Jayden Houghton Editor

Jayden Houghton (Rereahu Maniapoto) is a senior lecturer and assistant dean at the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland | Te Wāhanga Ture o Waipapa Taumata Rau. He is an author of the books Tikanga Māori and State Law (Thomson Reuters, 2025) and Aotearoa New Zealand Law: Foundations and Method (3rd ed., Thomson Reuters, 2025). His research, which primarily focuses on the protection of knowledge and culture, is published in international journals including the International Journal of Human Rights, the Torts Law Journal and Legalities, and the leading domestic law journals the New Zealand Law Review and New Zealand Universities Law Review.

David V Williams FRSNZ is a professor emeritus at the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland | Te Wāhanga Ture o Waipapa Taumata Rau. He currently sits on the Waitangi Tribunal and the Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira Trust Board. David has authored or co-authored multiple books, including ‘Te Kooti Tango Whenua’: The Native Land Court 1864–1909 (Huia, 1999), A Simple Nullity? The Wi Parata Case in New Zealand Law & History (Auckland University Press, 2011) and The Shapeshifting Crown: Locating the State in Postcolonial New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK (Cambridge University Press, 2019).