Jacinta Ruru
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Jacinta Ruru | |
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.jpg) Ruru in 2022 | |
| Born | 1974 (age 50–51) Kalgoorlie, Australia |
| Alma mater | University of Victoria |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Indigenous law |
| Institutions | University of Otago |
| Thesis | |
| Doctoral advisor | John Borrows |
| Website | www |
Jacinta Arianna Ruru MNZM FRSNZ (born 1974) is an established New Zealand academic and the first Māori professor of law.[1] Ruru is currently the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Māori at the University of Otago.[2]
Ruru completed a Master's at the University of Otago in 2001, with a thesis on the Treaty of Waitangi and national parks in New Zealand.[3] After a 2012 Fulbright-funded PhD at the University of Victoria in Canada, Ruru returned to New Zealand and the University of Otago, rising to full professor in 2016.[4]
Ruru's research centres on indigenous peoples' (primarily Māori in New Zealand and First Nations in Canada) legal relations with land and water, from a measured and moderate perspective.[5][6][7] She is the co-director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) the New Zealand's Māori Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE).[8][9]
Recognition
In addition to winning the Prime Minister's supreme award for tertiary teaching,[10] Ruru has also been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.[11][12] In 2017, Ruru was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.[13] In the same year she was invited to give the 10th Shirley Smith Memorial Address. Her speech was "First laws: tikanga Māori in / and the law".[14]
In October 2019, Ruru was appointed one of seven inaugural sesquicentennial distinguished chairs, or poutoko taiea, at Otago University.[15]
In 2019–20 Ruru was on the panel that wrote the influential report He Puapua.
In the 2022 New Year Honours, Ruru was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori and the law, and later that year received the University of Otago's Distinguished Research Medal.[16][17]
Selected works
- Ruru, Jacinta. (2004). "A politically fuelled tsunami: the foreshore/seabed controversy in Aotearoa Me Te Wai Pounamu/New Zealand." The Journal of the Polynesian Society 113, no. 1: 57–72.
- Miler, Robert J., and Jacinta Ruru. (2008). "An Indigenous Lens into Comparative Law: The Doctrine of Discovery in the United States and New Zealand." West Virginia Law Review 111: 849.
- Ruru, Jacinta. (2009). The legal voice of Māori in freshwater governance: a literature review. Landcare Research, New Zealand.
- Abbott, Mick, and Jacinta Ruru, eds. (2010). Beyond the scene: Landscape and identity in Aotearoa New Zealand. Otago University Press.
- Ruru, Jacinta. (2004). "Indigenous peoples' ownership and management of mountains: The Aotearoa/New Zealand experience." Indigenous Law Journal 3: 111–137.
- Ruru, Jacinta, and Linda Waimarie Nikora, eds. (2021). Ngā Kete Mātauranga: Māori scholars at the research interface. Otago University Press. ISBN 978-1-98-859255-8
