Moana Jackson

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Not to be confused with Moana Maniapoto-Jackson.

Moana Jackson is a New Zealand Māori lawyer specialising in constitutional law, the Treaty of Waitangi and international indigenous issues. Jackson is of Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Porou descent. He is Director of Ngā Kaiwhakamarama i Ngā Ture (the ) which he co-founded in 1987.

Biography[]

Jackson is the son of All Black Everard Jackson and the brother of Syd Jackson and affiliates to the iwi Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Porou.[1] He graduated in Law and Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington, and after a short period in practice took up the teaching of Māori language. He then undertook further study in the United States attending Arizona State University.[2]

Career[]

Jackson returned to New Zealand from the United States to conduct research for the Justice Department where he wrote Māori and the Criminal Justice System: A New Perspective, He Whaipaanga Hou published in 1988.[2][3]

Overseas work includes the drafting of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.[1] In 1993 he was a judge on the International Tribunal of Indigenous Rights in Hawaii and again in 1995 in Canada.[1] During the Bougainville peace process Jackson was counsel for the Bougainville Interim Government.[4]

Jackson was a vocal critic of the government's foreshore and seabed legislation in 2004.[5] He was also a vocal critic of the October 2007 police 'terror' raids. He resigned as patron of the Police Recruit Wing 244 due to his opposition to how the raids were conducted saying, "I do not buy that this was a racially-neutral act".[6] In 2009 at Omahu Marae in Hastings he said: "Those who take power unjustly defend it with injustice."[7]

Jackson has lectured at Te Wānanga o Raukawa in Ōtaki on the Ahunga Tīkanga (Māori Laws and Philosophy) degree programme.[8][9]

Contributions to Criminal Justice[]

Jackson challenges the notions of prisons including naming the short time frame of prisons existing in English history.[10] He articulates what was criminal justice in New Zealand prior to 1840 when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed and links this into other Indigenous peoples systems of wrongdoings as against 'relationships which held the community together, including the relationships with the land and waters upon which the life of every person ultimately depended'.[10] At a conference in 2018 Jackson's critique of the criminal justice system in New Zealand was that it 'isolates the wrongdoer, it isolates the victim, from the communities and the history to which they belong.' With his critique he is challenging the notion of one law for all and the Eurocentric approach to crime with the offender based methodology of the offender viewed as separate from the culture and society they grow up in.[11][12][13]

Jackson highlighted the importance of showing positive portrayals of Māori in the media, as the negative portrayal of Māori may damage their self-worth.[12]

Awards[]

In 2017 Jackson was awarded an honorary doctorate from Victoria University of Wellington for his outstanding contribution to legal scholarship around the Treaty and to public debates about how Māori are treated by the justice system and their place in New Zealand society more broadly.[14]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Speakers - Te Piringa: University of Waikato". The University of Waikato Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato. Retrieved 2021-09-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ a b "Moana Jackson". Komako. Retrieved 2021-09-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "Maori and the Criminal Justice System: A New Perspective, He Whaipaanga Hou". Office of Justice Programs. Retrieved 2021-09-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ "Dr Moana Jackson Recognised For His National Contributions To Whanau, Hapu And Iwi". Scoop News. 10 May 2021. Retrieved 2021-09-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ "Pākia ki uta, pākia ki tai. Ministerial Review of the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004" (PDF). Ministerial Review of the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004. Ministerial Review Panel (New Zealand). 1.
  6. ^ "Jackson resigns as police patron over raids". NZ Herald. November 10, 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-16.
  7. ^ "Maori resistance not terrorism - Moana Jackson". Stuff. 2009-01-31. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  8. ^ "Ngā Ringa Rauhi". Te Wānanga o Raukawa. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  9. ^ "Speaker biographies". www.drugfoundation.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  10. ^ a b Jackson, Moana (2017-10-14). "Moana Jackson: Prison should never be the only answer". E-Tangata. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  11. ^ "One law for all or one justice for all?". Victoria University of Wellington. 2018-11-13. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  12. ^ a b Jackson, Moana (1988). The Maori and the criminal justice system : a new perspective = He whaipaanga hou. Part 1. Dept. of Justice. Policy and Research Division.
  13. ^ "Māori Victims of Crime - an alternative viewpoint". Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  14. ^ Wellington, Victoria University of (2017-11-21). "Moana Jackson to receive honorary doctorate". Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
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