is possible, but there’s work to be done
At his law school graduation, Herewini Ammunson spoke of his connection with te reo Māori, the revolutionary impact of the late Moana Jackson and the bicultural future of the legal profession in Aotearoa. Here is that speech.
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We have a Māori saying, “E kore te ako e mutu” – learning never stops. Justice Sir Joe Williams tells us that the law is a code. We now know how to read, interpret and apply this code in the “real world”. Parts of the code have undergone huge changes in the last 30 years, including the years we’ve been here. One of the people who carved that change into New Zealand law was himself a graduate of our law school.
Link to article: A legal system that honours te ao Māori is possible, but there’s work to be done | The Spinoff
