Warm Pacific greetings.

Over the last couple of years a number of staff have been preparing for a new Pacific Law course including:

• creating a new Pacific Law Subject Guide here:  https://canterbury.libguides.com/pacificlaw
• moving all the Pacific law material to MB
• lots of upskilling into Pacific jurisidictions and their legal systems

I was thrilled to get this email from Natalie Baird earlier this week. Lots of the work that Natalie mentions has involved a number of Library staff so it is appropriate for me to share and see how our work has helped students. Thank-you everyone for your help with this work.

Theresa

From Natalie Baird:

The inaugural running of LLAW300 Pacific Legal Studies has come to an end, and I am just doing the final marking of essays, course reflections etc. I wanted to thank you all for your help with the course. Our final session last week included a reflection and feedback on the course, and I am pleased to pass on the following:

• Library session and resources: The students really enjoyed the Library session we had in week two of the course. Thanks Caroline! One student noted that she often thought back to that session throughout the course – especially in relation to thinking about things outside the orthodox doctrinal approach. Some students mentioned how useful the Pacific Law Subject Guide was and said that they used it a lot (hopefully you can see that through web statistics too?). One student said she spent quite a bit of time in the MB Library, and I think got assistance from you in seeking out resources for her essay (gender quotas in Pacific Parliaments). So, many thanks Caroline, and Theresa and Kim for helping set up the Guide.
• Art Tour: Three students (out of a total of ten in the course) did the self-guided Pacific environmental art tour in week ten of the course. I was wrapped with this as this was the last “portfolio task” before they had to hand these in and I was worried that they would not have enough time to do it. I really enjoyed reading their reflections on the art too, so thank you Lydia for setting this up.

The course is not running in 2021, but I’ll be back in touch in 2022 when I hope to offer it again.