MMP Symposium
Dean Knight has the full details, but here is the short version:
For people who are interested in a systematic assessment of the MMP, the New Zealand Centre for Public Law, in conjunction with Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
and the Centre for New Zealand Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, is hosting a symposium on MMP and the Constitution on 26 and 27 August 2008 (simultaneously video-cast in London, with a number of international speakers):New Zealand Centre for Public Law
GBLT1 and GBLT2,
Government Buildings
15 Lambton Quay
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington
New Zealand
6:30pm-10:00pm, Tuesday 26 August 2008
7:00am-10:30am, Wednesday 27 August 2008Centre for New Zealand Studies
ST274 and ST275, Stewart House
32 Russell Square
Birkbeck, University of London, London
United Kingdom
7:30am-11:00am, Tuesday 26 August 2008
8:00pm-11:30pm, Tuesday 26 August 2008
The programme is here. And one can register here. $25 for students, $175 for academics and a fairly expensive $250 for others. I was going to attend until I saw the $250 cost. That’s too much for me, just to cover the event on the blog.
August 11th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Fuck, is Bill Clinton gonna be there or something?
August 11th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Love to know why the University of London thought having a Centre for New Zealand Studies was a good idea…
August 11th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Haha! Actually I think $250 would probably qualify as a deposit on a seat at a Billy Clinton function.
August 11th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
I wish this type of stuff was held in Auckland…why do we always miss out?
August 11th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Wellington is the politics centre, like it or not.
August 11th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
David, just pay a tame PolSci student $25 to attend on your behalf. JD to make copious notes (or secret recordings!) and hand to you for publication. I’m interested but $250 is too much, but will share the $50 proposed/suggested.
August 11th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
I’d imagine, specially since it’s a video conference, that they’ll hand out a CD/DVD of proceedings to attendees. Get me a copy of that and of all the papers presented and I’ll match getstaffed’s $50 with $50 of my own (at least I think that’s what he’s suggesting). So you’re already down to $150… at this rate you’ll make a profit out of going
August 11th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Wow…being the Capital I would never have thought…
August 11th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
why are you wondering why we always miss out then?
August 11th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Rex, it’s $25 for students. so my suggestion should cost $50 all up. sounds like you’ve just become the premier sponsor
August 12th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Sorry guys, the fees are structured in order to cover the costs of the conference. I know that some people not in the field might find that steep, but in comparison to other scholarly conferences in law its pretty modest. And a bargain when compared with the professional legal conferences, which are often 5 or 10 times the price!