Moana Jackson
Director
Nga Kaiwhakamarama I Nga Ture (the Maori Legal Service)

This speaker's paper is available here.

Moana Jackson is Ngati Kahungunu and Ngati Porou. He is presently Director of Nga Kaiwhakamarama I Nga Ture (the Maori Legal Service) which he co-founded in 1987.

He graduated in Law and Criminology at Victoria University in Wellington, and after a short period in practise took up the teaching of Maori language. He then undertook further study in the United States before returning to New Zealand to conduct research for the then Justice Department report on the Maori and the criminal justice system, He Whaipaanga Hou. That report was finally published in 1988.

Since then he has worked with Nga Kaiwhakamarama I Nga Ture, specialising in Treaty constitutional issues. He has also worked extensively overseas on international indigenous issues, particularly the drafting of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. He was a judge on the International Tribunal of Indigenous Rights in Hawaii in 1993 and again in Canada in 1995. He was also counsel for the Bougainville Interim Government during the Bougainville peace process.