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Paerau Warbrick imageBA PGDipArts MA LLB DipGrad PhD (Otago)
Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand, Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
Ngati Pahipoto, Warahoe, Ngāi Taiwhakaea (hapū of Ngāti Awa)

Chair of the Postgraduate Committee; Postgraduate Committee Co-ordinator

Contact details

Office 3S4 Richardson Building, South Tower
Tel +64 3 479 3973
Email paerau.warbrick@otago.ac.nz

Research

Paerau is not only a senior lecturer in Te Tumu, he is also a Barrister. He has held a practising certificate for nearly twenty years and his expertise is in Māori land law, trusts, wills, probate and administration. He is an equity lawyer. He has appeared in the Māori Land Court and Māori Appellate Court from time to time and his legal mentor was the late Robin Corcoran who practiced in the Māori Land Court in Christchurch for many decades. Paerau is the principal legal adviser to the lawyers in the Ngāi Tahu Maori Law Centre in Dunedin.

Paerau's principal iwi is Ngāti Awa. However he has very close whakapapa ties to Te Arawa (Tuhourangi and Ngāti Rangitihi), Ngāti Tūwharetoa of Kawerau and Taupo, Ngāti Maniapoto and Whakatōhea and Whānau-a-Apanui. He also has links to Taitokerau iwi, Tūhoe and Ngāti Porou.

Paerau's academic research interests focuses on Māori history, politics, and law. Paerau has a current interest in the Treaty of Waitangi, Māori elections especially in the nineteenth and twentieth century.

Teaching

Supervision

Current

  • Megan Potiki, PhD, Language loss in Otakou
  • Raaniera Te Whata, PhD, Issues in Te Taitokerau Land Management
  • Nicola Andrews, MIndS, Spineless, Withdrawn, and Checked Out: An Analysis of How Libraries in Aotearoa and North America Uphold Colonialism and Reinforce Historical Trauma in Indigenous Populations
  • Karyn Williams, MIndS, Use of Māori stories in the Film Industry
  • Toan Nguyen, PhD, Climate Change challenges in Vietnam
  • Jekope Maiono, PhD, Fijian Land Development issues

Completed

  • Matiu Payne, PhD, Tamaiti Whangai in a Ngāti Mutunga Context (2017-2020)
  • Margaret Courtney, MIndS, Tūhourangi, the Rotomahana Parekārangi Block and Whānau Mātauranga (2017-2018)
  • Marty Schaaf, PhD, Pacific Islanders and Burnout in Sport (2016)
  • Michael Tarry, MIndS, Māori and Sovereignty (2014–2015)
  • Taiawhio Waititi, MIndS, Te Kaha 15B. Case study in land management (2014–2015)
  • Kyle Katipo, MIndS, Whāngai in the Māori Land Court (2014–2015)
  • Faapōpō Tupolo-Tauaanae, MIndS, The Aoga a le Faifeau [Pastor's School]: its place in the education system in Samoa today (2013–2014)
  • Samantha Jackson, MA , Matauranga Māori and Ngāti Whātua (2011–2012)
  • Matiu Payne, MIndS, Superior land inheritance rights by whāngai children (2012)
  • Whakarongotai Hokowhitu, PhD, Ngāti Pūkenga Identity (2011–2012)
  • Anna Parker, MA, Treaty of Waitangi and Peace Studies (2010–2012)
  • Ben Manley, MIndS, Imagined Boundaries: The Native Land Court and Maori Identity (2011–2012)
  • Julia Coates, BA(Hons), Kanga Pirau (2012)
  • Aroha Gilling, MIndS, Treaty of Waitangi and Social Work (2011)
  • Suzanne Spencer, MIndS, Ka Wahine and Takata Pora: Murihiku Women and Pakeha Settlers (2011)
  • Stacey Reynolds, BA(Hons), Māori and the Criminal Justice System: Towards 2010 (2010)
  • Tamasone Esera, MIndS, The Impact of the new Act (Land Titles Registration Act 2008) on customary land ownership in Samoa (2010)
  • Henare Mita, MA, The Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998: The quest for Ngāi Tahu tino rangatiratanga (2009)
  • Natalie Coates, BA(Hons), Kia tū ko taikākā: Let the heartwood of Māori identity stand – An investigation into the appropriateness of the legal definition of 'Māori' for Māori (2008)
  • Kanakolu Noa, MIndS, Indigenous Peoples and International Law (2006)
  • Erica Newman, BA(Hons), Maori, European and Half-caste Children; The Destitute, the Neglected and the Orphaned An Investigation into the Early New Zealand European Contact Period and the Care of Children 1840–1852 (2006)

Publications

Paterson, L., & Warbrick, P. (Eds.). (2023). Journal of New Zealand Studies, 35(1) [Special Issue: He Tuhinga Tuku Iho: Texts, contexts, resonances]. [Guest Editors].
Other - Edited Journal
Warbrick, P. (2023). The super-narrative effect. The resonance of written letters for whānau in the historical record. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 35, 70-81. doi: 10.26686/jnzs.iNS35.8117
Journal - Research Article
Paterson, L., & Warbrick, P. (2023). Introduction. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 35, 1-6. doi: 10.26686/jnzs.iNS35.8127
Journal - Research Other
Warbrick, P. (2021). Māori election petitions of the 1870s: Microcosms of dynamic Māori and Pākehā political forces. Journal of New Zealand Studies, (32), 40-59. doi: 10.26686/jnzs.iNS32.6862
Journal - Research Article
Warbrick, P. (2019). Tūtānekai's flute. In C. Brickell & J. Collard (Eds.), Queer objects. (pp. 29-36). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Warbrick, W. P. (2003). List of judges of the Native Land Court and Māori Land Court 1864-2003: He pepa o Ngā ingoa o ngā tiati o ngā kooti whenua Maori 1864-2003. 7p.
Authored Book - Other
Warbrick, P. (2019). Tūtānekai's flute. In C. Brickell & J. Collard (Eds.), Queer objects. (pp. 29-36). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Warbrick, P. (2015). Minute books: An integral part of the Māori Land Court. In A. Cooper, L. Paterson & A. Wanhalla (Eds.), The lives of colonial objects. (pp. 129-133). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Warbrick, P. (2012). 'O ratou whenua': Land and estate settlements. In N. R. Wheen & J. Hayward (Eds.), Treaty of Waitangi settlements. (pp. 92-101). Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books.
Chapter in Book - Research
Warbrick, W. P. (2009). Treaty of Waitangi. In X. Zhao & X. Qiao (Eds.), New Zealand: Its history, people and culture. (pp. 69-97). Shanghai, China: Fudan University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Warbrick, P. (2023). The super-narrative effect. The resonance of written letters for whānau in the historical record. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 35, 70-81. doi: 10.26686/jnzs.iNS35.8117
Journal - Research Article
Warbrick, P. (2021). Māori election petitions of the 1870s: Microcosms of dynamic Māori and Pākehā political forces. Journal of New Zealand Studies, (32), 40-59. doi: 10.26686/jnzs.iNS32.6862
Journal - Research Article
Warbrick, P. (2019). Dynamic and interesting events: The nineteenth-century Māori elections. New Zealand Journal of History, 53(2), 32-64.
Journal - Research Article
Mize, S., & Warbrick, P. (2017). Dealing with challenges that arise when lawyer and client are from different cultures. New Zealand Family Law Journal, 9, 56-66.
Journal - Research Article
Warbrick, P. (2016). A cause for nervousness: The proposed Māori land reforms in New Zealand. AlterNative, 12(4), 369-379. doi: 10.20507/AlterNative.2016.12.4.3
Journal - Research Article
Paterson, L., & Warbrick, P. (2023). Introduction. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 35, 1-6. doi: 10.26686/jnzs.iNS35.8127
Journal - Research Other
Warbrick, P. (2016). [Review of the book Tangata whenua: An illustrated history]. Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History, 16(3). doi: 10.1353/cch.2015.0039
Journal - Research Other
Warbrick, P. (2016). [Review of the book: Outcasts of the gods: The struggle over slavery in Māori New Zealand]. Journal of the Polynesian Society, 125(2), 189-191. [Book Review].
Journal - Research Other
Warbrick, P. (2011). [Review of the book Raupatu: The confiscation of Maori land]. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 49(1), 147-148. doi: 10.1080/14662043.2010.522039
Journal - Research Other
Warbrick, P. (2008). [Review of the book Buying the land, selling the land: Governments and Maori land in the North Island 1865-1921]. Political Science, 60(2), 104-105. doi: 10.1177/003231870806000212
Journal - Research Other
Warbrick, P. (2013). Somebody looking after something for somebody else’ Māori and Trust Law in modern history. Proceedings of the Australia New Zealand Law and History Society (ANZLHS) Conference: People, Power and Place. Retrieved from http://www.otago.ac.nz/law/conferences/anzlhs.html
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Warbrick, P. (2018, November). Ka whawhai tonu mātou. Verbal presentation at the He Tuhinga nō Neherā Symposium: Texts, Contexts, Resonances, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Warbrick, P. (2016, February). Echoes of the past: The painful side of Māori women's experience of world war. Verbal presentation at the Making Women Visible Conference: A Conference in Honour of Barbara Brookes, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Warbrick, P. (2014, May). Women and the Maori Land Court. Verbal presentation at the Sixteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women: Histories on the Edge, Toronto, Canada.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Warbrick, P. (2013, March). Of the people, by the people, for the people. He tangata, he tangata, he tangata: Maori voters and the constitution. Verbal presentation at the Colonial Origins of New Zealand Politics and Government Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Warbrick, P. (2013, November). The Māori incorporations of the South Island: A commentary on the use of micro-history. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Historical Association Biennial Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Warbrick-Anderson, P. (2013, February). Minute books of the Maori Land Court. Verbal presentation at the Inaugural Conference of the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Warbrick, P. (2009, June). Maori relations with pakeha and the law, 1900-1960. Verbal presentation at the Interracial Intimacies: New Zealand Histories Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Warbrick, P. (2007, December). The value of autobiography in academia: Maori women and post-world-war-II American presidents. Verbal presentation at the Self-Narratives 'Research Conversation' Day, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Warbrick, W. P. (2004). Exhibit A: Whakapapa and heirs to Marewa Te Kahupake or Te Ruatareti (died June 10. 1886). Māori Land Court of New Zealand. Christchurch, New Zealand: Māori Land Court. 8p.
Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report
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