New Zealand 

New Zealand legislation is available full text on LexisNexis and Brookers Online. 

• Te Ture Whenua Mäori
• Mäori Land Court Rules 1994
• Mäori Assembled Owners Regulations 1995
• Mäori Incorporations Constitution Regulations 1994
• Mäori Land Court Fees 1993
• Mäori Land Court (Jurisdiction) Order 1996
• Mäori Reservation Regulations 1994
• Mäori Occupation Orders Regulations 1994

The New Zealand Statutes and Regulations Heritage Collection provides electronic copies of colonial legislation. Coverage starts from 1842. Note: not all years are available online.

The Mäori Land Legislation Database provides a summary of all New Zealand legislation since 1840 which has affected Mäori or Mäori land. The commentary is especially useful, providing information on the historical context and impact of each act. 

CASE LAW

Electronic Resources

• LinxPlus and Briefcase (in Brookers Online) provide summaries and full text reported and unreported judgments. Judgments on LinxPlus are taken from the Court of Appeal and High Court. Judgments on Briefcase are taken from the District Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, Privy Council and other selected judicial bodies
• Fenton's Important Judgments contain a significant collection of nineteenth century decisions of the Native Land Court and the Compensation Court. This database provides a useful insight into the workings of the Native Land Court between 1866 to 1879, the process of judicial reasoning, and the state of relations between the Native Land Court and colonial government.
• The New Zealand Law Reports are New Zealand's official reporting series. The subject heading index includes 'Mäori and Mäori Land'. Subdivisions include: alienation, customary Mäori rights, jurisdiction of the Mäori Appellate Court, succession and Treaty of Waitangi. Electronic coverage starts from 1958.
• Waitangi Tribunal Reports database provides information on the structure and role of the Waitangi Tribunal, information on the claims settlement process, and full text Tribunal reports. Not all published reports are available full text online.
• DSL Environmental Case Law contains decisions relating to the Resource Management Act 1991. These cases are sourced from the Environment Court, Court of Appeal, High Court and District Court.
• The Maori Land Court Judgments and Decisions are mainly from the Maori Appellate Court, and are now available through the Ministry of Justice website.
• The Mäori Land Court Minute Books are a valuable source of information on Mäori land, whakapapa and iwi histories. See the guide for search instructions and field descriptions.
• Copies of the Papatupu Minute Books are held in the Mätauranga Mäori Collection, General Library. Click here for more information. 

Print Resources

• New Zealand Law Reports
  Stack 3A. Index heading: Mäori and Mäori Law
• The Abridgment of New Zealand Case Law
  Stack 2A. Volume 10 - Mäoris and Mäori Land (1861-1967)
• Judgments of the Mäori Appellate Court of New Zealand (1987-1992)
  Stack 2B
• New Zealand Case Law Digest
  Stack 2A. Index headings: Treaty of Waitangi (General) and Mäori Land Rights 
• New Zealand Resource Management Appeals
  Stack 3A
• Rangahaua Whanui Reports
  KM78 Q43 WAIrw
• Waitangi Tribunal Reports
  KM78 Q43 WAI

LEGAL COMMENTARIES AND TEXTS

Electronic Resources

• Laws of New Zealand - Mäori Land (other useful titles - Land Law - chapter 1 'The Mäori Strand', Mäori Affairs - Chapter 8 'Mäori Land' and Treaty of Waitangi)
• Brookers Land Law (see the chapter on Maori Land Law)
• Brookers Resource Management Treaty of Waitangi and Mäori Resource Management Issues (Discussion of Mäori land in the context of the RMA. ) 
• Hansard (debates in the House of Representatives, daily oral and written questions asked of Members and Ministers) 
• Rangahaua Whanui theme and district reports. Theme reports include titles such as Old Land Claims, The Crowns Engagement with Customary Tenure in the 19th Century and Tom Bennion's report on the Mäori Land Court and Land Boards 1909 - 1952. 
• Waitangi Tribunal reports

Voyager - The Library Catalogue

• Theses and dissertations on Mäori land tenure 
• Search for Law 444 desk copies here
• Publications from the Waitangi Tribunal  

JOURNAL AND NEWS ARTICLES 

Print Resources

• Auckland University Law Review (see 'Ko Nga Take Ture Mäori' for articles on Mäori issues. Also available full text on Hein Online) 
• New Zealand Law Journal (subject index - "constitutional law", "Treaty of Waitangi claims", "Mäori land")
• New Zealand Recent Law Review (table of contents headings - "constitutional law", "Mäori issues")
• New Zealand Law Review (table of contents headings - "local government law and resource management", "Treaty of Waitangi and Mäori land law". Full text on Lexis.com from 2000)
• Takapau / Te Rünanga Roia Mäori o Tamaki Makaurau (newsletter of the Auckland Mäori Lawyers Association)
• Te Pouwhenua (newsletter of the Mäori Land Court)
• Te Wahakamarama / The Mäori Law Bulletin (newsletter of the Wellington Mäori Legal Service)

New Zealand Electronic 

• LinxPlus (Index of legal journal articles - subject search: "Mäori land", "Mäori Land Court", "tikanga Mäori", "customary law")
• Index New Zealand  (an excellent and extensive index of articles on Mäori land and customary law from mainstream and Mäori publications . Click here for a list of Mäori and English subject headings)
• Index to Te Ao Hou (index of articles from three Mäori journals published between 1952 - 1975: Te Ao Hou, Te Mäori and Te Kaunihera Mäori)
• Mäori Bibliography (an excellent resource for Mäori perspectives on issues relating to land and customary law. Choose 'Maori Bibiliography' from the drop down menu under the search box)
• Marae database (Index of articles from the TVNZ programme 'Marae'. Useful subject headings include "land tenure", "ture whenua Mäori act" and "Mäori land court")
• New Zealand Law Journal Archive (articles discussing Mäori land are listed in the subject index headings Mäori Affairs and Mäori Law)
• Newzindex (Knowledge Basket) (an excellent index of newspaper, magazine and journal articles)
• Newztext Plus (Knowledge Basket) (full text newspaper and magazine articles. Click here for search instructions)
• Nuipepa: Māori Newspaper Digital Collection (full text collection of historic newspapers published primarily for a Mäori audience between 1842 and 1932)
• Waka Huia Database  (index to the TVNZ Mäori language programme 'Waka Huia'. Useful search terms include "koti whenua Mäori", "Raupatu" and "ture")
• Waitangi Tribunal - news updates

International Electronic 

• AGIS (Index of Australian and New Zealand journals - keyword searches: Mäori AND "customary law", "Mäori land", "Mäori land court")
• Index to Legal Periodicals (Lexis.com - Mäori AND land, Mäori AND "customary law" articles)
• LegalTrac (Mäori AND land)
• Legal Journals Index (Westlaw.com - Mäori & land) 
• Lexis.com (American Indian Law Review is available through Area of Law by Topic > Native American Law)
• Westlaw.com (For articles: Directory > Topical materials by area of practice > Native American Law> Law Reviews, Texts & Bar Journals)

INTERNET RESOURCES

New Zealand

• Searching for Mäori land records (an excellent beginners guide to researching ownership of Mäori land from Land Information New Zealand)
• Introduction to the Treaty of Waitangi -Mäori and English versions and discussion on the meaning of the Treaty 
• He Tirohanga ö Kawa ki te Tiriti o Waitangi - A guide to the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi as interpreted by the Waitangi Tribunal and the Courts (presentation from Te Puni Kokiri)
• The Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi - a discussion paper compiled by Janine Hayward (PDF)
• Ask that Taniwha. Who owns the Foreshore and Seabed of Aotearoa? (article by Nin Tomas and Kerensa Johnston on Mäori perspectives on the foreshore and seabed debate - PDF) 
• Te Manutukutuku - newsletter of the Waitangi Tribunal
• Mäori Law Review (1993 - 2008. Note: this is also available on Newztext Plus (Knowledge Basket) magazines)
• Discussion Framework on Customary Rights to the Foreshore and Seabed - Te Ope Mana a Tai (August 2003 - PDF)
• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography - Struggle for Land (excerpts from the New Zealand Historical Atlas covering Mäori land transactions, Raupatu lands and the Waikato confiscations)
• Te Kooti Whenua Mäori - the Mäori Land Court (See Contact Us for online enquiry forms and office locations)
• Mäori Land Information Base (The Mäori Land Information Base is used to locate individual Mäori land blocks on a computer-generated map)
• Te Mätähauariki Research Institute - Laws and Institutions for Aotearoa / New Zealand (see publications for papers on Mäori land and customary law)
• Indigenous Peoples and the Law (online institute of law affecting indigenous peoples)
• Mäori Custom and Values in New Zealand Law (PDF report from the New Zealand Law Commission on the the definition of Mäori custom law, its recognition in New Zealand law and application by the Mäori Land Court. Also available on the Law Commission website under publications > study papers) 
• He Hďnätore ki te Ao Mäori:  A Glimpse into the Mäori World - Mäori Perspectives on Justice (PDF report from the Ministry of Justice on Mäori customary law)
• Knowledge Basket >Taonga (includes thesis by Gail Dallimore -The Land Court at Matakaoa and a bibliography by Kirsten Stewart A Bibliography of Guides to Maori Information)

International 

• Interviewing Inuit Elders. Perpectives on Traditional Law - Ownership and Sharing (the Interviewing Inuit Elders Series explores interviews conducted as part of the first Legal Studies Program offered by Nunavut Arctic College in Iqaluit. This chapter included discussion traditional notions of ownership and sharing of land. PDF)
• Indigenous Law Bulletin (Australian focus, some New Zealand content. Note: this is indexed by the database Indigenous Australia)
• National Native Title Tribunal (Australian - this site provides information about the Tribunal, native title applications, the future act processes, indigenous land use agreements, mediation and other information related to native title and the Native Title Act 1993. Full text reports and research papers available through Publications) 
• Weblaw: Native Title (Australian legislation, case law, e-journals and government departments dealing with native title)
• Legal Information Access Center Hot Topics 27 - Native Title (a history of native title and land rights in Australia including discussion on treatment of native title claims in the courts) 
• The North American and New Zealand experience with Indigenous Land Rights and its Application to Australia (Summary of Australian Research Council project on governance structures for indigenous Australians on and off native title lands)
• The Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Laws Summary Report (see chapter 17 for discussion of customary use of land and sea resources and the acknowledgment of these practices in common law)
• Indigenous Governance by the Inuit of Greenland and the Sami of Scandinavia (detailed discussion of Sami and Inuit land rights)
• NativeWeb - Law & Legal Issues (indigenous land rights and title issues from around the world. See Nativelaw News for news)
• Researching Indigenous Peoples Rights under International Law (Steven Perkins, 1999. Latest news. Review of resources print and web resources . Mäori land rights and the Waitangi Tribunal are mentioned in several places)