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 ALC Members

ALC Members are academic members of the Melbourne Law School who are active in teaching and research relating to Asian legal systems, and have significant international reputations in this area.  Their work is linked to one or more of our programs, each of which is headed by an Associate Director.

 Professor Camille Cameron

Professor Camille Cameron

Camille Cameron joined the Faculty of Law as an Associate Professor in 2001 and became a Professor in January 2005. She was the Associate Dean (Undergraduate Studies) from 2003 to 2005. Camille obtained degrees in Arts and Law in Canada, where she also practised law for 10 years as a trial lawyer specialising in civil litigation.

In 1992, she obtained an LLM from the University of Cambridge and took up a full-time teaching position in Hong Kong. The subjects she has taught include Civil Procedure, Civil Trial Practice, Negotiation Skills, Advocacy and Dispute Resolution.

Her research interests include civil procedure, the administration of civil justice and procedural reform. She was a founding member of the Advocacy Institute of Hong Kong and a member of its first Board of Governors and Board of Studies. She has published articles on civil procedure and is the co-author of The Principles and Practice of Civil Procedure in Hong Kong (2001, Sweet and Maxwell Asia) and Litigation: Evidence and Procedure (7th edition, 2005, Lexis Nexis Butterworths, Australia).

She has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the International Human Rights Law Group on projects related to legal and judicial training and reform.

 

Associate Professor Cally Jordan

 

Cally Jordan has degrees in both civil law and common law (LLB/BCL McGill University; DEA Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne)) and has practiced in Canada, New York, California and Hong Kong. She spent several years in the New York office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton practising international finance.
Cally has spent over a decade working with the World Bank, both as a consultant and as a full-time advisor, on commercial law, financial law, corporate governance, and corporate law in a number of countries (Indonesia, Vietnam, Tunisia, China, Chile, Korea, Slovakia, Armenia, Macedonia, Lithuania, Egypt, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Bahrain, Mauritius).
Between 1991 and 1996, she was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at McGill University and member of the Institute of Comparative and Private Law. More recently, she has been an Associate Professor at the University of Florida and has taught as an adjunct at the University of Melbourne, Georgetown Law Center in Washington, DC and Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Canada. She is a frequent speaker on corporate governance, capital markets and corporate law. She is the author of proposals for the reform of Hong Kong companies law and spent nearly five years living in Asia.

 

  Professor Ian Ramsay

Professor Ian Ramsay was appointed as an Associate of the Centre in 1999. He is the Harold Ford Professor of Commercial Law in the Law School at the University of Melbourne where he is Director of the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation. He has practised law with the firms Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Sydney. In 2002, Professor Ramsay was appointed Dean of the Law School.

Professor Ramsay has published extensively on corporate law issues both internationally and in Australia. His books include, among others, Ford's Principles of Corporations Law, Commercial Applications of Company Law in Singaporeand Commercial Applications of Company Law in Malaysia. In addition, he has published a significant number of research reports, book chapters and journal articles. Professor Ramsay is also a respected commentator in the media on corporate governance and corporate law.

 


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