Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 10, 2021 3:11:50 GMT 12
NEW ZEALAND CHALLENGED BY MĀORI ACADEMICS TO DECOLONISE ITS LEGAL TRAINING
Before Pākehā law, there was Māori law. So, as an act of decolonisation and cultural redress, shouldn’t the law schools of Aotearoa New Zealand be teaching both?
Prominent Māori figures, like former chair of the Waitangi Tribunal Justice Joe Williams, have argued that Kupe’s law ruled before Cook’s law. And in a 2013 speech, Williams said righting the Treaty wrongs ought to include recognising this fact.
New Zealand should be working towards a “Lex Aotearoa” – an alignment of the two traditions within a new fully bicultural justice system.......
www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/123424061/new-zealand-challenged-by-mori-academics-to-decolonise-its-legal-training
Before Pākehā law, there was Māori law. So, as an act of decolonisation and cultural redress, shouldn’t the law schools of Aotearoa New Zealand be teaching both?
Prominent Māori figures, like former chair of the Waitangi Tribunal Justice Joe Williams, have argued that Kupe’s law ruled before Cook’s law. And in a 2013 speech, Williams said righting the Treaty wrongs ought to include recognising this fact.
New Zealand should be working towards a “Lex Aotearoa” – an alignment of the two traditions within a new fully bicultural justice system.......
www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/123424061/new-zealand-challenged-by-mori-academics-to-decolonise-its-legal-training