Tamasailau Suaalii-Sauniis a Samoan academic in sociology/criminology at the School of Social Sciences, University of Auckland. Her academic work draws on and contributes to the building of Pacific indigenous knowledges, especially Samoan. She specialises in Pacific jurisprudence theory and is currently engaged in indigenous criminological research.
Among a long list of associations, Tamasailau is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Samoan Studies at the National University of Samoa and the Otago International Health Research Network.
