Amokura Kawharu

Senior Lecturer
BA, LLB (Hons) (Auckland)
LLM (Cambridge)
Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court
AAMINZ

Contact details
Building 803, room 2.20
17 Eden Crescent
Auckland

Phone: +64 9 923 6397
Email: a.kawharu@auckland.ac.nz

Available to students
Tuesdays and Thursdays 10 - 11am, or by appointment

Profile

Amokura holds a BA/LLB(Hons) degree from Auckland University and an LLM with a major in international law from the University of Cambridge. She became member of the Law Faculty's academic staff in 2005 after working for several years in private commercial law practice here in Auckland and in Sydney.

Research Interests

• International commercial arbitration
• Investment arbitration
• International economic regulation
• International disputes settlement

Courses Taught

• Law 414 Commercial Arbitration
• Law 485 International Economic Regulation
• Law 301 Land Law

Recent journal publications

• 'NGO Participation in Investment Arbitration as Amici Curiae’ (forthcoming, in "The Backlash Against Investment Arbitration", edited volume, Cameron & May, 2009)
• ‘The Limits of Confidentiality in Arbitration’ (forthcoming, accepted for publication in Lloyds Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly (February 2009))
• ‘Arbitral Jurisdiction’ New Zealand Universities Law Review, 23(2), 238-264, 2008
• ‘New Zealand’s Arbitration Law Receives a Tune-Up’, Arbitration International, 24(3), 405-421, 2008
• ‘Interim Measures in Arbitration’ New Zealand Law Journal, 89-92, 2008
• ‘The Public Policy Ground for Setting Aside and Refusing Enforcement of Arbitral Awards’, Journal of International Arbitration, 24(5), 491-513, 2007
• ‘The New Zealand Cases in World Trade Organisation Dispute Settlement’, New Zealand Law Review, 1-25, 2007
• ‘The Enforcement of Arbitral Awards in Investment Disputes - Through the Smoke Screens’, Lloyds Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly, 136-144, 2007
• ‘Public Participation and Transparency in International Investment Arbitration: Suez v Argentina’, New Zealand Yearbook of International Law, 4, 159-172, 2007

Recent presentations

• 'International Law Protection of Foreign Owned Property and Regulatory Freedom', NZCEL Conference 'Property Rights and Sustainability', April 2009
• ‘The Necessity Exception in Foreign Investment Law’, Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law 16th Annual Conference, Canberra, June 2008
• ‘Promised Land or Fire Swamp? Interim Measures - the New Zealand Revolution: a commentary’, Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand, Auckland District Law Society and New Zealand Bar Association Arbitration Day Conference, Auckland, November 2007
• ‘Drawing Lines in the Sand: Testing the Limits of Arbitral Jurisdiction’, Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand Annual Conference, Auckland, August 2007
• ‘Society Representative or Policy Entrepreneur? Amicus Curiae in Investment Arbitration’, Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law 15th Annual Conference, Canberra, June 2007