The organisation also named the recipients of its travel and learning award for the legal community
The Michael and Suzanne Borrin Foundation has announced its latest batch of Borrin Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship awardees.
The following were granted the Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Postgraduate Scholarship:
Amelia Kendall (Te Rarawa) was granted $80,000 to pursue an LLM in the US. Kendall will focus on international constitutional arrangements, the effect and efficacy of domestic and international human rights instruments, treaties and declarations on global indigenous rights.
Pita Roycroft (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Hāmoa – Moata’a) was awarded $80,000 to support her pursuit of an LLM in the US. Roycroft aims to determine whether and how much principles of indigenous or customary law such as tikanga Māori can impact tort law development in New Zealand and other Western states that are populated by indigenous residents.
The Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga scholarships were granted in partnership with Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand's Māori Centre of Research Excellence.
Five law graduates were also given the Te Pae Tawhiti Postgraduate Scholarship:
Sarah Croskery-Hewitt was awarded $30,000 to help in finishing her PhD in Law at the University of Wollongong. Her current research examines the nature and effect of intoxication evidence in sexual assault trials.
Wiliame Gucake received $50,000 to pursue an LLM at Harvard Law School. His research focuses on the ways in which transitional justice mechanisms can be used or improved to drive transformational constitutional change for indigenous peoples in Aotearoa and the Pacific.
Rebecca McMenamin was awarded $50,000 to support a PhD research stay at a UK university. Her research looks into how climate litigation integrates with and impacts international human rights law.
Toilolo Leilani Taula received $50,000 to pursue an LLM in the US. She will concentrate on examining the relationships in customary and common law within the jurisdictions of Samoa and the US.
Alexander Young was allocated $60,000 to pursue an LLM in the US. He plans to study indigenous cultural approaches to land use, specifically in relation to wetlands, and identify how indigenous cultural knowledge can be applied to climate change adaptation frameworks.
The organisation also revealed the recipients of its Travel and Learning Awards for the legal community:
Allan Beever received $9,100 to present findings from his upcoming book Freedom under the Private Law at three events in the UK.
Erica Burke was awarded $10,000 facilitate visits to Australia, Scotland, Norway. and California. She intends to connect with and learn from women's legal clinics that offer specialised legal support and advocacy for women, focusing on family law-related legal support.
Susan Lamb received $10,000 to join in the discussions and drafting of a new International Anti-Corruption Convention in Hamburg, Germany.
Durgeshree Raman was allocated $10,000 to attend international conferences in India and Canada, where she will present her research on indigenous approaches to freshwater governance.
Mele Tupou-Vaitohi received $10,000 to visit Penn State Dickinson Law and study whole-of-organisation approaches such as critical race theory and system design approaches, which are being implemented address systemic racial and intersectional inequities.
The application period for the Borrin Foundation Justice Fellowship, the Borrin Foundation Women Leaders in Law Fellowship, the Borrin Foundation Community Law Fellowship, and the Travel and Learning Awards opened on 1 March will close on 2 April.
