Māmari Stephens
{{short description|New Zealand legal academic and chaplain}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
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| name = Rev. Meredith Māmari Stephens
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1970}}
| birth_place = Christchurch
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| occupation = Research fellow, assistant lecturer, Anglican Māori chaplain
| spouse = Maynard Gilgen
| children = 3
| website = {{URL|https://sparrowhawkkarearea.com}}
| alma_mater = Victoria University of Wellington MA (Distinction) in Classical Studies, BA (Hons), and an LLB (Hons)
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Māmari Stephens (born 1970){{Cite web |title=Stephens, Meredith Mamari, 1970- |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22488138 |access-date=23 November 2020 |website=National Library of New Zealand}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.victoria.ac.nz/law/about/staff/mamari-stephens |title=Mamari Stephens - Faculty of Law - Victoria University of Wellington |publisher=Victoria.ac.nz |date=2008-07-01 |accessdate=2014-06-04}} After graduating, she worked at Russell McVeagh in Wellington for 3.5 years.{{Cite web |title=Associate Professor Māmari Stephens {{!}} Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga |url=https://www.maramatanga.co.nz/person/associate-professor-m-mari-stephens |access-date=2022-11-23 |website=www.maramatanga.co.nz}}
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.{{cite web |title=Diocesan Thanksgiving and Ordination – Movement Online |url=https://movementonline.org.nz/familycelebration2018/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126221701/https://movementonline.org.nz/familycelebration2018/ |archive-date=26 January 2020 |access-date=13 January 2022 |website=movementonline.org.nz}}{{Cite web |title=Māmari Stephens - BWB Bridget Williams Books |url=https://www.bwb.co.nz/authors/mamari-stephens/ |access-date=2022-11-23 |website=www.bwb.co.nz |language=en-US}} She is on the Board of Trustees of the Wellington City Mission.{{Cite web |date=2019-09-13 |title=Our People {{!}} Wellington City Mission |url=https://wellingtoncitymission.org.nz/about/our-people/ |access-date=2022-11-23 |website=wellingtoncitymission.org.nz |language=en-NZ}}
Legal Māori Project
Led by Stephens and Mary Boyce of University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, this FRST-funded project{{cite web|url=http://www.victoria.ac.nz/law/research/research-projects/past-research-projects/legal-maori |title=Legal Māori Project - Faculty of Law - Victoria University of Wellington |publisher=Victoria.ac.nz |date= |accessdate=2014-06-04}}{{cite web|url=http://www.lawsociety.org.nz/lawtalk/lawtalk-archives/issue-814/maori-legal-projects-win-foundation-support |title=Maori legal projects win Foundation support - NZ Law Society |publisher=Lawsociety.org.nz |date=2013-07-16 |accessdate=2014-06-04}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-legalMaori.html |title=He Pātaka Kupu Ture / Legal Māori Archive | NZETC |publisher=Nzetc.victoria.ac.nz |date= |accessdate=2014-06-04}} The other outputs of the Legal Māori Project, including the dictionary, corpus and corpus browser, are all available at [http://www.legalmaori.net 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.{{Cite web |title=Who We Are |url=https://www.chaplaincyvuw.org.nz/who-we-are |access-date=2022-11-23 |website=Chaplaincy VUW |language=en-US}} Her family whakapapa links her to Wainui marae in Ahipara.{{Citation|year=2022 |title=Te Rā o Waitangi |url=https://otakianglican.nz/wp-content/uploads/Waitangi-Day-Booklet-2022.pdf |journal= |publisher=Ōtaki Anglican |pages=11}}
Selected publications
- Social Security and Welfare Law in Aotearoa New Zealand (Thomsen and Reuters, 2019) {{ISBN|9781988553566}}
- He Papakupu Reo Ture: A Dictionary of Maori Legal Terms {{ISBN|9781927183748}}{{cite web|url=http://maorilawreview.co.nz/2012/09/the-legal-maori-dictionary-treading-a-careful-path/ |title=The Legal Māori Dictionary – treading a careful path… at Māori Law Review |publisher=Maorilawreview.co.nz |date=2012-08-08 |accessdate=2014-06-04}}{{cite web|url=http://www.maorilawsociety.co.nz/launch-of-he-papakupu-reo-ture-a-dictionary-of-maori-legal-terms/ |title=Launch of He Papakupu Reo Ture: A Dictionary of Māori Legal Terms |publisher=Maorilawsociety.co.nz |date=2013-06-12 |accessdate=2014-06-04}}[http://my.lawsociety.org.nz/in-practice/the-changing-law/legal-research/legal-maori-project LawTalk 756, 16 August 2010, page 10.] (section winner of the Nga Kupu Ora Aotearoa Maori Book Awards.{{cite web|author=Resumes by Name |url=http://www.thebigidea.co.nz/news/industry-news/2013/oct/135397-maori-book-awards |title=Maori book awards | The Big Idea | Te Aria Nui |publisher=The Big Idea |date= 11 October 2013|accessdate=2014-06-04}})
- A Return to the Tohunga Suppression Act 1907, Victoria University Wellington Law Review, 32, 437
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