research.

Our current research focuses on the following:

  • The reliance on foreign human rights jurisprudence in the courts of Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, and Vanuatu - Professor Petra Butler

  • Custom and the New York Convention - Professor Petra Butler

 
 
 

law reform.

Our current law reform projects concentrate on the following:

  • Domestic and cross-border insolvency and bankruptcy legislation, regulated credit reporting regimes, domestically regulated collateral registries, domestic company laws in CARICOM - Dr Nicole Pierce

  • International Arbitration - Ana Tuiketei & Professor Petra Butler

  • Human Rights - Professor Petra Butler

  • Climate Change - Professor Catherine Iorns

  • Disaster Management - Professor Dr Ilan Kelman

LAW Reform projects:

  • 2022 Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Pacific Region (ongoing, funded by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (Australien)).

  • 2021 Consultancy to Provide Assistance to Member States to Harmonize Companies and Insolvency Laws and Instruments for the Mutual Recognition of Companies (ongoing, funded under the Eleventh European Development Fund )

  • 2021 Judicial Diversity in Small Commonwealth Countries (completed, funded by the Commonwealth Secretariat)

  • 2021 Indigenous Solutions: Enabling Cultural, Religious and Legal Approaches to prevent and redress domestic and family violence in Samoa (completed, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany)

  • 2019 A Study of International Commercial Arbitration in the Commonwealth (completed- funded by the Commonwealth Secretariat)