David McLauchlan joined the Law Faculty at Victoria University of Wellington in 1971 and has been Professor of Law since 1981. He is also Honorary Professor at The University of Queensland, an associate member of Stout Street Chambers in Wellington, and in 2008 he was the McWilliam Professor in Commercial Law at the University of Sydney.
David is the author of two books and has published more than 100 journal articles and book chapters, mainly in the areas of the law of contract and commercial law. His writings have been frequently cited in the judgments of leading Commonwealth courts and he has received University awards for excellence in teaching and in research. The students at Victoria have voted him best lecturer in the Law Faculty several times in recent years.
David’s recent research has focused on remedies for breach of contract and contract interpretation. In 2007 a New Zealand Supreme Court judgment paid tribute to his “impeccable scholarship” in the interpretation field, saying that “his work to bring some logic and cohesion into the task of contractual interpretation has been as outstanding as it has been tireless”.