“Critical scholarship needs to take our teaching and research beyond the cloisters of the lecture theatres, academic conferences and scholarly journals, and apply our skills, knowledge and power to advancing transformative justice.” — Professor Jane Kelsey.
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“I learned that the pursuit of excellence includes embracing our own identities, as Pacific women and as Māori women. That we have a place in the law, as ourselves.” — Judge Lope Ginnen on what she learned working in an all-wāhine Māori and Pacific law firm.
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“I simply thought the system could be improved. That was the lesson I learned from my experience as a youth advocate, and I took that idea with me when I joined the bench.” — Chief District Court Judge Heemi Taumaunu.
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“Both Māori and Pākehā students . . . see that, to be an effective person in this country in the 21st century, they need to be competent in te ao Māori, te reo, and tikanga Māori.” — Metiria Turei.
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“Treating people with humanity is good for everyone. Especially when someone hasn’t seen much humanity in their life.” — Kingi Snelgar.
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“I’ve grown to appreciate the place of law in today’s society, but I struggle with its monoculturalism.” — Tamasailau Sualii-Sauni.
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“Everything I say in the courtroom now is said in te reo Māori. All of my submissions, every written document.” — Alana Thomas.
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“Only through discussion can we win the hearts and minds of others, and then, eventually, society adopts these new ideas as a new norm.” — Matt McCarten.
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“Both sides are saying: ‘We want to do it a different way.’ It’s just no longer right to say evil nasty Crown, good angel iwi. It’s not like that at all.” — Supreme Court judge Sir Joe Williams.
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“It won’t mean anything if all it was is that one time we had that brown girl as president. There has to be more.” — Tiana Epati, president of the New Zealand Law Society.
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“The so-called humanitarian colonisers who came here in the 19th century did not necessarily hate Maori. Indeed, they sometimes professed to love us and simply wanted to dispossess us in a sensitive and caring way.”
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The recent election had its usual, predictable talk about law and order — and that talk ranged...
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