Jane Kelsey

Elizabeth Jane Kelsey is a New Zealand academic and activist who has promoted critical examination of the relationship between social, political and economic issues and how these can impact on human rights and justice. Specifically, within the New Zealand context, she has advocated public policy positions on colonialism and te Tiriti Waitangi, globalisation and neoliberalism, and the role of universities as public institutions. She has published widely on these and other issues, and in 2020 won the Global category of the New Zealand Women of Influence Award. Kelsey was professor of law at the University of Auckland until her retirement in 2022.

Jane Kelsey at Rhodes Forum 2014

Education

Jane Kelsey has an LL.B. (Hons) from Victoria University of Wellington, BCL from Oxford University, MPhil from the University of Cambridge.[1] In 1991 she completed a PhD from the University of Auckland, titled Rogernomics and the Treaty of Waitangi: the contradiction between the economic and Treaty policies of the fourth Labour government, 1984-1990, and the role of law in mediating that contradiction in the interests of the colonial capitalist state.[2] She has worked at the University of Auckland since 1979 and was appointed to a personal Chair in Law in 1997.

Associations

She is a key member of the Action Resource Education Network of Aotearoa (Arena), and is actively involved in researching and speaking out against the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, free trade and corporate-led globalisation.[3] She is also actively involved in campaigning for the New Zealand Government's full recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi and opposed the controversial seabed and foreshore legislation.

Kelsey is an outspoken critic of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks, of which New Zealand is a part.[4]

Kelsey took part in demonstrations over the 1981 Springbok tour.[5]

In 2020, Kelsey won the Global category of the New Zealand Women of Influence Awards.[6]

See also

Publications
  • Economic Fundamentalism - The New Zealand Experiment: A world model for structural adjustment?. London and East Haven: Pluto Press, 1995
  • Reclaiming the Future: New Zealand and the Global Economy. Bridget Williams Books Ltd. 1999
  • No Ordinary Deal: Unmasking the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement. ed.. Bridget Williams Books Ltd. 2010
  • The Fire Economy: New Zealand's Reckoning. Bridget Williams Books Ltd, 2015

References
  1. "From doctoral students to donkeys". University of Auckland. 26 July 2022. Archived from the original on 27 July 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  2. Kelsey, Jane (1991). Rogernomics and the Treaty of Waitangi: the contradiction between the economic and Treaty policies of the fourth Labour government, 1984-1990, and the role of law in mediating that contradiction in the interests of the colonial capitalist state (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/2871.
  3. Calder, Peter (15 November 2003). "Jane Kelsey". New Zealand Listener. Archived from the original on 23 February 2013. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
  4. Satherly, Dan (14 November 2013). "Time to release full TPP text - Kelsey". Newshub. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016.
  5. "NZ academic has trouble entering Australia". Otago Daily Times Online News. 16 November 2010. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  6. "Dr Siouxsie Wiles supreme winner at Stuff-Westpac 2020 Women of Influence Awards". Stuff. 17 November 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
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