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Kris GledhillBA Juris Oxon., LLM Virginia, PGCertAcadPracKris Gledhill teaches in the areas of criminal law and human rights, and also torts. He has recentlytransferred to academic life after a career as a barrister in England, where he practiced in criminal andpublic law, particularly in the fields of mental health law and prisoners? rights, and appeared in anumber of precedent-setting cases. He is also a law reporter, editing the Mental Health Law Reports andthe Prison Law Reports, and has published numerous articles and texts, most recently a case book onmental health law in England and a co-authored case book on mental health law and internationalhuman rights. His main research interests at present are the use of psychological risk assessment toolsin the legal process and comparative human rights law.Christopher HareMA Camb., LLM Harv., BCL Oxon.Christopher Hare’s teaching and research interests include the law of obligations generally, commerciallaw, company law, banking law, international trade and the conflict of laws. He was a barrister in aLondon chambers specialising in domestic and international banking litigation before being appointed afellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, where he lectured in the Cambridge University Law Faculty for fiveyears before joining The University of Auckland’s Faculty of Law in 2005. His current research focuses ontrade finance, banking law and company law, and he is co-editor of the New Zealand Law Review.Amokura KawharuLLM, Camb., BA LLB (Hons)Amokura Kawharu teaches Land Law, Commercial Arbitration and International Economic Regulation inthe LLB programme. Her research interests include the regulation of international trade andinternational disputes settlement. Amokura previously worked as a solicitor in Auckland and Sydney,specialising in commercial law. She is of Ngapuhi and Ngati Whatua descent.Michael LittlewoodPhD Hong Kong, BA LLB(Hons)Michael Littlewood specialises in tax. In addition to New Zealand tax, his work has mostly been in theareas of Hong Kong tax, Chinese tax, international tax, comparative tax, tax planning, tax policy, thepolitics of taxation, tax history and constitutional aspects of taxation. His work has been published in theUS, the UK, Hong Kong, China, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand.Georgos MousourakisLLB Athens, MSc Manc., PhD Edin.Georgos Mousourakis teaching and research interests are in the areas of comparative law, Roman law,jurisprudence, criminal law and criminology. He taught in both Australia and Japan prior to rejoining theFaculty of Law at The University of Auckland.Peter SankoffBA Concordia Alta., JD Tor., LLM Osgoode HallPeter Sankoff’s teaching and research interests include the criminal justice system, the law of evidence,trial procedure, victims’ rights and the relationship between animals and the law. He is the author of thePortable Guide to Witnesses (2006), and the co-author of two books: the looseleaf text Witnesses, atreatise on the substantive, evidentiary and procedural law relating to witnesses, and Manning, Mewettand Sankoff on Criminal Law, 4th ed. (2009), a Canadian treatise on substantive criminal law. Peter isalso the co-editor of Animal Law in Australasia: A New Dialogue (2009).2010 Faculty of Law Handbook | 115