Associate Professor John Hopkins
Position
Associate Professor
Qualifications
- BA(Hons) Strath (1992)
- PhD Sheff (1996)
Room
Room: 524, 5th floor, School of Law
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364 2987
Extension: 7963
john.hopkins@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address
School of Law
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand
Background
John Hopkins joined Canterbury as a Senior Lecturer in Law in 2006. He undertook his undergraduate studies in Modern History and Law at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and Trinity College, Dublin. He was awarded a faculty scholarship by the University of Sheffield Law School where he studied for his PhD and worked as a part-time member of faculty until 1995.
In 1995 he took up the post of Research Associate at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies at the University of Newcastle before spending six years as a Lecturer in Law at the University of Hull. In 2003 he emigrated to New Zealand and worked as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato until 2006. He is also former Deputy Directory of the Institute of European Public Law.
Dr. Hopkins has a wide range of research interests, mainly in the fields of comparative public law and international law. Much of his work has examined the development of federal or multi-level governance at the domestic and international levels. Although most of his work has examined systems of autonomy within nation-states, his recent focus has been the connection between domestic and international public law and the application of federal ideas to international organisations.
Other research interests include administrative justice and constitutional history.
Active Research
- Administrative Law in New Zealand
- International Organisations
- Law and Security after September 11th
- Federalism/Regionalism
Recent Publications
Piercing the Veil: Executive Detention and Judicial Deference in Law and Security After September 11th, Yearbook of New Zealand Jurisprudence, vol 8, issue 1, 2005, pp239-259.
A Considered Judgment The Nations and Regions Research Project, European Public Law , vol 10, no 4, 2004, pp677-682.
Power to the Provinces: Labour's Plans for English Regional Government, Yearbook of New Zealand Jurisprudence, vol 6, issue 1, 2004, pp57-74.
An England of Regions? The UK Government's Proposals for English Regional Devolution, European Public Law, vol 10, no 2, 2004 pp245-260.
Subnational Crossborder & Foreign Relations, in Koller A & Blindenbacher R (eds), Federalism in a Changing World: Learning From Each Other, Queens University Press, 2003.
Fitting Round Pegs into Square Holes: Multi-layered Governance and International Organisations, Canterbury Law Review, vol 8, December 2002 pp440-452.
The Regional Revolution, European Lawyer, October 2002.
Devolution in Context: Regional, Federal and Devolved Government in the European Union, Cavendish Publications, May 2002.
Muddling Through: Devolution and the British State (in French), Revue Juridique d'Auvergne, 2002.
The End of Britain? Thoughts on the Future of National Sovereignty in a Regional Europe, Yearbook of New Zealand Jurisprudence, 2002.