Nicola Peart
Professor
Law
University of Otago
New Zealand
Biography
Nicola graduated from Leiden University with a law degree majoring in International Law and completed an LLM in African Customary Law at the University of Cape Town. She commenced her academic career in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town where she taught Roman Law, Private law and European Union Law. She immigrated to New Zealand in 1986. After a year of study at the University of Otago she took up a lectureship in the Law Faculty in 1987, where she teaches Property Law, Wills and Trusts and Advanced Family Property Law. She also provides some teaching in medical law to medical students and supervises postgraduate students in the Law Faculty and the Otago Bioethics Centre doing research in medical law
Research Interest
Family Property and Succession Law, Medical Law
