Fear and loathing: the Auckland University Business and Law School merger

Fear and loathing: the Auckland University Business and Law School merger
University of Auckland vice-chancellor Dawn Freshwater: ahead of the pack or endangering an icon? (Image: Supplied)
Pattrick Smellie
If you want to blow minds in the legal profession, suggest merging the country’s leading law school with the country’s leading business school.A proposal to amalgamate the University of Auckland’s (UoA) Schools of Law and Business and Economics has been a spanner in the works for the Christmas holiday plans of opponents.“There is enormous pushback from the legal profession and the law faculty,” leading Auckland King’s Counsel Jim Farmer told BusinessDesk on a proposal that was first publicised in mid-November...

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