Rate My Professor Dawn Duncan

Dr Dawn Duncan is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Otago. Her academic qualifications include a BSocSc from the University of Waikato, LLB(Hons) from Victoria University of Wellington, Graduate Diploma in Dispute Resolution, Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety from Massey University, LLM(Hons) from the University of Auckland, and PhD from Victoria University of Wellington completed in 2019. The focus of her doctoral thesis was proposing a new model for the compensation of work-related health problems in the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) scheme. Before entering academia, Duncan practiced employment law in New Zealand and Australia, representing individuals, unions, and large employers across various sectors. She is a committee member of the New Zealand Labour Law Society and contributes to texts and resources on New Zealand employment law. Duncan regularly speaks to the media, government, unions, and employer groups on employment law and work health and safety topics.

At Otago, Dawn Duncan teaches primarily in labour law. Her research interests include employment law, labour market regulation and new forms of work, workers' compensation, ACC and work health and safety, social security law, and workplace dispute resolution. Key publications co-authored with Gordon Anderson include Employment Law in Aotearoa New Zealand, 3rd edition (LexisNexis, 2021) and The Changing Face of Discrimination in Aotearoa/New Zealand in Discrimination and Employment Law: International Legal Perspectives (Routledge, 2023, pp. 172-188). Other works are The Centre of Interests of the Employment Relationship with Andrew Toy in New Zealand Universities Law Review, 30(2), 201-224 (2022); Workers and Competition Law in New Zealand in The Cambridge Handbook of Labour in Competition Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 169-182); and her article Invisible Consequences: The Health Hazards of "Women's Work" in New Zealand in Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, 50(2), 341-358 (2019).