Maori author and legal scholar Carwyn Jones provides a nuanced analysis, enhanced by storytelling, of the New Zealand land claims process to draw attention to the cultural implications of Indigenous self-determination, settlement negotiations, and reconciliation projects around the globe.

Carwyn Jones is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Victoria University of Wellington and a New Zealand Maori of Ngati Kahungunu descent. His primary research interests relate to the Treaty of Waitangi and Indigenous legal traditions. He has worked at the Waitangi Tribunal, the Maori Land Court, and the Office of Treaty Settlements and is the co-editor of the Maori Law Review. He also maintains Ahi-ka-roa, a blog on legal issues affecting Maori and other Indigenous peoples. He is a member of the Maori Advisory Committee to the New Zealand Law Commission and in 2012 was a United Nations Indigenous Fellow. In 2014, he was awarded the Marsden Fast-Start Grant by the Royal Society of New Zealand for his scholarship on Maori legal traditions.