In partnership with the Legal Research Foundation, Auckland Law School invites you to a half day event at Waipapa Marae with Visiting Scholar Professor Jacinta Ruru.

Schedule

8:30am – Tea and coffee

8:50am – Karakia

9:00am – Introductions

9:30am – Lecture

10:00am – Lecture Q&A

10:30am – Morning tea

11:00am – Panel discussion with subject matter experts

12:00pm – Lunch

Lecture synopsis

Right-shifting: seeking a plan to become active in Indigenising legal education in Aotearoa New Zealand

Drawing on the work of Māori language revitalisation strategists, this address applies the ZePA model to make a case for right-shifting zero from passive to the active transformation of legal education. The increasing recognition of the value of Māori law means we need to carefully think through and work out how Māori law ought to be taught as a compulsory part of the LLB degree to support the new demands and opportunities facing the legal profession to have a more tikanga based component. Legal education will need to evolve in order to live up to the challenges that Lex Aotearoa (New Zealand’s unique jurisprudence) will demand of us. This address reinforces the work being led by Māori law academics across the country calling for a right-shift towards a bicultural, bilingual, bijural legal.

About Professor Ruru

Jacinta Ruru FRSNZ (Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui) is a Professor of Law at the University of Otago where she holds an inaugural University Sesquicentennial Distinguished Chair. She holds national awards for research and teaching and has published extensively on Indigenous’ peoples’ rights, interests and responsibilities to own and care for lands and waters.

Tikanga in our legal system