Elizabeth Toomey Explained

Elizabeth Toomey
Nationality:	New Zealand
Fields:	Real estate law, disaster recovery law
Workplaces:	University of Canterbury
Alma Mater:	University of Canterbury

Elizabeth Toomey (born 1951) is a New Zealand law academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Canterbury.^{[1] [2]}

Education

Toomey completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Otago, followed by an LLM at the University of Canterbury.

Career

Toomey joined the faculty at University of Canterbury.^[2] Toomey's research interests include real property / real estate, several aspects related to the 2010 Canterbury earthquake and commercial law. She is a member of the Legal Aid Review Panel.^[2] Along with Jeremy Finn she got funding from the New Zealand Law Foundation to study the legal implications of disasters,^[3] which resulted in a book 'Legal Response to Natural Disasters' ^{[4] [5]} and select committee submissions.^[6]

Selected works

• Toomey, Elizabeth. "The slow road to recovery: a city rebuilds under the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Act 2011." In Asia-Pacific Disaster Management, pp. 217–243. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.
• Taylor, Lynne, Ursula Cheer, Debra Wilson, Elizabeth Toomey, and Sascha Mueller. "Improving the Effectiveness of Large Class Teaching in Law Degrees." New Zealand Law Review 2013, no. 1 (2013): 100–135.
• Toomey, Elizabeth. "The recovery phase in post-earthquake Christchurch, New Zealand." In Community-Based Reconstruction of Society, pp. 23–30. Springer, Singapore, 2017.
• Toomey, Elizabeth. "Trans-Tasman Sporting Leagues: Governance and Integration." Canterbury L. Rev. 18 (2012): 63.
• Toomey, Elizabeth. "Public participation in resource management: The New Zealand experience." NZJ Envtl. L. 16 (2012): 117.

External links

• • • institutional homepage

Notes and References

1. Web site: UC SPARK - University of Canterbury - New Zealand . Canterbury.ac.nz . 29 January 2018.
2. Web site: Business and Law Staff Profiles | University of Canterbury . Canterbury.ac.nz . 10 November 2017 . 29 January 2018.
3. Web site: Earthquake legal issue research project - NZ Law Society . Lawsociety.org.nz . 22 February 2012 . 29 January 2018.
4. Web site: Legal Response to Natural Disasters (Book) – Thomson Reuters New Zealand . Thomsonreuters.co.nz . 16 May 2015 . 29 January 2018.
5. Web site: Jeremy Finn and Elizabeth Toomey . Legal Response to Natural Disasters - NZ Law Society . Lawsociety.org.nz . 8 October 2015 . 29 January 2018.
6. Web site: Professor Jeremy Finn, Professor Elizabeth Toomey, Mr Robert Kipp - New Zealand Parliament . Parliament.nz . 13 August 2015 . 29 January 2018.