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Mulitalo Ropinisone Silipa Seumanutafa, Teleiai Lalotoa

Teleiai Dr. Lalotoa Mulitalo is the current Executive Director/CEO of the Samoa Law Reform Commission; and a part-time lecturer for the Faculty of Law, University of the South Pacific. She has taught (LLB Programme) in the areas of law reform in the Pacific Islands, legislative drafting, legal ethics and family law. More recently (Feb-Dec 2017) Dr Mulitalo taught the Certificate in Law (Civil) Programme for Samoan Parliamentarians. In 2013, she received her PhD in Law from the University of Queensland’s TC Beirne School of Law, and was the recipient of the 2013 Deans Award for Higher Research Degree Excellence. As a recipient of the 2017 Greg Urwin Awards, she wrote and launched the first ever Guide to ‘Legislative Drafting in the Pacific Context’ at the University of Queensland in 2017