Associate Professor John Ip

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
• New Zealand's response to the 15/3 attack

Teaching | Current

• LAW 211 - Public Law
• LAWHONS 746 - Concepts in Law and Security

Postgraduate supervision

Recent thesis/dissertation supervision topics

• Law, exception and Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy
• The use of artificial intelligence in counterterrorism
• 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