John Dawson

Biography

  Professor John Dawson was educated in New Zealand and North America, at Otago and Harvard universities, and have taught as a visitor at McGill in Montreal and at the University of Toronto. The main focus of his research is the law governing involuntary psychiatric treatment and legal relations between mental health professionals and their clients. He study these matters in the law books and in fieldwork conducted within the mental health services. Often this involves collaboration with health professionals and social scientists. He have also had a long involvement with law reform. In his secondary field of research, public law, his focus has been on relations between the NZ state and Maori, and on Treaty of Waitangi settlements.

Research Interest

 Mental Health Law, Law Governing Research, Treaty of Waitangi Settlements.