​Jacinta Ruru ​

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Jacinta Ruru (Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui) MNZM, FRSNZ is a professor of law at the University of Otago.
City of Residence: Dunedin

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jacinta Ruru (Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui) MNZM, FRSNZ is a professor of law at the University of Otago. She researches Indigenous peoples’ legal rights to own, manage and govern lands and waters, te Tiriti o Waitangi and tikanga Māori in the legal system. Her work includes co-authoring Discovering Indigenous Lands: The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies (Oxford University Press, 2010) and co-editing Ngā Kete Mātauranga. Māori Scholars at the Research Interface (Otago University Press, 2021). Jacinta is the recipient of a number of awards for her research, supervision and teaching.

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