Publications by Professor PG McHugh

Full list of publications by Professor PG McHugh.

  • PG McHugh, ‘Imperial Law – the Legal Historian and the Trials and Tribulations of an Imperial Past’, in The Oxford Handbook of Legal History (eds Markus Drubber and Chris Tomlins), Oxford University Press, 2018
  • PG McHugh, n/a, ‘Anthropology on Trial: the Hindmarsh Island Bridge controversy (1993 – 2001)’, in Comparative Law and Anthropology (Research Handbooks in Comparative Law series) (eds PG McHugh), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017
  • PG McHugh, n/a, ‘A Common Law Biography of Section 35’, in From Recognition to Reconciliation: Essays on the Constitutional Entrenchment of Aboriginal and Treaty Right, University of Toronto Press, 2016
  • PG McHugh, ‘A Comporting Sovereign, Tribes, and the Ordering of Imperial Authority in Colonial Upper Canada of the 1830s’, in International Law and Empire: Historical Explorations (eds M Koskenniemi, W Rech, MJ Fonseca), Oxford University Press, 2016
  • PG McHugh, Kelly Grotke, Markus Prutsch, editors, Kelly Grotke, Markus Prutsch, editors, ‘‘The most decorous veil which legal ingenuity can weave’: Britain’s imperial constitution and the annexation of New Zealand (1840)’, in Constitutionalism, Legitimacy, and Power: Nineteenth-Century Experiences, Oxford University Press, 2014
  • PG McHugh, Tim Rowse, Lisa Ford, Tim Rowse, Lisa Ford, ‘Settler Sovereignty and the Shape-shifting Crown’, in Between Indigenous and Settler Governance, Routledge, 2014
  • PG McHugh, Lauren Benton, Richard Ross, Lauren Benton, Richard Ross, ‘A Pretty Gov[ernment]!": The ‘Confederation of United Tribes’ and Britain’s quest for imperial order in the New Zealand islands during the 1830s’, in Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850, New York University Press, 2013
  • PG McHugh, C Stebbings, A Musson, editors, C Stebbings, A Musson, editors, ‘The Politics of Historiography and the Taxonomies of the Colonial Past: Law, History and the Tribes’, in Making Legal History: Approaches and Methodology, 2012
  • PG McHugh, Shaunnagh Dorsett, Ian Hunter, editors, Shaunnagh Dorsett, Ian Hunter, editors, ‘William Pember Reeves (1857-1932): Lawyer-Politician, Historian and ‘Rough Architect of the New Zealand State’, in Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought – Transpositions of Empire, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
  • PG McHugh, Martin Dixon, Martin Dixon, ‘The Property Rights of Tribes’, in Modern Studies in Property Law Volume 5, Hart Publishing, 2009
  • PG McHugh, D Dyzenhaus, M Hunt, G Huscroft, D Dyzenhaus, M Hunt, G Huscroft, ‘A History of the Modern Jurisprudence of Aboriginal Rights – Some Observations on the Journey So Far’, in A Simple Common Lawyer: Essays in Honour of Michael Taggart, Hart Publishing, 2009
  • PG McHugh, Bigwood, Rick, Bigwood, Rick, ‘New Dawn to Cold Light: Courts and Common Law Aboriginal Rights’, in Public Interest Litigation, Lexis-Nexis/Butterworths, 2006
  • PG McHugh, Michael Belgrave, Mereta Kawharu, David Williams, Michael Belgrave, Mereta Kawharu, David Williams, ‘Living with Rights Aboriginally: Constitutionalism and Maori in the 1990s’, in Waitangi Revisited – Perspectives on the Treaty of Waitangi, Oxford University Press, 2004
  • PG McHugh, Andrew Sharp, Andrew Sharp, ‘A History of Crown Sovereignty’, in Histories, Power and Loss – Uses of the Past – A New Zealand Commentary, Bridget Williams Books, 2001
  • PG McHugh, Paul Havemann, Paul Havemann, ‘From Sovereignty Talk to Settlement Time: the constitutional setting of aboriginal claims in the 1990s’, in Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, Oxford University Press, 1999
  • PG McHugh, K Neumann, N Thomas, H Ericksen, K Neumann, N Thomas, H Ericksen, ‘Australasian Narratives of Constitutional Foundation’, in Quicksands – Foundational Histories in Australia and New Zealand, UNSW Press, 1999
  • PG McHugh, Jonathan Lamb, Alex Calder, Jonathan Lamb, Alex Calder, ‘A Tribal Encounter: The Presence and Properties of Common Law Language in the Discourse of Colonisation in the Early-Modern Period’, in Voyages and Beaches Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840, University of Hawaii Press, 1999
  • PG McHugh, P Sarr, P Sarr, ‘Aboriginal Identity and Relations in North America and Australasia’, in Kokiri Ngatahi: Living Relationships - The Treaty of Waitangi in the New Millenium, Victoria University Press, 1998
  • PG McHugh, G Davis, A Yeatman, G Davis, A Yeatman, ‘Contractualism and Co-existence in an Inter-cultural Context: The Management of Crown Relations with Aboriginal Peoples’, in The New Contractualism, Palgrave Macmillan, 1997
  • PG McHugh, PA Joseph, PA Joseph, ‘The Historiography of New Zealand's Constitutional History’, in Essays on the Constitution, 1995
  • PG McHugh, W Renwick, W Renwick, ‘The lawyer's concept of sovereignty and a legal history for New Zealand’, in Sovereignty and Indigenous Rights, Victoria University Press, 1991
  • PG McHugh, Graham Oddie, Graham Oddie, ‘Legal reasoning and the Treaty of Waitangi’, in Justice, Ethics and New Zealand Society, Oxford University Press, 1990
  • PG McHugh, IH Kawharu, IH Kawharu, ‘Constitutional theory and aboriginal claims’, in Waitangi: Maori and Pakeha Perspectives in the Treaty of Waitangi, Oxford University Press, 1989
  • PG McHugh, ‘Aboriginal Title: Travelling from (or to?) an Antique Land?’, (2015) 48:3 University of British Columbia Law Review 793-820, 2016
  • PG McHugh, ‘The Crown’s relationship with tribal peoples and the legal dynamics for the resolution of historical and contemporary claims’, (2015) 46 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 875.
  • PG McHugh, ‘Time whereof – Memory, History and Law in the Jurisprudence of Aboriginal Rights’, (2014) 77:2 University of Saskatchewan Law Review 207-240
  • PG McHugh, ‘Sovereignty in Australasia: Comparatively Different Histories’, (2009) 13:1 Legal History 57 - 92., 2010
  • PG McHugh, ‘Mike Taggart: In Memoriam’, (2009) 7 New Zealand Journal of Public and International law 185 – 188., 2010
  • PG McHugh, ‘Sovereignty in Australasia: Comparatively Different Histories’, (2009) 13 Legal History 55
  • PG McHugh, ‘Sir John Salmond and the moral agency of the state’, (2007) 38 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 743-70
  • PG McHugh, ‘’Treaty Principles": Constitutional relations inside a conservative jurisprudence’, (2007) 38 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 39-72 (Memorial edition for the late Lord Robin Cooke of Thorndon).
  • PG McHugh, ‘New Dawn to Cold Light: Courts and Common Law Aboriginal Rights’, [2005] New Zealand Law Review 485 – 532 [published also in Bigwood, ed Public Interest Litigation, infra]
  • PG McHugh, ‘Setting the Statutory Compass: The Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004’, (2005) 3 New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law 255-83
  • PG McHugh, ‘What a difference a Treaty makes – the pathway of aboriginal rights jurisprudence in New Zealand public law’, (2004) 15 Public Law Review 87-102.
  • PG McHugh, ‘Aboriginal Title in New Zealand: A Retrospect and Prospect’, (2004) 2 New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law 139-202
  • PG McHugh, ‘Tales of constitutional origin and Crown sovereignty in New Zealand’, (2002), 52 University of Toronto Law Journal pp 69 – 99.
  • PG McHugh, ‘Sovereignty this century – Maori and the common law constitution’, (2000), 31 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review pp 187-214 (law school centenary edition)
  • PG McHugh, ‘The common law status of colonies and aboriginal 'rights': how lawyers and historians treat the past’, (1998), 61(2) Saskatchewan Law Review 393 - 429. Reprinted 2014 in DelMar & Lobban (eds) Legal Theory and Legal History Vol 4 (Ashgate, Essays in Contemporary Legal Theory, 2nd series)
  • PG McHugh, ‘Law, History and the Treaty of Waitangi’, (1997), 31 New Zealand Journal of History 38-52
  • PG McHugh, ‘Constitutional Voices’, (1996), 26 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 499-529.
  • PG McHugh, ‘The legal basis of Maori claims against the Crown’, (1988) 18 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 1-20.
  • PG McHugh, ‘Aboriginal servitudes and the Land Transfer Act 1952’, (1986), 16 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 313-335.
  • PG McHugh, ‘Maori Fishing Rights and the North American Indian’, (1985) 6 Otago Law Review 62-94.
  • PG McHugh, ‘The legal status of Maori fishing rights in tidal water’, (1984), 14 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review pp. 247-73
  • PG McHugh, ‘Aboriginal title in New Zealand courts’, (1984), 2 University of Canterbury Law Review 235-265.
  • PG McHugh, ‘A comporting sovereign and the legalism of imperial authority: the ‘unremitted solicitude’ of Crown protection and transitional tribalism in colonial Upper Canada of the 1830s’, 2014
  • PG McHugh, ‘Time whereof – Memory, History and Law in the jurisprudence of aboriginal rights’, 2013
  • PG McHugh, ‘Whitefella's property: section 35, Constitution Act 1982 (Canada) and the proprietary paradigm"’, 2012
  • PG McHugh, ‘"A Pretty Gov.!": The ‘Confederation of United Tribes’ and Britain’s quest for imperial order in the New Zealand islands during the 1830s’, 2010
  • PG McHugh, ‘‘The most decorous veil which legal ingenuity can weave’: the British annexation of New Zealand (1840)’, 2010