Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 18, 2021 2:16:00 GMT 12
LEGAL EDUCATION – REFLECTING ON A BIJURAL, BILINGUAL AND BICULTURAL LAW DEGREE
Tikanga Māori is relevant and applicable to many facets of the state legal system, including legislation, the criminal justice system, public law, and property law. Therefore, law graduates must be “trained to work in a bijural, bicultural and bilingual Aotearoa New Zealand legal system” and they must be able to meaningfully engage with tikanga Māori in order to be effective lawyers.[5] However, law schools must also be able to meaningfully engage with tikanga Māori in order to provide effective, culturally responsive and competent delivery of te ao Māori concepts. Currently, law school remains a tool of colonisation that continues to perpetuate the dominance of Pākehā law.[6] If we are to shift to a truly bijural system which recognises tikanga Māori within its own right, we must decolonise our institutions to create a legal education that is bicultural, bilingual and subsequently bijural........
maorilawreview.co.nz/2021/07/legal-education-reflecting-on-a-bijural-bilingual-and-bicultural-law-degree/
Tikanga Māori is relevant and applicable to many facets of the state legal system, including legislation, the criminal justice system, public law, and property law. Therefore, law graduates must be “trained to work in a bijural, bicultural and bilingual Aotearoa New Zealand legal system” and they must be able to meaningfully engage with tikanga Māori in order to be effective lawyers.[5] However, law schools must also be able to meaningfully engage with tikanga Māori in order to provide effective, culturally responsive and competent delivery of te ao Māori concepts. Currently, law school remains a tool of colonisation that continues to perpetuate the dominance of Pākehā law.[6] If we are to shift to a truly bijural system which recognises tikanga Māori within its own right, we must decolonise our institutions to create a legal education that is bicultural, bilingual and subsequently bijural........
maorilawreview.co.nz/2021/07/legal-education-reflecting-on-a-bijural-bilingual-and-bicultural-law-degree/