Seminar by Dr Tory Fodder: "A New Zealand Export: Reconciliatory Justice and Federal Indian Law"
4 September 2013
Seminar by Dr. Torivio (Tory) A. Fodder
"A New Zealand Export: Reconciliatory Justice and Federal Indian Law"
Date: Wednesday, 4th September 2013
Time: 1pm
Venue: LAW.G.02, Faculty of Law, University of Waikato
The United States and New Zealand are home to some of the largest populations of Indigenous peoples in the world. And yet the legal frameworks of each nation regarding their Indigenous peoples could hardly be more different.
In this public lecture Tory will explore New Zealand’s Waitangi Tribunal process and its undergirding framework of reconciliatory justice. He will briefly outline the colonisation experiences of American Indians and Maori en route to establishing the extant legal framework regarding Indigenous peoples in the U.S. and New Zealand. Further to this Tory will analyse Dr Robert Joseph’s work on the development of a kaupapa Maori understanding of the reconciliatory justice framework within the Waitangi Tribunal process. He will then apply the reconciliatory justice model to the situation of American Indians identifying key policy implications should such a framework ever be adopted in the U.S.
Dr Torivio A. Fodder is an SJD graduate of the Indigenous People's Law and Policy Program at the University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law. Under the supervision of renowned indigenous rights scholar, Prof Robert A. Williams, Tory’s dissertation developed a new analytical framework for the articulation of indigenous rights and self-determination drawing from the disparate fields of critical race theory and libertarian philosophy. Originally from Walters, Oklahoma, USA, Torivio is an enrolled member of the Taos Pueblo and of Comanche, Kiowa and Cherokee tribal descent.
Dr Fodder is undertaking research, and maintains current knowledge, relating to Indigenous Governance and Dispute Resolution. He is also assessing the effectiveness of internal governance mechanisms of Maori and other Indigenous for profit and non-profit legal entities and trusts.