Marozane Spamersis a lecturer in law and criminal justice in the Faculty of Law - Te Kaupeka Ture at the University of Canterbury - Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha, Aotearoa New Zealand, and a research fellow in the Faculty of Law at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Marozane's research interests are in mental health and criminal justice, drawing on criminal law, criminology and human rights law. She takes a multidisciplinary approach to research, based on the view that law does not operate in a vacuum and that the legitimacy of the criminal justice system can only be ensured if legislation and policy are evidence based. She is particularly invested in determining how criminal law and criminal justice policy can be used to protect the human rights of people with mental health concerns while achieving the goals of the criminal justice system. Marozane holds an LLB, an LLM in criminal law and an LLD in mental health law from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, as well as an MPhil in criminological research from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.