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Helen Smaill's Photograph Album: Traces of care in the mission archive
For my thirtieth birthday my mother gave me a photograph album she had compiled using an online template that was then printed and sent to her home. She had spent hours looking through old photographic prints that she keeps ... -
Confronting the Stigma of Naming Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Violence
Pastor Skosana’s sermon in 2010 in the township of Khayelitsha outside Stellenbosch on the theme that ‘Jesus was HIV-positive’ attracted worldwide attention. Part 1 of the chapter discusses the controversy around the sermon ... -
Southern Catchments and the Evolution of New Zealand's Environmental Law
Our research team (the authors of this paper and Professor Jacinta Ruru) based at the School of Law, University of Canterbury and the Faculty of Law, University of Otago has been granted funding from the Building Research ... -
New Zealand: The State of Liberal Democracy
This article is a brief report on constitutional developments and cases in New Zealand in 2017. The authors discuss several topics including the operation of New Zealand’s Mixed-Member Proportional voting system, New ... -
The Land Transfer System
This chapter provides an overview of the Land Transfer system in operation in New Zealand. -
Capacities to Own and to Deal With Land
This chapter analyses the ability of minors, persons having impaired decision-making capacity, corporations and non New Zealand citizens to own and to deal with land in New Zealand. -
Ethical Issues in Insider-Outsider Research
A substantial literature has developed within the humanities and social sciences about ‘insider research.’ This article considers the advantages (including greater access, understanding and rapport) and disadvantages (lack ... -
The spectre of standards in Aotearoa New Zealand early childhood education and care.
In this chapter we argue that the New Zealand early childhood curriculum Te Whāriki, and its subsequent mandating in law negates any imposition of standards upon child learning outcomes of New Zealand early childhood ... -
The Future of Registered Partnerships: New Zealand
New Zealand law recognises three forms of adult relationships: marriage, registered partnership (referred to in New Zealand as ‘civil union’), and unregistered cohabitation (referred to in New Zealand as ‘de facto ... -
Human Rights and the Environment
This chapter is published in the book International Human Rights Law in Aotearoa New Zealand, edited by Margaret Beddgood, Kris Gledhill and Ian McIntosh. This chapter considers whether New Zealand law should contain ... -
Family Finances on Death of a Spouse or Partner
On death there is an inevitable tension in succession law between property and family, between testamentary freedom and the deceased’s duty to provide for family members. This paper considers the relationship property ... -
Children's Interests in Division of Property on Relationship Breakdown
The breakdown of a marriage, civil union, or de facto relationship inevitably affects children of the relationship. The question this paper addresses is whether the interests of children should be taken into account in the ... -
Private International Law and Human Rights
In this chapter, the author evaluates the extent to which New Zealand private international law may be inconsistent with New Zealand’s international human rights obligations. The chapter focuses on two main areas of potential ... -
Squid Fishery Management Company Ltd. v. Ministry of Fisheries CA 39/04, 7 April 2004: Judgement
Feminist Judgments of Aotearoa New Zealand is a collection of key New Zealand judgments, re-written from feminist perspectives. The collection is part of a global series that includes collections from Australia, UK, Ireland, ...