GAY DIANE MORGAN
Senior Lecturer
Te Piringa – Faculty of Law
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Yale University, LL.M., 1991.
University of San Diego, Juris Doctorate, summa cum laude, 1990.
United States Peace Corps Language Program (French, Lingala, More) 1976 & 1977.
United States Peace Corps Teacher Training, 1976.
University of Colorado, Bachelor of Arts, physics, 1976.
ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS
Yale Law School Fellowship 1991-92 (full tuition for LLM, plus stipend for ongoing
scholarly residence).
Dean's Award for Legal Scholarship, 1990.
General George W. Hickman Award, 1990 (for excellence in the study of
constitutional law and related subjects).
Executive Editor, San Diego Law Review, Vol. 27.
University of San Diego School of Law Academic Excellence Scholarships,
1988-89 & 1989-90 (full tuition).
American Jurisprudence Awards: (offered to the best law student in each area)
Property, Torts, Civil Procedure, Evidence, Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure,
Federal Jurisdiction, Remedies, Conflicts, Administrative Law, and Professional
Responsibility (1987-1990).
PROFESSIONAL BODIES
Member of the United States Appellate Bar, admitted 1996.
Member of the State Bar of California, admitted 1990.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Legal Research Foundation
New Zealand Human Rights Foundation founding member
Australia & New Zealand Law and History Association
Australasian Law Teachers Association
Comparative Constitutional Law Centre
Centre for Maori and Indigenous Governance
Friends of Burkina Faso
Ashoka
EXPERIENCE
June 1996 to present
.
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Waikato
Convenor, Honours Programme, Te Piringa – Faculty of
Law
Associate Dean Postgraduate, Te Piringa – Faculty of Law
Convenor, Centre for New Zealand Jurisprudence, 1997-04.
Previous Appointments
Judicial Clerkship to The Honourable C. Arlen Beam, United States Court of Appeals for
the Eighth Circuit. Legal and policy research, writing and advocacy, with an assigned
responsibility for death penalty appeals,1992-96.
Law Clerk, Appellate Defenders, Inc., San Diego, California. Preparing appeals for
indigent criminal defendants, 1989. Open offer to continue employment received.
Legal Researcher for the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, Larry Alexander, at
the University of San Diego, 1988-90.
Volunteer for a road construction project financed by the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) working on a road between M’bout and Selibabe,
Mauritania. Aided field surveying and construction of road drainage structures for a
road project, 1986.
Contracted Agricultural Officer, Bujumbura, Burundi.
Coordinated the agricultural
component of the USAID foreign assistance program for Burundi, 1985.
Rainfall Research Volunteer, for the Bakel Livestock Project, Bakel, Senegal, financed by
the University of Michigan through USAID, in Senegal. Assisted rainfall research and
land surveying for a hydrological study and hydrological infrastructure project for N.E.
Senegal, 1983-84.
Contracted Project Officer, USAID, Ougadougou, Burkina Faso. Coordinated projects in
agriculture, fisheries, solar energy, remote sensing, and wells, 1979-8.
Peace Corps Volunteer, Koupela, Burkina Faso.
Advised women’s agriculture
cooperatives, community development & organization committees, and photo voltaic
solar energy projects, 1977-79.
Peace Corps Volunteer, Ebonda, Zaire. Taught physics and mathematics in upper level
Secondary School, and introductory auto mechanics in lower level Secondary School,
1976-77.
SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH
Publications
Morgan, G, ed. ‘Introduction’ Yearbook of NZ Jurisprudence, Volume 9 (2007) (may also
be cited as 06) i-iii.
Morgan, G, ed. Yearbook of NZ Jurisprudence, Volume 9 (2007) (may also be cited as 06)
1-360.
Morgan, G “Evolution and the Common Law by Alan C. Hutchinson” Book Review in
(2005) 13 Waikato Law Review 190-2.
Morgan, G & Midson, B, eds.
(published in 04) 1- 112.
Yearbook of NZ Jurisprudence, Volume 6 (2002-03)
Morgan, G “Searching for Common Ground” in Liberalism and Illiberalism 12 Journal of
Contemporary Legal Issues (2002) 757 – 802.
Morgan, G & Havemann, P eds Revisioning Citizenship for the 21st Century: 23-24
February 2000, Conference Proceedings (2001) 1- 253.
Morgan, G “Differentiated Citizenship or Pandoran Box?” in Revisioning Citizenship for
the 21st Century (2001) 208-16.
Morgan, G “Legislating Morality or is Cloning a Harm?” in Kingsbury, A ed, Hello Dolly?
Therapeutic Cloning of Human Embryos and Human Cloning (2001) 71-76.
Morgan, G & Havemann, P eds, Revisioning and Reclaiming Citizenship Colloquium: 23-24
November, 1998 (2001) 1- 95.
Morgan, G “Citizenship: Pluralism and Trust” in Revisioning and Reclaiming Citizenship
Colloquium (2001) 64-66.
Morgan, G “Reflections on Pluralist Conundrums” (1998) 2 Yearbook of NZ
Jurisprudence 71-108.
Morgan, G, Women in the American Welfare Trap by Kingfisher, C (1996) 4 Waikato Law
Review 174.
Morgan, G, Editorial, “Rationing health care is much like the death penalty” (20 March
1998), NZHerald, Dialogue page.
Conference and other presentations
Morgan, G “Public law and acoustic separation - is out constitutionalism the modern
realisation of Plato's noble lie?” NZ Public Law Colloquium. University of Auckland,
Auckland, 9-10 June. 2011. p.1-6.
Morgan, G "Thou shalt not tell" - would a therapeutic approach enable children to break
their silences in safety? Justice in the Round. The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New
Zealand;18-20th April 2011. p.1-6.
Morgan, G “Considering Couch v the Attorney General in the context of historical
development and purposes of punitive damages at common law: is there a theory to fit the
facts?” 29th Annual Australian and New Zealand Law and History Conference. Melbourne,
Australia; 13-15th December 2010. p.1-49.
Morgan, G “Developing absurd theatre: acquiescence to the scam” 27th Annual Conference
of the Law and Society Association of New Zealand and Australia. Victoria University of
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand; 8-10 December 2010. p.1-4.
Morgan, G “Adding Insult to Injury” at the Australasian Law Teachers Association
conference, July 10, 2010
Morgan, G “Mugabe was right, but in the wrong way” Canada-NZ conference at Victoria
University Faculty of Law in Wellington, Feb 10, 2010
Morgan, G “New Zealand’s Constitutionalism”, small staff seminar at the University of
Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Dec 06.
Morgan, G “New Zealand’s ‘brand’ of Constitutionalism” seminar at West African
Research Centre, Dakar, Senegal, Oct 06.
Morgan, G “Looking at ‘Wrongs’ instead of ‘Rights” at the Closing Plenary of the
COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONALISM AND RIGHTS: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES conference, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, December 10 to 13,
2005.
Morgan, G “Looking at Wrongs instead of Rights: 'Shared Bads', Australiasian Law
Teachers Conference (July 2005)
Morgan, G “Shared Bads as a Practical Principle”, Forum 21 4th annual conference
“Principles & Practicalities”, Marseille, France (7-10th April 05)
Morgan, G “Intervention is the Operative Word” at Forum 21’s 4th annual conference on
“Accommodating our Differences” Chantilly, France (25-28 March 04).
Morgan, G “The Politics of Jurisdiction: Bringing a Comparative Historical Perspective to
New Zealand’s proposed Supreme Court” at the 22nd Annual Conference of the Australia
& New Zealand Law & History Society on “Defining Jurisdictions and Boundaries”,
Brisbane, Australia (10 – 11 July 2003).
Morgan, G “Education: A Force Against Intolerance & Violence?” at Forum 21’s 3rd
annual conference on “Improving the Human Condition”, La Baule, France (27-30 March
2003).
Morgan, G “Clean Hands” at ‘The War on Terrorism’: Democracy Under Challenge
conference, Victoria University Law School, Melbourne (9 August 2002).
Morgan, G “Clean Hands: Problems of Democracy’s Moral Accountability” Public Panel
Discussion, Dept. of Political Science & Public Policy, University of Waikato, (27
September 2001).
Morgan, G: Sessional Chair, “Prospects and Retrospects: Law in History 2001” at the
20th Annual Conference of the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society,
Dept. of History, School of Law & Centre for New Zealand Jurisprudence, University of
Waikato, (July 7-8, 2001).
Morgan, G “Legislating Morality” Hello Dolly Cloning Conference, Centre for New
Zealand Jurisprudence, University of Waikato, (May 26, 2001).
Morgan, G: Moderator, “Consumer Law Beyond the Automobile: New Directions of
Consumer Law” Centre for New Zealand Jurisprudence Round Table (6 April 2001).
Morgan, G “Is there a Scandal in Liberalism and Does it Matter” (Feb 2-3,2001)
Symposium, University of San Diego School of Law.
Morgan, G & Whiu. L: Submission & Appearance before Parliamentary Regulations
Review Select Committee Inquiry into regulation-making powers that authorize
international treaties to override any provisions of New Zealand enactments” (Nov,
2000, March 2001).
Morgan, G “Lawful Homicide” (June 10, 2000) Dying with Dignity Forum, Centre for
Continuing Education, University of Waikato.
Morgan, G “Constitutional Dialogue: A proposal” (13 April 2000) Laws & Institutions for
Aotearoa/New Zealand Advisory Panel presentation, Hamilton.
Morgan, G “Differentiated Citizenship: Panacea or Pandoran Box?” (22-23 February
2000) CNZJ Citizenship for the 21st Century conference.
Morgan, G “Constitutional Redesign in New Zealand: Pluralist Institutions and Trust”
Conference Presentation, Fifth World Congress International Association of
Constitutional Law, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, July 12-16, 1999. Same is
published on the IACL conference website.
Morgan, G “Pluralistic conundrums” 23-24 Nov. 1998 CNZJ Re Visioning Citizenship
colloquia.
Morgan, G “Pluralism – what is it” (19 June 1998) Laws and Institutions for a Bicultural
Aotearoa/New Zealand Conference, Wellington.
Morgan, G “Pluralism and trust” (19 June 1998) Laws and Institutions for a Bicultural
Aotearoa/New Zealand Conference, Wellington.
Contract Research
3 section project on plural governmental systems, both normative and comparative in
focus, in respect to bicultural and indigenous peoples’ issues. Laws and Institutions for a
Bicultural Aotearoa/New Zealand FoRST program. Completed Dec. 1998.
Inquiry into possible normative bases for a pragmatic pluralism, Laws and Institutions
for Aotearoa/New Zealand of the Te Matahauariki Institute (fund by FoRST (Feb, 2002).
Completed: Morgan, G “Shared Bads”
Research Design & Administration
1999 Co-objective leader in the Law School FoRST project to develop bicultural legal
institutions for New Zealand, participated in the design and drafting of the next phase of
this project.
1997 Constestable Research Grant awarded for study of pluralism, School of Law.
ONGOING SCHOLARSHIP & CONTINUING EDUCATION
Current Medium to Long term Research Activities
Comparative Constitutional Study of the constitutional systems and history of New
Zealand, Finland, and Senegal
Developing a jurisprudential model which takes into account the chaotic effects of law's
systemic properties, with an eye towards uncovering areas where small changes lead to
destabilisation (or stabilisation) of governmental systems.
Creating a paradigm which illuminates our responsibilities and relations to other
species, their rights, and deep ecology.
Problems of self-determination, pluralism, and people's moral accountability for their
actions and their government.
Exploring whether and how the acoustic separation inherent in complex legal systems
is compatible with self-governance.
Continuing Education
Yale Legal Theory Workshop, 1991-present.
Te Hiranga Maori (the Certificate in Maori Studies), a three year programme of language
and cultural studies offered by the School of Maori and Pacific Development (two years
completed).
“Law, Economics and the Problem of Knowledge: Prospects for an Institutional
Approach” (19 Sept 1997) The Australian Society of Legal Philosophy, The University of
Queensland, Brisbane.
Yale Legal History Forum Lecture Series, Yale University, Sept-Dec 1999.
Yale Legal Theory Workshop Lecture Series, Yale University, Sept-Dec 1999
Faculty Works in Progress Seminar Series, Yale University, Sept-Dec 1999.
Law & Economics Lecture Series, Yale University, Sept-Dec 1999.
1st annual Faculty Research Colloquia, 17 Jan 2000, University of San Diego.
TEACHING AND SERVICE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO
Teaching
Constitutional Law LAWS 107/Public Law A LAWS201 (Convenor)
Jurisprudence LAWS203 (Convenor)
Applied Legal Theory LAWS421 (Convenor)
Comparative Law LAWS 411 (Convenor)
Legal Theory LAWS566 (Convenor)
Research Masters Supervision (Thesis only)
PhD Supervision
External examination of Masters Theses
.
University Administration
Post-Graduate Studies Committee, 2010 - present.
University Admission Appeals Committee, 2011-present
Academic Board, elected Te Piringa – Faculty of Law member, 2009-2011.
Continuing Education BOS, 2009-present.
University of Waikato Leave Committee, 2000-03.
University of Waikato International Student Support Group, 1996-97.
Te Piringa –Facutly of Law Administration
Associate Dean, Post-Graduate, present
Convenor, Law Honours Degree, 2003–present.
Conference Organizing Committee of ‘Justice in the Round’ 2011
Convenor, Law School Visitors Programme, 2001-2010.
Convenor, Staff Seminar Series, 1997-2010.
Convenor, Centre for New Zealand Jurisprudence, 1997-04 (organized 4 conferences
and 3 conference proceedings)
Undergraduate Programmes Committee, 2001-present.
Law Library Committee, 2001-2011.
Law Research Committee, 1996– present.
Admissions Committee, 1996-97, 2008–present.
Editor for student submissions, Waikato Law Review, 2010 - present.
Editorial Board of the Yearbook of New Zealand Jurisprudence, 1999-2008, 2012
Undergraduate Curriculum Review Committee, 2001-03.
Law School Leave Committee, 2001-03.
Editorial Board of the Waikato Law Review, 1996-05.
Waikato Law School Human Research Ethics Committee, 1996-03.
Convenor, Law School International Students’ Committee, 1997-98.
INTERESTS
Languages, cosmology, philosophy, travel, nature, reading, gardening, animals, birdwatching, snorkeling, double bass, piano, learning & life.
Signed: Gay Morgan
Dated: September 19, 2012