Title

Adjunct Professor

Qualifications

ONZM, BCom LLB Cape Town, LLM PhD London

Profile

Dr Andrew Ladley is currently an Adjunct Professor in the School of Government, where he supervises graduate students and conducts his own research.

From March 2008 toJune 2009, he was a Senior Expert Mediator in the newly created Standby Team of mediation experts for the United Nations. This was a six-person team of international experts, funded by Norway through the Norwegian Refugee Council. He provided independent advice on constitutional and electoral matters to alleviate the risk of conflict. Other members of the team were experts in mediation processes, transitional justice, power sharing, and security matters. The team was held on ‘standby’ for deployment by the UN, wherever and whenever its services were required, including Kenya, Kosovo, Cyprus, the Philippines and many other situations.

Head of the University’s School of Government, Professor Terry Stokes noted that Dr Ladley’s appointment reflected his wealth of knowledge on conflict resolution, constitutions, state building, conflict resolution and peace building.

“These are areas in which Andrew taught, researched and practised at Victoria and particularly in the School of Government. This has been of great value for our students, and reflects the high esteem in which that work, and his expertise, is held by the international community and the New Zealand government"

Andrew completed a five-year term (2003 to 2008) as Director of the School of Government’s Institute of Policy Studies. Prior to that, he was Chief of Staff and Coalition Manager in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand. He joined the Faculty of Law at Victoria in 1987. In addition, he served with the UN in Cambodia, East Timor and Jamaica, worked for the Commonwealth in South Africa and Gambia, and assisted Amnesty International as a field researcher in Bosnia and Hercegovina, amongst other places.

As Director of the IPS, Andrew oversaw the programmes of the IPS across a broad range of public policy issues. He is a regular speaker, contributor or facilitator at conferences and seminars.

Currently, his research builds on his work in the areas of conflict resolution, peace building and restorative studies. This has a particular emphasis on constitutions and state building, reflecting not only his background as a constitutional lawyer but also his substantial practical experience on behalf of the United Nations, Amnesty International and the Commonwealth.

For his work in East Timor, Andrew was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit and he also received the inaugural Peacebuilders Award of the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO in 2000.

 

Selected recent publications

Ladley, A & Gill, D (2008) No State is an Island: Connected Governance in the South Pacific (Institute of Policy Studies, Wellington)

Ladley, A et al (2007) Report to the Pacific Islands Forum - Fiji Joint Working Group on the Situation in Fiji from the Independent Scoping Mission on the Electoral Process in Fiji, 31 July – 19 September 2007.

Ladley, A & White, N (2006) Conceptualising the Border (Institute of Policy Studies, Wellington).

Boston, J & Ladley, A (2006) ‘The Efficient Secret: The Craft of Coalition Management’ New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law (4)1, 55-90.

Ladley, A ‘Chapter 12 – The International Bill of Rights and Human Nature’ in Taylor, A (2006) Justice as a Basic Human Need (Nova Science Pub Inc, New York) 159-175.

Ladley, A (2005) ‘The Treaty and Democratic Government’ Policy Quarterly 1(1), 20-27.

White, N & Ladley, A (2005) ‘Claims to Treaty and Rights: Exploring the Terms of Crown-Maori Negotiation’ Policy Quarterly 1(2), 3-9.

Ladley, A (2005) ‘Peacekeeper Abuse, Immunity and Impunity: The Need for Effective Criminal and Civil Accountability on International Peace Operations’ Politics and Ethics Review 1(1).

Ladley, A & Martin, J R (eds) (2005) The Visible Hand (Institute of Policy Studies, Wellington).

Ladley A (2004) Election Lessons: The Election Audit Report on 3 by-elections held in Papua New Guinea in mid 2004 Institute of National Affairs, Port Morseby.

Ladley, A (2003) ‘Engaging and committing to peace operations’ in Howard, J & Oswald, B (eds) The Rule of Law on Peace Operations (Asia-Pacific Centre for Military Law, Melbourne).

Ladley, A (2000) ‘Who Should be Head of State’ in James, C (ed) Building the Constitution. (Institute of Policy Studies, Wellington) 267-275.

Ladley, A (1997) ‘The Head of State’ in Miller, R (ed) New Zealand Politics in Transition (Oxford University Press, Auckland) 51-61.