Nicola Wheen
{{Short description|New Zealand environmental law professor}}
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Nicola Rowan Wheen is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in national and international environmental law, and environmental law and the Treaty of Waitangi.
Academic career
Wheen joined the law department at the University of Otago in 1984 as a student, gaining her LLB before joining the academic staff in 1989, rising to associate professor in 2015{{Cite web |last=Otago |first=University of |date=2015-01-29 |title=Otago announces professorial promotions |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago-announces-professorial-promotions |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}} and full professor in 2021.{{Cite web |last=Board |first=Otago Bulletin |date=2020-12-08 |title=Otago announces 26 new professors |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/otagobulletin/news/otago-announces-26-new-professors |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}} Wheen completed a Master of Laws titled The Resource Management Act 1991 and water in New Zealand: impact and implications at the University of Otago in 1995.{{Cite thesis |type=Master of Laws thesis |last=Wheen |first=Nicola Rowan |url=https://hdl.handle.net/10523/3278 |publisher=OUR Archive, University of Otago |date=1995 |title=The Resource Management Act 1991 and water in New Zealand : impact and implications|hdl=10523/3278 }} She researches how law addresses international and national environmental problems, such as whaling, marine mammal by-catch,{{Cite web |last=Wheen |first=Nicola R. |date=3 September 2012 |title=How the Law Lets Down the 'Down-Under Dolphin'—Fishing-Related Mortality of Marine Animals and the Law in New Zealand |url=https://academic.oup.com/jel/article-abstract/24/3/477/391044 |access-date=2024-02-08 |website=academic.oup.com}} climate change, freshwater allocation, forest conservation on Māori-owned land, the environmental impacts of tourism, and how sex work is regulated through planning law.{{Cite web |last=Otago |first=University of |date=2023-08-28 |title=Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Professor Nicola Wheen |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/events/inaugural-professorial-lecture-professor-nicola-wheen |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Williams |first=David |date=2017-08-05 |title=Waterways under pressure |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/waterways-under-pressure |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2024-02-07 |title=Impact of trampers in Fiordland in spotlight |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/impact-of-trampers-in-fiordland-in-spotlight/PRUEKGII4WFLP6YSTSHXBQCXJU/ |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=The New Zealand Herald |language=en-NZ}} Wheen also has an interest in how the Treaty of Waitangi affects environmental law.
Wheen is a member of the Centre of Research Excellence Coastal People: Southern Skies, led by Anne-Marie Jackson and Rosalina Richards.{{Cite web |title=Senior Leadership Team – Coastal People: Southern Skies |url=https://cpss.org.nz/about-us/senior-leadership/ |access-date=2024-02-08 |language=en-NZ}} She has co-edited books on the Treaty of Waitangi, and Treaty of Waitangi Settlements, with Janine Hayward.{{Cite web |last=Law |first=Faculty of |date=2021-06-21 |title=Professor Nicola Wheen |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/law/staff/nicola_wheen |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Book review – Treaty of Waitangi Settlements – Māori Law Review |url=https://maorilawreview.co.nz/2013/02/book-review-treaty-of-waitangi-settlements/ |access-date=2024-02-08 |language=en-US}} Wheen also wrote chapters in Environmental Histories of New Zealand, published in 2002, and The Law of Research, published 2003.{{Cite web |title=Nicola R. Wheen - BWB Bridget Williams Books |url=https://www.bwb.co.nz/authors/nicola-r-wheen/ |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=www.bwb.co.nz |language=en-US}}
Wheen teachers and convenes courses on Public Law, Environmental Law and International Environmental Law at Otago, and has supervised more than fifty honours and postgraduate students. She is on the editorial board of Otago University Press.{{Cite web |last=Otago University Press |date=2023-01-11 |title=Editorial Board |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/press/about/board |access-date=2024-02-08 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}}
Selected works
= Books =
- {{Citation |title=The Waitangi Tribunal: Te Roopu Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi |date=2004 |work= |pages= |editor-last=Hayward |editor-first=Janine |editor-last2=Wheen |editor-first2=Nicola |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.7810/9781877242328_8 |publisher=Bridget Williams Books |isbn=9781877242328 |last2= |first2=|doi=10.7810/9781877242328_8 }}
- {{Citation |title=The Meaning of Treaty Settlements and the Evolution of the Treaty Settlement Process |date=2012 |work=Treaty of Waitangi Settlements |pages= 13–28|editor-last=Hayward |editor-first=Janine |editor-last2=Wheen |editor-first2=Nicola R. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.7810/9781927131381_1 |publisher=Bridget Williams Books |isbn=9781927131381 |last2= |first2=|doi=10.7810/9781927131381_1 }}
= Articles =
- Wheen, Nicola. [https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/otago9&div=8&id=&page= A Natural Flow - A History of Water Law in New Zealand]. Otago Law Review 71 (1997-2000).
- Brookers environmental legislation handbook 2014, with an introduction by Ceri Warnock and Nicola Wheen. (Brookers environmental law handbook series). Thomson Reuters New Zealand
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References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TGp7iX1RGY Why Should You Care? There's Something in the Water - Queenstown]. Extracts from symposium on 8 August 2017, featuring Brent Lovelock, Sarah Mager, Marc Schallenberg, and Nicole Wheen.
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Category:New Zealand academics
Category:New Zealand women academics
Category:University of Otago alumni