Travel and Learning Award for George Sabonadière
Supporting George Sabonadière to travel to Frankfurt to meet with directors of a cross-jurisdictional study on British and German socio-legal theory.
Borrin Foundation Travel and Learning Award
George’s plan
George will use the Travel and Learning Award to travel to the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt, Germany for three weeks in mid-2025. He plans to meet with researchers from Germany and the United Kingdom who have completed the comparative study “Socio-legal trajectories in Germany and the UK: cultures, actors and institutions”.
George intends to then collaborate with a visiting Brazilian researcher, Ciro Linhares, to analyse the findings of the bi-national study and apply them to Brazil and New Zealand as case studies of colonised states which inherited civil- and common-law legal systems, respectively. These findings will be shared with the New Zealand legal community on George’s return.
About George
George Sabonadière (LLB(Hons) (Otago)) is a Judge’s Clerk at the Supreme Court of New Zealand and outgoing Editor-in-Chief of the New Zealand Law Students’ Journal, residing in Wellington. As a student and Research Assistant at the University of Otago | Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, he undertook research in a range of areas, particularly public law, Māori law, construction law, sexual violence law and regulation of emerging technologies. George’s interests primarily lie in constitutional law and the roles of institutions of government.
Grant Amount
$8,170 in 2025 to support travel
“The Travel and Learning Award gives me the opportunity to explore a topic of real personal interest with a level of depth and immersion that would simply not otherwise be possible as an early-career professional in full-time work.”