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Current Research Students

Research students currently under the supervision of Centre members include:

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)

 

Professor Tim Lindsey, Professor Michael Leigh 2009
Mr Khalid Al-Azri

PhD (Law)
Development, Culture and the Dilemma of Equality in 'Modern' Omani Society: Case Studies of Kafa'a in Marriage and Talaq

Professor Tim Lindsey, Professor Abdullah Saeed 2008

Mrs Mouza Alneyadi

 

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

Professor Tim Lindsey 2009

Mr Andi Muhammad Ali Amiruddin

 

PhD (Asia Institute)
Shari‘a Implementation in South Sulawesi, Indonesia 2000-2008: The Case of KPPSI

Professor Tim Lindsey, Professor Abdullah Saeed, Professor Arief Budiman 2009

Ms Anisa Buckley

 

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

Professor Abdullah Saeed, Professor Tim Lindsey and Dr Andrea Whittaker

2008

Mr Neri Colmenares

 

PhD (Law)
International Jurisdiction and Amnesty in the Philippines

Professor Tim Lindsey, Professor Tim McCormack 2008
Mr Peter Dirou

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

 

Professor Tim Lindsey, Associate Professor Sundhya Pahuja 2014

Mr Joseph Eng

 

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

Professor Tim Lindsey 2008

Ms Amelia Fauzia

 

PhD (Asia Institute)
Religious Philanthropy for Social Change:  A Case Study of Zakat in Modern Indonesia

 

Professor Sander Adelaar, Professor Arief Budiman, Professor Michael Leigh  2008

Mr Stewart Fenwick

 

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

Professor Tim Lindsey, Professor Abdullah Saeed 2009

Ms Carolyn Graydon

 

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

Professor Tim Lindsey, Associate Professor Dianne Otto 2009

Ms Susi Dwi Harijanti

 

PhD (Law)
The Indonesian Ombudsman System and Good Governance: Proposals for Reform

Professor Cheryl Saunders, Professor Tim Lindsey 2008

Mr Muhammad Eeqbal Farouque Hassim

 

PhD (Asia Institute) 
Muslim Educational Thought on Children's Motivation: From Ibn Sahnun to Ibn Khaldun

Professor Tim Lindsey, Professor Abdullah Saeed 2008

Ms Nur Hidayah

 

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

Professor Tim Lindsey, Professor Abdullah Saeed 2010

Mr Jeremy Kingsley

 

PhD (Law)
Pancasila Society: Community Engagement in Lombok

Professor Tim Lindsey, Professor Abdullah Saeed 2009
Ms Ingrid Landau PhD (Law) Associate Professor Pip Nicholson, Dr Sean Cooney  

Mr Guoqing Liu

 

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

Dr Sarah Biddulph, Professor Michael Bryan 2007

Mr Imran Lum

 

PhD (Asia Institute)
Negotiating the Prohibition of Riba: Australian and British Muslim Attitudes Towards Conventional and Islamic Banking

Professor Tim Lindsey, Professor Abdullah Saeed 2008

Mr Nushi bin Mahfodz

 

PhD (Law)
Khalwat and the Islamic Rules on Proximity: A Case Study of Selangor

Professor Tim Lindsey, Professor Abdullah Saeed 2009

Mr Minh Nut Duong

 

LLM by thesis
Commercial Dispute Resolution in the Vietnamese Economic Court

Associate Professor Pip Nicholson 2009

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

Professor Howard Dick, Professor Tim Lindsey 2007

Ms Helen Pausacker

 

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

Professor Tim Lindsey 2013

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

Professor Tim Lindsey, Professor Abdullah Saeed  2009

Ms Jothie Rajah

 

PhD (Law)
Constantly Colonised: Legal Containment of Minority Religious Legal Identities in Post-Colonial Singapore

Associate Professor Pip Nicholson; Professor Abdullah Saeed, Prof Thio Li-ann (National University of Singapore)

2009
Ms Hajrah Saboor PhD (Law)
Blasphemy Law: A Violation of Right of Free Speech or a Protection Against Its Abuse
Associate Professor Carolyn Evans, Dr Amanda Whiting 2010

Mr Tiong Guan Saw

 

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

Professor Andrew Kenyon, Dr Amanda Whiting 2010

Adv. Andy Schmulow

 

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

Professor Tim Lindsey, Associate Professor Charles Coppel 2008

Ms Chenxia Shi

 

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

Professor Tim Lindsey 2007

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

Professor Tim Lindsey, Professor Abdullah Saeed 2009

Ms Phoebe Wynn-Pope

 

PhD (Law)
Rights of Humanitarian Intervention at International Law

Professor Tim Lindsey, Professor Tim McCormack 2008

 

 

Past Research Students

Student

Research Topic

Supervisor(s)

Year of Completion

Ms Elsie Alcordo

SJD
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
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 
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
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 
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
Ms Stacey Steele LLM 
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

 


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