Nicola Wheen | |
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 Wheen in 2010 | |
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| Alma mater | University of Otago |
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| Academic advisors | Geoffrey Palmer , Bruce V Harris |
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| Institutions | University of Otago |
Nicola Rowan Wheen is a New Zealand academic,and is a full professor at the University of Otago,specialising in national and international environmental law,and environmental law and the Treaty of Waitangi.
Wheen joined the law department at the University of Otago in 1984 as a student,gaining her LLB before joining the academic staff in 1989,rising to associate professor in 2015 [1] and full professor in 2021. [2] [3] Wheen completed a Master of Laws titled The Resource Management Act 1991 and water in New Zealand:impact and implications at the University of Otago in 1995. [4] She researches how law addresses international and national environmental problems,such as whaling,marine mammal by-catch, [5] climate change,freshwater allocation,forest conservation on Māori-owned land,the environmental impacts of tourism,and how sex work is regulated through planning law. [6] [7] [8] Wheen also has an interest in how the Treaty of Waitangi affects environmental law. [1] [3]
Wheen is a member of the Centre of Research Excellence Coastal People:Southern Skies, led by Anne-Marie Jackson and Rosalina Richards. [3] [9] She has co-edited books on the Treaty of Waitangi,and Treaty of Waitangi Settlements,with Janine Hayward. [3] [1] [10] Wheen also wrote chapters in Environmental Histories of New Zealand,published in 2002,and The Law of Research,published 2003. [11]
Wheen teachers and convenes courses on Public Law,Environmental Law and International Environmental Law at Otago,and has supervised more than fifty honours and postgraduate students. [1] [3] She is on the editorial board of Otago University Press. [12]
The Treaty of Waitangi, sometimes referred to as Te Tiriti, is a document of central importance to the history of New Zealand, its constitution, and its national mythos. It has played a major role in the treatment of the Māori people in New Zealand by successive governments and the wider population, something that has been especially prominent from the late 20th century. The treaty document is an agreement, not a treaty as recognised in international law, and has no independent legal status, being legally effective only to the extent it is recognised in various statutes. It was first signed on 6 February 1840 by Captain William Hobson as consul for the British Crown and by Māori chiefs from the North Island of New Zealand.
Claims and settlements under the Treaty of Waitangi have been a significant feature of New Zealand politics since the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 and the Waitangi Tribunal that was established by that act to hear claims. Successive governments have increasingly provided formal legal and political opportunity for Māori to seek redress for what are seen as breaches by the Crown of guarantees set out in the Treaty of Waitangi. While it has resulted in putting to rest a number of significant longstanding grievances, the process has been subject to criticisms including those who believe that the redress is insufficient to compensate for Māori losses. The settlements are typically seen as part of a broader Māori Renaissance.
Elizabeth Jane Kelsey is a New Zealand academic and activist who has promoted critical examination of the relationship between social, political and economic issues and how these can impact on human rights and justice. Specifically, within the New Zealand context, she has advocated public policy positions on colonialism and te Tiriti Waitangi, globalisation and neoliberalism, and the role of universities as public institutions. She has published widely on these and other issues, and in 2020 won the Global category of the New Zealand Women of Influence Award. Kelsey was professor of law at the University of Auckland until her retirement in 2022.
The Auckland Domain, also known as Pukekawa / Auckland Domain, is a large park in Auckland, New Zealand. Consisting of 75 hectares of land, Auckland Domain is the oldest park in the city. Located in the central suburb of Grafton, the parkland is the remains of the explosion crater and most of the surrounding tuff ring of the Pukekawa volcano.
Otago University Press is an academic publisher associated with the University of Otago. The press is located in Dunedin, New Zealand. The Otago University Press is the oldest academic publisher in New Zealand. The Otago University Press publishes non-fiction and poetry and is also the publisher of the literary journal Landfall.
The South Island Landless Natives Act 1906 (SILNA) was an Act of Parliament passed in New Zealand.
Margaret Shirley Mutu is a Ngāti Kahu leader, author and academic from Karikari, New Zealand and works at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is Māori and her iwi (tribes) are Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa and Ngāti Whātua.
In New Zealand law and politics, the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi is a phrase used in the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975. It is a set of principles derived from, and interpreting, the Treaty of Waitangi. These principles were codified in 1987, partly an attempt to reconcile the different Māori and English language versions of the treaty, and allow the application of the treaty to a contemporary context.
Bridget Rosamund Williams is a New Zealand publisher and founder of two independent publishing companies: Port Nicholson Press and Bridget Williams Books.
Bridget Williams Books is a New Zealand book publisher, established in 1990 by Bridget Williams.
Barbara Lesley Brookes is a New Zealand historian and academic. She specialises in women's history and medical history. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2022.
Dorothy Pauline Page is a retired New Zealand historian and academic. She specialised in women's history, biography and public history.
Sue Pullon is a New Zealand public health researcher and practicing GP. She is the author of the New Zealand Pregnancy Book.
Janine Alyth Deaker Hayward is a New Zealand politics academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Otago.
Bronwyn Mary Hayward is a New Zealand political scientist. Her areas of research are democracy, sustainability and young people. She was a lead author on a United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report.
Giselle Margaret Byrnes is a New Zealand historian. She is the provost and assistant Vice-Chancellor of Massey University, New Zealand. Previous employment included the Waitangi Tribunal and as lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington.
Ceri Warnock is a British-born New Zealand environmental lawyer and professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Otago.
Aroha Gaylene Harris is a Māori academic. As of 2020, Harris is an associate professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in Māori histories of policy and community development. She is also a member of the Waitangi Tribunal.
Atholl John Anderson is a New Zealand archaeologist who has worked extensively in New Zealand and the Pacific. His work is notable for its syntheses of history, biology, ethnography and archaeological evidence. He made a major contribution to the evidence given by the iwi (tribe) Ngāi Tahu to the Waitangi Tribunal.
Tina Ngata is an advocate, author and researcher based in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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