Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla & Jeanette Wikaira

Jacinta Ruru FRSNZ (Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui) (PhD, LLM) is a professor of law at the University of Otago where she also holds a Sesquicentennial Distinguished Chair. She is co-director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence. Angela Wanhalla (Ngāi Tahu) (PhD, MA) is an associate professor of history at the School of Arts, University of Otago. Jeanette Wikaira (Ngāti Pukenga, Ngāti Tamaterā, Ngāpuhi) (MA, PGdip, BA) is a research fellow at the faculty of law, University of Otago.