Fleur Te Aho

Fleur’s recent research has focused upon examining the nature and impact of Indigenous peoples’ rights under international law, including their domestic influence. She is currently examining how the UN human rights treaty bodies engage with Indigenous peoples’ rights for a chapter in an Oxford University Press handbook. She has also recently written chapters for different edited collections on the equality and non-discrimination and treaties, agreements and other non-constructive arrangements provisions in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (the UN Declaration); Aotearoa New Zealand’s engagement with international Indigenous peoples’ rights norms; and, with co-authors, on contemporary critical legal accounts of the relationship between international law and domestic law and policy as well as on the relationship between te Tiriti of Waitangi and the UN Declaration. 

Fleur’s recent research includes attention to Māori and the criminal law too, co-authoring an article on Māori jurisdictional protests in the criminal courts for the NZ Universities Law Review and a LexisNexis textbook on Criminal Law in Aotearoa New Zealand. 

Fleur’s research informs her advocacy for Indigenous peoples’ rights, including formerly as a co-director of Te Puna Rangahau o te Wai Ariki | The Aotearoa New Zealand Centre for Indigenous Peoples and the Law and as a member of Te Ara Takatū, a collective advocating for Māori survivors of abuse in state and faith-based care.