UC law academic named Fulbright Visiting Scholar in NZ Studies
26 October 2011
University of Canterbury law academic Dr John Hopkins has been named a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in New Zealand Studies for 2012.
Dr John Hopkins.
University of Canterbury law academic Dr John Hopkins has been named a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in New Zealand Studies for 2012.
Dr Hopkins will research the Administrative Procedure Act and the US system of federalism, and teach a course on comparative global constitutionalism from a Pacific viewpoint, at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, for its Spring 2012 semester.
The award for the senior lecturer in the School of Law was announced by Fulbright New Zealand this week.
Fulbright New Zealand was established in 1948 to promote mutual understanding through educational and cultural exchanges between New Zealand and the United States of America. It offers more than 70 exchange awards each year and more than 1,400 New Zealanders and 1,100 Americans have benefited from a Fulbright award to date. The programme is mainly funded by the US and New Zealand governments with additional funding from award sponsors, private philanthropists and alumni donors.
See www.fulbright.org.nz for details about Fulbright awards.
For more information please contact:
comms@canterbury.ac.nz.
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