Waitangi and Indigenous Rights: Revolution, Law and Legitimation Revised edition

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This is a revised edition of Professor Brookfield's landmark study of issues surrounding the Treaty of Waitangi first published in 1999. Here he adds an extensive epilogue addressing three recent debates relevant to his central topic: the Fiji revolutions, successful and attempted; Maori customary title to the foreshore and seabed and the Foreshore and Seabed Act of 2004; and the Rekohu Report (2001) of the Waitangi Tribunal on the conflicting claims of Moriori and Ngati Mutungu on the Chatham Islands. He deals with these complex and controversial matters with his usual careful, thorough and principled approach dealing with the broad constitutional issues and responding to comments made by other scholars. This new edition will be an essential tool for all those working in the area and for anyone interested in this vital contemporary debate.

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"[A] major contribution to the legal literature concerning revolutions. Written by New Zealand's senior constitutional scholar, it is indeed directed ultimately, as the title indicates, to New Zealand problems--past, present and future--but its sources are global and the issues of which it treats perennial." --The Law Quarterly Review

Author Bio

F. M. Brookfield is a professor emeritus in law at the University of Auckland and is a voluntary legal adviser assisting Maori involved in constitutional or land matters. He is the author of Treaties and Indigenous Peoples.