Borrin Grants for Legal Projects

Learn more about the projects we have funded through our grant-making.

2023 Grants

Ivor Richardson Lecture

Ivor Richardson Lecture

The lecture honours the extraordinary contributions Sir Ivor Richardson made to New Zealand jurisprudence and the teaching of law.About the project The focus of the Ivor Richardson lecture is to be “Private Law in Action”, with the speaker drawn from leading New...

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Establishing the Centre for Justice Innovation

Establishing the Centre for Justice Innovation

The Centre for Justice Innovation is being established to provide an independent, evidence-based voice on justice issues, through multidisciplinary research, evaluation, and education. About the project With an emphasis on translation to operations and practice, the...

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Folau He Vahanoa Legal Education Programme

Folau He Vahanoa Legal Education Programme

The Folau He Vahanoa Legal Education programme will educate and empower those organisations and individuals engaged directly with Pacific families who are navigating legal issues.  Folau He Vahanoa will play an important role in ensuring that the voices of Pacific...

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Islands and Ocean: Public Law in a Plural World

Islands and Ocean: Public Law in a Plural World

“Islands and Ocean: Public Law in a Plural World”, 9th Annual Conference of the International Society of Public Law (ICON•S) hosted by the New Zealand Centre for Public Law at the Faculty of Law of Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington.About the project...

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2022 Grants

Content regulation and disinformation in New Zealand

Content regulation and disinformation in New Zealand

Brainbox is conducting legal research to investigate how disinformation can be approached as a policy problem without undermining human rights principles. About the project Currently, a number of jurisdictions around the world - including New Zealand - view...

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Educating for Change Together in the Legal Profession

Educating for Change Together in the Legal Profession

Using curated content from an April 2022 online wānanga targeted at low decile high school students potentially interested in law, this project will produce an engaging, long-lasting and easily accessible video series to educate and inspire more diverse peoples to...

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Te Rauhī i te Tikanga– A Tikanga Companion

Te Rauhī i te Tikanga– A Tikanga Companion

This project is the first stage in designing a rich digital resource, a ‘companion’, to assist those in the learning, teaching and practice of law in Aotearoa New Zealand to understand how tikanga Māori operate as legal norms for Māori communities, and how those norms...

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Rainbow Rights Conference

Rainbow Rights Conference

Te Kāhui Tika Tangata, the New Zealand Human Rights Commission is hosting a conference for Rainbow and Takatāpui communities on Rainbow rights in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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2021 Grants

Te Kura Reo o Te Hunga Rōia Māori o Aotearoa 2021

Te Kura Reo o Te Hunga Rōia Māori o Aotearoa 2021

Te Kura Reo o Te Hunga Rōia Māori o Aotearoa is an intensive, immersion style wānanga to provide te reo Māori language training tailored to the legal profession including lawyers judges, legal academics, legal professionals and law students.

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IAWJ’s 15th International Biennial Conference: “Celebrating Diversity”

IAWJ’s 15th International Biennial Conference: “Celebrating Diversity”

The International Association of Women Judges biennial conference brings together the judiciary and others working in law to cultivate a global network, create opportunities for judicial exchange, pioneer judicial education programmes and eliminate gender bias from judicial systems. In 2021, the NZ Association of Women Judges is hosting the biennial conference.

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2020 Grants

Live Law Manual

Live Law Manual

To support real time updating of legal information and the digital communications strategy for the ‘Live Law Manual’ bespoke content management platform, a digitally interactive version of the Community Law Manual.

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Access to Justice for Whānau, Hapū, Iwi

Access to Justice for Whānau, Hapū, Iwi

Developing digital content to educate and support Iwi and Māori social service providers and legal practitioners to support whanau working with Oranga Tamariki – Ministry for Children and the Family Court.

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2019 Grants

2019 Grant Summary

2019 Grant Summary

A summary of the grants we awarded in 2019 including grants that were co-funded with the New Zealand Law Foundation.

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2018 Grants

Inaugural grants

He Whaipaanga Hou – A New Approach 2018

He Whaipaanga Hou – A New Approach 2018

Completion of a comprehensive research project about the criminal justice system and Māori, 30 years on from the original landmark report, including a comparative study of other criminal justice systems and other indigenous peoples.

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