Shelley Griffiths is a New Zealand law academic, and is a full professor at the

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, specialising in taxation law, and the history of taxation.

Academic career

Griffiths trained as a historian, completing a

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in history titled ''Feminism and the ideology of motherhood in New Zealand, 1896-1930'' at the

in 1985. She worked in public practice at an international accountancy practice in Dunedin for thirteen years, and then joined the faculty of the University of Otago as a lecturer in 2001, rising to full professor in 2017. Griffiths has been dean of the faculty of law since the beginning of 2021. Griffiths was made a fellow of the

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in 2023. The fellowship nomination called her "one of New Zealand's pre-eminent tax researchers". Griffiths teaches on taxation, and researches and writes on tax policy, tax administration, the regulation of financial products, and litigations and disputes around tax. She has written about how the disclosure of information can "reduce asymmetry" between the providers of financial services and their investors, and researched the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013. Her work on the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act and taxation law has been widely used in New Zealand and overseas. Griffiths is chair of the

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charitable trust board. She is a trustee of the Dunedin Arts Festival Board. Griffiths was formerly Chair of the Academic Committee of the Banking and Financial Services Law Association.

Selected works

* * * Griffiths, S., & Palmer, J. (2013). Sham, tax avoidance, and a GAAR: A New Zealand perspective. In E. Simpson & M. Stewart (Eds.), ''Sham transactions''. (pp. 228-242). Oxford University Press. * Griffiths, S. (2013). An "abusive tax position". ''New Zealand Law Journal'', ''11'', 392-393, 396.

References

External links

Griffiths' inaugural professorial lecture
2017, via YouTube {{DEFAULTSORT:Griffiths, Shelley Year of birth missing (living people) Living people New Zealand academics New Zealand women academics New Zealand legal scholars University of Otago alumni Academic staff of the University of Otago