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Otago Law Review

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 21, 2024
Entity authorityQ7108345 ↗
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Otago Law Review is a peer-reviewed academic law review of the Faculty of Law of the University of Otago. It publishes articles and notes related to study and practice of law, with special focus on issues involving New Zealand law.

The Otago Law Review has been published annually by the Otago Law Review Trust Board since 1965. The members of its editorial board are faculty members of Otago's Faculty of Law. In 2007, its editor was Margaret Briggs, with Barry Allen and Stephen Smith as members of the editorial committee.

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This entry incorporates text from “Otago Law Review” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.