Melbourne Law School Asian Law Centre

Student

 Research Topic

Supervisor(s)

Expected Year of Completion

Mrs Dina Afrianty

PhD (Asia Institute)
Responses of Local Women's NGOs to Sharia Implementation in Post-Conflict Aceh: Case Studies of Women's Network for Policy Reform (JPUK)

Mrs Mouza Alneyadi

PhD (Law)
Surrogacy: It's Legal Boundaries in UAE and Islamic Jurisprudence

Mr Andi Muhammad Ali Amiruddin

Ms Anisa Buckley

PhD (Asia Institute)
Muslim Women and Islamic Family Law: The Challenges of Securing a 'Complete' Divorce in Australia and Britain

Phd (Law) 

'Bridging the Gap? Muslim Christian relations in post-Suharto Indonesia (1998-2008)'

Mr Neri Colmenares

PhD (Law)
International Jurisdiction and Amnesty in the Philippines

PhD (Law) 
Food Security, Law and Development: Insights from the Indonesian Development Experience

Mr Joseph Eng

PhD (Law)
Land Rights in Sarawak: Is There Still a Place for Native Title?

Mr Stewart Fenwick

PhD (Law)
Islamic Liberalism and the Rule of Law: Rights and the Politics of Transition in Post-Suharto Indonesia

Ms Carolyn Graydon

PhD (Law)
Domestic Violence in Timor-Leste: Is There a Place for Indigenous Justice Systems?

Ms Nur Hidayah

MA by Research (Asia Institute)
Progressive Muslim Gender Discourse and Activism in Contemporary Indonesia: A Case Study of Rahima

Mr Jeremy Kingsley

PhD (Law)
Pancasila Society: Community Engagement in Lombok

Mr Imran Lum

Mr Minh Nut Duong

LLM by thesis (Law)
Commercial Dispute Resolution in the Vietnamese Economic Court

Mr Jeremy Mulholland

PhD (International Business) 
Elites, State and Big Business in Indonesia from a New Institutional Economics Perspective: Indonesian Thinking on Political Economy Since 1945

Ms Helen Pausacker

PhD (Law)
In the Eye of the Beholder: Law, Pornography and Indonesia's Islamic Defenders Front

Mr Jason Pourpouras

PhD (Law)
Islamic Financing: The Use of Zakat and Non-Riba Transactions in Islamic Banks and Charities to Facilitate Terrorism Financing Practices

Ms Jothie Rajah

Ms Hajrah Saboor

PhD (Law)
Pakistan's Islamic Identity, Blasphemy Law and the International Law of Human Rights

Mr Tiong Guan Saw

PhD (Law)
Film Censorship in Malaysia and Australia:  Judicial Control and Legal Remedies

Adv. Andy Schmulow

PhD (Law) 
Problems Associated with Prudential Regulatory Enforcement in the Indonesian Banking Sector

Ms Sofie Arjon Schuette

PhD (International Business)
Triggering Institutional Change: The Case of Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission

Mr Andrew White

PhD (Law)
Can Contemporary Business and Commerce in Asia Accommodate Islamic Legal Values? Shari'ah Based Commercial Arbitration in Pakistan and Malaysia

Ms Phoebe Wynn-Pope

PhD (Law)
Rights of Humanitarian Intervention at International Law

Student

Research Topic

Supervisor(s)

Year of Completion

Ms Elsie Alcordo

SJD (Law)
Corruption in the Philippines: A Failure in Law Reform

Professor Michael Dutton, Associate Professor Pip Nicholson

2007

Ms Sarah Biddulph

PhD (Law)
Controlling Detention for Investigation: Legal Accountability of the Chinese Public Security Organs

Professor Michael Dutton, Associate Professor Pip Nicholson

2004

Mr Simon Butt

PhD (Law)
Judicial Review in Indonesia: Between Civil Law and Accountability? A Study of Constitutional Court Decisions 2003 – 2005

Professor Tim Lindsey

2007

Mr Ryad Chairil

PhD (Law)
The Indonesian Mineral Regime: A Model for the Future - Learning From Other Countries in Implementing Change

Professor Tim Lindsey

2003

Mr Yeow Choy Choong

PhD (Law)
Summary Disposition in the New Procedural Landscape: Proposals for Reform in Malaysia

Professor Tim Lindsey, Professor Michael Tilbury

2003

Mr Budi Darmono

PhD (Law)
Adat and Land Law in a Plural System: A Study of Forestry Regulations and Indonesian 'Legal Development'

Professor Tim Lindsey

2004

Ms Alice de Jonge

SJD (Law)
Media and Markets in Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China: Maintaining Corporate Standards in China's H-Share Market

Professor Tim Lindsey

2007

Mr Andrew Godwin

LLM (Law)
The Emerging Theory Underpinning the Development of Mortgage Law in China

Dr Sarah Biddulph

2001

Ms Erica Harper

PhD (Law)
Constructing a Legal System in East Timor: Challenges to Introducing International Legal Norms and Principles into Post-conflict States Under UN Administration

Professor Tim Lindsey

2007

Mr Denny Indrayana

PhD (Law)
Indonesian Constitutional Reform 1999-2002: An Evaluation of Constitution-Making in Transition

Professor Cheryl Saunders, Professor Tim Lindsey

2005

Mr Sunseop Jung

PhD (Law)
Comparative Study on the Legal Aspects of Financial Derivatives

Professor Malcolm Smith

2002

PhD (Law)
The Role of Equity in Trusts Law: The Legislation and Application of the Chinese Trust Code

Ms Kate McGregor

PhD (Arts) 
The Military and History in Indonesia

Professor Tim Lindsey, Associate Professor Charles Coppel

2002

Mr Nguyen Hien Quan

PhD (Law)
The Social Structures of Contract - A Case Study of the Vietnamese Market

Professor Tim Lindsey, Associate Professor Pip Nicholson, Professor Peter Bardsley (Economics)

2006

Ms Pip Nicholson

PhD (Law)
Vietnamese Court Development Since 1945

Professor Tim Lindsey

2001

Ms Nina Nurmila

PhD (Asia Institute)
Marriages in Contemporary Indonesia: 'Women's Perspectives'

Professor Abdullah Saeed, Professor Tim Lindsey

2006

Ms Inge Resdiano

LLM (Law)
Corporate Governance in Indonesia, Singapore and Australia - A Comparison

Professor Tim Lindsey

2002

Mr Arskal Salim

PhD (Law)
Islamisation of Laws in a Modernising State: Sharia in Indonesia 1945-2005

Professor Tim Lindsey

2006

PhD (Law)
Directors' Duties as a Mechanism of Corporate Governance: A Comparative Study

Ms Stacey Steele

LLM (Law)
Litigation and Bankruptcy Law in Japan: Towards Modernity, Social Change and Reform?

Professor Veronica Taylor

2000

Ms Kerstin Steiner

PhD (Law)
Are 'Asian Values' Universal? - International Discourses on Human Rights Policies

Professor Tim Lindsey

2007

Mr Nandang Sutrisno

PhD (Law)
Dispute Settlement in the WTO and Developing Countries

Professor Tim Lindsey

2006

Mr Benny Tabalujan

PhD (Law)
The Legal Framework of Corporate Governance in the Indonesian Stock Market: Implications for Shareholders and Foreign Investors

Professor Malcolm Smith, Professor Tim Lindsey

2001

Ms Elizabeth (Ann) Wardrop

PhD (Law)
Regulation of Insolvent Investor-Owned Essential Service Corporations

Professor Tim Lindsey

2007