Rick Bigwood

LLB(Hons), PhD ANU

Contact details
Building 801, room 4.14
9 Eden Crescent
Auckland

Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 88029
Email: r.bigwood@auckland.ac.nz

Available to students
Open door policy

Profile

Rick Bigwood is a Professor at The University of Auckland Faculty of Law. He holds an LLB(Hons) degree from the University of Auckland, and a PhD in law from the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Rick joined the Auckland Law Faculty in 1995. His principal teaching and research interests lie in the area of contract law. He has published widely in that field. Rick was formerly General Editor of the New Zealand Universities Law Review and Co-editor of New Zealand Law Review. He is currently Director of the Research Centre for Business Law in the Faculty.

Research Interests

• Contract law

Courses Taught

• LAW 241 Law of Contract (Course Coordinator)
• LAW HONS 733 Studies in Contract

Recent Publications

• BIGWOOD, R.A. (ed.) The Permanent New Zealand Court of Appeal: Essays on the First 50 Years. Oxford, Hart Publishing. xxxii + 377 pp, 2009.
• BIGWOOD, R.A. ‘From Morgan to Etridge: Tracing the (Dis)Integration of Undue Influence in the United Kingdom’ Chapter 15 in J.W. Neyers, R. Bronaugh, and S.G.A. Pitel (eds.) Exploring Contract Law. Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2009.
• BIGWOOD, R.A. ‘Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater? Four Questions on the Demise of Lawful-Act Duress in New South Wales’ University of Queensland Law Journal, 41–84, 2008.