Celebrating 40 years of AWLA
Proudly hosted by Martelli McKegg Lawyers
AWLA is delighted to bring you a special 40th Anniversary event for the annual Dame Silvia Cartwright Lecure in 2024:
“Breaking Boundaries: Exploring Diverse Law Careers for Women”
Featuring Professor Khylee Quince, Dean of AUT Law School and Professor Tafaoimalo Tologata Leilani Tuala-Warren, Dean of Waikato Law School, both trail blazers in their law careers today and in the roles they held leading to their current positions.
Professor Khylee Quince (Ngāpuhi, Te Roroa, Ngāti Porou, me Ngāti Kahungungu)
Professor Khylee Quince is the Dean of the School of Law at AUT University, where she has been on staff since 2017. Prior to that she was the Associate Dean Māori at the University of Auckland Faculty of Law, where she was on staff since 1998. She is the first dean of law of Māori descent at a New Zealand university.
Professor Quince is an expert in criminal law and justice, youth justice and Maori legal issues. She has taught and researched in these fields, and in 2014 was awarded a National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award for Sustained Excellence, following Faculty of Law and University of Auckland Teaching Awards in 2013.
In 2014, she and Alison Cleland co-authored Youth Justice in Aotearoa New Zealand[4] and she has contributed to many legal texts including Feminist Judgments of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Professor Quince has extensive experience in governance, as chair of the New Zealand Drug Foundation, the Sursum Foundation charitable trust and as a trustee on school boards. She is regularly engaged as an expert consultant by government and non-government organisations, including the Ministry of Justice, Department of Corrections, New Zealand Police and TVNZ. She is currently a member of the New Zealand Parole Board.
Professor Tafaoimalo Tologata Leilani Tuala-Warren (Sāmoa – Tafaoimalo and Tologata matai titles)
Professor Tafaoimalo Tologata Leilani Tuala-Warren is Dean of Te Piringa Faculty of Law at the University of Waikato, becoming New Zealand’s first Dean of law of Pacific descent.
Professor Tuala-Warren has been part of Waikato University since the 1990s, after completing a Bachelor and Master of Laws and a pre-admission course at the University’s Institute of Professional Legal Studies.
Her master’s thesis looked at ifoga, a traditional Samoan apology, and examined whether this cultural practice could be integrated into the New Zealand criminal justice system.
She received a University of Waikato Distinguished Alumni Award in 2022 and holds an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Sydney.
Professor Tuala-Warren began her legal career in Samoa, 26 years ago, serving as a state solicitor in Samoa’s Office of the Attorney-General from 1998 to 2000. She returned to Waikato University to teach until 2005, holding various positions as a tutor, teaching fellow and law lecturer, where she taught dispute resolution, corporate and commercial law and consumer protection.
She then returned to Samoa to work as a partner at her brother’s firm, Tuala & Tuala Lawyers. In 2009, she became the Executive Director of the Samoa Law Reform Commission and in 2013 she was invited to become a judge of the District Court, becoming the second woman in Samoa appointed to the bench.
As a newly appointed Judge in Samoa, Professor Tuala-Warren established the Family Court and the Family Violence Court, the only court of its kind in the Pacific outside New Zealand, before she was appointed Supreme Court Justice of Samoa from 2016 to 2023.
Professor Tuala-Warren holds a temporary judicial warrant as a Supreme Court Justice in Samoa, which allows her to sit on the Samoa Court of Appeal.
She dealt with serious offences and constitutional cases in this position, before returning to Waikato to become the first Pacific woman in New Zealand to attain a law professorial position.
Limited spaces available. Please register by 5 pm Monday, 7 October 2024.
AWLA would like to thank Martelli McKegg for their generous support of this event.
Tuesday 8 October 2024
5.30 pm- 8 pm (drinks 5.30pm, lecture event begins 6 pm)
The Pavilion, Lobby Level, Vero Centre Building 48 Shortland St
Tickets: $30 for AWLA members and $40 for non-members.
Discounted tickets ($30) are available for members of the Pacific Lawyers Association and Te Hunga Rōia Māori o Aotearoa.
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