She joined the Law Faculty's academic staff in 2005 after working for several years in private legal practice in Auckland and in Sydney. Her research interests include international trade and investment law, arbitration, and international disputes resolution. Currently, Amokura is researching and writing about developments in regional investment treaty policy and practice, and on a more theoretical level, the potential emergence of an international arbitral legal order. She also contributes regular reviews on disputes settlement for the New Zealand Law Review and co-authored the leading text on New Zealand arbitration law with Sir David Williams QC, Williams & Kawharu on Arbitration (LexisNexis, 2011). Amokura is an Associate of AMINZ, and a member of the LCIA and the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (she co-chairs the Society's International Economic Law interest group).