Thursday 05 Jun 2025
5pm - 7pm
TCBD.2.03 Level 2 Lecture Theatre - Tauranga Campus
Nikki Hansen
Free
He Kokonga Ng膩kau, Speaker Series: Te Reo o Te Waiata
Tompkins Wake Annual Public Lecture
- Thursday 05 Jun 2025
- 5pm - 7pm
- TCBD.2.03 Level 2 Lecture Theatre - Tauranga Campus
- Nikki Hansen
- nikki.hansen@waikato.ac.nz
- Free
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鈥檚 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鈥� 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鈥檚 MMP history on how law and policy are made.
She also addresses the complex challenge of making New Zealand鈥檚 unwritten constitution - including the Rule of Law and the Treaty of Waitangi - understandable and accessible to New Zealand鈥檚 increasingly linguistically and culturally diverse population, and the consequences for policy/lawmaking and the courts when it isn鈥檛.
