Elizabeth Toomey

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

Elizabeth Toomey
Born1951 (age 69–70)
NationalityNew Zealand
Alma materUniversity of Canterbury
Scientific career
FieldsReal estate law, disaster recovery law
InstitutionsUniversity of Canterbury

Education

Toomey completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Otago, followed by an LLM at the University of Canterbury.

Career

Toomey joined the faculty at University of Canterbury.[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. "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. Jeremy Finn and Elizabeth Toomey (8 October 2015). "Legal Response to Natural Disasters - NZ Law Society". Lawsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  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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