Browsing by Author "Ruru, Jacinta"
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Building biocultural approaches into Aotearoa – New Zealand’s conservation future
Lyver, Phil O'B; Ruru, Jacinta; Scott, Nigel; Tylianakis, Jason M.; Arnold, Jason; Malinen, Sanna K.; Bataille, Corinne Y.; Herse, Mark P.; Johes, Christopher J.; Gormley, Andrew M.; Peltzer, Duane A.; Taura, Yvonne; Timoti, Puke; Stone, Clive; Wilcox, Mahuru; Moller, HenrikIndigenous peoples’ roles in conservation are important because they offer alternate perspectives and knowledge centred on the quality of the human–environment relationship. Here, we present examples of Māori cultural ... -
Equity and Māori
Ruru, JacintaThis chapter concerns the impact of trusts law and equitable principles and rules on a number of Māori related issues. In particular, the chapter focuses on the range of unique Māori land trusts that are growing in popularity ... -
Finding Solutions for the Legislative Gaps in Determining Rights to the Family Home on Colonially Defined Indigenous Lands
Ruru, JacintaThis article queries: what happens to the family home if the owner dies or the couple separate when it has been built on, in Canada, Indian reserve land, or in NZ on Māori freehold land? This is a critical issue where the ... -
First Laws: Tikanga Māori in/and the Law
Ruru, JacintaThis address is the 10th Shirley Smith Memorial Lecture given in Wellington on 18 October 2017. It considers the possibility for the enhanced role of first laws – the laws of Indigenous peoples – within contemporary settler ... -
An Indigenous Lens into Comparative Law: The Doctrine of Discovery in the United States and New Zealand
Ruru, Jacinta; Miller, Robert J.North America and New Zealand were colonized by England under an international legal principle that is known today as the Doctrine of Discovery. When Europeans set out to explore and exploit new lands in the fifteenth ... -
Indigenous Peoples and Family Law: Issues in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Ruru, JacintaThis article provides a glimpse into how historical and current legislation has attempted to grapple with the practice of customary family law by the indigenous peoples of Aotearoa/New Zealand. It focuses on examining ... -
Indigenous Peoples and Family Law: Issues in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Ruru, JacintaThis paper provides a glimpse into how historical and current legislation has attempted to grapple with the practice of customary family law by the indigenous peoples of Aotearoa/New Zealand. It focuses on examining family ... -
Indigenous Peoples' and Freshwater: Rights to Govern?
Ruru, JacintaThe extent of Indigenous peoples’ rights to govern, manage and even own freshwater is a topical issue in many countries. It is definitely hot in Aotearoa New Zealand. The University of Otago, in association with funding ... -
Indigenous Restitution in Settling Water Claims: The Developing Cultural and Commercial Redress Opportunities in Aotearoa New Zealand
Ruru, JacintaWater is important to all peoples, including indigenous peoples. In recent years, the government in Aotearoa, New Zealand has utilised various cultural redress-type legal mechanisms to recognise and revive the importance ... -
Lenses of Comparison Across Continents: Understanding Modern Aboriginal Title in Tsilhqot'in Nation and Ngati Apa
Ruru, JacintaCourts across the world continue to build a jurisprudence that explains and justifies the transfer of Indigenous sovereignty and property to European colonial powers. These courts are developing tests for Aboriginal peoples ... -
Listening to Papatuānuku: A Call to Reform Water Law
Ruru, JacintaThe recent legislative recognition of the Whanganui River as its own legal entity is acknowledgement of significant positive transformation for Aotearoa New Zealand’s environmental laws. Enabling this new respectful ... -
Managing Our Treasured Home: The Conservative Estate and the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi
Ruru, JacintaSince 1987, the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi have been explicitly relevant in the management of New Zealand's conservation estate. This article examines how the courts, the Waitangi Tribunal, and the Department of ... -
Maori and Mining
Ruckstuhl, Katharina; Carter, Lyn; Easterbrook, Luke; Gorman, Andrew R; Rae, Hauauru; Ruru, Jacinta; Ruwhiu, Diane; Stephenson, Janet; Suszko, Abby; Thompson-Fawcett, Michelle; Turner, RachelA multi-disciplinary study on how mining in New Zealand relates to and impacts on Maori - Iwi, hapu and whanau. The book covers a myriad of topics: resource extraction issues (including fracking), Treaty of Waitangi issues ... -
Providing for Rāhui in the Law of Aotearoa New Zealand
Ruru, Jacinta; Wheen, NicolaThis article examines the place and nature of rāhui (Māori ‘temporary protection’ for natural resources) in the law of Aotearoa New Zealand. The word “rāhui” is used in legislation in New Zealand to describe certain ... -
Revised Legal Frameworks for Ownership and Use of Multi-Dwelling Units
France-Hudson, Ben; Ruru, Jacinta; Toomey, Elizabeth; Jeremy, FinnThis project was funded by the Building Research Association New Zealand (BRANZ) and the New Zealand Law Foundation. The authors consider what revisions could be made to the legal frameworks for the ownership and use of ... -
Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the management of national parks in New Zealand
Ruru, JacintaThis thesis assesses the historical and current legislative provision for including ngā iwi Māori in the management of national parks. The method of assessment is one of comparison between the legislative provisions and ... -
Undefined and Unresolved: Exploring Indigenous Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand's Freshwater Legal Regime
Ruru, JacintaMany countries are grappling with how best to reconcile with their Indigenous peoples. This article explores the existing legal framework that has developed in Aotearoa New Zealand in the past two decades to provide a ... -
What Could Have Been: The Common Law Doctrine of Native Title in Land Under Salt Water in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand
Ruru, JacintaOnce upon a time, the indigenous peoples of Australia and New Zealand had exclusive occupation and use of their homelands. They did not distinguish between land on dry soil and land under water – it was all considered to ...