Māmari Stephens Explained

Rev. Meredith Māmari Stephens
Birth Place:Christchurch
Occupation:Research fellow, assistant lecturer, Anglican Māori chaplain
Spouse:Maynard Gilgen
Children:3
Alma Mater:Victoria University of Wellington MA (Distinction) in Classical Studies, BA (Hons), and an LLB (Hons)

Māmari Stephens (born 1970)[1] is a law academic best known for her work creating He Papakupu Reo Ture: A Dictionary of Māori Legal Terms, a Māori-English a bi-lingual dictionary of legal terms. She identifies as being of Te Rarawa and Ngāti Pākehā descent.

Stephens has a background in classics and law at Victoria University of Wellington, where she is currently a Reader in Law.[2] After graduating, she worked at Russell McVeagh in Wellington for 3.5 years.[3]

In 2019 she was ordained as a priest in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia and is a part-time Māori Chaplain at Victoria University.[4] [5] She is on the Board of Trustees of the Wellington City Mission.[6]

Legal Māori Project

Led by Stephens and Mary Boyce of University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, this FRST-funded project[7] [8] created the first ever Māori-English bi-lingual dictionary of legal terms, He Papakupu Reo Ture: A Dictionary of Maori Legal Terms. The project involved digitising historical texts, and many of the texts old enough to be out of copyright were released by the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre.[9] The other outputs of the Legal Māori Project, including the dictionary, corpus and corpus browser, are all available at www.legalmaori.net as a part of the Māori Law Resource Hub, Te Pokapū Reo Ture.

Personal life

Stephens is married to Maynard Gilgen. They have three children and live in Wellington. She attends St Michael's Church, Kelburn, where she is responsible for youth ministry.[10] Her family whakapapa links her to Wainui marae in Ahipara.

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Stephens, Meredith Mamari, 1970- . 23 November 2020 . National Library of New Zealand.
  2. Web site: Mamari Stephens - Faculty of Law - Victoria University of Wellington . Victoria.ac.nz . 2008-07-01 . 2014-06-04.
  3. Web site: Associate Professor Māmari Stephens Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga . 2022-11-23 . www.maramatanga.co.nz.
  4. Web site: Diocesan Thanksgiving and Ordination – Movement Online . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20200126221701/https://movementonline.org.nz/familycelebration2018/ . 26 January 2020 . 13 January 2022 . movementonline.org.nz.
  5. Web site: Māmari Stephens - BWB Bridget Williams Books . 2022-11-23 . www.bwb.co.nz . en-US.
  6. Web site: 2019-09-13 . Our People Wellington City Mission . 2022-11-23 . wellingtoncitymission.org.nz . en-NZ.
  7. Web site: Legal Māori Project - Faculty of Law - Victoria University of Wellington . Victoria.ac.nz . 2014-06-04.
  8. Web site: Maori legal projects win Foundation support - NZ Law Society . Lawsociety.org.nz . 2013-07-16 . 2014-06-04.
  9. Web site: He Pātaka Kupu Ture / Legal Māori Archive | NZETC . Nzetc.victoria.ac.nz . 2014-06-04.
  10. Web site: Who We Are . 2022-11-23 . Chaplaincy VUW . en-US.
  11. Web site: The Legal Māori Dictionary – treading a careful path… at Māori Law Review . Maorilawreview.co.nz . 2012-08-08 . 2014-06-04.
  12. Web site: Launch of He Papakupu Reo Ture: A Dictionary of Māori Legal Terms . Maorilawsociety.co.nz . 2013-06-12 . 2014-06-04.
  13. http://my.lawsociety.org.nz/in-practice/the-changing-law/legal-research/legal-maori-project LawTalk 756, 16 August 2010, page 10.
  14. Web site: Resumes by Name . Maori book awards | The Big Idea | Te Aria Nui . The Big Idea . 11 October 2013. 2014-06-04.

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