Grant Hammond

Sir Robert Grant Hammond (14 May 1944 – 31 May 2019) was a New Zealand jurist and law professor. He was a judge of the New Zealand Court of Appeal during which time he was also president of the New Zealand Law Commission and chair of the Legislation Advisory Committee to Parliament. He published a wide range of books and legal texts and was one of the top law reform experts in the Commonwealth.

Early life Born in Waipawa on 14 May 1944, Hammond grew up on a dairy farm near Te Awamutu, and was educated at Te Awamutu College where he was head boy in 1962. In 1962–63, he was an AFS exchange scholar at Wethersfield High School in Kewanee, Illinois.

Legal education and teaching Hammond graduated with a Bachelor of Laws and a Master of Philosophy in history from the University of Auckland. Later he obtained a Master of Laws from the University of Illinois and a Doctorate of Laws from the University of Waikato.

Hammond spent much of his early teaching career as a law professor throughout North America. In 1989 he returned to Auckland and was appointed a professor of law at the University of Auckland where he subsequently became Dean of Law. He was also professor of judicial studies and dean of law at the University of Waikato.

The complete list of law schools where he taught includes:

Death Hammond died on 31 May 2019.