Rate My Professor Bridgette Toy-Cronin

University of Otago

Law Civil Law Commercial Law Procedural Law Law and Legal Studies

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5.010/19/2026

Always positive and enthusiastic in class.

5.04/23/2026

Brings enthusiasm and expertise to class.

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Associate Professor Bridgette Toy-Cronin serves as Dean of Te Kaupeka Tātai Ture | Faculty of Law and Associate Professor at the University of Otago. She holds a BA and LLB (Hons) from the University of Auckland, an LLM from Harvard Law School (2005), a Diploma in Te Ara Reo Māori from Te Wānanga o Aotearoa (2007), and a PhD from the University of Otago (2015) on 'Keeping Up Appearances: Accessing New Zealand's Civil Courts as a Litigant in Person'. Her career spans legal practice and academia: she interned at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, clerked for High Court judges in Wellington, advised on women's rights at the Cambodian Defenders Project in Phnom Penh, and worked as a commercial litigator in New Zealand and Australia before pursuing her doctorate and joining Otago in 2016. As Director of the Civil Justice Centre, she launched the National Civil Justice Observatory, and she co-directs the Otago Centre for Law and Society. Toy-Cronin collaborates with the New Zealand Bar Association, Rules Committee, and Courts Strategic Partnership Group.