Events in NZ in 2015

Magna Carta confirmed events in New Zealand

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March	Commonwealth Day Ceremony: 9 March Ye Taupo Medieval Faire: 20-22 March Talk on Maori Magna Carta to the Higher Courts Judges’ Conference: 19-22 March
April	Attorney General’s essay prize
May	Wellington Young Lawyers Committee Event: 14 May 2015 Identity Conference: Enabling Digital Identity and Privacy in a Connected World: 18-19 May UK Professor Paul Brand Talk Auckland University: 21 May
June	NZLS Library, Canterbury – Magna Carta’s 800th Anniversary Display Canterbury Historical Association Panel: Magna Carta – Rights & Legacies: 9 June A Service of Commemoration at Holy Trinity Cathedral: 14 June St Andrew’s First Presbyterian Church Celebration Bell Ringing :14 June Auckland Bell Ringers Peal of Bells: 14 June Judicial Review and Rule of Law Talk, Victoria University: 15 June Lighting of Auckland War Museum: 15 June Reception at Parliament commemorating the 800th anniversary: 15 June Legacy of Magna Carta Celebrated in the New Zealand House of Representatives: 16 June Special feature in the NZ Law Society’s magazine LawTalk: 19 June Special feature in LawNews about the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta: 26 June New Zealand Parliament marking of the anniversary: June onwards The University of Auckland Library National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries – Medieval Music in Celebration of the Magna Carta display
July	Magna Carta, Human Rights, and the Treaty of Waitangi in 21st century New Zealand: 1 July University of Auckland Lecture Series on Magna Carta: week beginning 6 July NZ Professor talk at UK Legal History Conference: 8-11 July Sir Paul Reeves Memorial Lecture ‘The Magna Charta of New Zealand: Rhetoric or reality? Massey University Albany 21 July University of Otago Faculty of Law Public Lecture – Magna Carta in a Handcart, From 1215 to 2015 and Far Beyond: 21 July Annual Gardner Lecture on Magna Carta: 26 July Landmarks: Magna Carta on Trial: 28 July
August	Lecture by Professor Linda Colley on “A changing Magna Carta: past, present and futures”: 3 August No Free Man: To No One Deny Justice: 7 August Dr David V Williams talk at King’s College: 26 August
September	New Zealand Law Librarians’ Association 2015 conference: 10-11 September  Dr David V Williams talk on “The Treaty of Waitangi – the Maori Magna Carta”: 13 September Touring exhibition “Magna Carta to Commonwealth Charter”: 13-17 September  Legal Research Foundation Conference – Rights, Liberty and Equality: Runnymede to the Beehive: 25 September
December	Exhibition of 16th century copy of Charter, University of Canterbury Magna Carta Panels at the NZ Historical Association Conference: 2-4 December Counsel in Concert: A Celebration of the Magna Carta: 15 December Magna Carta Mock Trial