Tompkins Wake Annual Public Lecture

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2019 11 21 Tauranga Campus 17

The taming of MMP by the formation of a true coalition government: Impact on Policy/Lawmaking and the Courts in Superdiverse NZ.

We are pleased to invite you to a public lecture with Dr Mai Chen.

Drawing on her extensive experience as one of New Zealand’s leading experts in constitutional law, public law, and superdiversity, Dr Chen will speak on:

"The taming of MMP by the formation of a true coalition government: Impact on Policy/Lawmaking and the Courts in Superdiverse NZ."

Dr Mai Chen explores how the first true coalition government under MMP -between National, ACT and New Zealand First - is reshaping policy and law-making, and impacts on the courts’ role. Drawing on her writing in Discrimination in New Zealand: A Personal Journey (VUWLR) and The Public Law Toolbox (2ed, Lexisnexis), Dr Chen examines the first true coalition government in NZ’s MMP history on how law and policy are made.

She also addresses the complex challenge of making New Zealand’s unwritten constitution - including the Rule of Law and the Treaty of Waitangi - understandable and accessible to New Zealand’s increasingly linguistically and culturally diverse population, and the consequences for policy/lawmaking and the courts when it isn’t.

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