Public Lecture: The Honourable Justice Glazebrook

In her lecture, Justice Glazebrook examined how the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples had been used by the courts, both here and overseas. She positioned this jurisprudence in the context of te Tiriti o Waitangi, tikanga and human rights in New Zealand law as well as in international law.

Justice Susan Glazebrook has an MA (1st Class Hons), an LLB (Hons) and a Dip. Bus (Finance) from the University of Auckland and a DPhil from the University of Oxford in French legal history.  Justice Susan Glazebrook was appointed to the High Court in June 2000, the Court of Appeal in May 2002 and the Supreme Court in August 2012. Before being appointed to the Bench, she was a partner in law firm Simpson Grierson and a member of various commercial boards and government advisory committees. She served as the President of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association in 1998. Since becoming a judge, Justice Glazebrook has served as a member of the Advisory Council of Jurists for the Asia-Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions from 2002 to 2010 and from 2007 to 2012 chaired the Institute of Judicial Studies, the body responsible for judicial education in New Zealand.  She is currently the President-Elect of the International Association of Women Judges. In 2014 Justice Glazebrook was made a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the judiciary.