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Centre for Asian and Pacific Law

A leading centre for teaching and research in Asia and the Pacific

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Explore our legal expertise in a wide variety of Asian jurisdictions, including China, Japan, Indonesia and Malaysia.

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The Centre for Asian and Pacific Law is located within Sydney Law School.ÌýThe centre's members have legal expertise in a wide variety of Asian jurisdictions, including China, Japan, Indonesia and Malaysia. The centre offers courses covering a wide variety of legal issues in these countries, including commercial law, investment, constitutional law, human rights, land law, tax, environmental law, labour law, customary law, Islamic law, law enforcement institutions, and dispute resolution.ÌýThe centre holds numerous seminars, workshops and conferences, and hosts visiting scholars from all over Asia.

Chinese law is taught intensively both in Sydney (in alternate years and to undergraduate and Juris Doctor students only) and in China at theÌýShanghai Winter School. Japanese law is taught intensively in Japan at theÌýKyoto and Tokyo Seminars, and Indonesian and Malaysian law is taught offshore at theÌýSoutheast Asia Field School.

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Our People

  • ±Ê°ù´Ç´Ú±ð²õ²õ´Ç°ùÌý, Centre Co-Director
  • Associate ±Ê°ù´Ç´Ú±ð²õ²õ´Ç°ùÌý, Centre Co-Director
  • ±Ê°ù´Ç´Ú±ð²õ²õ´Ç°ùÌý, Associate DirectorÌý– International
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  • Micah BurchÌý
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  • Associate ±Ê°ù´Ç´Ú±ð²õ²õ´Ç°ùÌý
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  • ±Ê°ù´Ç´Ú±ð²õ²õ´Ç°ùÌýGail Pearson
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  • ±Ê°ù´Ç´Ú±ð²õ²õ´Ç°ùÌýLeon Wolff

  • Paul DavisÌýrepresents 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 Kamran Khalid is a sessional academic at the ±¬ÁÏÍõ Law School, from where he completed his PhD. His thesis critically examined Pakistan's counter-terrorism framework and the embedded extraordinary state power and strategic interests. Dr Khalid's broader research interests span comparative constitutional law, Islamic law, international law and relations, South Asian politics, and postcolonialism. Dr Khalid also practises pro bono law, acting for vulnerable individuals and not-for-profit organisations in issues concerning social justice across employment, discrimination, estates, elder abuse, charities governance, credit, property and general commercial law.
  • Dr Nobumichi Teramura is , specialising in international arbitration (PhD, UNSW), private international law and contract law. He co-edited (Wolters Kluwer, 2021).
  • Dr Brett G Williams is the principal in the law firm . 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 ±¬ÁÏÍõ 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.

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  • 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, IndonesiaÌý
  • 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,Ìý(June 2018 - June 2019) is a judge of Maebashi District Court in Japan hearing criminal cases.ÌýShe will be visiting the ±¬ÁÏÍõ Law School to research criminal justice system and its implications on the community as well as rehabilitation programs for known offenders.

The Law School's internships are periodically advertised via theÌýÌýand theÌý. These roles are paid positions. Interns must be currently enrolled at Sydney Law School, have a strong overall academic record, and a demonstrated interestÌýAsian and Pacific Law.

2024 interns

  • Shimeng (Corinna) Chen
  • Keona Febrian

2023 interns

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

Featured News

CAPLUS members contributed to theÌýÌýhosted by Universiti Brunei Darussalam on 29 May 2023.

The symposium's invited speakers discussed the mechanism of FDI-related corruption from legal and economic perspectives, using case studies from countries in the Asia Pacific.

Professor Ìýdelivered the keynote lecture, moderated a discussion on the legal issues related to corruption and ISDS in Asia, and co-presented a country report on Japan and Thailand.

Country reports were also presented byÌýProfessor Ìýand Ms Tianqi Gu (China and Hong Kong) andÌýProfessor Ìý(Indonesia).

CAPLUS affiliateÌýDr Ìýdelivered the symposium’s opening remarks, co-presented a country report on Japan, and moderated a discussion on South and Southeast Asia.

The Institute of Asian Studies at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam is funding a conference volumeÌý.

The Principal Investigator is CAPLUS affiliateÌýDr , and contributors include ±¬ÁÏÍõ CAPLUS membersÌýProfessor ,ÌýProfessor ÌýandÌýProfessor .

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