Jacinta Ruru has graduated with a BA (Wellington), LLB and LLB (Otago) PhD (Victoria/Canada). She holds a University of Otago Inaugural Sesquicentennial Distinguished Chair and teaches at Otago University. She is a fellow of New Zealand's Royal Society Te Apārangi, is a winner of the Prime Minister's Supreme Award for Excellence in Tertiary Teaching, Fullbright Ngā pae o te Māramatanga senior Māori scholar and Tedx speaker. She has written more the 100 publications pertaining to indigenous peoples' rights and responsibilities to own and care for lands and waters. She holds many leadership roles including Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand Board membership, Ministry for the Environment Kāhui Wai Māori; Māori Law Review Consulting Editor, Co-Director of Otago's Poutama Ara Rau Research Theme and has organised key conferences including The 'In Good Faith' Treaty of Waitangi Symposium in 2007, and 7th-9th biennial International Indigenous Research Conferences (2016, 2018, 2020.)
Biographical sources
- https://www.otago.ac.nz/law/staff/jacinta_ruru/
Non-fiction
- Introduction: Bringing Back our Humanness. Ngā Kupu Wero. Ed. Witi Ihimaera. New Zealand: Penguin Books, 2023.