The Effects of Tenurial Change in Nineteenth-Century Latin America and New Zealand: A Search for Parallels and Origins

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  • Richard Boast

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/jnzs.v0i11.498

Abstract

Research into the Effects of Tenurial Change in Nineteenth-Century Latin America and New Zealand: A Search for Parallels and Origins.

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Author Biography

Richard Boast

Richard Boast is a practising barrister and a Professor of Law at Victoria University of Wellington. He teaches courses in Property Law, Maori Land Law and Legal History and is the author of Foreshore and Seabed (2005) and Buying the Land, Selling the Land: Governments and Maori Land in the North Island 1865 -1921 (2008), which won the History category in the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. In 2009 along with Richard S. Hill he edited a book of essays on the confiscation of Maori land in nineteenth-century New Zealand (Raupatu: The Confiscation of Maori Land, 2009). He has a long-standing interest in Latin America to which he has travelled on numerous occasions and has published a paper in an Argentinian Law Review comparing developments in indigenous law in Mexico and Argentina with New Zealand. He is currently working on a new book comparing tenurial changes in New Zealand with similar related developments in Mexico, Central America, Colombia, the United States and Hawaii.

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Published

2011-01-01