recovery phase in post-earthquake Christchurch, New Zealand." In Community-Based Reconstruction of Society, pp. 23-30. Springer, Singapore, 2017.
  • Toomey, Elizabeth. "Trans-Tasman Sporting Leagues: Governance and Integration." Canterbury L. Rev. 18 (2012): 63.
  • Toomey, Elizabeth. "Public participation in resource management: The New Zealand experience." NZJ Envtl. L. 16 (2012): 117.

References

  1. ^ "UC SPARK - University of Canterbury - New Zealand". Canterbury.ac.nz. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Business and Law Staff Profiles | University of Canterbury". Canterbury.ac.nz. 10 November 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Earthquake legal issue research project - NZ Law Society". Lawsociety.org.nz. 22 February 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Legal Response to Natural Disasters (Book) – Thomson Reuters New Zealand". Thomsonreuters.co.nz. 16 May 2015. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  5. ^ 08 October 2015 - By Jeremy Finn and Elizabeth Toomey (8 October 2015). "Legal Response to Natural Disasters - NZ Law Society". Lawsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 29 January 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ "Professor Jeremy Finn, Professor Elizabeth Toomey, Mr Robert Kipp - New Zealand Parliament". Parliament.nz. 13 August 2015. Retrieved 29 January 2018.


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