This Special Issue of the Canterbury Law Review arises from the 2018 Pacific Law and Culture Conference held at the University of Canterbury. The Conference was jointly hosted by the School of Law, the Pasifika Law Students’ Society and the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, and sponsored in part by the New Zealand Law Foundation. The aims of the Pacific Law and Culture Conference series are to increase understanding of Pacific legal issues and to strengthen relationships between Pacific legal scholars and students.