Ms. Beatrice Tabangcora

Assistant Lecturer 

USP Emalus Campus, Port-Vila, Vanuatu

Phone: +678 22748 ext 216

Email: beatrice.tabangcora@usp.ac.fj

 

 

 

 

Bio

Ms. Beatrice Tabangcora joined USP in 2019 as an Assistant Lecturer in Law. Beatrice coordinates introductory law courses, torts law and commercial law courses at the undergraduate level. Prior to joining USP, Beatrice worked in policy and research roles in Government agencies in Vanuatu and New Zealand.

Beatrice is an alumna of University of the South Pacific and the Victoria University of Wellington. Beatrice is interested in torts law, legal pluralism and legal developments of her home country of Samoa. Beatrice established and coordinates the USP Emalus First Year Initiative (FYI) which is a program to support first year law students studying at USP Emalus Campus.

 

Qualifications

• LLB, PDLD USP, LLM VUW

 

Research Interests

• Pacific Islands Torts Law
• Pacific Island No-Fault Liability Schemes
• Legal Pluralism in the Pacific Islands

 

Publications

Beatrice Tabangcora, ‘Ua se va’a tu matagi: The Revival of Criminal Libel in Samoa’ (2018) Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific.

Beatrice Tabangcora ‘Analysing Samoa’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic” (2020) Periscope Rule of Law.

Beatrice Tabangcora, ‘Samoa’ in Jennifer Corrin and Tony Angelo (eds) Gems of the Pacific: Sixteen Legal Systems (Intersentia, October 2021).

Beatrice Tabangcora, ‘An Analysis of the 2021 Electoral Decisions of the Samoan Courts’ (2021) Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific.

Beatrice Tabangcora, ‘Analysing the 2020 Amendments to the Samoan Constitution’ (forthcoming) Journal of South Pacific Law.

 

Research Profiles