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In a constantly changing world, the role of leadership is of ever increasing importance. In 2010, a series of wānanga (forums) were organised and facilitated by the Manu Ao Academy and Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga. The focus of the wānanga was contemporary Māori leadership. An array of presenters and speakers provided their thoughts, philosophies and experiences in leadership roles to the audience of, mainly, early career Māori academics. This paper is the reflection of one of those participants in regard to Māori academic leadership. It highlights some of the recurring themes presented during the wānanga as impotant features of Māori academic leadership, particularly the role of tikanga Māori and a Māori perspective of the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the Māori performing arts though the medium of haka. Both the physical and spiritual aspects of Māori performance will be explored to determine the ideals of effective performance within the Māori world. Haka is an art form with various classes and sub- classes: and this article describes these classes and subclasses in relation to their function and physical form. Performing arts fulfilled a wide variety of social and political functions in traditional Māori society. These functions included welcoming guests, farewell and mourning the deceased, attracting a mate, giving advice or instructions.

This article presents information on common laws on the proper methods of valuing property for various judicial and administrative purposes. The absence in the Anglo-American common law, until a relatively recent date, of all discussion of the methods of valuing property is difficult to reconcile either with the fact that the decisions on value in cases of trespass, trover, contract, taxation and eminent domain are now accumulating at the rate of about five hundred per annum, or with the fact that judicial or administrative valuations for all these purposes have been common during several generations and for some of these purposes during many centuries.

Examines the facts and information of valuation of property in Roman law. Features of the different kinds of value: market, ordinary or general, value to the owner, and sentimental value; General rules of valuation; Application of the principle to several compensation and non-compensation cases.