Philip Joseph’s Constitutional and Administrative Law in New Zealand is one of the most recognised legal treatise titles in New Zealand. Now entering its fifth edition, this perennial text has been modernised with the new title Joseph on Constitutional and Administrative Law. The new edition builds on the strengths of earlier editions, coupling historical and contemporary analyses of public law principles, while also including a new exploratory chapter on Tikanga Maori and the law.
The new edition continues the high scholarly standards that distinguished the earlier editions. It represents a thorough and comprehensive revision of constitutional and administrative law developments since the previous edition published in 2014. It interrogates contemporary developments, while retaining the scholarly account of the doctrinal foundations of public law that is a defining feature of the text. A key development with the fifth edition is the new chapter that records increasing integration of tikanga Maori in legislative and judicial developments. The author interprets these developments as comprising a new form of legal pluralism that signals a distinctively indigenous, New Zealand jurisprudence.
