Associates
ALC Associates
ALC Associates are members of the academic community who are external to the Melbourne Law School. ALC Associates make occasional contributions to the Centre’s teaching and seminar programs and are often involved in our research activities on a collaborative basis.
- Professor Kent Anderson
- Dr Simon Butt
- Mr Neri Colmenares
- Associate Professor Charles Coppel
- Mr Hop Dang
- Professor Howard Dick
- Professor Michael Dutton
- Mr Stewart Fenwick
- Professor Garnett
- Dr Gitte Heij
- Professor M.B. Hooker
- Associate Professor David Linnan
- Professor Vera Mackie
- Professor Richard Mitchell
- Professor William Neilson
- Professor Raul Pangalangan
- Dr Kerstin Steiner
- Associate Professor Carolyn S. Stevens
- Associate Professor Benny Tabalujan
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Professor Kent Anderson is a comparative lawyer specialising in Asia. He joined the University of Adelaide in 2012 as Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) and Professor of Law in the Adelaide Law School. He has an eclectic background doing his tertiary studies in Japan, US, and UK in Law, Politics, Economics, and Asian Studies. Kent first worked as a marketing manager with a US regional airline in Alaska, then as a practicing commercial lawyer in Hawaii, and subsequently joining academia as associate professor at Hokkaido University School of Law. For the decade before joining the University of Adelaide, Kent was a joint appointment at the Australian National University College of Law and Faculty of Asian Studies, where he was Director from 2007-2011. He was the Foundation Director of the School of Culture, History and Language in the ANU’s College of Asia and the Pacific.
His research and teaching are focused on insolvency, private international law, and recently the introduction of Japan’s new quasi-jury system (saiban-in seido). He is editor of Journal of Japanese Law, on the editorial board of Australian Year Book of International Law, and on the editorial advisory board of Australian Journal of Asian Law.
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Dr Simon Butt was appointed as an Associate of the Centre in 2008. Simon is a senior lecturer at the Law Faculty, University of Sydney. He teaches Indonesian law, Investment Law in Asia, Dispute Resolution in Asia and Intellectual Property Law. He completed his PhD thesis on the Indonesian Constitutional Court in 2007, for which he was awarded the Chancellor's Prize and the Harold Luntz Price for Best Thesis in Law. |
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Mr Neri Colmenares Neri is also an electoral lawyer and was lead counsel in a Supreme Court petition which resulted in the disqualification of all major political parties from participating in the Philippine party list elections. His research interests include human rights, electoral laws and the party list system, alternative dispute resolution, amnesty and the peace process. |
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Associate Professor Charles Coppel Charles Coppel was appointed as an Associate of the Centre in 2011. Charles is a Principal Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. After graduating in Law at the University of Melbourne, he practised as a barrister for five years, but developed a more enduring fascination for the modern history of Indonesia and its ethnic Chinese minority. His Monash PhD was published as Indonesian Chinese in Crisis (Oxford UP, 1983) and as Tionghoa Indonesia Dalam Krisis (Pustaka Sinar Harapan, 1994). His publications have covered ethnic and race relations, ethnic identity, Confucian religion, language usage, colloquial Malay fictional and historical narratives, multiple migration, and the transformation of everyday life in colonial Java. These interests are reflected in his book Studying Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia (Singapore Society of Asian Studies, 2002). He taught at Monash University and, from 1973 to 2002, at the University of Melbourne, and was a Fellow-in-Residence of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences in 1995-1996. Since his ‘retirement’ in 2002 he has continued to publish on the Chinese in Indonesia and edited Violent Conflicts in Indonesia: Analysis, representation, resolution (Routledge, 2006). His work was honoured in the volume Chinese Indonesians: Remembering, Distorting, Forgetting edited by Tim Lindsey and Helen Pausacker (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore and Monash Asia Institute, 2005). In 2009 he was the recipient of a NABIL Foundation Award for his contribution to Indonesian nation-building. |
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Mr Hop Dang was appointed as an Associate of the Centre in 2004. He is a graduate of the Hanoi National University in languages and was the first Vietnamese national to graduate with an undergraduate law degree from an Australian university. Hop Dang completed articles in Australia and was also Associate to Justice Chernov of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria. Hop Dang worked with the Australian law firm Phillips Fox in their Melbourne and Hanoi Offices, initially as a law clerk and then as one of their key legal advisors operating out of Hanoi. He was a visiting lecturer to the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore between 2004 - 2005 and is currently reading for a DPhil at the University of Oxford with a thesis on enforceability of state contracts. |
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Professor Howard Dick is an internationally highly-regarded Asia specialist working primarily on Indonesia and Southeast Asia. His interests include applied economics, Asian laws, Asian business and the Asian business environment. His current research focuses on issues of corruption and governance and the difficulties of driving institutional change by formal legal reform. He has written extensively on state expansion, development and economic integration in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. He is a regular media commentator on Australia-Asia relations and one of the founders of the Melbourne Asia Policy Papers discussion series.
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Professor Michael Dutton was appointed as an Associate of the Centre in 1996. He has studied in both Australia and China and was awarded his PhD from Griffith University in 1991. Michael is currently a Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths College, the University of London. He has previously taught at The University of Melbourne (Political Science), the University of Adelaide (Asian Studies) and at Griffith University (School of Humanities). He will be a visiting research professor at Griffith University from December 2007. Michael's research interests generally revolve around China. He has a long standing interest in the political history of socialist policing and control in China. His current interests include an investigation of the politics of the gift, a study of the friend/enemy distinction, and an appreciation of the importance of everyday life and the consequent politics. In 2007, he was awarded the Levenson Prize by the American Asian Studies Association for the best book on post-1900 China. |
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Stewart Fenwick joined the Centre in 2009. Stewart has been a consultant on legal reform initiatives for several years, and between 2004-2008 managed Australia's legal and human rights reform program in Jakarta. He has experience as a legal practitioner in both the private and public sector, and served with the UNHCR in Mongolia, where he also taught at the National University between 2000-2001. Stewart currently works in judicial administration and is undertaking a PhD at Melbourne in Indonesian and Islamic law. He holds undergraduate degrees from Melbourne (Arts/Law) and an LLM (International Law) from the ANU.
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Professor Richard Garnett holds degrees in arts and law from the University of New South Wales and an LLM from Harvard University where he held a Fulbright Scholarship. From 1991 to 1994 Professor Garnett practiced commercial litigation and arbitration at Linklaters Solicitors in London and from 1995 to 2000 he was lecturer and senior lecturer in law at Monash University in Melbourne. In 2001 he was appointed to the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne and was made a Professor of Law in 2006. His main areas of research and teaching are private international law and international dispute resolution and he has published books and articles in leading international journals in these fields. A number of Professor Garnett's publications have been cited by leading international tribunals such as the European Court of Human Rights and US federal courts. Professor Garnett has also acted as legal adviser and counsel in many matters before both Australian and international tribunals and is currently a consultant to Freehills Solicitors. Recently, he was also appointed a member of the Australian Government delegation to the Hague Conference on Private International Law to negotiate a treaty on choice of court agreements and an Adviser to the American Law Institute in its project on transnational intellectual property adjudication. He is also a Director of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration. |
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Dr Gitte Heij was appointed as an Associate of the Centre in 2003. She has a Masters Degree in Tax Law from the University of Groningen, and a PhD in Law from the same university in The Netherlands. Gitte worked at the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University from 1993 to 2001, where she completed a variety of publications on tax and investment topics in Southeast Asia. In addition to her work as a researcher, she worked as an international/Asian tax advisor to Australian and European companies. Over the last 15 years she has been involved in various multi and bi lateral aid projects. She is a company director of several companies in Western Australia. She teaches an intensive course in Asian Comparative Tax Laws in the University of Melbourne's Tax Law program and she is a senior Adjunct at Murdoch University where she teaches an intensive course in development studies. |
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Professor M.B. Hooker |
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Associate Professor David Linnan David Linnan is a scholar of comparative, economic and public international law with a special interest in Asian law. He studied humanities at Emory University (BA 1976) and law at the University of Chicago (JD 1979), where he was comment editor of the law review. He was in private law practice for six years in Los Angeles and has held research or teaching appointments elsewhere at the University of South Carolina-Columbia, the University of Washington-Seattle, the Australian National University in Canberra (RSPAS & Faculty of Law), the University of Melbourne, the University of Indonesia Faculty of Law and Graduate Law Program in Jakarta (separately), and the Max-Planck-Institut (Strafrecht), Freiburg i.Br., Germany. Since 2000 he has been the Program Director for the Law & Finance Institutional Partnership (http://www.lfip.org <http://www.lfip.org/> ), a legal and financial sector reform project run from Jakarta now as an academic consortium of Indonesian and foreign universities. |
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Vera Mackie is Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor of Asian Studies in the Institute for Social Transformation Research at the University of Wollongong. Her research interests include the history of feminism in Japan, gender and the law in Japan and gender and social policy in Japan. She is currently researching human rights in the Asia-Pacific region. |
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Professor Richard Mitchell Professor Mitchell's areas of specialisation are labour law systems in the Asia-Pacific Region, the legal regulation of labour markets, the role of law in the construction of employment systems and the regulation of individual and collective bargaining in Australian labour law. His recent publications include Law and Labour Market Regulation in East Asia (with Sean Cooney, Tim Lindsey and Ying Chu) (Routledge, 2002). |
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Bill Neilson was the Director of the Centre between 1992 and 2004 and also its Law Chair from 1996 to 2004. He retired as Professor Emeritus of Law in July 2004. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Bill Neilson has been engaged in a variety of initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region involving law reform, institution building, legal research, comparative law and legal education in subject areas including governance principles, rule of law, judicial reform, constitutional review, public legal rights, and competition and trade law. His work has taken him to Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Singapore, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Japan, Taiwan and Australia. A graduate of Toronto, UBC and Harvard, he was a faculty member at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University and the founding Deputy Minister of Consumer Services in British Columbia before joining the University of Victoria Law School in l977 where he served as Dean of the Faculty from l985-90. He continues to publish on comparative law subjects and maintains an active research and advisory program in the Asia-Pacific region. |
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Raul C Pangalangan is a Professor of Law at the University of the Philippines. He received his SJD from the Harvard Law School, where he has served as Visiting Professor of Law. He holds the Diploma of The Hague Academy of International Law, where he has served as Director of Studies. He was a Philippine Delegate to the Rome Conference which established the International Criminal Court, and was a member of the Drafting Committee. He most recently served as court-appointed amicus curiae before the Philippine Supreme Court, in the case Francisco v. House of Representatives (unconstitutionality of impeachment complaint against the Chief Justice). He was earlier nominated as Supreme Court Justice by the Judicial and Bar Council, the constitutional body authorized to submit such nominations to the President of the Philippines. |
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Dr. Kerstin Steiner was appointed as an Associate of the Centre in 2008. From 2001 to 2008, Kerstin was a member of the Asian Law Centre working on a variety of projects with different members of the Centre. In 2007, she was appointed as Research Fellow for Professor Tim Lindsey’s ARC-funded Discovery Project “Islamic Law in Contemporary Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei’. The findings of this project will be published by IB Tauris in two volumes co-authored by Prof. Lindsey and Dr. Steiner. She also held appointments as Research Fellow at the Centre for Islamic Law and Society from 2005 to 2008 and as lecturer at the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies in 2008, both at The University of Melbourne. During her time at the Asian Law Centre, Kerstin completed her Master of Laws focusing on Asian legal studies and international law at The University of Melbourne. In 2007, she completed her doctoral studies which examined the ‘Asian Values’ discourses on human rights with a particular focus on how this discourse has been misconstrued as a monolithic, static and regional debate while it is, in fact, multi-faceted, evolving and not regionally confined.
Kerstin has recently accepted a position as Lecturer in the Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Business Law and Taxation, at Monash University.
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Associate Professor Carolyn S. Stevens Carolyn S. Stevens is Associate Professor in Japanese Studies at The University of Melbourne. Her AB (magna cum laude) from Harvard College is in social anthropology, and her PhD in cultural anthropology is from Columbia University. Her main area of expertise with relation to Japanese law is in the field of social welfare. She teaches and has published on issues of unemployment. |
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Associate Professor Benny Tabalujan Associate Professor Tabalujan is now director of a private consulting firm and a Principal Fellow at the Melbourne Business School where he teaches in the MBA program. He is regarded as a leading authority on corporate governance, ethics and regulation in the Southeast Asian region. |