Professor Luke Nottage is Chair in Comparative and Transnational at Sydney Law Faculty. He studied at Kyoto University and Victoria University of Wellington, and first taught at the latter and Kyushu University Law Faculty. His book on Product Safety and Liability in Japan: From Minamata to Mad Cows was published by Routledge Curzon in January 2004. His publications include another co-authored book, two co-edited books, and over 60 major book chapters or articles, in English and Japanese. These focus on contract law, product liability, civil dispute resolution (especially arbitration), corporate governance, cyber-law, and legal education, mostly comparing developments in Japan or transnationally. Over 2000-6, Luke was a contributing editor for Japan in the CCH Doing Business in Asia looseleaf/CDROM service; and from 2007 became contributing editor for the CCH Japan Business Law Guide (2-volume looseleaf) He is also qualified to practice law in Australia and New Zealand. Email Luke.

Associate Professor Leon Wolff

Leon Wolff is an associate professor law of Bond University. Admitted to practice in New South Wales, Leon has honours degrees and university medals in both law and Japanese studies (University of Queensland) as well as masters qualifications in Japanese interpreting and translation (University of Queensland), Asian and comparative law (University of Washington) and higher education (University of Sydney). He is currently completing his doctoral thesis on Japanese employment law and corporate governance (Australian National University). Leon has held Australian Research Council grants in Japanese law (2001-2003, 2004-2007) as well as three back-to-back fellowships in Japanese studies from the National Library of Australia, the Japan Foundation and the Australian Government (Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (Endeavour fellowhsip)) (2008-2009). He is published in a wide range of areas in Japanese law, including corporate governance, employment relations, gender equity and public administration, and served as co-director of ANJeL since its inception until mid-2009. He joins Bond University as a full associate professor of law in 2010. E-mail Leon Wolff.

Dr Hitoshi Nasu is a senior lecturer at the ANU College of Law, The Australian National University, teaching international law, international security law, international humanitarian law, migration law, and military operations law. He holds Bachelor and Masters degrees in political science from Aoyama Gakuin University and a Masters degree and a PhD in law from the University of Sydney. He is the author of International Law on Peacekeeping: A Study of Article 40 of the UN Charter (Martinus Nijhoff, 2009) and a co-author of Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region: Towards Institution Building (Routledge, 2011). He is currently the lead investigator on a Discovery Grant funded by the Australia Research Council for the project titled Developing Australia’s Legal Response to Military and Security Applications of Nanotechnology, with Professor Tom Faunce and Dr Margaret Kosal.

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Vivienne Bath is Associate Professor in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, and Director of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney. She has first class honours in Chinese and in Law from the Australian National University, and Master of Laws from Harvard University. Prior to joining the Faculty of Law, she was a partner of international firm Coudert Brothers, working in the Hong Kong and Sydney offices, and specialising in commercial law, with a focus on foreign investment and commercial transactions in the People's Republic of China. She has many years of practical experience advising Japanese corporations in their business activities in the Asian region, particularly in relation to their investments in China and a long-standing interest in the issue of China-Japanese relations. Vivienne Bath has published widely in the area of Chinese law and is a frequent participant in conferences and seminars focusing on developments in the Chinese legal regime. Her most recent publications include "Reducing the Role of Government – the Chinese Experiment", (2008) Asian Journal of Comparative Law: Vol. 3, Iss. 1, Article 9 and "The Company Law and Foreign Investment Enterprises in the People’s Republic of China – parallel systems of Chinese-foreign regulation", (2007) 30(3) UNSW Law Journal 774.
She teaches International Business Law, courses on Doing Business in China and Chinese law.
She is the Director of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law in the University of Sydney, which focuses on research and teaching in the area of Asian and Pacific Law. See http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/caplus

Vai Io Lo is an associate professor of law at Bond University and Director of the Tim Fischer Centre for Trade and Finance. Prior to joining Bond, she had taken teaching or research appointments with the University of Washington, International University of Japan, Waseda University, National University of Singapore, and University of Tokyo. She has also been a Visiting Scholar to Harvard Law School and a Visiting Associate Professor to the University of Windsor in Canada. She is an attorney-at-law and speaks and writes Chinese fluently. Her teaching and research interests are quite broad. With respect to teaching, she has taught Cyber Law, Internet-Related Intellectual Property, Law and Investment in China, Law and Investment in Japan, Law in East Asia: China, Labour in East Asia, Business Law, International Trade and Business Law, Property, Law and Society in China, and Contracts. On the research side, she has concentrated on comparative and interdisciplinary research, especially on Chinese, Japanese, and U.S. laws, and in the areas of labour and employment, foreign direct investment, health care, dispute resolution, and intellectual property.

Melanie Trezise studied Arts/Law at the University of Sydney, and Masters of Law at Kyoto University. She competed twice in ANJeL’s “Team Australia” at the INC Negotiation and Arbitration Competition in Tokyo in both English and Japanese, and has worked as research assistant to Luke Nottage. She has worked as a lawyer in a Tokyo law firm and now works as a freelance translator.

Eriko Kadota studied Arts/Law at the University of Sydney. She took up her position as ANJeL Assistant in July 2011, assisting Luke Nottage with his research and the administration of ANJeL.

Alicia Lyons studied Arts/Law at the University of Sydney. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in 2008, with majors in Japanese Studies and English. Alicia took up her position as ANJeL Assistant in July 2009. Her work involved assisting Luke Nottage with his research and the administration of the Sydney Judge-in-Residence program.

Glenn Kembrey studied Arts/Law student at the University of Sydney, majoring in Japanese. His work involved assisting Luke Nottage with his research and the administration of ANJeL.