School of Law

School of Law

Professor Neil Boister

Position

Professor

Qualifications

  • BA University of Natal, South Africa (1984)
  • LLB University of Natal, South Africa (1986)
  • LLM cum laude, University of Natal,
    South Africa (1988)
  • PhD University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (1999)

Room

Room: 502, 5th floor, School of Law

Contact Details

Phone: +64 3 364 2987
Extension: 8780
neil.boister@canterbury.ac.nz

Postal address

School of Law
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand

Background

Neil Boister joined Canterbury as a Senior Lecturer in Law in 2003. He obtained a B.A. degree in English and African Politics from the University of Natal, followed by an LL.B. and a Master of Laws by thesis on the application of humanitarian law to the South African armed conflict.

In 1994, an award of a scholarship enabled Neil to read for a PhD at the University of Nottingham in international drug control law. After having taught criminal and international law at the University of Natal since 1991, he joined the School of Law at the University of Nottingham and taught there from 1998-2002 in criminal law, public law, international law and European criminal law.

Neil's research interests lie in the intersection between the fields of criminal law and international law. He has recently specialised in international drug control law and retains a strong interest in the humanitarian law of armed conflict.

Active Research

  • Interstate penal co-operation
  • International criminal law in the strict sense
  • Transnational criminal law
  • Domestic and comparative criminal law (general and special parts)

Publications since 2006

Further publications and CV

Books

  • Neil Boister and Robert Cryer, The Tokyo International Military Tribunal: A Reappraisal (Oxford: OUP, 2008), xviii + 358pp

Edited Collections

  • Neil Boister and Robert Cryer (eds.), Documents on the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal: Charter, Indictment and Judgments (Oxford: OUP, 2008), 1568pp. This volume contains a lengthy introduction by Professor Cryer and myself
  • Neil Boister (ed.), New Zealand Yearbook of International Law 2007-2008 (International Law Group: Christchurch, 2008), 382pp
  • Neil Boister (ed.), New Zealand Yearbook of International Law 2007 (International Law Group: Christchurch, 2007), 410pp
  • Neil Boister and A. Costi (eds.), Droit Pénal International dans le Pacifique: Tentatives d’Harmonisation Régionale / Regionalising International Criminal Law in the Pacific (New Zealand Association for Comparative Law/ Association de Législation Comparée des Pays du Pacifique, Wellington, 2006), xxv + 251pp

Articles, Notes, Chapters, and Reviews

  • Neil Boister, ‘Treaty Based Crimes’ in Antonio Cassese (ed.), The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice (Oxford: OUP, 2009), 540-542.
  • Neil Boister, ‘Why Developing States Should not Seek Expansion of the International Criminal Court’s Jurisdiction to include Treaty Crimes’ in S.V. Hoctor and P.J. Schwikkard (eds.), The Exemplary Scholar: Essays In Honour of John Milton (Cape Town: Juta & Co, 2007), 123-136 (by invitation)
  • Neil Boister, ‘Conspiracy and Cognate Doctrines at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal’, Australia and New Zealand Law and History E Journal, 2006 Refereed Papers, Paper 17, 1-16, available at www.anzlsejournal.auckland.ac.nz/pdfs_2006_17_Boister.pdf.
  • Neil Boister, Review of David McClean, Transnational Organised Crime: a Commentary on the United Nations Convention (Oxford: OUP, 2007), in the [2007] Criminal Law Review 915-7
  • A. Costi and Neil Boister, ‘Régionalisation du Droit Pénal International dans le Pacifique: Enjeux et Perspectives, in Neil Boister and Alberto Costi (eds.), Droit Pénal International dans le Pacifique: Tentatives d’Harmonisation Régionale / Regionalising International Criminal Law in the Pacific (New Zealand Association for Comparative Law/ Association de Législation Comparée des Pays du Pacifique, Wellington, 2006), 1-30
  • Neil Boister and Chris Gallavin, ‘Concluding Comment: Pacific Super Courts’, in Neil Boister and Alberto Costi (eds.), Droit Pénal International dans le Pacifique: Tentatives d’Harmonisation Régionale / Regionalising International Criminal Law in the Pacific (New Zealand Association for Comparative Law/ Association de Législation Comparée des Pays du Pacifique, Wellington, 2006), 241-251