David Grinlinton

Associate Professor
BA Massey, LLB(Hons), LLM Western Aust
Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand

Contact details
Building 801, room 4.16
9 Eden Crescent
Auckland

Phone: +64 9 923 7230
Email: d.grinlinton@auckland.ac.nz

Available to students
Open door policy

Profile

David Grinlinton has been with the Faculty since 1990 having previously spent time in legal practice. David's teaching and research interests include real property law, mining, energy and natural resources law. He has published widely in these areas, and is a regular presenter at both local and international conferences and symposia.

David is also a Founding Member of the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law which is based in the Faculty. He is the General Editor of the LexisNexis Resource Management Bulletin, and a member of the editorial board of the New Zealand Journal of Environmental Law.

Research Interests

• Land law, commercial leases
• Property rights and natural resources
• Mining and energy law
• Environmental enforcement

Special Interests

David’s research has often dealt with the interrelationship between property rights and environmental law and the inherent tensions between private rights and the public interest in this area.

An area of current interest is the development of sustainable energy, and in particular, wind farm developments.

Courses Taught

• Law 301 Land Law
• Law 446 Mining and Natural Resources Law
• Law 705 Commercial Leases
• Law 713 Mining, Energy and Natural Resources Law

Selection of Recent Publications & Conference Papers

• "New Zealand Planning Law", Ch 6.7 in Anker, Olsen & Ronne, Legal Systems and Wind Energy Law - A Comparative Perspective (2008, DJOF Publishing Copenhagen), 145 et seq.
• "Integrating the normative principle of sustainability into water and soil conservation - the New Zealand approach", 15th International Soil Conservation Organization Conference, Budapest Hungary, 18-23 May 2008.
• Fraser, Grinlinton & Sibbald, Commercial Leases, (New Zealand Law Society, April-May 2008, 112 pp)
• "Do coastal permits under the RMA create rateable interests in land?", (2008) 7 BRMB pp 116.
• "The nature of property rights in resource consents" (2007) 7 BRMB 37.
• "Property rights, the "public interest" and global considerations: The case of wind energy development", (2007) 7 BRMB 62.
• "Expanding the Boundaries of Accretion and Erosion: Eldrige v Beange", (2006) 12(3) New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, 222.
• "Consultation, ethics, and the exercise of council discretion — getting the balance right", (2006) 6 BRMB 95.
• "Special Report on New Zealand and Selected South Pacific Countries", International Symposium" Environmental Law in Asia - From Law-making to Enforcement and Compliance, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, 9-10 July 2005.
• "New Zealand: Recent Developments in Electricity Supply and Renewable Energy", (2005) 24 Australian Resources and Energy Law Journal, 301.
• "Is wind power the answer to New Zealand’s energy needs", (2005) 6 BRMB 71.
• "Legal methods and strategies to promote the sustainable use of soil: ‘Integrated Environmental Management’ in New Zealand", International Workshop on Strategies, Science and Law for the Sustainable Management and Conservation of the World’s Soil Resources, Selfoss, Iceland, 14-18 September 2005.
• ‘The Foreshore and Seabed Policy and the Doctrine of Res Communes’, (2004) 5 BRMB 97.
• Grinlinton (ed), Torrens in the Twenty First Century (2003, LexisNexis, Wellington, 425pp).
• "Private Property Rights versus Public Access: The Foreshore and Seabed Debate", (2003) 7 NZJEL 313.