2011 ABSTRACTS BOOKLET MONDAY 29 AUGUST OPENING CEREMONY AND

Opening ceremony and prayer: Vanuatu students

Welcoming: Professor Eric Colvin

Plenary: Don Paterson: The Dilemma of Custom in a Modern Legal System, as illustrated in island countries of the South Pacific

Session 1 A: Governance and the rule of law

1. Joel Samuels: The post-colonial legacy of condominium governance in the New Hebrides

2. Valentino Wichman: Aronga Mana: Do they have power?

3. Danielle Kelly: Pitcairn and the rule of law

Session 1 B: Youth justice

1. Anita Jowitt: Introduction to Symposium on child and family justice

2. Harry Fatu Toleafoa: Can Ifoga be implemented as a response to young offenders in New Zealand?

3. Lena Wong: Youth Justice in the Cook Islands

4. Chelsea Terei: Looking back is part of moving forward: Maori youth justice in New Zealand

Session 2 A: Commercial and technological change

1. Katriona Tautua: Privacy Concerns in the Pacific Islands: How are the Pacific Islands regulating privacy on the internet

2. Sunita Bois-Singh: E-Commerce …Are we ready for it? A Pacific Perspective!

3. Narendra Prasad: Avoiding Costly Litigation through Employee and Supervisor Training programs

Session 2 B: family matters

1. Mayuresh Prasad: Family law and culture in Fiji

2. Ema Piutau, Domestic violence in the Kingdom of Tonga: Is this a family matter of one for the State to intervene?

3. Unaisi Narawa-Daurewa, A traditional approach to dispute resolution in Fiji’s Family Courts

4. Sofia Shah: Customary Adoption vs Statutory Adoption in Vanuatu

Session 3 A: Intellectual property

1. Jay Tausi: Samoan expressions of culture in a digital environment

2. Robyn-Ann Elizabeth Mani, Communal interests under intellectual property law

Session 3B: Practitioners Panel: Family Violence in Vanuatu, Are we making a difference?

Plenary: Michael Goddard : Three Histories of Daugo Island: Thoughts on Knowledge and Truth from a PNG Land Dispute

Session 4 A: Land 1

1. Siobahn McDonnell: The Masters of Modernity- thoughts around the politics of land in Vanuatu.

2. Brigitte Olul: Land Leasing in Vanuatu

3. Devon Latoa: The origins of legislation concerning Niuean customary lands.

Session 4 B: Human rights/ womens’ rights

1. Kima Tuialii, The illegality of abortion in Samoa: culturally appropriate or a religious sanction

2. Vika Durutalo: The Changing Role of Indigenous Women in Fiji: From the Traditional to the Modern

3. Arishma Goundar: Ban on Burqa: Is it possible in Pacific countries

4. Amelia Cobona: Women and politics in Fiji

Session 5 A: Research methods

1. Joseph Foukona: Looking at methodology beyond the law discipline: A focus on customary land.

2. Lalotoa Mulitalo: South Pacific research permits to promote culturally appropriate protocols for empirical research

Session 5 B: Land 2

1. John Dawson: Judicial review of the Land and Titles Court of Samoa

2. Mesake Dawai: Customary marine tenure: The Regulation of Surfing Areas Decree 2010 & i-taukei rights in Fiji

3. Derek Futaiasi: Case law assessment of legal issues affecting chiefs settlement in cases dealing with customary land disputes in Solomon Islands

Session 6 A: Education

1. Carolyn Penfold:

2. Kerry Tetzlaff: What makes a good law teacher? Perspectives from Cambridge, Harvard, Auckland, and Trier

3. Mara Hosoda: The experiences of Pacific students in legal education in New Zealand

Session 6 B: Practitioners Panel: Exploring hybrid justice, How can we make it work?

Session 7 A: Resource management

1. Ihipera Ulu: Taniwha as a pre-European method of resource management

2. Alexandrya Herman: Towards a better future? Analysing the seabed minerals regimes in the Pacific

3. Joseph Foukona and Siobahn McDonnell: The REDD scheme, carbon trading and customary ownership of land.

Session 7 B: Governance and politics

1. Timothy Fesili: Is there a disconnection (in terms of electoral laws) between what is corrupt under the rule of law and what is culturally appropriate?

2. Susannah Leota: The role of the courts in resolving election disputes in Samoa

Session 8 A: Land 3

1. Philip Kanairara: The protectorate era and how it shapes peoples’ contemporary perception of the law on ownership and control of the land and resources below the high water mark in Solomon Islands

2. Epifania Alesana: The Land Titles Registration Act and the uncertainty of the fate of customary land in Samoa

3. Mercy Rakhel: Limitations of Customary Legal Protection of Vanuatu's World Heritage site in the face of Land developments

Session 8 B: Climate change

1. Anita Jowitt: Overview of the USP SoL climate change project

2. Nathaniel Linglemog & Georgelina Reyuw: Impacts of and responses to climate change in Yap State, FSM

3. Johnathen Kawakami: Responding to climate change in Marshall Islands: Is migration with dignity a possible policy option?