This chapter discusses the deployment of European legal vocabularies, drawn from the common law and ius gentium as a means of framing indigenous forms of land-holding and tribal authority for the purposes of the colonization of New Zealand. The author contends that policy makers and officials...

In April 2010, New Zealand gave its approval to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (considered to be the most comprehensive text on the rights of Indigenous peoples), after having failed to do so with the UN General Assembly in 2007. The initial reasons given by New Zealand...

This issue of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business focuses on a special topic – indigenous land rights and enterprise development. Entrepreneurship and small business play a key role in the process. The paragraphs that follow this introduction first address...

This paper tackles the complex issue of how to include regenerating indigenous forest in a domestic carbon credit system. The paper specifically addresses New Zealand conditions but most of the issues and conclusions are relevant in any developed country with indigenous regrowth. The paper...

Radio spectrum is fundamental to the operation of wireless communications services. In order to allocate radio spectrum for different services, spectrum is regulated via national laws, coordinated by an international body, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). For the most part,...

Collective leadership is cast as a new and emerging paradigm. However, for many Indigenous communities, collective leadership has been a way of life through the millennia. Where mainstream models of collective leadership focus on what people do, think, and feel in the here and now, we argue such...