Conquest and Contract with Indigenous Cultures: A Partial American and New Zealand Comparison

Richard Epstein, University of Chicago Law School

Readings:

• An opinion by Chief Justice John Marshall in the case of M'Intosh v. Johnson, 1823 21 U.S. (8 Wheat.) 543, on the right of conquest.
• The Treaty of Waitangi (English and Maori).
• A speech I delivered when in New Zealand in March as a guest of the New Zealand Business Round Table titled "The Treaty of Waitangi: A Plain Meaning Interpretation" (PDF)