Faculty of Law
Jane Kelsey
LLB(Hons) VUW, BCL Oxon, MPhil Cantab, PhD
Contact details
Building 803, room 212
17 Eden Crescent
Auckland
Phone: +64 9 923 8006
Email: j.kelsey@auckland.ac.nz
Available to students
Mondays and Wednesdays 2 - 3pm
Profile
Jane Kelsey is one of New Zealand's best-known critical commentators on issues of globalisation, structural adjustment and decolonisation. She hastaught at the University of Auckland since 1979, specialising in socio-legal studies, criminology, policy and international economic regulation.
She travels extensively talking on the New Zealand experiment and globalisation, especially the GATS, to a wide range of audiences and is an active member of a number of international coalitions of academics, trade unionists, NGOs and social movements working for social justice.
Jane is the author of numerous books and articles on the neoliberal restructuring of New Zealand since 1984, including the best-selling 'The New Zealand Experiment. A World Model for Structural Adjustment?'. Her latest book on globalisation, 'Serving Whose Interests? The Political Economy of Trade in Services Agreements', was published by Routledge in June 2008.
