Geoff McLay taught at Victoria University’s Faculty of Law since completing an LLM at the University of Michigan in 1994. He was appointed a Professor with effect from 1 January 2011. He is currently on leave from the University during his term at the Law Commission.
Geoff also has a BA and LLB (Hons) (First Class) from Victoria University of Wellington ,and was awarded an SJD from the University of Michigan for a thesis on the history of Crown liability in 2008. In 2006 he was a visiting Professor at the University of Iowa College of Law teaching torts and advanced torts and product liability. He has also taught advanced at the University of Western Ontario (Winter 2002).
At Victoria Geoff has taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses including torts, advanced torts, intellectual property, competition (antitrust) law, comparative constitutional law, and ethics. He has published or edited a wide range of article, papers and books.