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
- 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 Richard Mitchell
- Dr Kerstin Steiner
- Associate Professor Benny Tabalujan
- Associate Professor Andrew White
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Kent Anderson was appointed as an Associate of the Centre in 2004. Kent is a Professor at the Australian National University College of Law and College of Asia-Pacific. He is the Director of the Faculty of Asian Studies at the ANU College of Asia-Pacific. He is also co-director of the Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL). Kent convenes 'Japanese Law & Society' at ANU. His research has largely focused on comparative commercial law, particularly with regards to Japan; conflict of laws; and insolvency. His articles have been published in English and Japanese and in Australia, Japan, North America and Europe. He has studied or taught at Chuo, Hokkaido, Kobe, Nagoya, Nanzan and Waseda universities in Japan.
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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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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, 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 8 years she has been involved in various multi and bi lateral aid projects. She currently consults to various organisations including the international law firm Deacons. Since 2004, she has been the project director of a large five-year AusAID-funded economic governance project in Indonesia. In addition she lectures Asian Comparative Tax Law Systems at the Law Faculty at the University of Melbourne. She has recently finalised her PhD study on tax law reform in Indonesia and Vietnam. |
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Professor M.B. Hooker |
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Associate Professor David Linnan
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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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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 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. |
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Andrew White was appointed as an Associate of the Centre in 2007. Andrew is an Associate Professor of Law in the Singapore Management University School of Law, where he has recently introduced a course in Islamic Law, Banking, and Commerce. His primary research focus is on Asian and Islamic law, including especially Islamic commercial law (fiqh al-mu’amalah) in Asia and commercial law reform in developing countries. Andrew has extensive experience as a consultant in areas of commercial law reform, including Shari'ah/fiqh al-mu’amalah and other areas of commercial law in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and East Africa. Prior to joining Singapore Management University, Andrew was a Senior Fellow in the Melbourne Law School, where he taught various subjects in the LLB and JD programs. He also holds a continuing appointment in the Melbourne Law School’s Centre for Corporate Law & Securities Regulation.
Andrew received his LLM (Asian and Islamic law, First Class Honours) from the University of Melbourne and his Juris Doctor from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, USA. For nearly 25 years, he practiced business and commercial law (transactional and litigation) in the US and Europe as a partner in a major international law firm based in Washington, DC, as a senior attorney in a law firm in Germany, and most recently as principal in his own law firm in North Carolina, USA.
His recent publications include: ‘The Role of the Islamic Waqf in Strengthening South Asian Civil Society: Pakistan as Case Study’ 4(2) International Journal of Civil Society Law (2006); ‘Breathing New Life into the Islamic Waqf: What Reforms can Fiqh Regarding Awqaf Adopt from the Common Law of Trusts without Violating Shari’ah?’ 41(3) Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal (American Bar Association: 2006); ‘The Paradox of Corruption as Antithesis to Economic Development: Does Corruption Undermine Economic Development in Indonesia and China, and Why Are the Experiences Different in each Country?’ 8(1) Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal (University of Hawai’i: 2006); and ‘Decentralized Environmental Taxation in Indonesia: A Proposed Double Dividend for Revenue Allocation and Environmental Regulation’ 19(1) Journal of Environmental Law (Oxford University Press: 2007).
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