Rachael Evans

I am a former legal practitioner, now legal academic, with a strong interest in the intersection of Te Ao Māori and western law. My masters of law focused on co-governance arrangements between iwi and the Crown with a focus on Ngāi Tahu and Ngāi Tūhoe. I joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Canterbury in early 2022 after two and a half years as in house legal advisor on the Ngāi Tahu Rangatiratanga over Freshwater project. I am admitted to the bar in New Zealand and have also practiced as a civil litigation lawyer, and worked as a Judges' Clerk in the Christchurch District Court. I am about to embark my PhD looking at extending co-governance into fiscal authority, specifically taxation and I have been awarded a Ngāi Tahu Centre Doctoral Scholarship for that. My academic interests include iwi and hapū governance in the corporate and environmental spaces, water law, and general Māori participation in resource management law.