Nicola Wheen

Wheen joined the law department at the University of Otago in 1984 as a student, where she earned her LLB. She then joined the academic staff in 1989, rising to associate professor in 2015^[1] and full professor in 2021.^[2][3] She completed a Master of Laws titled The Resource Management Act 1991 and water in New Zealand: impact and implications at the University of Otago in 1995.^[4] She researches how law addresses international and national environmental problems, such as whaling, marine mammal by-catch,^[5] climate change, freshwater allocation, forest conservation on Māori-owned land, the environmental impacts of tourism, and how sex work is regulated through planning law.^[6][7][8] Wheen also has an interest in how the Treaty of Waitangi affects environmental law.^[1][3]

Wheen is a member of the Centre of Research Excellence Coastal People: Southern Skies, led by Anne-Marie Jackson and Rosalina Richards.^[3][9] She has co-edited books on the Treaty of Waitangi, and Treaty of Waitangi Settlements, with Janine Hayward.^[3][1][10] Wheen also wrote chapters in Environmental Histories of New Zealand, published in 2002, and The Law of Research, published 2003.^[11]

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.^[1][3] She is on the editorial board of Otago University Press.^[12]

• Hayward, Janine; Wheen, Nicola, eds. (2004), The Waitangi Tribunal: Te Roopu Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi, Bridget Williams Books, doi:10.7810/9781877242328_8, ISBN 9781877242328
• Hayward, Janine; Wheen, Nicola R., eds. (2012), "The Meaning of Treaty Settlements and the Evolution of the Treaty Settlement Process", Treaty of Waitangi Settlements, Bridget Williams Books, pp. 13–28, doi:10.7810/9781927131381_1, ISBN 9781927131381{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)

• 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
• Nicola Wheen; Heidi Baillie (November 2019). "GMOs, pests and participatory and representative democracy in decision-making about GM activities in New Zealand". Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law. 22 (2): 257–276. doi:10.4337/APJEL.2019.02.04. ISSN 1385-2140. Wikidata Q108871614.
• Ceri Warnock; Nicola Wheen (October 2012). "Sex Work in New Zealand: The Re-Importation of Moral Majoritarianism in Regulating a Decriminalized Industry". Canadian Journal of Women and the Law. 24 (2): 414–438. doi:10.3138/CJWL.24.2.414. ISSN 0832-8781. Wikidata Q108871617.
• Ceri Warnock; Nicola Wheen (September 2008). "Climate Change, Wildlife Movement and the Law: A Case Study from New Zealand". Commonwealth Law Bulletin. 34 (3): 527–550. doi:10.1080/03050710802038379. ISSN 0305-0718. Wikidata Q108871620.
• Nicola Wheen; Jacinta Ruru (June 2011). "Providing for Rāhui in the law of Aotearoa New Zealand". Journal of the Polynesian Society. 120 (2): 169–182. ISSN 0032-4000. Wikidata Q124457507.