Valmaine Toki

Valmaine Toki is a New Zealand barrister and solicitor, and professor of law at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.[1] She is New Zealand Māori and a member of the Ngati Wai, Ngāpuhi and Ngati Whatua iwi.[2] Toki was the first New Zealander appointed as an expert member on the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Biography

Toki studied law at the University of Auckland, followed by a master's in business administration at the University of Tasmania, Australia.[1] Her master's degree focused on marine resource management and she later worked for Te Ohu Kai Moana Trustee Ltd on Māori fisheries, aquaculture and asset allocation. In 2007 she was appointed to a lecturer position at the University of Auckland and taught in the areas of contemporary Treaty of Waitangi and Māori issues, jurisprudence and legal method.[1]

As part of Toki's doctoral research into the disproportionate offending rates of Māori in the criminal justice system, she travelled to Asia and North America to study community court systems. Her book Indigenous courts, self-determination and criminal justice advocates for the establishment of a marae-based indigenous court in New Zealand.[3]

Publications
  • Toki, V. (2020). Indigenous courts, self-determination and criminal justice. Routledge, New York[4]

References
  1. "Valmaine Toki – The University of Auckland". www.nzcel.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  2. "Valmaine Toki – Te Piringa: University of Waikato". www.waikato.ac.nz. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  3. "Delivering a bicultural legal education in Hamilton". New Zealand Law Society | Te Kāhui Ture o Aotearoa. 13 November 2019. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  4. Toki, Valmaine (2020). Indigenous courts, self-determination and criminal justice. ISBN 978-0-367-40442-0. OCLC 1105721953.
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