Juridical Encounters: Maori and the Colonial Courts, 1840-1852
By Shaunnagh Dorsett
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From 1840 to 1852, the Crown Colony period, the British attempted to impose their own law on New Zealand. In theory Maori, as subjects of the Queen, were to be ruled by British law. But in fact, outside the small, isolated, British settlements, most Maori and many settlers lived
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Juridical Encounters: Maori and the Colonial Courts, 1840-1852
9781775589198
18 September 2017
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Author Biography
Shaunnagh Dorsett is a professor of law at the University of Technology Sydney and research fellow in the Faculty of Law at Victoria University of Wellington. She is the author or editor of a number of books, including Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire (Palgrave McMillan, 2010, edited with Ian Hunter); Jurisdiction (Routledge, 2012, with Shaun McVeigh); and Legal Histories of the British Empire: Laws, Engagements and Legacies (Routledge, 2014, edited with John McLaren). She was the leader of the New Zealand Law Foundation's 'Lost Cases' Project.