Alison Quentin-Baxter

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Dame Alison Quentin-Baxter is a distinguished public and international lawyer. She began her career as a member, and later the head, of the Legal Division of what was then the Department of External Affairs and was a New Zealand representative at a number of conferences on the making or application of international law. Later, she was a lecturer in law at Victoria University of Wellington where she taught constitutional history and law. From 1987–1994, she was the director of the New Zealand Law Commission. Dame Alison has acted as a constitutional advisor in New Zealand and other jurisdictions including Niue, Fiji, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and Saint Helena. She is the author of a report leading to the Sovereign’s issue of the 1983 Letters Patent Constituting the Office of Governor-General of New Zealand, Review of the Letters Patent 1917 Constituting the Office of Governor-General of New Zealand (Cabinet Office, 1980), editor of Recognising the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Institute of Policy Studies, 1998) and she has contributed a number of chapters and articles in books and journals. Dame Alison was appointed a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the law and is a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order.

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Alison Quentin-Baxter

Alison Quentin-Baxter

This Realm of New Zealand: The Sovereign, the Governor-General, the Crown