Jane Kelsey
Elizabeth Jane Kelsey is a professor of law at the University of Auckland and a prominent critic of globalisation.
Jane Kelsey has an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from the University of Auckland. She has worked at the University of Auckland since 1979 and was appointed to a personal Chair in Law in 1997. At Cambridge "left-thinking Marxist scholars ... taught her the political theory that ... underpins her daily work".[1]
She is a key member of the Action Resource Education Network of Aotearoa (Arena), and is actively involved in researching and speaking out against the World Trade Organisation, the International Monetary Fund, free trade and corporate-led globalisation.[1] She is also actively involved in campaigning for the New Zealand Government's full recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi and opposed the controversial seabed and foreshore legislation.
Kelsey is an outspoken critic of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks, of which New Zealand is a part.[2]
Kelsey took part in actions over the 1981 Springbok tour.
Publications
Economic Fundamentalism - The New Zealand Experiment - A world model for structural adjustment?. London and East Haven: Pluto Press, 1995
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Calder, Peter (15 November 2003). "Jane Kelsey". New Zealand Listener. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
- ↑ Time to release full TPP text - Kelsey. 3 News NZ. 15 November 2013.
External links
- Video of Jane Kelsey speaking out against Philippines President Gloria Arroyo
- Rogernomics and the Treaty of Waitangi: the contradiction between the economic and Treaty policies of the fourth Labour government, 1984-1990, and the role of law in mediating that contradiction in the interests of the colonial capitalist state. Kelsey's PhD thesis