Pray inform us How, Where and Why, merely shouting he is a pale Male Dinosaur and should depart the conversation, go and find a corner and die is not any part of the debate I might believe to be a correct process.

The Kings Counsel has questioned the forced inclusion of “Tikanga” what ever that might include, in Law curriculum across New Zealand.

I am no academic so I guess people such as the dean of AUT (yes it was a Polytechnic) law school do have a sincere belief in how they see the Law, while traditionalists as represented by a practising lawyer such as Mr Judd are forced to deal in the facts of law as created by legislation and adjusted by Judicial interpretations . His belief that customs and beliefs of elites of a small section of a cohort suggested statistically to be around seventeen percent of New Zealands population, does seem a bit fanciful.
NZ now has statistical numbers of Chinese, Indian peoples amongst the wider population and they have cultural beliefs just as strongly held and celebrated yet they are never considered a part of their participation in the functions of laws of their nation.

The Dean, one Khylee Quince:
Associate Professor Khylee Quince is the Dean of the School of Law, where she has been on staff since 2017. Prior to that she was the Associate Dean “Maori” at the University of Auckland Faculty of Law, where she was on staff since 1998. Khylee 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.

While mere Kings Counsel Judd;
Engages in litigation and advice, principally in areas of civil and commercial law, administrative law, copyright and other intellectual property, and taxation. Chairman of ASB Bank 1988-2011. Also chaired Ports of Auckland Ltd for three years, and was chairman of the Auckland Radio Trust. In January 2012 he concluded a three-year term as a New Zealand Prime Ministerial appointee to the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) where he became a co-chair of the ABAC Advisory Group on APEC Financial System Capacity Building.
Not a mention of Caucasian or Pakeha adornments to draw attention to such speciality yet some considered him to be worthy of taking silk and unlike Ms Quince holds a practising certificate as a member of the Bar.

Whose credentials might you hold sufficient? for me the old adage “if you can, do, if you can’t, teach” becomes very relevant.
Spending eighty years here, one concept of tikanga I have encountered all too often is ” what is mine is mine and what is yours is also mine, possession being significant, who wants that enshrined in any interpretation of Law