Assocaite Professor David Jefferson
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Associate Professor
David Jefferon's research examines how the law sets the terms for human interactions with the other-than-human world, including through the governance of biodiversity, biotechnologies, agricultural crops, and food. David’s research sites are in Australasia and Latin America.
Rangahau · Related projects
The research project is analysing the WIPO’s proposal to develop databases of Indigenous Knowledge and genetic resources through a case study on mātauranga Māori innovations in papakāinga and assessing findings about novel mātauranga vis-à-vis existing and proposed domestic and international laws regarding data in registries.
View projectWhat is Data Sovereignty in Triangulation with Māori Innovation and Western Intellectual Property Regimes? Of Registries, Reality and Rangatiratanga
The research project is analysing the WIPO’s proposal to develop databases of Indigenous Knowledge and genetic resources through a case study on mātauranga Māori innovations in papakāinga and assessing findings about novel mātauranga vis-à-vis existing and proposed domestic and international laws regarding data in registries.
Kairangahau · Researchers
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Professor Jessica Lai
Professor Jessica Lai
Professor Jessica Lai specialises in intellectual property, especially patent law, the protection of Mātauranga Māori, and patents and gender. Jessica is the author of Indigenous Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property Rights (Springer, 2014) and Patent Law and Women (Routledge, 2021). She is also an author of the Annotated High Court Rules (5th edn, LexisNexis, 2025), as well as numerous articles and chapters, and the editor of multiple books. Her latest edited collection is A Research Agenda for Intellectual Property Law and Gender (Edward Elgar, 2024, with Kathy Bowrey).Jessica was… -
Assocaite Professor David Jefferson
Assocaite Professor David Jefferson
David Jefferon's research examines how the law sets the terms for human interactions with the other-than-human world, including through the governance of biodiversity, biotechnologies, agricultural crops, and food. David’s research sites are in Australasia and Latin America. -
Harriet Kennelly
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Ētahi atu · Other people
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University of Canterbury
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Kristie-Lee Thomas
Dr. Madi Williams
Ngāti Kuia
University of Canterbury
Research interests include Te Waipounamu iwi histories and New Zealand history. Particular focus on the histories of Te…
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Dr. Kirsty Dunn
University of Canterbury
My main research interests lie within the field of Māori and Indigenous literatures; my PhD thesis completed in 2022 is…