Dr Dean Knight

Dean specialises in public and government law, with scholarly interests across a wide range of topics in constitutional and administrative law. Areas of particular emphasis in his work include judicial review of administrative action, local government and democracy, and constitutional reform.

Dean graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with LLB(Hons) and BCA degrees, rejoining the faculty of law as an academic in 2005 after a number of years in practice in with an Australasian law firm (specialising in litigation, public law and local government). He has completed an LLM (by thesis) at the University of British Columbia, Canada and a PhD at London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom.

Dean is a member of the NZ Centre for Public Law, co-chair of the Australasian chapter of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S AU-NZ) and an executive committee member of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand (LSAANZ). He also serves on the editorial committee of the NZ Journal of Public and International Law.

Dean has recently been a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an International Visiting Fellow at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law at the British Institute of International Comparative Law.