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Shireen Daft ............................................................................................................................ 193 Suspended Disbelief? The Curious Endurance of the Deterrence Rationale in International Criminal Law Pádraig McAuliffe ................................................................................................................... 227 Book Review: Tribal Constitutionalism – States, Tribes and the Governance of Membership Carwyn Jones .......................................................................................................................... 263 1984 and All That: Opening Address to the EmpowerNZ Workshop Hon Jim McLay ....................................................................................................................... 267 EmpowerNZ: Drafting a Constitution for the 21st Century Dean Knight and Julia Whaipooti ............................................................................................ 287 Draft Constitution for the 21st Century Participants at the EmpowerNZ Youth Workshop...................................................................... 301 The New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law is a fully refereed journal published by the New Zealand Centre for Public Law at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington. The Journal was established in 2003 as a forum for public and international legal scholarship. It is available in hard copy by subscription and is also available on the HeinOnline, Westlaw, Informit and EBSCO electronic databases. NZJPIL welcomes the submission of articles, short essays and comments on current issues, and book reviews.