Jacinta Ruru

Jacinta Arianna Ruru
Residence New Zealand
Alma mater University of Victoria
Scientific career
Fields Indigenous law
Institutions University of Otago
Thesis
Doctoral advisor John Borrows
Website http://www.otago.ac.nz/law/staff/jacinta_ruru.html

Jacinta Arianna Ruru (born 1974) is a New Zealand academic. She is Māori, of Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāti Maniapoto descent and is currently a full professor at the University of Otago.[1]

Ruru was the first ever Māori Professor of Law.[2]

Academic career

After a 2012 Fulbright-funded PhD at the University of Victoria in Canada, Ruru returned to New Zealand and the University of Otago, rising to full professor in 2016.[3]

Ruru's research centres on indigenous peoples' (primarily Māori in New Zealand and First Nations in Canada) legal relations with land and water.[4][5]

In addition to winning the Prime Minister's supreme award for tertiary teaching,[6] Ruru has also been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand[7][8]

Selected works

  • Ruru, Jacinta. "A politically fuelled tsunami: the foreshore/seabed controversy in Aotearoa Me Te Wai Pounamu/New Zealand." The Journal of the Polynesian Society 113, no. 1 (2004): 57-72.
  • Miler, Robert J., and Jacinta Ruru. "An Indigenous Lens into Comparative Law: The Doctrine of Discovery in the United States and New Zealand." West Virginia Law Review 111 (2008): 849.
  • Ruru, Jacinta. The legal voice of Māori in freshwater governance: a literature review. Landcare Research New Zealand, 2009.
  • Abbott, Mick, and Jacinta Ruru, eds. Beyond the scene: Landscape and identity in Aotearoa New Zealand. Otago University Press, 2010.
  • Ruru, Jacinta. "Indigenous peoples' ownership and management of mountains: The Aotearoa/New Zealand experience." Indigenous Law Journal 3 (2004): 111.

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Jacinta Ruru, Our People, Faculty of Law, University of Otago, New Zealand". Otago.ac.nz. doi:10.1080/02697459.2017.1308641. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  2. ↑ fulbright (2016-05-30). "First Māori law Professor a proud Fulbrighter". Fulbright.org.nz. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  3. ↑ Gibb, John (2016-09-13). "Prof Ruru shedding her 'unease' | Otago Daily Times Online News". Odt.co.nz. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  4. ↑ Sunday 7:00am Repeated: Monday 2am (2016-09-08). "Why New Zealand is granting a river the same rights as a citizen - Sunday Extra - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". Abc.net.au. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  5. ↑ What in the World By BRYANT ROUSSEAU JULY 13, 2016 (2016-07-13). "In New Zealand, Lands and Rivers Can Be People (Legally Speaking) - The New York Times". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  6. ↑ Gibb, John (2016-08-18). "Otago's Ruru wins top award | Otago Daily Times Online News". Odt.co.nz. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  7. ↑ "Royal Society tackling diversity issues". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  8. ↑ Gibb, John (2016-10-29). "Four new Royal Society fellows | Otago Daily Times Online News". Odt.co.nz. Retrieved 2018-02-19.


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