Sydney Law School Visitors
Current visitors to the faculty
Dr Yasuke Bando, Sapporo Gakuin University, Japan
14 August to 14 September 2012
Email: ybando@sgu.ac.jp
Sponsor: Professor Luke Nottage
Dr Bando is an ANJeL visitor and is here to continue his research in the area of Immigration Law and Citizenship Theory in Australia. He is lecturer in Japanese Constitutional Law, Immigration Law and Comparative Law.
Hyeon Jeong Oh, Yeoksam District Tax office, Seoul
31 July 2012 to 18 January 2013
Room 425, email: ohj9664@daum.net
Sponsor: Professor Lee Burns
Ms Oh is visiting the faculty under a Korean Government Overseas Fellowship. She will undertake research into Australia’s offshore anti-deferral regimes, particularly CFC rules with a focus on how these rules may be adapted to Korea.
Judge Shinpei Takazakura, Tokyo District Court
8 July 2012 to 7 July 2013
Email: t.sakura.s01@gmail.com
Sponsor: Professor Luke Nottage
Judge Takazakura is the ANJEL Judge in Residence for 2012/2013.
Previous visitors to the faculty
Professor Michel Rosenfeld, Cardozo Law School
8 August to 15 August 2012
Sponsor: Professor Wojciech Sadurski
Professor Rosenfeld is the Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights and Director, Program on Global and Comparative Constitutional Theory at Cardozo Law School. He is here to deliver a seminar as part of the Faculty’s Distinguished Speakers Program for 2012.
Michael Kränzle, State Government of Bavaria
12 July 2011 to 30 September 2011
Room 425, email: michaelkraenzle@web.de
Sponsor: Professor Jennifer Hill
Mr Kränzle will be finishing his practical legal training with the topic of his thesis being “The European Union’s regulation on the law of successions - Cause and effects of the UK opting out.”
Professor Stephen Hall, Chinese University of Hong Kong
19 July to 31 August 2011
Room 425, email: stephenhall@cuhk.edu.hk
Sponsor: A/Professor Peter Gerangelos
Before going to Hong Kong, Stephen Hall taught in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales for six years where he was Director of the European Law Centre. His areas of research and teaching expertise are International Law, European Union Law, Contract Law, and the traditions of Natural Law and the Common Law. He has been admitted as a barrister and solicitor in Australia, and practiced law with the Australian Attorney-General's Department for nine years mainly in the area of Administrative Law and Judicial Review. He is currently Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) and Program Director of the Juris Doctor (JD) and JD/MBA programs.
Professor Marsha Baum, University of New Mexico
28 July to 8 August 2011
email: baum@law.unm.edu
Visiting Professor - Animal Law
Professor Marsha Baum (Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law), a leading international authority on companion animals, emergencies & the law. Professor Baum researches treatment of companion animals in the United States during disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina, and legislative action by the United States Congress to address some of the identified shortcomings. Marsha is the author of three books including, When Nature Strikes: Weather Disasters and the Law (Praeger/Greenwood, 2007). Marsha has taught a wide range of courses, including Animal Law and Animal Law Moot Court Competition. She is conducting comparative research on the management of companion animals in disasters.
Lisa Ginsborg, European University Institute
11 July to 15 August 2011 (SCIL visiting researcher)
Room 625, email: Lisa.Ginsborg@EUI.eu
Lisa Ginsborg is visiting from the European University Institute in Florence where she is completing her PhD on the UN Security Council, counter-terrorism and human rights after 9/11, specifically looking at the work of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee and the 1267 Sanctions Committee and its implications for international human rights standards. She was research assistant to the UN Special Rapporteur on the UN’s compliance with human rights while countering terrorism.
Farrah Abdullah, National University of Malaysia
14 June to 22 July 2011 (Visiting PhD Student)
Email: farhahab@gmail.com
Ms Abdullah will be continuing work on her PhD on the legal control of exemption clauses in contracts in Malaysia.
Casper Eskildsen
11 April to 15 July 2011
Mr Eskildsen is a PhD student from Aarhus School of Business (ASB), Aarhus University, Denmark and will be continuing his research for his PhD on VAT-law.
Ms Lien Thi Nguyet Au
15 November 2010 to 15 March 2011
Room 425, ext 10285, email: nglien@gmail.com
Lien Thi Nguyet Au is currently the Deputy Manager of Personal Income Tax Division of the Department of Taxation of TT-Hue province in central Vietnam. She was recently selected for an Endeavour Executive Award by the Australian Government. The purpose of her visit to Australia is to conduct study and research on various aspects of international taxation including multinational companies, large accounting firms, ATO, transfer pricing and double tax treaties. During her visit she would like to collaborate with academics on some aspects of international tax relating to Vietnam.
Professor Michael Welch, Rutgers University
7 June 2010 to 14 January 2011
Michael Welch is a Professor in the Criminal Justice program at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ, USA) specializing in criminology, state crime, and human rights. For years, he has examined racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in the criminal justice system, especially as they have emerged in the war on crime, the war on drugs, the war on undocumented immigrants, and more recently the war on terror. For further information please see his website.
Martine Beijerman, University of Amsterdam
Room 401, email: m.beijerman@uva.nl
Martine Beijerman is undertaking her Ph.D. research at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the globalization of law-making. She obtained her master’s degrees in Constitutional and Administrative Law, and in Public International Law from the University of Amsterdam, including an exchange at Sorbonne Paris I. Before joining the faculty of law at the University of Amsterdam, she worked as a strategic campaigning consultant with BKB.
Ms Lisa Viali, Department of Inland Revenue, Samoa
27 July to 15 October 2010
email: aviali@revenue.gov.ws
Ms Viali is the 2010 AusAid ALA Fellow. She is an Assistant Commissioner, Tax for the department of Inland Revenue.
Associate Professor TAN How Teck, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
26 July 2010 to 19 October 2010 (Visiting Scholar)
email: bellyoil@yahoo.com.sg
How Teck teaches taxation at Nanyang Business School. He is a CPA and received his MTax (Hons) from Sydney Law School. He has published on tax treaties and comparative taxation. How Teck's research interests are income tax treaties and comparative taxation.
Professor David Anderson, The University of Texas at Austin
9 August to 28 September 2010
Room 407, ext: 10233, email: DAnderson@law.utexas.edu
Professor Anderson worked as a journalist for several years before entering law school, where he was an editor of the Texas Law Review. A specialist in torts and mass communications law, he has a particular interest in the law of libel and privacy. He is a contributing editor of Texas Monthly magazine and a member of the editorial board of the Texas Observer. He has lectured at universities in Australia, England, Sweden, Italy, and The Netherlands. He is co-author of Mass Media Law (Foundation, 7th ed., 2005) and Cases and Materials on Torts (West, 3d ed., 2004). His many articles include "Freedom of the Press in Wartime (Colorado Law Review, 2006) "Freedom of the Press" (Texas Law Review, 2002), "First Amendment Limitations on Tort Law" (Brooklyn Law Review, 2004) and "The Origins of the Press Clause" (UCLA Law Review, 1983). Professor Anderson owns quarter horses and collects saddles and old cars.
Professor Stephen Hall, Chinese University of Hong Kong
19th July to 27 August 2010 (Visiting Professor)
email stephenhall@cuhk.edu.hk
Before going to Hong Kong, Stephen Hall taught in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales for six years where he was Director of the European Law Centre. His areas of research and teaching expertise are International Law, European Union Law, Contract Law, and the traditions of Natural Law and the Common Law. He has been admitted as a barrister and solicitor in Australia, and practiced law with the Australian Attorney-General's Department for nine years mainly in the area of Administrative Law and Judicial Review. He is currently Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) and Program Director of the Juris Doctor (JD) and JD/MBA programs.
Dr Qi (George) Zhou, University of Sheffield
21 July 2010 to 13 August 2010 (Visiting Scholar)
email: Qi.Zhou@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr. Qi Zhou (or George) is lecturer in law at the University of Sheffield. He teaches and researches contract law, law-and-economics and regulation. George studied law at Chinese University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, the University of Bournemouth and the University of Manchester in England. He was a qualified Chinese lawyer. Before coming to England in 2002, he practiced commercial law in Mainland China for five years. He will be at Sydney Law School until 13 August 2010. During his visit, he will be working on a paper entitled ‘the harmonisation of contract law: a cautionary note’, in which he intends to draw some implications from Hayek’s economic theory for the harmonisation of contract law. He argues that any attempt to provide a uniform body of contract law will eventually fail. It is because that the development in a uniform legal regime would not meet diverse requirements of rapid growth in commercial transactions.
Professor Hongjun Ma, China University of Political Science and Law
7 June 2010 to 31 July 2010 (Visiting Professor)
email: mhjcp@yahoo.com.cn
Professor Ma’s current research area concerns issues of sports law and legal writing. Whilst here he will be conducting his research on the history and structure of the Australian betting framework, in particular plans to combat money laundering; the feasibility and success of legislation to control or monitor sports betting and gambling; and examine and review Australian legislation and judicial interpretations of provisions designed to conmbat sports gambling crime.
Judge Yoshinori Hashiguchi
13 June 2009 – 12 June 2010 (Visiting Scholar)
Room 632, ext 10423, email: hashiguchiyoshinori@gmail.com
Judge Hashiguchi is the “ANJEL Judge in Residence” for 2009/10 at the University of Sydney. His research in Australia will focus on two pressing issues as Japan recommences in May 2009 a quasi-jury (saiban'in) system for serious criminal cases: (1) how such systems interact with media coverage of trials, and (2) the use of "bench books".
Associate Professor Ian Lee, University of Toronto
16 February 2010 to 30 June 2010
Room 401, email:ian.lee@utoronto.ca
Ian B. Lee is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. After graduating from the University of Toronto with an LL.B. in 1994, he clerked with Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dubé of the Supreme Court of Canada and Justice Mark MacGuigan of the Federal Court of Appeal, and later served as a legal researcher with the Privy Council Office. He received an LL.M. from the Harvard Law School in 1998, and went on to practise with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in Paris, France, and New York, New York, before joining the Faculty of Law in 2003. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of constitutional law, corporate law and European Union law.
Professor Mark Van Hoecke, Univeristy of Ghent
15 February 2010 to 12 May 2010
Room 401 to 17 Feb, From 18 Feb Room 402, ext 10306
email: Mark.Van.Hoecke@telenet.be
Professor Van Hoecke is the 2010 Julius Stone Institute for Jurisprudence Distinguished Visiting Professor. Since February 2008 he has held the position of full time research professor for ‘Legal Theory & Comparative Law’ at the University of Ghent. He is also a part-time research professor for ‘Methodology of Comparative Law’ at the University of Tilburg (The Netherlands). Whilst here he will be teaching the UG unit LAWS 3114. He will also be delivering a lunch time seminar this Wednesday on Legal Cultures and Globalisation.
Professor Davina Cooper, University of Kent
15 January to 23 April 2010 (Visiting Scholar)
Room 511, ext 10245, email: d.s.cooper@kent.ac.uk
Davina Cooper is a Professor of Law & Political Theory at the University of Kent, and between 2004-09 was Director of the AHRC Research Centre for Law, Gender & Sexuality. She is an inter-disciplinary socio-legal scholar, whose books include: Challenging diversity: Rethinking equality and the value of difference (CUP, 2008), Governing out of order: Space, law and the politics of belonging (1998 Rivers Oram), and Power in struggle: Feminism, sexuality and the state (1995, Open University/ NYU).
Dr Andrew Lang, London School of Economics
13 January to 6 March 2010 (USyd Visiting Research Fellow)
email: a.lang@lse.ac.uk
Andrew Lang is a Senior Lecturer in Law, teaching Public International Law, with a specialty in International Economic Law. His current research is focused on a number of themes around global economic governance, including the relationship between law and expert knowledge, sociological approaches to the study of the trade regime, questions around trade in services.
Dr Alex Mills, University of Cambridge
5 January to 27 February 2010 (USyd International Visiting Research Fellow)
email: adm50@cam.ac.uk
Alex’s areas of interest are: Private international law / Conflict of laws, Public international law, International investment law, Legal theory / Jurisprudence, Constitutional law.
Mr Jo Ford, ANU
6 November – 30 June 2010
Room 425, ext 10365, email: jo.ford@anu.edu.au
Jo Ford is pursuing his PhD studies at the Centre for International Justice and Governance, ANU. His research looks at the international law, regulation and the role of the private sector in post-conflict reconstruction. Jo was a member of the Sydney Law School teaching staff in 2002 and 2003. He was a founding member of, and remains affiliated to, the Sydney Centre for International Law. He will be visiting until mid-2010.
Juliane Werther, Attorney-at-law, Germany
4 January 2010 - 31 March 2010
Room 401, ext 10486, email: julianewerther@hotmail.com
Ms Werther currently works at the Law firm Lang & Rahmann in Dusseldorf, Germany and is undertaking her PhD with the topic of her thesis being “Moral Rights in Australia and Germany”.
Judge Zvi Caspi, Tel Aviv Court of Peace (court of first degree)
11 January to 15 Febraury 2010
email: sahaduta@yahoo.com
Judge Caspi has been with in his current position since 1993 prior to which he worked in both the Tel Aviv D.A office and practiced in both his own and for other law firms. He has composed three chapters in the book "Israel Business Law”, a book edited by Adv. Alon Kaplan.
Professor Tatsuya Nakamura, Kokushikan University
21 September 2009 – February 2010 (Visiting Professor)
Room 639, ext 10491, email: nakamura@jcaa.or.jp
Professor Tatsuya Nakamura of the Faculty of Law at Kokushikan University in Tokyo also serves as the General Manager of the Arbitration and Mediation Departments of the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association (JCAA). He will be visiting us for six months from September 2009 to March 2010 to conduct research on arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution in Australia. His recent Japanese language publications include (2008) International Dispute Resolution (Daigaku Kyoiku Shuppan). Recent English language publications include "Arbitration in Japan" in the 2008 Japan Business Law Guide (CCH) and "Final Settlement of Disputes on Existence and Effect of Arbitration Agreements under the UNICTRAL Model Law" 23(8) International Arbitration Report (2008).
Professor Laura E. Little, Temple University
4 January 2010 - 15 February 2010 (Visiting Professor)
Room 513, ext 10277, email: llittle@temple.edu
Professor Little is the James E. Beasley Professor of Law at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law and specialises in Federal Courts, Constitutional Law, Conflict of Laws, and International Criminal Law. Whilst here she will be conducting her research for her study comparing the treatment of humour in Australian defamation cases with the treatment of humour in United States defamation cases.
Professor Ryo Shimanami, Kobe University
7 December 2009 – 8 March 2010
email: ryo@kobe-u.ac.jp
Professor Shimanami is visiting CAPLUS, he specialises in Intellectual Property, Cyber Law and Law and Economics.
Judge Hyug Sung KANG, Seoul Northern District Court
31 August 2009 – 28 February 2010 (Visiting Scholar)
Room 425, ext 10386, email: khs0427@gmail.com
Judge Kang will be conducting research on Bankruptcy, Corporate Reorganization, Mergers & Acquisitions, and on Sentencing Reform.
Associate Professor Hong Xue (Harte), Southwest University of Political Science and Law
January 2009 - December 2009
Room 425, ext 10285, email: hartex@yeah.net
A/Professor Xue is here to continue his study of comparative research on the Suspect’s right protection in pre-trial stage between Australia and China; The system of Coroner and The Writ of Habeas Corpus.
Dr Gail Evans, University of London
16 November – 11 December 2009
Room 539, ext 10481, email: gevans36@yahoo.co.uk
Dr Evans is a Reader in International Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Commercial Law Studies. During her visit she will be working on her monograph entitled “Geographical Indications and the Politics of Place.”
Dr David Bilchitz, South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights & International Law
16 November – 11 December 2009 (Faculty Visiting Scholar Scheme)
Room 504, ext 10229, email: davidb@saifac.org.za
Dr Bilchitz is visiting under the Faculty’s Visiting Scholar Scheme and will be working with Professor David Kinley. For his full bio please go to this website.
Professor Louis J. Kotze, North-West University, South Africa
11 November 2009 – 6 December 2009
Room 622, ext 10475, email: louis.kotze@nwu.ac.za
Professor Kotze is a visitor to ACCEL for his details please click here.
Mr Ferdinando Franceschelli, University G. d'Annunzio of Chieti and Pescara, Italy
9 November – 27 November 2009 (Visiting Scholar)
Room 603, ext 10482, email: ferdinandofranceschelli@yahoo.com
Mr Franceschelli is a Lawyer and is currently undertaking a PhD on “European and comparative law of enterprise and market” at University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti and Pescara. His area of research also concerns the international investments in the field of energy.
Dr Roberto Buonamano, Faculty of Law, UTS
5 October – 12 December 2009 (Visiting Scholar)
Room 401, Julius Stone Institute, email: Roberto.buonamano@uts.edu.au
Dr Buonamano will be continuing his research in the fields of legal and political philosophy, legal history, international human rights and international humanitarian law.
Dr Grant Lamond, Balliol College, Oxford
11 August – 18 December 2009, (Visitor Scholar)
Room 401, email: grant.lamond@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Grant Lamond is University Lecturer in Legal Philosophy at Oxford University and Felix Frankfurter Fellow in Law at Balliol College. He studied philosophy and law at Sydney University after which he worked as the Associate to the Chief Justice of the Australian Federal Court. He took the BCL at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was a Junior Research Fellow at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he completed a doctorate on practical reasoning. He has taught at Melbourne University and King’s College London. His research interests lie in the philosophy of law and the philosophical foundations of criminal law.
Associate Professor Ian Lee, University of Toronto
13 July – 16 December 2009 (Visiting Scholar)
Room 603, ext 10245, email: ian.lee@utoronto.ca
Ian B. Lee is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. After graduating from the University of Toronto with an LL.B. in 1994, he clerked with Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dubé of the Supreme Court of Canada and Justice Mark MacGuigan of the Federal Court of Appeal, and later served as a legal researcher with the Privy Council Office. He received an LL.M. from the Harvard Law School in 1998, and went on to practise with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in Paris, France, and New York, New York, before joining the Faculty of Law in 2003. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of constitutional law, corporate law and European Union law.
Professor Stephen Hall, Chinese University of Hong Kong
31 August – 30 October 2009
Room 425, ext 10365, email: stephenhall@cuhk.edu.hk
Before going to Hong Kong, Stephen Hall taught in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales for six years where he was Director of the European Law Centre. His areas of research and teaching expertise are International Law, European Union Law, Contract Law, and the traditions of Natural Law and the Common Law. He has been admitted as a barrister and solicitor in Australia, and practised law with the Australian Attorney-General's Department for nine years mainly in the area of Administrative Law and Judicial Review. He is currently Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) and Programme Director of the Juris Doctor (JD) and JD/MBA programmes.
Professor Tom Campbell, Charles Sturt University
11 August – 29 October 2009 Tues – Thurs, (JSI Distinguished Visiting Fellow)
Room 401, email: Tom.Campbell@anu.edu.au
Tom Campbell has written extensively on law and legal philosophy throughout his distinguished career. Among other positions, he was Dean of the ANU Faculty of Law from 1994 to 1997. He is currently working under an ARC Discovery Grant on an Australian alternative to Bills of Rights.
Associate Professor Hejun Zhao
29 Sep 2008 - 28 Sep 2009
Room 425, ext 10362, email: hejunzhao79@126.com
Hejun Zhao is Associate Professor at China Women's University and he will be continuing his research on legal theory during his visit.
Professor Lawrence Gostin, Georgetown University
12 June – 15 September 2009 (Faculty Special Visiting Fellow & Distinguished Speaker)
Room 539, ext 10481, email: gostin@law.georgetown.edu
Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally acclaimed scholar, is Associate Dean (Research and Academic Programs) and the Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he directs the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Dean Gostin is also Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University and Director of the Center for Law & the Public’s Health at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities - a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dean Gostin is Visiting Professor of Public Health (Faculty of Medical Sciences) and Research Fellow (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies) at Oxford University. He is the Health Law and Ethics Editor, Contributing Writer, and Columnist for the Journal of the American Medical Association. In 2007, the Director General of the World Health Organization appointed Dean Gostin to the International Health Regulations (IHR) Roster of Experts and the Expert Advisory Panel on Mental Health. While with the faculty Professor Gostin will be teaching the PG unit LAWS6920 – Global Health Law and will be speaking at two events as a part of the Distinguished Speakers Program, for details go to http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/law/456.html?eventcategoryid=86
Professor Ian Dennis, University College London
31 August – 23 September 2009 (Visiting Professor & Guest Lecturer)
Room 628, ext 10480, email: ian.dennis@ucl.ac.uk
Ian Dennis is Professor of English Law at University College London. He joined the Law Faculty in 1974, became a Reader in English Law at UCL in 1982 and a Professor in 1987. He has been the Editor of the Criminal Law Review since 1999, and is the author of The Law of Evidence (3rd ed, 2007, Thomson Sweet & Maxwell) and numerous essays and journal articles. He is a consultant to the Law Commission of England and Wales on criminal law, including reform of the law of homicide. His research interests are in criminal law, and criminal procedure and evidence. Professor Dennis will be teaching the PG unit Comparative Law of Evidence and delivering a lecture as part of the Distinguished Speakers program titled “Common Law Right to Confrontation: Meanings and Myths”.
Professor Yasuhei Taniguchi, Emeritus Professor, Kyoto University
6 July – 20 August 2009 (Faculty Special Visiting Fellow & CAPLUS Distinguished)
Professor Taniguchi is one of the world's most eminent experts in comparative civil procedure and cross-border dispute resolution. He served on the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization from 2000 until 2007. He has also been active in international arbitration, especially in the ICC and throughout the Asia-Pacific, and is currently president of the Japan Association of Arbitrators. Professor Taniguchi was also former president of the Japanese Association of Civil Procedure, and former Vice-President of the International Association of Procedural Law. He recently retired from Senshu University Law School, and before that taught principally at Kyoto University for 39 years. He has also presented many courses world-wide as a Visiting Professor, including at the University of Michigan, University of California at Berkeley, Duke University, Stanford University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, New York University, the University of Melbourne, Murdoch University, the University of Hong Kong and the University of Paris XII. Cornell Law School, which awarded him a JSD in 1964, recently hosted a WTO conference and special law journal issue commemorating his achievements.
Dr Richard F. Wetzell, German Historical Institute, Washington DC
22 June – 27 June 2009
Richard F. Wetzell is a Research Fellow and Editor at the GHI. His research focuses on the intersection of legal history, political history, and the history of science. Trained at Swarthmore College (B.A.), Columbia University (M.A.) and Stanford University (Ph.D.), he is the author of /Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945/ (University of North Carolina Press, 2000) and co-editor of /Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective/ (Cambridge UP, 2006). He is currently completing a legal and political history of penal reform titled /The Politics of Punishment in Modern Germany: Reforming Criminal Justice, 1870-1970. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and has taught at Stanford University, the University of Maryland at College Park, and Georgetown University.
Professor Henry T. Hu, The University of Texas at Austin
Professor Hu holds the Allan Shivers Chair in the Law of Banking and Finance at the University of Texas Law School. Professor Hu teaches corporate law and securities regulation at the University of Texas and has also taught at Harvard Law School. Interested in law and modern finance, he has written on such matters as bank derivatives; hedge fund and mutual fund regulation; corporate governance; 'decoupling' of debt and equity rights from economic interests; financial rationality and sophistication; global competitiveness of US derivatives markets; model risk; risk management; swaps and other financial innovations; and Warren Buffett. He has testified before Congress on the role of credit default swaps in our financial crisis; on the New York Stock Exchange's going public; and on the collapse of Long Term Capital Management. Professor Hu delivered the first of two Ross Parsons Addresses in Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law for 2009 on the 12 June.
Associate Professor Julia Tolmie, The University of Auckland
1 June – 30 June 2009
email: j.tolmie@auckland.ac.nz
Julia Tolmie has researched and published on the subjects of battered woman syndrome and intoxication as criminal defences, fathers rights groups in the context of family law, corporate social responsibility, and child contact arrangements in the context of domestic violence. Prior to coming to Auckland at the commencement of 1999 she lectured in the Faculty of Law at Sydney University for 10 years. She has presented conference papers in Holland, Canada, the USA, Australia and England and has spent brief periods of time as a visiting scholar at the University of Ottawa, Golden Gate University and Berkley University.
Andrew Dickinson, Solicitor Advocate, UK
6 April – 28 April 2009 (Visiting Scholar)
email: andrew.dickinson@btconnect.com
Andrew Dickinson is a solicitor advocate, consultant to Clifford Chance LLP and visiting fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. His main area of practice and research interest is private international law, but his practice involves other aspects of civil litigation, commercial and banking law and public international law. Andrew was closely involved in the discussions leading to the adoption of theRome I and Rome II Regulations, and his commentary (The Rome II Regulation: The Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations) is published by Oxford University Press. Andrew is a member of the North Committee (the Ministry of Justice's advisory committee on private international law) and of the editorial board of the Journal of Private International Law.
Dr Jonathan Jackson, London School of Economics
23 March – 22 April (USYD International Visiting Fellow)
Jonathan Jackson is Lecturer in Research Methodology in the Methodology Institute at the London School of Economics, and member of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Oxford and New York University. Jonathan completed his doctoral and postdoctoral work in the Institute of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics.
Professor Anita Bernstein, Brooklyn Law School
16 March – 5 April 2009, (Faculty Special Visiting Fellow)
Professor Bernstein joined Brooklyn Law School full-time in 2007, having visited for the Fall 2006 semester. Previously, she was Sam Nunn Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law, Wallace Stevens Professor of Law at New York Law School and the Norman & Edna Freehling Scholar and Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Professor Bernstein teaches and writes primarily on tort law and also on feminist jurisprudence, professional responsibility, and products liability.
Mohammad Pirzado, Collector of Sales Tax (Audit) Sales Tax House, Pakistan
15 Feb 2009 – 15 June 2009
Mohammad is visiting as part of his Endeavour Executive Award to undertake research into sales tax administration.
Professor Phil Scraton
February - March 2009
Phil Scraton is a Professor in Criminology, Institute of Criminology and Social Justice, School of Law at Queens University Belfast. He is visiting under the Sydney Law School Visiting Fellow Scheme.
His areas of reasearch are: Deaths in Controversial Circumstances (public inquiries, inquests, criminal investigation); Disasters Analysis ('rights' of the bereaved and survivors); Politics and Processes of Truth and Acknowledgement; Regulation and Criminalisation of Children and Young People; Children's Rights; Politics of Imprisonment and Prisoners' Resistances; Critical Theory and Critical Research (from the structural to the personal). Current funded research: ‘The Imprisonment of Women and Girls’; ‘Understanding the Lives of Children and Young People in the Context of Conflict and Marginalisation; A Rights-based Approach’; ‘Childhood, Transition and Justice’.
Professor Brian Arnold
Thu 23 October - Wed 29 October 2008
Brian J. Arnold is a tax consultant with Goodmans LLP, Toronto. Professor Arnold is a graduate of Harvard Law School and taught tax law at a Canadian law school for 28 years. He has been a consultant to various Canadian government departments, the OECD, the Office of the Auditor General, the South African Revenue Service, and the Australian and New Zealand governments. He teaches international tax courses at the Harvard Law School and the University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna. Professor Arnold taught the course LAWS6170 Comparative Income Tax.
Professor George Smith
Faculty of Law, Catholic University of America
1 August – 17 August 2008
Professor George P. Smith joined the Catholic University of America Law Faculty in August 1977 as a law professor. He has had previous law teaching affiliations at the University of Michigan, Indiana University, Georgetown, George Washington and Notre Dame. His core teaching areas are property law, land use and environmental law. His areas of specialization are law, science and medicine - specifically bioethics and health law. He is the Founding Faculty Editor of The Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy at the Catholic University of America Law School. He has held over 60 research appointments with institutions including: the medical schools at the universities of Chicago, Columbia, Indiana, Minnesota, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington, as well as the universities of Arizona State; Auckland; New Zealand; British Columbia; Cambridge; McGill; Oxford; Sydney, Australia; The Hoover Institution, The Max Planck Institute, Germany; The Rockefeller Foundation; Bellagio, Italy, Trinity College at Dublin University; Dartmouth College; The Free University of Berlin; Princeton Seminary and the divinity schools at Cambridge, Yale and Vanderbilt. In 1984, Professor Smith received an Australian-American Fulbright award to teach at the University of New South Wales as The Fulbright Visiting Professor Law and Medical Jurisprudence. He has also held teaching appointments as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, in 2005, and as the Parsons Visiting Professor of Law at The University of Sydney in 2003 and in 1998, and as Visiting Professor of Law at The University of New South Wales in 2001, 1990 and 1987. Widely published and recognized as a leading national and international scholar, he has a bibliography of over 180 entries which includes 13 books, 18 monographs and 140 law review articles and essays. His contributions to the legal profession were recognized by Indiana University in 1998 when he was awarded an LL.D. degree, Honoris Causa. He is listed in Who's Who in the World and Outstanding Writers of the 20th Century as well as WHO’s WHO IN AMERICAN EDUCATION and WHO’s WHO in AMERICAN LAW. He is a life member of the American Law Institute.
Professor David McLauchlan
Professor David McLauchlan is the McWilliam Visiting Professor for 2008. He will be in Sydney from on 23 March 2008 and from 14 July to 31 Aug 2008.
Professor Ian Dennis
Professor Ian Dennis is visited the faculty under the International Visiting Research Fellowships Scheme. He visited Sydney from 1 March to 11 April 2008.
Professor Ryuichiro Fukasawa, Kyoto University
Professor Ryuichiro Fukasawa was a visitor under the ANJeL Research Visitor program. He was researching the fundamental principles of Australian administrative law and visited the faculty from April to September 2008.
Professor Ian Cram
Visiting Professor Ian Cram is Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the School of Law, Leeds University where he is Director of the LLM Programme in International and European Human Rights Law. He visited the Sydney Law School as part of the WUN Visiting Fellowship Programme. His research interests lie in freedom of expression, constitutional law and human rights. He was in Sydney from 28 January to 9 February 2008. .
Mr Christophe Waerzeggers
Mr. Christophe Waerzeggers has been a VAT lecturer at Utrecht University School of Law, the Netherlands since 2005, and a coordinator of the Indirect Tax course of the Tax Governance Programme since 2006. Before joining Utrecht University he was a tax and customs lawyer in Brussels, Belgium from 1998. Mr Waerzeggers has also been a consultant for the Technical Assistance and Legal Reform Unit of the IMF since 2003 and in 2007 he spent 7 months with the IMF in Washington DC providing technical assistance to developing countries in drafting tax and customs laws. He was in Sydney from 29 January to 22 February 2008.
Professor Ralph Henham
International Visiting Research Fellow Professor Ralph Henham is Professor of Criminal Justice, Nottingham Trent University. He is one of the founders of the International and Comparative Criminal Trial Project. He was Lecturer in Law at the University of Greenwich from 1977 - 1979, then at Nottingham Trent University from 1979 - 1985 (Senior Lecturer there from 1985, Reader in Law from 1995). In 1998, he was appointed Professor of Criminal Justice at Nottingham Trent University. Professor Henham is a Fellow of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (University of London). He was in Sydney from from January until February 22 2008.
Professor Makoto Ibusuki
Professor Makoto Ibusuki, from Ritsumeikan University Law School spent 6 months sabbatical leave based primarily in this Faculty. His research project compares transparency in criminal procedure, especially the hot issue in Japan (and elsewhere) of the recording of pre-trial interrogations. Makoto is also one of Japan's leaders in cyber-law, and the Director of the ANJeL-supported Kyoto Seminar in Japanese Law for Australia and Japanese law students (http://www.kyoto-seminar.jp/).
He also helping co-ordinate ANJeL's annual conference, held this time in Kyoto on 16 February comparing Australian and Japanese law (http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/anjel/content/anjel_events_anjelconf2008.htm).
Judge Shimpei Takahashi
Judge Shimpei Takahashi was based primarily at the Law School since June 2007 as the fourth ANJeL Judge-in-Residence sent by Japan's highest (Supreme) Court to research aspects of Australian law over a year-long stay. He was previously at the Yokohama District Court and has a particular interest in administrative law, including migration law.
The Sydney Law School also hosts visitors under the Parsons Visitors Program
