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Lecture 1 – An Introduction to Law & Society

Lecture 2 – Parliamentary Supremacy

Lecture 3 – The Annexation of Aotearoa

Lecture 4 – The Treaty of Waitangi

Lecture 5 – New Zealand’s System of Government

Lecture 6 – Courts and Juries

Lecture 7 – Fitzgerald v Muldoon

Lecture 8 – Finnigan v NZRFU

Lecture 9 – The Impact of Colonial Legislation on Maori

Lecture 10 – Colonial Judicial Decisions

Lecture 11 – The ‘Sealord’ Case

Lecture 12 – Natural Law Theory

Lecture 13 – Positivism

Lecture 14 – Mid-Semester Test Revision (video summary unavailable)

Lecture 15 – Tikanga

Lecture 16 – Legal Realism & CLS

Lecture 17 – Feminism & TWAIL

Lecture 18 – The Concept of Property

Lecture 19 – Relational Thinking (skills workshop)

Lecture 20 – Property & the Criminal Law

Lecture 21 – Women as Property

Lecture 22 – Intellectual Property (video summary unavailable)

Lecture 23 – Water as Property

Lecture 24 – The Criminal Justice System

Lecture 25 – Police Powers

Lecture 26 – Law & Homosexuality

Lecture 27 – International Human Rights

Lecture 28 – Cultural Defences

Lecture 29 – Law in Times of Crisis

Lecture 30 – Immigration

Lecture 31 – Treaty Settlement Process

Lecture 32 – The Foreshore & Seabed Controversy

Lecture 33 – New Zealand’s Constitutional Future

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