Review of Waitangi and Indigenous Rights: Revolution, Law & Legitimation

Abstract

This is a revised edition of Professor Brookfield's landmark study of issues surrounding the Treaty of Waitangi first published in 1999. Here he adds an extensive epilogue addressing three recent debates relevant to his central topic: the Fiji revolutions, successful and attempted; Maori customary title to the foreshore and seabed and the Foreshore and Seabed Act of 2004; and the Rekohu Report (2001) of the Waitangi Tribunal on the conflicting claims of Moriori and Ngati Mutunga on the Chatham Islands. He deals with these complex and controversial matters with his usual careful, thorough.