New Zealand Law Students' Association - NZLSA

The New Zealand Law Students' Association is the parent body of the law student societies from the five New Zealand law schools. The society provides administrative support in all areas that are not personal only to the individual schools.

As such the role of NZLSA varies from year to year as different issues are faced by students on a national level and as the Society itself takes on new challenges and sets for itself new goals. Primarily however the Society exists to support the individual law society executives and to co-ordinate such things as competitions and sponsorship on a national level.

The Society acts as a conduit for the transfer of information and communications between the law schools and also between the Australasian Law Students' Association (ALSA) and those schools.

The NZLSA is the national representative for New Zealand law students and it is therefore the Society's role to organise sponsorship of the major legal competitions held by each law school. This also involves representing student views, through the individual law societies, to such groups as the New Zealand Law Society and the Council of Legal Education.

Amongst the key things that the NZLSA does are the following:

• Co-ordinating competitions and funding on a national level
• Providing information to individual law societies on the issues affecting them
• Act as the New Zealand arm of ALSA
• Hold and co-ordinate national meetings of law student society presidents
• Provide information where pertinent to law students through the law society presidents
• Liaise with the two student Council of Legal Education representatives
• To be generally proactive in seeking ways to support New Zealand law student within the limitations of our minimal funding

Our current projects include:

• The increased exposure of NZLSA, ALSA and law student societies generally
• The provision of pertinent information for executives to pass on to students
• The consolidation of sponsorship to enable the provision of better services to individual students and to our sponsors
• The production of law student information packs and law student newsletters

The Executive

The Executive is made up primarily of two people, the president and the treasurer, but is further complimented by the five law student society presidents from throughout the country. It is the Executives role to perform the essential tasks of the NZLSA and to then further initiate and support other projects for the benefit of New Zealand law students.