Global Indigenous Law Research

Māori and Indigenous Law Research New Zealand

Resources for Choosing a Topic 

Although you can use any of the resources on this guide to pick a topic, these are some introductory resources that help you to get the lay of the land and see what issues are current. You can come back to this page throughout your research process to get clarity on a particular concept using the encyclopedia and dictionaries, or to run a broad search once you have a clearer idea of your topic.

Conference Websites or Proceedings

Recent or Upcoming Conferences will reflect what scholars and practitioners are focusing on currently.

Google Web Search

Example of Conference Proceedings

News

Scholarly Journals

You may want to review recent articles published in these journals to see what issues are topical. What have issues have scholars and practitioners been engaged with in recent years?

The links below provide access to a general search in the journal for indigenous OR aboriginal, sorted by date so you can see the most recent results. You can modify the search to search for these terms in the title by searching within for TI(indigenous OR aboriginal).