Mamari Stephens

Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law

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A House of Many Rooms: Rediscovering Māori as a Civil Language in the Wake of the Māori Language Act (1987)

in Rawinia Higgins, Poia Rewi and Vincent Olsen-Reeder (eds) The Value of the Māori Language: Te Hua o te Reo Māori (Volume Two, Huia Publishers, Wellington, 2014) pp 53-84
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 03 Oct 2016
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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Māori language, Māori language revitalisation, Māori Language Act 1987, civic language

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Fires Still Burning? Māori Jurisprudence and Human Rights Protections in Aotearoa New Zealand

International Human Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand (Thomson Reuters, Wellington, 2017, Forthcoming) , Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper No. 31/2019
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 05 May 2017 Last Revised: 23 May 2019
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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Māori jurisprudence, Māori law, tikanga Māori, human rights

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A Language for Buying Biscuits? Māori As a Civic Language in the Modern New Zealand Parliament

Australian Indigenous Law Review, Vol. 16, No. 1, Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper No. 14/2012
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 25 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2015
Mamari Stephens and Phoebe Monk
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law and Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka
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Maori, language, Hansard, New Zealand Parliament, Standing Orders, language rights, revitalisation

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A Loving Excavation: Uncovering the Constitutional Culture of the Māori Demos

New Zealand Universities Law Review 25(4):820-843, October 2013, Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper Series Paper No. 13/2015
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 18 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2015
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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Maori, constitutionalism, Maori language, New Zealand constitution

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The Right to Social Security

M Bedggood and K Gledhill (Eds) Law into Action: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand (Human Rights Foundation, Wellington, 2011), Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper No. 33/2019
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 04 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 23 May 2019
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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New Zealand social security, welfare law, right to social security

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'To Work Out Their Own Salvation': Māori Constitutionalism and the Quest for Welfare

(2015) 46 VUWLR, Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper No. 120/2015
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 29 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2015
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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Welfare state, Social security, Constitutional Law, Indigenous, Maori

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Utu: Finding a Balance for the Legal Maori Dictionary

Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 201-219, 2011, Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper Series No. 14/2015
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 19 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2015
Tai Ahu, Rachael Hoare and Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law, Student/Alumni, Independent and Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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legal lexicography, Maori language, Maori language and law, legal dictionaries, indigenous legal languages

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Finding a Balance: Customary Legal Terms in a Modern Māori Legal Dictionary

International Journal of Lexicography, Vol. 4, Issue 24, 2011, Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper No. 10/2011
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 30 May 2011 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2015
Mamari Stephens and Mary T. Boyce
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law and University of Canterbury
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Maori, Legal Language, Customary Law, Dictionaries

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Māori Law and Hart: A Brief Analysis

Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper No. 136/2016
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 12 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2017
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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The Concept of Law, HLA Hart, Māori Rule of Recognition, primary and secondary rules, Māori law, Māori Legal System, Hart's rule of recognition

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A House Divided? The Māori Language, National Anthems and the Construction of a National New Zealand Identity

Australian Law Journal Volume 95, Number 12: 956 December 2021
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Mar 2022
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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Maori language, law, legislation, Parliament, national identity, anthem

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Rights to Culture, Language & Education – A Tricephalos

in M Bedggood and Ian McIntosh (eds), International Human Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand (Thomson Reuters, Wellington, 2017 Forthcoming), Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper No. 32/2019
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 05 May 2017 Last Revised: 23 May 2019
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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Human rights, right to language, right to culture, right to education, Right to science, right to share in the benefits of science

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New Zealand Society, Local Institutions and Social Policy

Stephens, Māmari and Hassall, Graham Hume, New Zealand Society, Local Institutions and Social Policy in Hassall G and G Karacaoglu Social Policy Practice and Processes in Aotearoa New Zealand (2021)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Mar 2022
Mamari Stephens and Graham Hume Hassall
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Constitution; policy; Māori governance traditions

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'Wrestling with the Taniwha': An Analysis of Two Māori Language Texts and Their Engagement with Western Legal Concepts

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 12 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2017
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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19th century, taniwha, Māori language, legal Māori terminology, Western legal concepts

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Me He Korokoro Tui: Searching for Legal Maori Language and the Right to Use it.

Journal of Maori Legal Writing Volume 3, 2010
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 18 Jan 2015
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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New Zealand official government language, Legal Maori Project, Maori legal language, Treaty of Waitangi

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Kaumātua, Leadership and the Treaty of Waitangi Claims Settlement Process; Some Data and Observations

Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper No. 115/2015
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2015
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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Treaty of Waitangi, survey, Kaumātua, Māori

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The Legal Māori Archive: Construction of a Large Digital Collection

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 12 Jan 2015
Jason Darwin and Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka and Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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Legal Māori Project, New Zealand's legal history, digital collection

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The Sanctuary, the Marae and the Earth-Goddess; Standing Her Ground in the Evolution of the Political and Cultural Identities of Contemporary Māori and Archaic Greek Society

Number of pages: 165 Posted: 16 Mar 2021
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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'A Useful and Self Respecting Citizenship' - Māori As Citizens in the Quest for Welfare in the Modern New Zealand State

2017 189 J. Mann (ed.), Citizenship in Transnational Perspective, Politics
of Citizenship and Migration, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-53529-6_10 , Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper 30/2019
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 23 May 2019
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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Māori, welfare, Māori citizenship, citizenship, New Zealand Citizenship, marae, Tūhoe, Services Management Plan

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Taonga, Rights and Interests: Some Observations on the Framework of Protections for the Māori Language

Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 241-257, 2011, Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper No. 16/2015
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 19 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2015
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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Maori language, Waitangi Tribunal, WAI 262, taonga

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'Tame Kaka' Still? Maori Members, and the Use of Maori Language in the New Zealand Houses of Representatives

(2010) 14 Law, Text, Culture pp. 220-246, Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper No. 15/2015
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 20 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2015
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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Seeking the Common Good or Just Making Us Be Good? Recent Amendment to New Zealand's Social Security Law

Victoria University of Wellington Law Review Vol 44, No. 2, pp. 383-402, September 2013
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 19 Sep 2014
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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Christian ethics, New Zealand social security law, the common good

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"The Struggle for Civic Space between a Minority Legal Language and a Dominant Legal Language: The Case of Māori" and English." Legal Lexicography: A Comparative Perspective (2016): 289.

Chapter in: Legal Lexicography: A Comparative Perspective (2016): 289., Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 25 Jul 2017
Mamari Stephens and Mary T. Boyce
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law and University of Canterbury
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legal lexicography, Maori language, Language for Special Purposes, diachronic corpus, legal dictionary

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Social Security Reviews and Appeals

M Stephens 'Social Security Reviews and Appeals' in Thomas Gibbons and Meenal Duggal (General Editors). New Zealand Tribunals: Law and Practice. New Zealand, Thomson Reuters, 2020.
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 18 Mar 2022
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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New Zealand social security law; Social Security Appeal Authority; Benefits review committee

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He rangi tā Matawhiti, he rangi tā Matawhānui’ Looking Towards 2040

"He rangi tā Matawhiti, he rangi tā Matawhānui’ Looking towards 2040" in Mark Hickford and Carwyn Jones (eds) Indigenous Peoples and the State: International Perspectives on the Treaty of Waitangi (Routledge, Abingdon, 2018)
Posted: 24 Mar 2022
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law

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Tiriti o Waitangi, Treaty of Waitangi, State-Indigenous relationships, New Zealand, Māori, constitutionalism

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To Protect and Serve: Finding New Ways to Protect te reo Māori as Cultural Property.

Māmari Stephens 'To Protect and Serve: Finding New Ways to Protect te reo Māori as Cultural Property.' in A Costi and S Frankel (eds) Do Cultural and Property Combine to Make "Cultural Property"? (NZACL, Wellington, 2017, rev ed 2018)
Posted: 23 Mar 2022
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law

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Cultural property, Maori language, te reo Māori, legal personality

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Te Reo Maori - Maori Language

Maori Law Review September 2012
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 18 Jan 2015
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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dictionary of Maori language, legal language project, Legal Maori Project, Te Reo Maori, legal system,

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Lords of the Land

Maori Law Review December 2013
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 18 Jan 2015
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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Maori political constitutionalism, indigenous property rights, Hickford, New Zealand legal history

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Remarks at the Celebration of the Maori Law Review's 20 Year Anniversary

Maori Law Review December 2013
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 18 Jan 2015
Mamari Stephens
Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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Maori language of law, Maori Law Review, 20th Anniversary