Monographs
South Pacific Land Systems co-edited and co-authored with Don Paterson (USP), University of the South Pacific Press 2013
South Pacific Law of Property and Trusts Supplement 20 (2013) International Encyclopaedia of Laws, Kluwer International, The Hague, 2nd edition
South Pacific Law of Property and Trusts (2013) International Encyclopaedia of Laws, Kluwer International, The Hague, 2nd edition
Law and the Family in the Pacific (2011) University of the South Pacific
South Pacific Intellectual Property Law (2011)Supplement 51International Encyclopaedia of Laws, Kluwer International, The Hague, 3rd third edition
Human Rights in the South Pacific: Challenges and Changes’ (2009) Routledge-Cavendish, London
South Pacific Intellectual Property Law (2009)Supplement 51International Encyclopaedia of Laws, Kluwer International, The Hague, 2nd edition
South Pacific Law of Property and Trusts (2009) Supplement 9 International Encyclopaedia of Laws, Kluwer International, The Hague
Chapters in Collections/Books
‘Outwith the law in Samoa and Tonga’ in N. Besnier and K. Alexeyeff (eds.) Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay and Other Pacific Islanders University of Hawai’i Press, 2014
‘Timber Extraction in Solomon Islands: Too Much, Too Fast; Too Little, Too Late’ in E. Gilberthorpe and G. Hilson (eds) Natural Resource Extraction and Indigenous Livelihoods: Development challenges in an Era of globalisation, Ashgate, Farnham, 2014, 179-200
‘Earth under the Nails: the Extraordinary Return to the Land’ in N. Hopkins, (ed) Modern Studies in Property Law, Hart Publication, Oxford, 2013, 173-191
‘Selling the Land: Should it stop. A case-study from the South Pacific’ in M. Dixon (ed) Modern Studies in Property Law (2009) Vol 5, Hart Publications, Oxford, 289-311
‘Vanuatu (New Hebrides)’ Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law, (2010) Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and Intentional Law, Heidelberg and Oxford University Press
‘Vanuatu: A tinder-box in the Pacific’ in B. Edgeworth and L. Bennet-Moses (UNSW) (eds) Property and Security: Selected Essays (2010) Law Book Co. Thomson Reuters, Australia pp 69-87
Articles
‘The “unnatural” legal framing of traditional knowledge and forms of cultural expression in the
Pacific’ (2013) 1 (2) Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies181-197
‘Food Security in Pacific Island Countries’ (2013) Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University, Hawai’i 140-156
‘The Age of Empire: Again? (2013) 47 (3) The Law Teacher 345-367
‘Intellectual Property and Food Security in Least Developed Countries’ with Forsyth, M. (ANU) (2013) 34 (3) Third World Quarterly 521-538
‘Navigating between traditional land tenure and introduced land laws in Pacific Island States’ (2012) 64 Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 65-90
‘Children of the Pacific: Giving effect to Article 3 UNCRC in small island states’ (2012) 2 The International Journal of Children’s Rights 199-223
‘Paddling a canoe with an oar made of oak’. The challenging legacy of British law in Pacific island states’ (2012) 63(3) Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 323-341
‘Navigating Changing Land Use in Vanuatu’ (2011) 33 (2/3) Pacific Studies 250-268
‘Storing Sperm in Scotland: A Risky Business’ (2011) 19(1) European Review of Private Law 257-274
‘Scots Law: A system in search of a family’ (2010) 61(4) Northern Ireland Law Quarterly 311-327
Book Review ‘Justice, Legality, and the rule of Law: Lessons from the Pitcairn Prosecutions’ Dawn Oliver (ed) OUP 2009, in (2010) 6 (3) International Journal of Law in Context 309-313
‘Pacific Perspectives: Fa’afafine and Fakaleiti in Samoa and Tonga: People Between Worlds’ (2010) 31(1) Liverpool Law Review 13 < http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s10991-010-9070-0>
‘Law, land, development and narrative: a case-study from the South Pacific’ (2010) 6 International Journal of Law in Context 1-21
‘Child adoption: the challenges presented by the plural legal systems of South Pacific island states’ (2009) 21(4) Child and Family Law Quarterly 462-484
‘Land as a Fundamental right: A cautionary tale’ (2009) 40(1) Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 387-402
‘Palm tree justice? The role of comparative law in the South Pacific’ (2009) 58 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 181-195
‘”Making Land Work” in the Pacific? Evaluating Land Reform in Vanuatu’ (2009) LAWASIAJournal 44-61
Fragmenting the Land and the Laws that Govern It’ (2008) 58 Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law Number, pp. 93-113
‘South Pacific Children: the law on adoption and issues of concern’ (2008) 6(2) New Zealand Family
Law Journal 30-36
‘Timber! Felling the Future of the Solomon Islands’ (2008) 16(2) Australian Property Law Journal 109-128
Conference papers
‘ Intellectual Property in a culturally and legally plural world: learning from the Pacific’ Olomouc University Annual Conference, Czech Republic 15-16 May, 2014
‘Legal inequalities and the not-yet-adult child’ Law and Society Conference, Minneapolis May 29-June 1, 2014
‘At the edges and on the margins: hearing the voices of young people in South Pacific island countries’ Canadian Law and Society Association and the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, ‘Law on the Edge’ Conference, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver,1- 4 July, 2013
‘Scots Law: Is the Tartan Fading? Endangered Mixed Legal Systems, Glasgow University Tercentenary celebrations for the Regius Chair of Criminal Law, Glasgow, 10-11 June, 2013
‘One nation many islands: many islands one nation’ Juris Diversitas ‘Infusion/Diffusion’ Conference, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne, 3-4 June, 2013
‘The Age of Empire: Again? A critical examination of legal education’ Irish Society of Comparative Law, National University of Ireland, Galway, 24-25 May, 2013
‘Are there guerrillas in my garden?’ Staff seminar, Newcastle University Law School, 22 May, 2013
‘That plant is my ancestor. The significance of intellectual property on food security in developing countries’ SLSA Conference, York University, 26 March, 2013
The ‘unnatural’ legal framing of traditional knowledge and forms of cultural expression’ European Society of Oceanists, Bergen 5-8, December, 2012
‘Food Security in Pacific Island Countries’ Innovation, Creativity, Access to Knowledge and Development in Pacific Island Countries, 24-25 September, 2012 Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
‘A bundle of sticks in my garden’ Gardens of Justice, Critical Legal Studies Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 14-16 September, 2012
‘Pacific Punch: tropical flavours of mixedness in the island republic of Vanuatu’ Mixed Jurisdictions East-West, Society of Mixed Jurisdictions, Valleta, Malta, May 14-16, 2012
‘Earth under the Nails: the Extraordinary Return to the Land’ Modern Studies in Property Law Conference, Southampton University, March 21-23, 2012
‘Changing currents: laws and development in South Pacific island states' Island Dynamics Conference, Malta 11-15 May, 2011
‘Children of the Pacific: Giving effect to Article 3 UNCRC in small island states’ Research forum for the Child, Queen’s University, Belfast 1-2 June, 2011
‘Navigating between traditional land tenure and introduced land laws in Pacific Island States’ Legal and Cultural Pluralism Conference Cape Town, South Africa 8-10 September 2011, Commission for Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law
‘Access to knowledge and the promotion of innovations: challenges for Pacific island states’ Legal and Cultural Pluralism Conference Cape Town, South Africa 8-10 September 2011
‘Aid, Trade and Taboo: the place of indigenous traditional knowledge in development strategies: A Pacific perspective’ SLS Conference, Cambridge, 4-6 September 2011
‘Scots law, a system in search of a family’ Irish Society of Comparative law’ Queen’s University Belfast, March 5-6, 2010
‘Customary property rights at the cross-roads: thoughts from the Pacific’ Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual conference, Bristol 30 March- 1 April, 2010
‘Pacific perspectives: Fa’afafine and Fakaleiti in Samoa and Tonga people between worlds’ in the ‘Gender Sexuality and Law’ stream at the SLSA Conference 7-9 April, 2009
‘Vanuatu: a tinder-box in the Pacific’ Australasian Property Law Teachers’’ Conference April 17-19, Sydney, 2009
‘Narratives of land claims.’ Literature, Law and Sovereignty Conference, Birkbeck College, London, May 2, 2009
‘Towards convergence? Scots and English private law.’ Society of Legal Scholars Conference, Comparative Law Section, September, Keele, 2009
‘Selling the land: should it stop? A case-study from the South Pacific’ Biennial Conference on Property Law, Cambridge University, February, 2008
‘Timber! Felling the future of the Solomon Islands’ British Academy funded conference on ‘Examining the Long-Term Impact of Post-Colonial Phases of Extractive Industry on Indigenous Livelihoods’, University of Durham, March, 2008
‘Land as a fundamental right’ Strategies for the Future Protecting Rights in the Pacific, April, Apia, Samoa, 2008
‘Land, law and people in the Pacific’ European Society of Oceanists ‘Putting People First’ Verona, July, 2008
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