Mr John Ip

BA, LLB(Hons), LLM (Columbia)

Senior Lecturer

In: Law » Faculty of Law

Biography

John Ip's research interests lie in public and constitutional law, with a particular focus on legal issues arising out of post-9/11 counterterrorism measures, and in law and popular culture.

John is a graduate of the University of Auckland, and completed his postgraduate studies at Columbia University Law School, where he was a James Kent Scholar. Prior to joining the Faculty of Law in 2005, John worked on Guantánamo Bay and death penalty litigation at a non-governmental organisation in the United States, and was a Judges' Clerk at the Auckland High Court.

Research | Current

The normalisation of exceptional counterterrorism measures
Suspicionless counterterrorism stop and search powers
Counterrorism legislation concerning foreign fighters

Teaching | Current

LAW 121 - Law and Society
LAW 211 - Public Law
LAWPUBL 451 - Counterterrorism Law and Policy
LAWHONS 746 - Concepts in Law and Security

Postgraduate supervision

Recent thesis/dissertation supervision topics

Law, exception and Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy
The Weaponisation of Information
New Zealand's Response to the Foreign Fighter Phenomenon
A Case for a Parliamentary Human Rights Committee
Employment Preferences for Maori in the Public Health Sector
Counterterrorism, sting operations and entrapment
Narrowing the scope of the European Convention on Human Rights in the Control Order Cases
New Zealand’s police pursuit policy and an argument for its reform
The Motive Element in the Definition of a Terrorist Act
The Case for Compulsory Voting in New Zealand
The Office of Legal Counsel's post-2002 torture memoranda
Operation Neptune Spear: the targeted killing of Osama Bin Laden
Police discretion in The Wire
The sanctions regime under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1267

Areas of expertise

Counterterrorism and constitutionalism
Law and security
Comparative counterterrorism law
Public and constitutional law

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Ip, J. (2017). The legality of 'suspicionless' stop and search powers under the European Convention on Human Rights. Human Rights Law Review, 17 (3), 523-544. 10.1093/hrlr/ngw025
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/43729
Ip, J. (2016). The making of New Zealand’s foreign fighter legislation: Timely response or undue haste?. Public Law Review, 27 (3), 181-197.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/30858
Ip, J. (2015). Terrorism laws and constitutional accountability. In G. Lennon, C. Walker (Eds.) Routledge handbook of law and terrorism (pp. 99-115). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Ip, J. C. (2013). The Reform of Counterterrorism Stop and Search after Gillan v. United Kingdom. Human Rights Law Review, 13 (4), 729-760. Related URL.
Ip, J. C. (2013). Sunset Clauses and Counterterrorism Legislation. Public Law, January, 74-99. 10.2139/ssrn.1853945
Ip, J. (2012). Al Rawi, Tariq, and the Future of Closed Material Procedures and Special Advocates. Modern Law Review, 75 (4), 606-623. 10.1111/j.1468-2230.2012.00916.x
Ip, J. C. (2011). The Dark Knight’s War on Terrorism. Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 9 (1), 209-229.
Ip, J. C. (2010). The Supreme Court and House of Lords in the War on Terror: Inter Arma Silent Leges?. Michigan State Journal of International Law, 19 (1), 1-61.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/12418