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The Māori Law Review is proud to have an association with the Faculty of Law at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington and Buddle Findlay New Zealand lawyers.

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The Review is produced with assistance from Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington.

Student Editor 2021

We are recruiting for our student editor role in 2020. Applications close on 6 November 2020. Go here for details.

Sir Edward Taihakurei Durie student essay competition 2020

Elliot Harris is the winner of the 2020 Sir Edward Taihakurei Durie student essay competition sponsored by the Māori Law Review. His essay, about the Ellis case and tikanga Māori will be published in the February 2021 issue of the Review.

Photo of Elliot Harris and Carwyn Jones, November 2020

Events

Indigenous Law Speaker Series 2020

In 2020 our seminar series went online in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The recorded seminars are available through the following links.

Māmari Stephens chaired a panel discussion with presentations by Professor Margaret Mutu, Julia Whaipooti, and health academic Dr Rhys Jones. They discuss Māori experience of law and justice in Aotearoa New Zealand through the COVID-19 pandemic to date

Dr Carwyn Jones chaired a discussion with presentations by Courtney Skye, John Borrows, Jess Housty, and Jeff Corntassel on Indigenous peoples and COVID-19: issues of law and justice in Canada

Dr Claire Charters chaired a discussion with presentations by Aliza Organick, Kelsey Leonard, and Miriam Jorgensen on Indigenous peoples and COVID-19: issues of law and justice in the U.S.A.

Dr Fleur Te Aho chaired a discussion with presentations by Alison Whittaker and Larissa Behrendt on Indigenous peoples and COVID-19: issues of law and justice in Australia

Indigenous Law Speaker Series 2019

In 2019 our seminar speakers included Professor Val Napoleon from the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Hon Chris Finlayson QC and Associate Professor Janna Promislow from Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia.

Indigenous Law Speaker Series 2018

In 2018 we heard some truly exceptional kōrero over four seminars on the topic Mana Wāhine from Judge Reeves and Judge Wainwright, Julia Whaipooti, Dr. Farah Palmer, Ani Mikaere and Moana Jackson.

Indigenous Law Speaker Series 2016

Indigenous law, the State and legal pluralism - Professor Bruce Duthu delivered this seminar on 25 February 2016 at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington

Indigenous Law Speaker Series 2015

The Treaty of Waitangi and international law - Sir Kenneth Keith delivered this seminar on 23 September 2015 at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington

Recent developments in co-governance and co-management - Paul Beverley talked about co-governance and co-management issues on 28 August 2015 at Buddle Findlay, Auckland

From historian to lawyer – differing perspectives - Bernadette Arapere delivered the fifth of our 2015 seminars on 20 August 2015 at the University of Auckland Faculty of Law

Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – recent developments in international law - Tracey Whare delivered the fourth of our 2015 seminars on 13 August 2015 at the University of Auckland Faculty of Law (and repeated this seminar at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington, on 8 September 2015)

Criminal Justice, the State and Māori - Kim Workman, 2015 J. D. Stout Fellow, delivered the third of our 2015 seminars on 28 May 2015 at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington

Recent developments in co-governance and co-management - Paul Beverley delivered the second seminar for 2015 on 21 May 2015 at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington

Ko te manu e kai ana i te mātauranga - nōnā te ao: overseas postgraduate reflections - Horiana Irwin Easthope and Natalie Coates delivered the first of our 2015 seminars on 7 May 2015 at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington.

Indigenous Law Speaker Series 2014

Rangatahi Courts of Aotearoa/New Zealand - Judge Taumaunu delivered the final lunchtime seminar for 2014 on 24 September at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington.

Lex Aotearoa - Hon Justice Joseph Williams delivered one of our 2014 lunchtime seminars on 21 August 2014 at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington.

Constitutional development and decolonisation in the South Pacific - Professor Tony Angelo from Victoria University of Wellington deliver one of our 2014 lunchtime seminars on 31 July 2014 at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington.

Professor Jon Altman, The Australian National University, gave the first of our 2014 lunchtime seminars on 13 February 2014 at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington. Download Professor Altman's paper - The political ecology and political economy of the Indigenous land titling ‘revolution’ in Australia.

Indigenous Law Speaker Series 2013

The Māori Law Review hosted four lunchtime seminars during August 2013 at the Law Library, Victoria University of Wellington. Download Eileen Luna-Firebaugh's paper - Indigenous on the Margins.

Useful links

New Zealand legislation

Māori Land Court and Māori Appellate Court judgments

Legal Māori Resource Hub - explore how Māori language has been used in legal contexts over nearly two centuries

New Zealand Legal Information Institute

Te Kaupapa Reo-a-Ture - The Legal Māori Project