Dr Elizabeth Macpherson Pākehā (A New Zealander of European-settler descent) and is a Professor of Law and Rutherford Discovery Fellow at the University of Canterbury. Her research interests are in comparative environmental and natural resources law, human rights and Indigenous rights in Australasia and Latin America. She is the author of the award-winning book Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation: Lessons from Comparative Experience (2019, Cambridge University Press).
Beyond legal personhood for the Whanganui River: Collaboration and pluralism in implementing the Te Awa Tupua Act
In 2017, the Whanganui River in Aotearoa New Zealand was given the rights of a legal person under the Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017.
April 16, 2024