E-mail:

luken@law.usyd.edu.au

[Discontinued: lukenottage@hotmail.com or kimono@mb6.seikyou.ne.jp]

Senior Lecturer (Commercial Law), University of Sydney Law Faculty

175 Phillip Street (Room 1333), Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia

Faculty fax (+61 2) 9351 0200, tel 9351 2222, direct tel 9351-0210

July-September 2004: Post-doctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law, Mittelweg 187, Hamburg 20148; fax (+49 40) 41900 288

October 2004-January 2005: Visiting Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University Law Faculty, 56-1 Toji-in Kitamachi, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8577; fax (+81 75) 465-8294

(Previously)

February - April 2001:

Visiting Associate, Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI), University of Victoria

Box 1700, STN CSC, Victoria, BC Canada V8W2Y2

Centre Fax +1 250 721-3107, Tel 721-7020, E-mail capi@uvic.ca

[Archived webpages: for Luke Nottage, & for 3 April 2000 Colloquium on "The Multiple Worlds of Japanese Law"]

Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, Law Dept.

Via Boccaccio 121, San Domenico di Fiesole, Florence, I-50133 Italy

Fax +39 055 [always include this O!] 4685-200, direct tel 4685-536 or department tel 4685-1

[Archived webpages for Luke Nottage]

Barrister of the High Court of New Zealand

Visiting Scholar, Kyoto University Law Faculty

Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

Fax +81 75 753-3290, direct tel 753-3269

Associate Professor of Transnational Law, Kyushu University Law Faculty

Hakozaki 6-19-1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 800, Japan

[Archived webpages for Luke Nottage]

Lecturer in Law, Victoria University of Wellington

Associate (Barrister & Solicitor), JHJ Crawford Law Office

1. Preparing syllabuses for second semester courses (July-October 2000): undergraduate Contract Law, postgraduate International Commercial Arbitration
2. Supervising two postgraduate students: Christine Oh (JSD, on international commercial arbitration in South Korea), and Suomi Murano (M Int'l Law, on consumer protection in e-contracting); finalising admission of third postgraduate student from 2002: Swati (JSD, on globalisation of international commercial arbitration, with particular reference to India)
3. Organising programme of Law Faculty Seminars ("Lunch in Progress") for the second semester, and beginning to prepare programme for the first semester in 2002
4. Assisting Rosemary Lyster as coordinator of International Student Exchange Programmes, concluding negotiations with Bucerius Law School (new private law school established in Hamburg by Prof Hein Koetz) and Kobe University Law Faculty
5. Assisting Dean Jeremy Webber in negotiations with large law firm to co-sponsor annual lecture in international commercial arbitration
6. Comprehensive update of the Japanese Law Links web-base

1. Co-editing proceedings stemming from the UVic colloquium on "The Multiple Worlds of Japanese Law: Disjunctions and Conjunctions" (including five of my own papers, volume published with support from UVic's CAPI and CAPLUS: see Cover, Preface, Table of Contents and Abstracts), with Tom Ginsburg and Hiroo Sono [199 pages, US letter size; Part A papers also reprinted in 10 Zeitschrift fuer Japanisches Recht (December 2001); individual contributors also invited to upload any papers on "LRN Asian Law", a new web-journal soon to be inaugurated through the Legal Research Network]
2. Completion of 30-page National Report (Japan), co-authored with Masanobu Kato, for a session on "Liability for Defective Products and Services" (General Reporter: Matthias Reimann, University of Michigan) at the XVIth International Congress of Comparative Law, to be held in Brisbane over 14-20 July 2002
3. Proofing chapter on "The Still-Birth and Re-Birth of Product Liability in Japan" (Nelken & Feest, eds, Adapting Legal Cultures, Hart, 2001) and "Reformist Conservatism and Failures of Imagination in Japanese Legal Education"
4. Securing contract with Curzon Press (UK), to bring together a book based on such writings, tentatively entitled Product Liability and Safety in Japan, by end-2002 (in parallel with co-authoring a textbook on Japanese product liability law and practice, in Japanese with Masanobu Kato and Shigeru Tadaka for Shojiohumu Kenyukai in Tokyo, over a similar time-frame)
5. Update of "Taxation" chapter in Japan Tab of the CCH Doing Business in Asia looseleaf/CD-ROM, as Contributing Editor (completing comprehensive update of all chapters, begun in 2000)
6. Articles for related CCH Asiawatch newsletters, on (a) civil justice reform proposals released in Japan on 12 June 2001 (b) "investing in Japan today"
7. Finalising four book reviews: (a) K P Berger (ed) The Practice of Transnational Law (Kluwer, 2001) [forthcoming in 19/1 Journal of International Arbitration (February 2002)]; (b) B Jazulot, La bonne foi dans les contrats (Dalloz, 2001) [10 Zeitschrift fuer Japanisches Recht (December 2001)]; (c) P Parkinson, Continuity and Change in Australian Law (LBC, 2nd ed, 2001) [Int'l & Comp LQ; (d) L Willmott et al, Contract Law (OUP, 2001) [Journal of Contract Law]
8. CLE Seminar on "Japanese Corporate Governance at a Crossroards", 28 August 2001, based on EUI Working Paper in Law No 2001/8 (June 2001: European University Institute Law Department); subsequently shortened somewhat and updated for publication in the January 2002 issue of the North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation
9. Paper for the Austlii "Law over the Internet 2001" conference, in Sydney 28-30 November 2001: "IT and Transformations in Legal Practice and Education in Japan and Australia" (with Makoto Ibusuki, Parsons Visitor in September 2001); part of final report for the International Communications Foundation, Tokyo, for a multinational collaborative research project on "IT in Legal Education, Practice and Politics" (with counterpart surveys in Australia now underway)
10. Paper for the Australian Law and Society Conference, in Melbourne 10-12 December 2001: "The Richness and Poverty of Contract Law Theory: The US and Japan versus England and New Zealand ... and Australia?", based on lengthy new Introduction to Part Two of my PhD in Law thesis, resubmitted to Victoria University of Wellington on 29 October 2001; to be tabled also at a colloquium of "younger" contract law scholars in Australia, planned for 6-8 February 2002
11. Presentation at the Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences Law Program, in Canberra 6 December: "Convergence, Divergence and the Middle Way in Harmonising or Unifying Private Law", based on EUI Working Paper in Law No 2001/1 (April 2001: European University Institute Law Department)
12. Work on manuscript invited by the journal of the Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute, "The Arbitrator", surveying hot issues in international commercial arbitration

1. Enrolment as a legal practitioner in the Supreme Court of New South Wales (10 July 2001), and admission to the Bar Association of New South Wales as a part-time practising barrister
2. Planning for CLE seminar on "Negotiating with Japan" (with Leon Wolff, UNSW), for 5 February 2002
3. Finalising arrangements for a visit to Japan over 12-28 February 2002 at the invitation of the Japan's Ministry of Justice, to compare New Zealand's system of ADR and teach about transnational contract/arbitration law, mainly involving a public symposium and seminars primarily for jurists from developing countries in South-East Asia

Prior Projects

April - June 2000, based in Kyoto: