Report: Inspiring National Indigenous Legal Education for Aotearoa New Zealand’s Bachelor of Laws Degree Phase 2 Report (Part 2)

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Inspiring National Indigenous Legal Education for Aotearoa New Zealand’s Bachelor of Laws Degree Phase Two: Consultation 2021 Part II – Expert Interview Report

Publication date: May 2022

This is part 2 of the final report summarising findings from the expert interviews from the second stage of the national, multi-year project led by Māori legal researchers associated with Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence. The project and the report explore systemic change in the legal studies curriculum at Aotearoa New Zealand universities as an important step towards integrating Māori law into Aotearoa New Zealand’s legal system.

Related Borrin Foundation Grant: Inspiring new Indigenous legal education for our LLB degree and Inspiring national Indigenous Legal Education for Aotearoa New Zealand’s LLB degree: Phase Two.

See Report: Inspiring Nationsl Indigenous Legal Education for Aotearoa New Zealand’s Bachelor if Laws Degree Phase 2 Report (Part 1)

Also see the Indigenising the New Zealand law degree project hosted at the University of Otago.

Authors and researchers:

Professor Jacinta Ruru (Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui)
Metiria Turei (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ati Hau nui a Pāpārangi)
Associate Professor Carwyn Jones (Ngāti Kahungunu, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki)
Associate Professor Linda Te Aho (Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Waikato-Tainui)
Associate Professor Claire Charters (Ngāti Whakaue, Tūwharetoa, Ngāpuhi, Tainui)
Associate Professor Khylee Quince (Te Roroa/Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou)
Associate Professor Andrew Erueti (Ngā Ruahinerangi, Ngāti Ruanui, Ati Hau nui a Pāpārangi)
Jayden Houghton (Rereahu Maniapoto)
Associate Professor Robert Joseph (Tainui, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitāne, Ngāi Tahu)
Maureen Malcolm (Te Arawa whānui and Ngāti Ruanui)
Adrienne Paul (Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tuhoe)
Mihiata Pirini (Ngāti Tūwharetoa/Whakatōhea)
Mylene Rakena (Ngāti Hine/Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahungunu)
Associate Professor Māmari Stephens (Te Rarawa)
Dr Fleur Te Aho (Ngāti Mutunga)
Professor Valmaine Toki (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Whātua)
Tracey Whare (Raukawa, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui)
Dr Megan Gollop