Katherine Sanders, University of Auckland Faculty of Law, has posted Away from the Familiar: Judges in Public Debate and as Commissioners, which appeared in Challenge and Change: Judging in Aotearoa New Zealand, edited by John Burrows and Jeremy Finn:
--Dan ErnstThis chapter aims to act as a starting point for discussion of the New Zealand judiciary acting "away from the familiar" by introducing some historical examples of judges "speaking out" off the bench and serving as commissioners. Given the breadth of this topic, the chapter makes no claim to be a comprehensive survey of judicial engagement in public debate, or of judicial service on commissions of inquiry. Rather, it asks how the judiciary has negotiated the challenges of acting away from the familiar, and examines how norms regarding judicial conduct relate to constitutional values and social change. The examples explored have been chosen because they enable inquiry into these questions.
