Current PCN members are listed here. The list is organised by country and then institution to help identify clusters within institutions.

To join the PCN please complete this form and return it to [email protected] .

PCN MEMBERS
The table is organised by country of residence & then institution.
Country (residence)	Organisation	Name	Research Interests	Contact
Australia	ANU, State Society & Governance in Melanesia	Kerryn Baker	Gender quota reform	[email protected]
Australia	ANU, Law & University of Canberra	Bal Kama	Papua New Guinea, relationships between arms of government	[email protected]
Australia	ANU, RegNet	Miranda Forsyth	Custom and constitutions, judicial independence	[email protected]
Australia	ANU	Siobhan McDonnell	Customary land	[email protected]
Australia	Bond University, Law	Narelle Bedford	Public and legal accountability mechanisms, comparatvie analysis, separation of power, intersection between judicial and executive power	[email protected]
Australia	University of Melbourne, Law & Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies	Anna Dziedzic	Comparative constitutional law, constitution making, federalism and devolution, gender and constitutions, judicial systems	[email protected]
Australia	Wollongong University	Edward Wolfers	Papua New Guinea	[email protected]
Canada	University of Victoria, Law	Debra MacKenzie	Tonga, legal change and legal development in the post-coloial Pacific	[email protected]
Fiji	UNDP, Pacific Regional Anti-Corruption Project	John Hyde	Governance, accountability, anti-corruption, justic across all PICs	[email protected]
Fiji		Romitesh Kant	Fiji constitution making, ethnicity and constitutions	[email protected]
Fiji	USP	Paul Carnegie		[email protected]
Fiji	USP	Wesley Morgan		[email protected]
Fiji	USP	Gordon Nanau	Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tonga, others. Decentralisation, ethnic relations, electoral systems, land and resources	[email protected]
Fiji	USP	David Naylor		[email protected]
Fiji	USP	Claire Slatter	International treaty obligations, particularly trade & human rights treaties	[email protected]
Marshall Islands	Parliament, Legal Counsel	Divine Waiti	Constitutional Reform in the Marshall Islands, Governance, human rights, customary rights, motion of no confidence, corruption, drafting, etc.	[email protected]
New Zealand	Barrister & Solicitor, PASAI	Robert Buchanan	Constitutional reform in the Pacific, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Supreme Audit Institutions	[email protected]
New Zealand	Otago University	Tom White		[email protected]
New Zealand	Victoria Univeristy of Wellington	Jon Franekel	Pacific politics and governance, state stability	[email protected]
New Zealand	Victoria Univeristy of Wellington	Graham Hassall	History of constitution making in the Pacific, constitutionalising Pacific regionalisim, public scgtor governance and policy in Pacific traditions of Westminster	[email protected]
Papua New Guinea	Constitutional & Law Reform Commission	Ben Bofeng	Right to equality & participation under the Constitution	[email protected]
Papua New Guinea	Constitutional & Law Reform Commission	Nettie Daemuna	PNG legislative reform and review	[email protected]
Papua New Guinea	Constitutional & Law Reform Commission	Lucy Mathew	PNG customs and law	[email protected]
Papua New Guinea	Ministry of Justice	Josephine Advent		[email protected]
Papua New Guinea	Ombudsman Commission	Michael Efi	PNG, human rights	[email protected]
Papua New Guinea	Ombudsman Commission	Vergil Narokobi	PNG, constitutional law, implementing constitutional aspirations, social rights, preambles	[email protected]
Papua New Guinea	Ombudsman Commission	Richard Pagen	leadership code, Vanuatu, PNG	[email protected]
Papua New Guinea	Ombudsman Commission	Tabitha Suwae	leadership code, Vanuatu, PNG	[email protected]
Samoa	Legislative Drafting & legal consultant	Lalaota Mulitalo	Cusomary law & constitutions	[email protected]
Samoa	National University of Samoa, Centre for Samoan Studies	Malama Meleisia	Culture, religion and constitutions	[email protected]
Samoa	National University of Samoa, Centre for Samoan Studies	Penelope Schoeffel	Customary law & constitutions	[email protected]
Solomon Islands	Law Reform Commission	Philip Kanairara		[email protected]
Tuvalu	Attorney General's Office	Corinna Ituaso-Laafai		[email protected]
Vanuatu	TNC Consulting	Tess Newton Cain	Melanesia, constitutional rights, rule of law, separation of powers, democratic culture	[email protected]
Vanuatu	USP, Law	Pierre-Jean Bordahandy		[email protected]
Vanuatu	USP, Law	Eric Colvin	Consitutions and criminal law	[email protected]
Vanuatu	USP, Law	Sean Donlan	Comparative constitutional analysis	[email protected]
Vanuatu	USP, Law	Joseph Foukona		[email protected]
Vanuatu	USP, Law	Anita Jowitt	Corruption, human rights, state stability, comparative analysis across USP member countries	[email protected]
Vanuatu	USP, Law	Morsen Mosses		[email protected]
Vanuatu	USP, Law	Don Paterson	Constitutional reform, land	[email protected]
Vanuatu	USP, Law	Lee-Anne Sackett	Constitutional law, human rights, indigenous peoples	[email protected]
Vanuatu	USP, Law	Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh	Environmental law, human rights and the relationship between interantional and constitutional law	[email protected]