Nicola Rowan Wheen is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the

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, specialising in national and international environmental law, and environmental law and the

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Academic career

Wheen joined the law department at the University of Otago in 1984 as a student, where she earned her

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. She then joined the academic staff in 1989, rising to associate professor in 2015 and full professor in 2021. She completed a

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titled ''The Resource Management Act 1991 and water in New Zealand: impact and implications'' at the

in 1995. She researches how law addresses international and national environmental problems, such as whaling, marine mammal by-catch, climate change, freshwater allocation, forest conservation on Māori-owned land, the environmental impacts of tourism, and how sex work is regulated through planning law. Wheen also has an interest in how the Treaty of Waitangi affects environmental law. Wheen is a member of the

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''Coastal People: Southern Skies,'' led by Anne-Marie Jackson and Rosalina Richards. She has co-edited books on the Treaty of Waitangi, and Treaty of Waitangi Settlements, with Janine Hayward. Wheen also wrote chapters in ''Environmental Histories of New Zealand'', published in 2002, and ''The Law of Research'', published 2003. Wheen teaches and convenes courses on Public Law, Environmental Law and International Environmental Law at Otago, and has supervised more than fifty honours and postgraduate students. She is on the editorial board of

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Selected works

Books

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Articles

* Wheen, Nicola.
A Natural Flow - A History of Water Law in New Zealand
'' Otago Law Review 71 (1997-2000). * Brookers environmental legislation handbook 2014, with an introduction by Ceri Warnock and Nicola Wheen. (Brookers environmental law handbook series). Thomson Reuters New Zealand * * * *

References

External links

Why Should You Care? There's Something in the Water - Queenstown
Extracts from symposium on 8 August 2017, featuring Brent Lovelock, Sarah Mager, Marc Schallenberg, and Nicole Wheen. {{DEFAULTSORT:Wheen, Nicola New Zealand academics New Zealand women academics University of Otago alumni Academic staff of the University of Otago New Zealand legal scholars