Jacinta Ruru

Jacinta Ruru

Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāti Maniapoto, Australian

Ruru, J. (2022). What We Read Matters in the Pursuit of Decolonising Law. Legalities: The Journal of Law and Society in Australia and New Zealand, 2(1), 22–31. https://doi.org/10.3366/legal.2022.0025

Ruru, J (2021) 'We Love Her': the Lands of Aoterea, Rooted: LandBack, 1 (2), A Publication on Indigenous Law at McGill, Accessed September 23, 2022. https://indigenous-law-association-at-mcgill.com/rooted-publication/

Ruru, J, and Nikora, L. W. (Eds). (2021). Ngā Kete Mātauranga: Māori scholars at the research interface. Otago University Press. ISBN 978-1-98-859255-8. Accessed December 20, 2022. https://www.otago.ac.nz/press/books/otago756446.html

Ruru, J. (2021). Seeing Indigenous Humanness. Human Rights Defender, 30(1), 43–45.

Ruru, J., & Kohu-Morris, J. (2020). “Maranga Ake Ai” the Heroics of Constitutionalising Te Tiriti O Waitangi/the Treaty of Waitangi in Aotearoa New Zealand. Federal Law Review, 48(4), 556–569. https://doi.org/10.1177/0067205X20955105

Ruru, J. (2018). First Laws: Tikanga Maori in/and the Law. Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, 49(2), 211–228. https://doi.org/10.26686/vuwlr.v49i2.5321


Ruru, J, O’Lyver, P. B, Scott, N & D.Edmunds (2017) Reversing the Decline in New Zealand’s Biodiversity: empowering Māori within reformed conservation law, Policy Quarterly, 13 (2). https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v13i2.4657


Ruru, J. (2016). Legal Indigenous Recognition Devices. Indigenous Law Bulletin, 8(26), 26–29.

Ruru, J. (2016). Toitu te Whenua, Toitu te Mana. Otago Law Review (Gaunt), 14(2), 243–256. https://www.nzlii.org/nz/journals/OtaLawRw/2016/3.html

Ruru, J. (2013). Indigenous Restitution in Settling Water Claims: The Developing Cultural and Commercial Redress Opportunities in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, 22(2), 311–352. https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wilj/vol22/iss2/5/

Ruru, J. (2009). The legal voice of Māori in freshwater governance: a literature review. Landcare Research, New Zealand. ISBN 978-0-473-15854-5.

Ruru, J. (2008). A Maori Right to Own and Manage National Parks. Journal of South Pacific Law (2008) 12(1), 105-110.

Ruru, J. (2004). Indigenous peoples' ownership and management of mountains: The Aotearoa/New Zealand experience. Indigenous Law Journal 3: 111–137.

Howden-Chapman, P., Crane, J., Keall, M., Pierse, N., Baker, M. G., Cunningham, C., … Zhang, W. (2023). He Kāinga Oranga: reflections on 25 years of measuring the improved health, wellbeing and sustainability of healthier housing. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 54(3), 290–315. https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2023.2170427

Lyver, P. O., Ruru, J., Scott, N., Tylianakis, J. M., Arnold, J., Malinen, S. K., … Moller, H. (2018). Building biocultural approaches into Aotearoa – New Zealand’s conservation future. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 49(3), 394–411. https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2018.1539405

Morris, J. D. K., & Ruru, J. (2010). Giving Voice To Rivers: Legal Personality As A Vehicle For Recognising Indigenous Peoples’ Relationships To Water? Australian Indigenous Law Review, 14(2), 49–62. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26423181
Miller, R.J., Ruru, J,, Behrendt L & T Lindberg, (2010) Discovering Indigenous Lands: The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Professor Jacinta Ruru, Faculty of Law, Victoria Univsrsity of Wellington. 4 July 2019, YouTube, Accessed January 11, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uVhzVBxiiA