JACK HAS PUBLISHED NUMEROUS JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS AND DELIVERED SEVERAL PUBLIC LECTURES AND LEGAL SEMINARS. HE WAS THE FOUNDING EDITOR OF “THE CAPITAL LETTER” (1978-2006). JACK’S PUBLICATIONS HAVE COVERED A RANGE OF TOPICS FROM COMPANY AND COMMERCIAL LAW TO CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION. HE HAS ALSO WRITTEN ABOUT ADVOCACY, CIVIL PROCEDURE AND THE ROLE OF THE COURT.

 

Publications

A SELECTION OF JACK HODDER KC’S RECENT AND SELECTED EARLIER PUBLICATIONS FOLLOWs:

  1. Jack Hodder KC “Legal Change – ‘Reform’, ‘legality’ and the (once?) ‘Political constitution’” in Mark Hickford and Matthew S R Palmer (eds) The Futures of Democracy, Law and Government (Te Herenga Waka University Press, Wellington, 2024) 222.

  2. Jack Hodder KC “The regulatory environment: wrestling with change and stability” (paper presented to the New Zealand Law Society Intensive, Public Sector Governance—Change and Stability, 2024).

  3. Jack Hodder KC “One advocate’s opinions—the ‘least dangerous branch’? Predictability and unease” [2024] NZ L Rev 423

  4. Jack Hodder KC “Common law rights: legitimacy, politics and scepticism” (paper presented to the New Zealand Law Society, Human Rights Intensive, 2022)

  5. Jack Hodder KC “Climate change litigation: who’s afraid of creative judges?” (paper presented to the Climate Change Adaptation session of the Local Government New Zealand Rural and Provincial Sector Meeting, 2019).

  6. Jack Hodder SC “Capitalism, revolutions and our rule of law” (FW Guest Memorial Lecture) (2012) 12 Otago LR 627

  7. Jack Hodder “The Supreme Court: a brief introduction to a long conversation” in Claudia Geiringer and Dean Knight (eds) Seeing the world whole: essays in honour of Sir Kenneth Keith (Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2008).

  8. Jack Hodder “Departure from Wrong Precedents by Final Appellate Courts: Disagreeing with Professor Harris” (2003) NZ L Rev 161

  9. Jack Hodder “Employment Contracts, Implied Terms and Judicial Law-Making” (2002) 33 VUWLR 475

  10. Jack Hodder “Limits to and constraints on writing down a Constitution in a small society used to informality in its politics” in Building the constitution (Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, 2000).

  11. J E Hodder “Judicial Appointments in New Zealand” [1974] NZLJ 80