New Zealand Centre for Public Law-New Zealand Lives in Public Law - Dame Sian Elias

The New Zealand Centre for Public Law (NZCPL) presents Episode 3 of the Lives in New Zealand Public Law series.
In this episode, the NZCPL Director Professor Joel Colón-Ríos talked to Dame Sian Elias, Chief Justice (1999-2019) and Distinguished Fellow at the Faculty of Law at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington. They talked about her early life and education, about some of her experiences as a barrister and as a judge, about law and social change, and about her views on key contemporary public law issues.
00:00 Introduction
02:35 Early Years and Education
04:15 Time as a Barrister
06:07 Finnigan, Lands and Social Change
10:45 The Land Case
13:07 On the Waitangi Tribunal
16:45 On Women and the Law
18:36 On Te Reo and Māori-Crown Relationships
31:25 The Law Commission and the Structure of the Judiciary
35:01 On the Judicial Role
38:57 On Strike-Out Applications and Justiciability
42:33 On the Role of Administrator of the Government
45:48 On Parliamentary Sovereignty
51:14 On Judicial Independence
55:30 On the Future of the New Zealand Constitution