When Daniella Apodaca, ’25, came to the Law School, she had a hunch she might work in the international arena. She spoke ...

Transactional is perhaps generous. Trump doesn’t engage with NATO as a coalition of democratic equals but rather as a ...

Monday 23 June 2025 marks the closing of the select committee submission period on the controversial Regulatory Standards ...

Te Tiriti Embedding: All regulation and policy should explicitly reference and operationalise Te Tiriti o Waitangi. This ...

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke made international headlines for protesting efforts to change New Zealand’s founding document. Now the Treaty Principles Bill is dead, but her work is not done.

A bill which sought to “reinterpret” New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi, signed between Māori tribal leaders and the British Crown in 1840, has failed in parliament by 11 votes to 112.

The Treaty Principles Bill has been brutally defeated in Parliament. We have highlights from key speeches, and explain why its demise is so unusual.

Te Pāti Māori urges vigilance after the Treaty Principles Bill was voted down, calling it “one battle won”. David Seymour remains defiant, exploring options to keep the bill’s vision alive ...

The bill was proposed by the right-wing Act Party to define the principles of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, considered New Zealand’s founding document for upholding Maori rights.

The Treaty Principles Bill was voted down 112-11 after a government committee recommendation against it. The right-wing Act Party was the only one to vote for the bill in its second reading.

The Treaty Principles Bill sought to define the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi – an agreement signed between the British Crown and a group of indigenous Māori leaders in the 1840s, ...