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CURRICULUM VITAE:

CATHERINE J. IORNS MAGALLANES

VUW School of Law, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand

Ph: +644-463-6366; DDI: +644-463-6389; mob: +64-21-242-7277

Email: Catherine.Iorns@vuw.ac.nz SSRN author page: http://ssrn.com/author=115449

EDUCATION

June 1991 LL.M., Yale Law School, USA.

June 1989 Admitted to the New Zealand Bar.

Dec. 1988 LL.B.(Hons) - Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours (first in class)

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Dec. 1985 BA (Operations Research), Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

EMPLOYMENT

Present Position: Reader in Law (tenured), Victoria University of Wellington

(from 1999) Present teaching: Environmental Law, Statutory Interpretation, Comparative

Indigenous Rights. Also: Public International Law, Public Law, International

Conflict Resolution, International Environmental Law. [Part-time, 2002-2008]

June 1995 - Senior Lecturer in Law (tenured), University of Waikato.

Aug. 99 Primary teaching: Indigenous Peoples and Public Law, Law and Societies. Also

Jurisprudence, Public Law, Research Methods.

June 1992 - Lecturer in Law (tenured), Murdoch University, Western Australia.

June 1995 Primary teaching: Public International Law, Aboriginal Legal Rights. Also taught

International Human Rights Law, Refugee Law, International Humanitarian Law.

1991-1992 Schell Research Fellow in International Human Rights, Yale Law School.

Summer '91 Ford Fellow in International Law, Yale Law School.

Jan.1988 - Legal Adviser, Law Reform Division, Department of Justice, New Zealand.

May 1990 [NZ Bill of Rights, Treaty of Waitangi, resource management, human rights,

information privacy, electoral law, family law, and other constitutional issues.]

APPOINTMENTS - CURRENT

From July 2007 Academic Adviser, NZ Council of Legal Education [Coordinate examinations for

foreign lawyers to be admitted to the NZ Bar. Assist the Council on policy matters.

Monitor regulatory compliance of professional legal studies course providers.]

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From Nov. 2011 Board Member and Chair of Human Rights Advisory Committee, Amnesty

International Aotearoa New Zealand

From May 2013 Convenor, Earth Law Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand

From Dec. 2013 Member, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law

From Dec. 2013 Board Member, 350 Aotearoa

From Aug. 2014 Member, International Law Association, Committee on the Rights of

Indigenous Peoples, New Zealand representative.

APPOINTMENTS – PAST

July 2009- Member, International Law Association, Committee on the Rights of Indigenous

Aug 2012 Peoples. [Expert member, appointed by the Chair. Part of the team writing a

Commentary on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.]

2013-2015 Member, National Committee, Environment and Conservation Organisations, NZ

Sept. 2012 – 2013 Member, National Committee, UN Women Aotearoa New Zealand

Sept-Dec 2011 MacCormick Fellow, University of Edinburgh

Jan. 2008, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Common Law, Visiting Professor

& 2009 [Taught an intensive course on Canadian Statutory Interpretation.]

Jan. 2008 Ron Ianni Visiting Scholar, Windsor University, Windsor, Canada

March 2003 University of Arizona College of Law, Visiting Professor

June ‘93 - June ‘94 Member, The Chief Justice's Taskforce on Gender Bias (WA),

Sub-Committee on Aboriginal Women.

[Task was to investigate the extent to which gender bias exists in the law and

administration of justice in Western Australia in respect of Aboriginal women and

to make recommendations for its elimination; reported June 30 1994.]

Sept. ‘93 - June ’94 Lecturer in Public International Law, Australian Institute of University

Studies [Taught the University of London LLB program.]

RESEARCH-BASED CONSULTANCIES

Jan 2016 – July 2017: Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge, Lead Investigator on

Precaution in New Zealand’s Environmental Law.

June 2007 Office of Treaty Settlements, Opinion on Maori customary title (7,000 words);

April 2007 Office of Treaty Settlements, Report on grievance settlements (25,000 words)

June 2005 Ross Philipson Consulting, for Te Puni Kokiri (Ministry of Maori Development,

NZ), Project: The Use of Terms Referring to Maori in Legislation

Sept. 1996 NZ Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, NZ Institute of Public Law & NZ

Institute for Dispute Research and Resolution, Workshop: Negotiating for the

Future, on “Extinguishment: is it Necessary?”

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July 1996 National Inquiry into Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children

from their Families: paper entitled “The Principle of Self-Determination in

International Law and Aboriginal Child Welfare.”

Sept. 1994 The (Australian) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Commissioner, Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission: paper entitled

"ILO Convention No. 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, 1989."

ACADEMIC HONOURS

1990 Fulbright Award;

William Georgetti Scholarship;

Yale Law School Fellowship [full tuition plus stipend].

1988 Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young Prize [top law graduate];

VUW Senior Scholarship.

1987 Beryl Hughes Prize in Women's Studies;

Rudd, Watts and Stone Prize in Commercial Law;

Chris Highfield Memorial Prize in Administrative Law.

1986 Archibald F McCallum Scholarship in Law;

Law Book Company Limited Prize in Jurisprudence.

PUBLICATIONS - Books

1. Conflict Over Land in Southeast Asia: Indigenous Peoples, Environment and International

Law C Iorns Magallanes & M Hollick, eds. (White Lotus Books, August 1998)

PUBLICATIONS – Chapters in Books

1. “West Papuan Self-Determination: New Indigenous Rights or Old Fashioned Genocide?” in

Suzannah Linton, Gerry Simpson & William Schabas (eds), For the Sake of Present and

Future Generations: Essays on International Law, Crime and Justice in Honour of Roger

Clark (Leiden, Brill, 2015)

2. "Reflecting on Cosmology and Environmental Protection: Maori Cultural Rights in Aotearoa

New Zealand" in Anna Grear and Louis Kotze (eds) Research Handbook on Human Rights

and the Environment (Edward Elgar, 2015; ISBN 978-1-78254-442-5)

3. “Nature as an Ancestor: Two Examples of Legal Personality for Nature in New Zealand” in

Marie Pierre Camproux-Duffrène, Jochen Sohnle (eds), La représentation de la Nature

devant le juge : Approches comparative et prospective (Paris, VertigO Press, 2015)

4. “Native American Values and Laws of Exclusion,” in Environmental Law and Contrasting

Ideas of Nature: A Constructivist Approach, K Hirokawa (ed) (NY, Cambridge UP, 2014)

5. “Moving toward global eco-integrity: Implementing indigenous conceptions of nature in a

Western legal system" in Laura Westra and Mirian Vilela (eds) The Earth Charter, Ecological

Integrity and Social Movements (Routledge, Oxford, 2014) pp 181-190.

6. ‘‘Reparations for Maori Grievances in Aotearoa New Zealand’’ in Reparations for

Indigenous Peoples: International and Comparative Perspectives, Federico Lenzerini, ed.

(Oxford: OUP, 2008; pbk 2009). Available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2175397

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7. ‘‘The Foreshore and Seabed Legislation: Resource and Marine Management Issues’’ in

Foreshore and Seabed: The New Frontier, Charters & Erueti (eds) (VUW Press, 2007).

Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2175392

8. “Indigenous Political Representation: Identified Parliamentary Seats as a Form of Indigenous

Self-Determination” in BA Hocking (ed), Unfinished Constitutional Business? Indigenous

Self-Determination (Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2005)

9. “Indigenous Electoral Representation in International Human Rights Law,” Paul Morris and

Helen Greatrex (eds), in Human Rights Research (Wellington, VUW, 2003), pp. 1-18.

10. “Making Comments on Making Constitutions”, in David Carter and Matthew Palmer (eds),

Roles and Perspectives in the Law: Essays in Honour of Sir Ivor Richardson (Victoria

University of Wellington Press, 2002)

11. "International Human Rights and their Impact on Domestic Law on Indigenous Peoples’

Rights in Australia, Canada and New Zealand" in Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Australia,

Canada and New Zealand, P. Havemann, ed. (Oxford UP, January 1999). Available at

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2175388

12. “Introduction,” “Conclusion” and chapter "Rights to Ownership and Use of Land and

Resources in International Law" in Conflict Over Land in Southeast Asia: Indigenous

Peoples, Environment and International Law Iorns Magallanes & Hollick, eds. (1998, as

above).

13. “A NZ Case Study: Child Welfare” in Recognising the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, A.

Quentin-Baxter, ed, (VUW Institute of Policy Studies, November 1998)

14. "The Primacy of Human Rights," in International Law Anthology, D'Amato, ed. (1994), 201

[edited excerpt from "Indigenous Peoples and Self-Determination" (1994) below].

PUBLICATIONS - Refereed Articles

1. “Maori Cultural Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand: Protecting the Cosmology that Protects the

Environment” 21:2 Widener Law Review 273-327 (2015) http://ssrn.com/abstract=2677396

2. “Diving in the Deep End: Precaution and Seabed Mining in New Zealand’s EEZ” (with G

Severinsen), (2015) 13 NZJPIL 201-234. This paper received a Resource Management Law

Association Award, Sept. 2015.

3. “Nature as an Ancestor: Two Examples of Legal Personality for Nature in New Zealand,”

VertigO - la revue électronique en sciences de l'environnement [En ligne], Hors-série 22 |

septembre 2015, mis en ligne le 10 septembre 2015, consulté le 16 septembre 2015. URL:

http://vertigo.revues.org/16199; DOI: 10.4000/vertigo.16199

4. “A Turning of the Tide? Tracking Precaution in New Zealand’s Environmental Legislation”

(with G Severinsen), August 2015 Resource Management Journal 1-4

5. “Indigenous political representation: Latin America and international human rights law,”

Journal of New Zealand Studies – Special Issue: “Parallel Pasts, Convergent Futures?

Comparing New Zealand, Iberia and Latin America,” Vol. NS11, 93-107 (2011). Available at

http://ssrn.com/abstract=1971455

6. “The Use of ‘Tangata Whenua’ and ‘Mana Whenua’ in New Zealand Legislation: Attempts at

Cultural Recognition,” 42(2) Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 259-76 (2011).

7. “Indigenous Rights and Democratic Rights in International Law: An ‘Uncomfortable Fit’?” 15

UCLA Jnl of International Law and Foreign Affairs 111-82 (2010). Available at

http://ssrn.com/abstract=1941389

8. ‘‘The 'Just Do It' Approach to Using Parliamentary History Materials in Statutory

Interpretation,” 15 Canterbury Law Review 205-36 (2009).

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9. ‘‘The Precautionary Principle in the New Zealand Fisheries Act: Recent Challenges in the

New Zealand Court of Appeal,” ALTA Conference Papers 2006, pub. April 2007. Available

at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2079837.

10. ‘‘Teaching for Transnational Lawyering’’, 55:4 Journal of Legal Education 1 (Dec 2005).

11. “Violent Women in Film: Law, Feminism and Social Change,” 19:1 Women’s Studies

Journal 25-45 (Autumn 2005).

12. “Application of Affirmative Action Law in New Zealand: Uncertainty in Coverage, Definition

and Results,” Human Rights Research, Paul Morris and Helen Greatrex, eds (Victoria

University of Wellington, 2004), pp.29-51.

13. “Dedicated Parliamentary Seats for Indigenous Peoples: Political Representation as an

Element of Indigenous Self-Determination,” E Law - Murdoch University Electronic Journal

of Law (ISSN 1321-8247) Volume 10 No 4 (December 2003) [The article may be found at:

http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v10n4/iorns104.html]

14. “Reasons for the Absence of Women: Affirmative Action Practice Report” 7 Australian

Feminist Law Journal 127 (co-authored with E. Handsley, C. Kendall & L. Young)

15. Book review: P. Thornberry, International Law and the Rights of Minorities, 15 Australian

Yearbook of International Law 323 (1994).

16. "Indigenous Peoples and Self-Determination: Challenging State Sovereignty" 24:2 Case

Western Reserve Journal of International Law 199-348 (1993).

17. Book Review: The Rights of Peoples, J. Crawford (ed.), 14 Australian Yearbook of

International Law 303 (1993).

18. "A Sexed Bill Of Rights for New Zealand?" 17 V.U.W. Law Review 215 (1987).

PUBLICATIONS - Reports

1. Report of the International Law Association Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,”

to the ILA 75th Conference at Sofia, Bulgaria, 26-30 August 2012, (see www.ila-

hq.org/en/committees/index.cfm/cid/1024). Joint author.

2. “Indigenous Co-management of Natural Resources: Discussion of Good Practices,” prepared

for the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Technical

Workshop on The study on indigenous peoples and the right to participate in decision-

making, Geneva, Mar. 9-10 2011. (Final report: UN Doc, 17 August 2011, A/HRC/18/42.)

3. United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Progress report on

the study on indigenous peoples and the right to participate in decision-Making, 17 May

2010, A/HRC/EMRIP/2010/2. (I assisted with the editing of this report.)

4. “Interim Report of the International Law Association Committee on the Rights of Indigenous

Peoples,” to the ILA Biennial Meeting in The Hague, August 2010, (see www.ila-

hq.org/en/committees/index.cfm/cid/1024). Joint author, plus author of sections on

"Membership" and on "The Treaty of Waitangi".

5. “The Principle of Self-Determination in International Law and Aboriginal Child Welfare,”

written for consultancy to the National Inquiry into Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait

Islander Children from their Families, July 1996.

[Note significant use by the Inquiry of my paper in the final report Bringing Them Home

(1997), Chapter 26 “A New Framework – Self-Determination” (see, eg, pp.565-73).]

6. "ILO Convention No. 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, 1989," written for consultancy to

The (Australian) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, HREOC,

1994.

7. "Aboriginal Women and the Law," written as a member of Sub-Committee on Aboriginal

Women, The (W.A.) Chief Justice's Task Force on Gender Bias, June 30, 1994.

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PUBLICATIONS - Non-Refereed Articles

1. “Foreword: New Thinking on Sustainability” (2015) NZJPIL 1-15.

2. "Book Review: Burns H Weston and David Bollier, Green Governance: Ecological Survival,

Human Rights, and the Law of Commons" (2014) 5(1) Journal of Human Rights and the

Environment pp 102-106.

3. “Environmental Law or Palm Tree Justice,” New Zealand Law Journal, June 2009, 185-8 (co-

authored with George Ruka).

4. “Abolish the ‘Veto’?,” New Zealand Law Journal, August 2008, 309-12 (co-authored with

Jordan Boyd).

5. Book Review of The Waitangi Tribunal, Hayward & Wheen, eds, (Bridget Williams Books,

2004) in 22:1 NZULR (June 2005).

6. “Transnational Legal Education,” NZLJ, October 2004, pp379-380.

7. “Indigenous Oral Evidence: Takamore Trustees v Kapiti Coast District Council,” 5:25

Indigenous Law Bulletin (June 2003), pp.22-23.

8. "Cultural Sensitivity in the Employment Court," NZ Law Journal, May 2003, pp.153-154.

9. “Case Note: Employers’ Duties of Cultural Sensitivity: Good Health Wanganui v. Burberry”

5:23 Indigenous Law Bulletin (March 2003) pp.16-18

10. “Case Note: Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu v Waitangi Tribunal,” 7:3 Aboriginal and Indigenous

Law Reporter, 2002

11. Case Note: Marlborough Sounds Foreshore and Seabed Decision of the Maori Land Court,”

7:2 Aboriginal and Indigenous Law Reporter, 2002

12. “The 1763 Royal Proclamation: Indian Bill of Rights,” Pequot Times, Nov. 2002, p.7.

13. “Separate Maori Representation in New Zealand/Aotearoa Today” Pequot Times, Sept. 2002,

p.9.

14. “Separate Maori Representation in New Zealand/Aotearoa, ” Pequot Times, Aug. 2002, p.9.

15. “Separate Indigenous Political Representation” Pequot Times, June 2002, p.2.

16. “First Nations Delegates in the Maine State Legislature” Pequot Times, July 2002,p.10.

13. “Maori-owned casino for Rotorua not a bad idea” NZ Herald, Nov.17 1997, p.A17.

14. “A separate legal reality” New Zealand Education Review June 18 1997, p.13.

15. “Trans-Tasman reflections on Wik debate” 7:19 Campus Review 17 (21 May 1997)

16. "Aboriginal Women and Bias in the Western Australian Justice System" 3:71 Aboriginal Law

Bulletin 8 (1994); also in: 2:1 ELaw (Murdoch Electronic Law Journal), Mar. 1995.

17. "Twelfth Session of the U.N. Working Group on Indigenous Peoples" 3:71 Aboriginal Law

Bulletin 6 (1994).

18. "Should the Australian Government Ratify ILO Convention No. 169?" 3:64 Aboriginal Law

Bulletin 3 (Oct. 1993); also in: 1:1 ELaw (Murdoch Electronic Law Journal), Dec. 1993.

19. "The Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples" 3:64 Aboriginal Law Bulletin 4

(Oct. 1993).

20. "Comment: The Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples," ELaw (Murdoch

Electronic Law Journal), Dec. 1993.

21. "Current Developments: The Eleventh Session of the Working Group on Indigenous Peoples,"

ELaw (Murdoch Electronic Law Journal), Dec. 1993.

22. "A Feminist Analysis of Ronald Dworkin's Theory of Equality," ELaw (Murdoch Electronic

Law Journal), Work in Progress section, Dec. 1993.

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23. "Indigenous Peoples and Self-Determination: Challenging State Sovereignty - Work in

Progress" 1992 School of Law Murdoch University Occasional Papers 3-110.

PUBLICATIONS – Conference Proceedings

1. “Indigenous Electoral Representation in International Human Rights Law,” Proceeding of the

Annual Meeting of the Australia & New Zealand Society of International Law (VUW,

Wellington, July 2003).

2. “There’s Method in her Madness or Games Teachers Play,” Proceeding of the Joint Annual

Meeting of the Australia & New Zealand Society of International Law and the American

Society of International Law (ANU, Canberra, June 2000), at p84.

3. "International Human Rights and Domestic Law: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights In Australia,

Canada And New Zealand," Proceedings of Sixth Annual Meeting of the Australia & New

Zealand Society of International Law (ANU, Canberra, 19-21 June 1998).

4. "Current Issues in Human Rights: The Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,"

in Proceedings of Second Annual Meeting of the Australia & New Zealand Society of

International Law (ANU, Canberra, 27-29 May 1994), 285-311.

5."Indigenous Peoples in International Law," Proceedings of First Annual Meeting of the Australia

& New Zealand Society of International Law (ANU, Canberra, 28-30 May 1993) 116-120.

6. "Internal Self-Determination and Indigenous Peoples," Proceedings of First Annual Meeting of

the Australia & New Zealand Society of International Law (as above) 125-133.

7. "Self-Determination in the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples," Proceedings

of Sovereignty Symposium V: The Year of the Indian (Oklahoma City, June 1992), 332-368.

PRESENTATIONS

1. “West Papuan Self-Determination: New Indigenous Rights or Old Fashioned Genocide?” at

Symposium on International Law, Crime and Justice, Rutgers Law School, Camden, USA, 30

Oct 2015. By invitation.

2. "Legal Personality for Nature in NZ Law," at Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY, 28 Oct 2015.

By invitation; funded.

3. “International Law and Indigenous Rights,” Rutgers Law School, Camden, USA, 22 Oct

2015. By invitation.

4. "Legal Personality for Nature in NZ Law," Rutgers Law School, Camden, USA, 19 Oct 2015.

By invitation.

5. Keynote Address: "Keeping our Water Clean: the public trust in NZ law," at Symposium on

The Public Trust Doctrine: An Ancient Tool for Protecting the Great Lakes from New

Hazards, Detroit Mercy School of Law, 16 October 2015. By invitation; funded.

6. "Keeping our Water Clean: Indigenous Rights in NZ Law," Faculty Seminar, Detroit Mercy

School of Law, 15 October 2015. By invitation.

7. “Environmental Refugees,” Public Lecture, Victoria University of Wellington, 1 October

2015. By invitation.

8. “Re-establishing Trust,” Dialogues on Freshwater - Navigating impasses & new approaches

Environment and Conservation Organisations of NZ (ECO) Conference, Aug 29 2015. By

invitation.

9. “Keeping New Zealand Green”, TEDx Tauranga, 25 July 2015. By invitation. See

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWKMavfi9i8.

10. “Saving the environment with human rights,” Victoria International Leadership Programme,

23 July 2015. By invitation.

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11. “Global State of the Environment: Predictions and Implications for Human Rights” Amnesty

International Aotearoa New Zealand, Governance Team Training, 24 May 2015. By invitation.

12. “Legal Parameters of a Duty to Consult in Aotearoa NZ”, Public Symposium on Implementing

the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi via Meaningful Consultation with Māori on Natural

Resource Management: Engagement of Indigenous and Western Science Knowledge Systems

(Te Papa, Wellington, 6 May 2015). By invitation.

13. “Law and Responsibility”, Law, Ethics and Responsibility Symposium (Hamilton, November

2014). By invitation.

14. “Te Urewera National Park: Recent Developments in New Zealand”, IUCN World Parks

Congress 2014 (Sydney, November 2014).

15. “Green Justice in Aotearoa: Indigenous Rights to Nature”, IUCN World Parks Congress

2014 (Sydney, November 2014). 16. “Climate Changes in 2014,” Public Lecture, Humanist Society of New Zealand and VUW Law School,

18 October 2013. By invitation.

17. "The Climate Reality in 2014" Victoria International Leadership Program, 22 September 2014. By

invitation. 18. "Self-Determination and Sustainable Development", at Symposium on the Implementation of the

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in Aotearoa – Theory

and Practice, University of Waikato, 24 July 2014. By invitation.

19. “Duties to Protect the Environment and Rights for Nature: Constitutional Developments in

New Zealand,” At the Symposium on Global Environmental Constitutionalism. At Widener

University (Wilmington, Delaware), April 11 2014. By invitation.

20. Keynote speaker "The Climate Reality in 2014," Engineers for Social Responsibility Inc AGM

(Auckland University School of Engineering, Auckland, March 20, 2014). By invitation;

funded.

21. "New Zealand Constitution and the Environment" at Which Way Forward, ECO Annual

Conference (Thames, November 29, 2013). By invitation.

22. "The Climate Reality 2013" Public Lecture, Humanist Society of New Zealand and VUW Law

School, 19 October 2013. By invitation.

23. "Human Rights and the Environment" Consultation on the Relationship between

Environmental Protection and Human Rights Obligations convened by the UN Independent

Expert on Human Rights and the Environment with the Office of the High Commissioner for

Human Rights (Copenhagen, October, 2013). By invitation.

24. "Sustainable Development" at Human Rights and the Environment the 13th Informal ASEM

Seminar on Human Rights (Moltkes Palace, Copenhagen, October, 2013). By invitation.

25. Keynote address: "Climate Change and its Effects on the Lives of Indigenous Peoples" at a

Seminar on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples (Danish Institute for Human Rights,

Moltkes Palace, Copenhagen, October, 2013). By invitation; funded.

26. "Nature as a Legal Person: Recent Developments in New Zealand" at International Institute

for Industrial Environmental Economics (Lund University, Sweden, Oct 2013). By invitation.

27. "Using Indigenous Conceptions of Nature to Redefine Legal Relationships" at Living within

our Ecological Limits: Law and Governance to Nurture the Earth Community, Australian

Wild Law Alliance Conference (Griffith University, Brisbane, September 2013).

28. "The Environment in Constitutional Thought: Developing a Constitutional Tradition" at

Unearthing New Zealand's Constitutional Traditions NZCPL Conference (Wellington, August,

2013).

29. "Re-Imagining the Relationship Between Human Rights and the Environment in Aotearoa

New Zealand" Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment

Symposium (University for Peace, San Jose, Costa Rica, July 2013).

30. "Achieving Indigenous and Environmental Justice Through Implementing Indigenous

Cosmologies in Settler State Legal Systems" 11th IUCN Academy of Environmental Law

Colloquium (Hamilton, June 2013).

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31. "Adding Environmental Rights to our Constitutional Framework" Symposium on Human

Rights in the Constitutional Review (Auckland, June 2013). By invitation.

32. "Implementing Indigenous Constructions of Nature in a Western Legal System: Moing

Toward Global Eco-Integrity" Celebrating 20 years of the Global Ecological Integrity Group

(San Jose, Costi Rica, June-July 2013).

33. “Eco-constitutionalism: Including Environmental Rights in a Constitution", Public Lecture,

Victoria University of (Wellington, 12 June, 2013).

34. "Law as a Tool for Environmental Protection" Centre for Biodiversity and Restoration

Ecology Urban Ecology Function (Wellington, April 2013).

35. "Conceptions of Justice in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples" The

Australian and NZ Society of International Law and the Asian Society of International Law

Joint Conference on International Law and Justice (UNSW, Sydney, October 2012).

36. “The Whanganui River as a Legal Person: Implications for Property and Environmental Law,”

at World Indigenous Lawyers Conference, Waikato University, Sept 5-8, 2012. By invitation.

37. Plenary Address: “Co-Governance and Co-Management of Natural Resources,” at the World

Indigenous Lawyers Conference, at Waikato University, Sept 5-8, 2012. By invitation.

38. Plenary Address: “New Thinking in Environmental Responsibility and Law” at the ECO conference

on “Environmental Responsibility: Leadership, Inclusion and Good Governance”, Wellington, July 6-8.

By invitation.

39. “Developments in Indigenous Rights: Centring the Margins”, at the Association of Iberian and Latin

American Studies of Australasia conference, Victoria University of Wellington, July 4-7, 2012. 40. Keynote Plenary Address: ‘Indigenous Political Representation – Comparing Canada,

Aotearoa New Zealand and Nordic Countries,’ Nordic Association of Canadian Studies Tenth

Triennial Conference, Aarhus, August 10-13, 2011. By invitation; funded.

41. "Indigenous Political Representation in International Human Rights Law," at the conference

"Indigenous Rights. Democracy. Liberty. Freedom," National Constitution Centre,

Philadelphia, USA, May 21, 2011. By invitation; funded.

42. "Race and Sovereignty in Electoral Participation," on "Plenary III -- Defensive Sovereignty:

Property, Race and Resistance", at the 5th Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium on Race

and Sovereignty, UCLA School of Law, March 31-April 2, 2011. By invitation; funded.

43. “Increasing Indigenous (Co-)Governance Over Natural Resources,” for the IUCN Sharing

Power conference, Whakatane, New Zealand, January 11-15, 2011.

44. “’As a Maori, I love it; as a judge, I hate it’: The use of te reo Maori in legislation,” at Critic

and Conscience, 27th Annual Conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and

New Zealand Inc., December 8-10, 2010, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

45. “Indigenous Governance Structures: International Law and ‘Cultural Fit’,” Trade, Intellectual

Property and the Knowledge Assets of Indigenous Peoples: The Developmental Frontier,

New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law conference, December 8-10, 2010,

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

46. “Indigenous Political Representation: Latin America and International Human Rights Law,” at

the conference Parallel Pasts, Convergent Futures? Comparing New Zealand, Iberia and

Latin America, Victoria University of Wellington, 4 September 2010.

47. “Water and Co-management Regimes”, Institute of Judicial Studies Judicial Training Seminar

for the judges of the Maori Land Court and the Waitangi Tribunal, 28 July 2010. By invitation;

funded.

48. “The 'Just Do It' Approach to Using Parliamentary History Materials in Statutory

Interpretation,” Faculty Seminar Series: Auckland Law School, April 20, 2010; Waikato Law

School, April 26, 2010, and Otago Law School, April 27, 2010.

49. “Political Participation and Representation for Indigenous Peoples,” Technical Workshop on

Right of Indigenous Peoples to Participate in Decision-Making, of the UN Expert Mechanism

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on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on

Human Rights, Geneva, March 23-24, 2010. By invitation; funded.

50. “Political Representation for Indigenous Peoples in Aotearoa New Zealand and Canada,”

Conference on “Canada and New Zealand: Connections, Comparisons and Challenges,” VUW,

February 9, 2010.

51. “Durability of Reparations Settlements,” on panel on Reparations for Indigenous Grievances,

at Conference on “Canada and New Zealand: Connections, Comparisons and Challenges,”

VUW, February 10, 2010.

52. “Indigenous Rights and Democratic Rights in International Human Rights Law”, Symposium

on "Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in the International Human Rights Framework -- A

Comfortable Fit?", UCLA Law School, USA, Jan 21-22, 2010. By invitation; funded.

53. "Paper on the Treaty of Waitangi" and "Protection of Cultural Identity and Cultural Heritage",

presented to the International Law Association Committee on Indigenous Rights, European

University Institute in Florence, Italy, December 14-16, 2009. By invitation; funded.

54. “The Precautionary Principle in the New Zealand Fisheries Act", presented at Protecting

Marine Animals: A Law, Policy and Science Symposium Organised by the Research Cluster

for Natural Resources Law, Otago University, Wellington, 19 November 2009.

55. “Indigenous Rights and Democratic Rights: ‘Two Towers’ in International Human Rights

Law,” Australia New Zealand Society of International Law Annual Conference, VUW,

Wellington, July 2, 2009.

56. "Indigenous Peoples and Democracy in International Law," Global Ecological Integrity

Group, Conference on ‘State Sovereignty, International Law and Ecological Integrity,’ The

University of Firenze, Florence, June 29, 2009 (paper delivered for me in my absence).

57. “Separate Political Representation for Aboriginal Communities,” at Conference on ‘The

Politics of Community and Identity’, University of Ottawa, Canada, May 21, 2009. By

invitation; funded.

58. “Durability of Indigenous Grievance Settlements” at a Workshop for the Canadian Department of

Justice on "Working Theory of Reconciliation", Aboriginal Law and Strategic Policy, Department of

Justice Canada, Ottawa, 26 May 2009. By invitation.

59. “The Use of Parliamentary Materials in Statutory Interpretation,” Lexis Nexis Statutory

Interpretation Workshop, Wellington, 20 May 2009. By invitation; funded.

60. “The 'Just Do It' Approach to Using Parliamentary History Materials in Statutory

Interpretation,” Faculty Seminar, Canterbury Law School, May 13 2009. By invitation;

funded.

61. “The Precautionary Principle in the New Zealand Fisheries Act: Whose Side is it On?,”

Conference on Property Rights and Sustainability, NZ Centre for Environmental Law,

University of Auckland, April 18, 2009.

62. “Developments in Statutory Interpretation,” Public Law Conference, LexisNexis, Wellington,

19 February 2009. By invitation.

63. “Achieving Durable Settlements in the Age of Apology: Lessons from New Zealand and

Canada.” Paper presented to the bi-annual conference of the Association for Canadian Studies

in Australia and New Zealand, University of Queensland, July 1-3, 2008.

64. “Absolute Principles in a World of Relativism: Are Universal Human Rights a Western

Concept?”, Amnesty International Annual Conference, Wellington, 11 May 2008. By

invitation.

65. “Developments in New Zealand’s Environmental Laws,” Ron Ianni Visiting Scholar lecture,

Windsor University, Windsor, Canada, 29 January 2008. By invitation; funded.

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66. “The Use of Parliamentary History Materials in the NZ Court of Appeal,” presentation to the

judges of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, Court of Appeal chambers, 2 July, 2007.

By invitation.

67. “The Precautionary Principle in the New Zealand Fisheries Act: Recent Challenges in the New

Zealand Court of Appeal,” Environmental Law Interest Group Panel, ALTA, July 4-8 2006,

Melbourne, Australia.

68. “Indigenous Peoples and Reparations in New Zealand,” University of Siena Workshop on

Indigenous Peoples and Reparations, June 1-3 2006, Siena, Italy. By invitation; funded.

69. “Resource and Marine Management Issues,” Foreshore and Seabed: The New Frontier,” VUW,

Wellington, 10 December 2004.

70. “Dedicated Parliamentary Seats for Indigenous Peoples: Political Representation as an Element of

Indigenous Self-Determination,” Parliament: Second Annual Conference on the Primary Functions of

Government, Legislative Council Chamber, Parliament Buildings, Wellington, October 29-30, 2004

71. “Affirmative Action: Current Legal Issues,” VUW Cross-Campus Symposium: Interdisciplinary

Approaches to Human Rights, VUW, Wellington, 25 August 2004.

72. "Affirmative Action for Women Academics," NZ Federation of Graduate Women, Wellington Branch,

St Mary's College, Wellington, 17 August 2004. By invitation.

73. "Discussing the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi: Trends in Legislative References," Third Annual

Maori Legal Forum, Wellington, 25 June 2004. By invitation.

74. “Teaching for Transnational Lawyering,” Association of American Law Schools Conference on

Educating Lawyers for Transnational Challenges, Hawaii, USA May 26-29, 2004.

75. “Using a Problem-Solving Role Play in an International Environmental Law Course,” Preventing and

Solving Legal Problems Creatively, Second International Conference on Creative Problem Solving,

California Western School of Law, San Diego, USA, March 4 – 6, 2004.

76. “Indigenous Electoral Representation in International Human Rights Law,” Annual Meeting of

the Australia & New Zealand Society of International Law, VUW, Wellington, July 2003.

77. “The Rape-Revenge Narrative in Film: Feminism and Social Change Through Violence Not

Law,” Feminist Legal Academics Workshop, Adelaide, June 2003.

78. “Maori Political Representation in New Zealand,” California Western School of Law, April

2003. By invitation.

79. “Violent Women in Film: Law, Feminism, Social Change,” Mediating Law, University of

Melbourne, Nov. 2002.

80. “Indigenous Electoral Representation in International Human Rights Law,” Symposium on

International Human Rights Theory, VUW, 28 August 2002

81. “Current Research: Indigenous Electoral Representation in International Human Rights Law,”

International Law Workshop, MFAT 30 August 2002

82. “The Review of the Maori Seats,” VUW Law Faculty Spring Seminar Series, Dec. 2001.

83. "Separate Indigenous Political Representation: Models and Issues" Rethinking Indigenous

Self-Determination, University of Queensland, Brisbane, September 2001.

84. "Extinguishment of customary aboriginal title under common law in NZ: a comment on the

Marlborough Sounds case" NZ Public Law Conference , Wellington, September 2001. By

invitation.

85. “There’s Method in her Madness or Games Teachers Play,” Joint Annual Meeting of the

Australia & New Zealand Society of International Law and the American Society of

International Law (ANU, Canberra, June 2000)

86. "International Human Rights and Domestic Law: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights In Australia,

Canada And New Zealand," Sixth Annual Meeting of the Australia & New Zealand Society of

International Law (ANU, Canberra, June 1998) [paper delivered in my absence].

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87. "International Rights of Indigenous Peoples to National Political Rights and Representation,"

Yale Law School, Graduate Program Series, New Haven, November 1997.

88. “The Draft Declaration and Implications for Maori Child Welfare” for International Law

Association and International Commission of Jurists Seminar on the United Nations Draft

Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Wellington, August 23 1997. By invitation.

89. “Extinguishment: is it Necessary?” for The NZ Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, the NZ

Institute of Public Law & the NZ Institute for Dispute Research and Resolution, Workshop:

Negotiating for the Future, 25 Sept. 1996. By invitation.

90. "Indigenous Peoples' Rights in International Law and Implications for W.A." for Women

Lawyers' Association of W.A. (Inc.), Perth, Sept. 15, 1994. By invitation.

91. "Self-Determination in the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Concerns

for the Future" for the ACUNS/ASIL Summer Workshop on International Organisation

Studies: "Internal Conflict and the World Community: Self-Determination, Security and

Human Rights," Brown University, USA, July 1994. Competitive selection.

92. "Current Issues in Human Rights: The Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,"

ANZSIL Annual Conference, Canberra, May 29 1994.

93. "Teaching Methods and Innovations," for International Law Teachers Workshop, ANU,

Canberra, May 26 1994.

94. "Law and Politics in the International Sphere: The Draft Declaration on the Rights of

Indigenous Peoples," Graduate Seminar in Human Rights, ANU, May 25, 1994. By invitation.

95. "Mabo: It is as complicated as you think," Women's Electoral Lobby, Nov. 28, 1993. By

invitation.

96. "A Feminist Approach to International Human Rights Law," UWA Law School, Sept. 13 ‘93.

97. "Recent Developments on the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,"

University of Adelaide Law School, August 27, 1993.

98. "The Survival of Peoples: The Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples," UWA

Centre for Human Biology, August 25, 1993. By invitation.

99. "Violations of International Law in the Current Conflict in Bosnia," Bosnia Forum, Murdoch

University, June 1993. By invitation.

100. "Internal Self-Determination and Indigenous Peoples," ANZSIL Annual Conference,

Canberra, May 1993.

101. "Indigenous Women and the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,"

Workshop on Gender in International Law, University of Sydney, November 1992.

102. "Claims to the New Zealand Waitangi Tribunal: Challenging Sovereignty," Sovereignty

Symposium V, Oklahoma City, June 1992. By invitation.

103. "Indigenous Peoples and Internal Self-Determination," Conference on Self-Determination,

Yale Law School, April 1992.

104. "Indigenous Peoples' Rights in International Law," International Human Rights, Yale Law

School, April 1992. By invitation.

105. "New Zealand's Human Rights Commission Act: Proposals for Reform," Australasian Law

Schools Association Annual Conference, Victoria University, July 1989.

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