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Postgraduate Research Students

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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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