The Right Honourable Sir Geoffrey Palmer, Distinguished Fellow, New Zealand Centre for Public Law, Victoria University of Wellington. This lecture arises out of research by Sir Geoffrey Palmer and ...

But New Zealand decided to get it over with and cut the damn thing out altogether. This may seem like a small thing, and it certainly is compared to truly impotent bodies like the House of Lords.

A senior legal expert is calling for a fundamental rethink of New Zealand’s constitution in the light of the “illegitimacy” of the British Crown’s claim to sovereignty over this country.

In Aotearoa New Zealand, there is no part of the constitution more wilfully misremembered than te Tiriti o Waitangi/the Treaty of Waitangi.And one would be hard-pressed to find a more chilling example ...

New Zealand is deeply divided over the Treaty Principles Bill, which seeks to reinterpret the de facto constitution. Now the prime minister must stop it.