Sixteen leading legal scholars ask who guards and protects Indigenous knowledge now, and in the future. From manuka honey to haka, and across patents, trade marks, copyright and geographical indications, the protection of traditional knowledge, cultural expressions and genetic resources is one of the most complex legal and political challenges of our time. On the fifteenth anniversary of Ko Aotearoa Tenei, the Waitangi Tribunal' s landmark report on the Wai 262 claim, sixteen leading legal scholars offer new perspectives on how authority over and guardianship of traditional knowledge, cultural expressions and genetic resources might be recognised and protected in contemporary legal systems. Through wide-ranging essays engaging with law, policy, theory, science and culture, the authors advance aspirational visions of cultural ownership, control, inheritance and identity, grounded in the shared whakapapa of people, land and knowledge. Ko Aotearoa Inaianei contributes to global debates on Indigenous authority and knowledge protection.
