Chapman Tripp litigation lawyer Rachael Jones is one of two people awarded a Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Graduate Award.

These are granted to promising New Zealand graduate students to allow them to undertake one year of postgraduate study or research at a United States institution in the field of indigenous development.

Rachael has a BA and LLB(Hons) from the University of Otago and has advised iwi on issues relating to Treaty of Waitangi settlements, as well as growing post-settlement assets.

She will complete a Master of Laws specialising in constitutional and Indigenous law at Columbia University in New York.