Centre for Asian and Pacific Law

• Professor Simon Butt, Centre Co-Director
• Associate Professor Jeanne Huang, Centre Co-Director
• Professor Vivienne Bath, Associate Director – International
• Associate Professor Salim Farrar, Leader of the discipline
• Professor Bing Ling
• Professor Luke Nottage
• Professor Simon Bronitt

• Micah Burch 
• Professor Penelope Crossley 
• Associate Professor Ghena Krayem
• Professor Sheelagh McCracken
• Professor Gail Pearson
• Professor Ben Saul 
• Associate Professor Leon Wolff

• Paul Davis represents Japanese utility, trading and mining companies in their investments overseas and has a broad range of dispute resolution experience in the mining and energy sectors.
• Judge Judith Gibson, District Court of New South Wales
• Dr Brett G Williams is the principal in the law firm Williams Trade Law. He is a specialist in International Regulation of Trade, especially the law of the World Trade Organization and bilateral and regional trade agreements. He has extensive experience as a teacher, researcher and technical assistance consultant in international trade law and policy. He has taught World Trade Organization law at the University of Sydney Law School since 2001 and at the Australian National University (2013-15), Chinese University of Hong Kong (2010-12), University of North Carolina (2004-06), William and Mary College (1996-98) and the University of Adelaide (1996). He has experience publishing, researching or working on the relationship between international trade law and the law of several Asia Pacific countries, including Australia, China, Malaysia, Samoa and Timor-Leste.
• Dr Nobumichi Teramura is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Asian Studies in the Universiti Brunei Darussalam, specialising in international arbitration (PhD, UNSW), private international law and contract law. He co-edited New Frontiers in Asia-Pacific International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution (Wolters Kluwer, 2021).

• Associate Professor Meng Jin, East China University of Political Science and Law
• Judge Saori Miyazaki
• Associate Professor Shohei Eto, Faculty of Law, Hitotsubashi University
• Professor Guo Li, Beijing University
• Shinichi Nemoto, Meiji University School of Law
• Professor Yuhong Zhao, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Dr Fifi Jaunita, Airlangga University, Indonesia 
• Associate Professor Dan He, Beijing Normal University, Law School
• Dr Heecheol Kim, Wonkwang University School of Law, Republic of Korea
• Judge Yoshitaka Uno, Tokyo District Court, Japan
• Judge Taku Okada, Osaka District and Family Courts, Japan
• Judge Shota Watanuki, Saga District Court, Japan
• Judge Kaoru Ueno, Saga District Court, Japan
• Associate Professor Jiang Fen, Zhejiang University, China
• Professor Shitao Wang, Dalian Maritime University (2019)
• Judge Yuriko Yamamoto, (June 2018 - June 2019) is a judge of Maebashi District Court in Japan hearing criminal cases. She will be visiting the University of Sydney Law School to research criminal justice system and its implications on the community as well as rehabilitation programs for known offenders.

CAPLUS internships are advertised on an annual basis via the Law Student Portal in Canvas and the SULS jobs board. These roles are paid positions. Interns must be currently enrolled at Sydney Law School, have a strong overall academic record, and a demonstrated interest Asian and Pacific Law.

2024 interns

• Shimeng (Corinna) Chen
• Keona Febrian

2023 interns

• Flora Lee
• Thi My Kim Nguyen
  
• Yixue Mei
• Christina Shin