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Associate Professor Luke Nottage

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Degrees:

  • BCA / LL.B VUW
  • LL.M Kyoto
  • Ph.D VUW

Positions:

  • From June 2001 - December 2007: Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney Law Faculty, 175 Phillip St, Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia
  • April 1997 - March 2000: Associate Professor of Transnational Law, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
  • April 1994 - March 1997: Lecturer in Law, Victoria University of Wellington ("VUW"), New Zealand
  • October 1993 - March 1997: Associate (Barrister and Solicitor), JHJ Crawford Law Office, Wellington, New Zealand

Visitorships:

December 2005 - December 2008: Honorary Senior Fellow, Centre for Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific, University of Wollongong

October 2004 - January 2005; November 2006 – January 2007, November – December 2008: Visiting Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University Law Faculty, Kyoto, Japan

July - September 2005: Post-doctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Private International and Foreign Private Law, Hamburg, Germany

February - December 2004: Visiting Senior Fellow, Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformations Studies (CAPSTRANS), University of Wollongong, Australia

February - April 2001: Visiting Associate, Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, Canada

September 2000 - January 2001: Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute Law Department, Florence, Italy

April - June 2000: Visiting Scholar, Kyoto University Law Faculty, Japan

July - August 1998: Law Center for European and International Cooperation (University of Cologne) fellowship - German contract law, lex mercatoria

Personal Details:

  • Born: 14 July 1967; London, United Kingdom
  • Nationality: New Zealand, British, Australian
  • Languages: Completely fluent in English, French, and Japanese; reasonably fluent in German, Spanish, and Italian; some knowledge of Mandarin Chinese and Maaori
  • Family: Married to Hisae Kobayashi; three daughters, Moana (born 1997), Erica (1999), Miah (2001), son Liam (2007).
  • Interests: Travel, hot springs

Academic Achievements
Publications etc

One book ("Product Safety and Liability Law in Japan"), one co-authored book, two co-edited books, dozens of longer articles or book chapters, dozens of shorter works, and numerous conference papers and public lectures; mostly in English or Japanese, since 1995, comparing Japanese and other foreign law in the following areas:

  • Contract law and practice
  • Product liability and safety
  • Civil dispute resolution (especially arbitration)
  • Corporate governance
  • Information technology and law
  • Legal education

(An updated list is kept at http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~luken/publications.pdf)

Courses & Seminars

  • University of Sydney (since June 2001): Contract Law (LL.B), International Commercial Transactions (LL.B), Japanese Law (LLB), International Commercial Arbitration (LL.M and University of North Carolina "Summer School"), "International Dispute Resolution - Practice and Procedure" (LL.M, co- taught with Dr Tim Stephens), "Consumer Protection Law ­ Supplier Liability" (LL.M, co-taught with Dr Jocelyn Kellam)
  • CLE seminars on Corporate Governance (2001), Arbitration (2002, 2003, 2007), Japanese Law (2003), and Arbitration (2003).
  • Japanese Ministry of Justice (February 2002): Lecturer and course coordinator for its ODA training programme on Comparative ADR
  • University of Victoria (February - April 2001): Classes on aspects of Japanese business law, taught in a variety of courses
  • Kyushu University (1997 - 2000): Comparative Private Law, Transnational Business (LL.M); Commonwealth Law (LL.B); Dispute Resolution & Japanese Law (BA).
  • VUW (1994 - 1996): Comparative Law, Contract Law (LL.B); North Asian Law (LL.B Hons); International Trade Law (BCA).
  • Other Universities (since 1996): variants of these courses taught in Japan (Kagoshima, Osaka, Ritsumeikan, and Seinan Gakuin Universities), Thailand (Chulalongkorn), New Zealand (Auckland), and the USA (U Illinois).
  • Other Professional Legal Education: Japanese Law seminars for lawyers and businesspeople, run for VUW�s Centre for Asia-Pacific Law and Business (1995); and privately for large New Zealand law firms over July - August 2000.

Memberships

  • Academy of Comparative Law (by election only)
  • ADR/Arbitration Law Association of Japan (ADR-chusaiho gakkai)
  • Australasian Forum for International Arbitration
  • Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA)
  • Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL)
  • German-Japan Association of Jurists (DJJV)
  • International Association of Consumer Law
  • Japanese Association of Sociology of Law (Hoshakaigakkai)
  • Law and Society Association
  • Lawasia
  • New South Wales Bar Association
  • New Zealand Association for Comparative Law
  • Oriental Society of Australia
  • Wellington District Law Society

Offices Etc

  • Co-director, Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL)
  • Advisory Board, "Comparative Research in Law and Political Economy" Network, Osgoode Hall Law School
  • Editorial Board: Journal of Japanese Law / Zeitschrift fuer Japanisches Recht (2005-), Australian Product Liability Reporter (2005-), Yearbook of Consumer Law (Ashgate, 2005-), Australian Journal of International Law (2007-)
  • ACICA Special Associate and Rules Committee member (2004-)
  • Standards Australia, Disputes Processing Standard Committee member (2003-4)
  • Coordinator, Sydney University Law Faculty seminar programme (June 2001- December 2002); Convenor, IT Committee (from 2002 to mid-2003).
  • Co-director, Japanese Law Links Pty Ltd (incorporated to provide a wide range of Japanese law related services)
  • Qualified to practice also as a solicitor in New Zealand on own account (17 August 2000)
  • Member of four international affairs committees at Kyushu University, at Faculty and University levels (1998-1999)
  • Information Committee member, Japanese Association of Sociology of Law (1999-2001)
  • Formerly an officer of three academic associations in New Zealand, and a New Zealand Law Society international practice subcommittee.

Degrees & Education

  • 2002: Ph.D in Law, VUW, "Form, Substance and Neo-Proceduralism: in Comparative Contract Law: Law in Books and Law in Action in New Zealand, England, the US and Japan" (supervised by Professor Anthony Angelo)
  • 1996 - 1999: Part-time candidate for Ph.D in Law, VUW
  • 1993 - 1994: Full-time candidate for LL.D, Kyoto University Law Faculty
  • 1991 - 1992: LL.M., Kyoto University Law Faculty
  • 1990 -1991: Research Student, Kyoto University Law Faculty
  • 1990: Course in Japanese, Osaka University of Foreign Studies
  • 1985 -1989: Bachelor of Commerce and Administration (major in Economics), jointly with Bachelor of Laws, VUW
  • 1984: Deutsche Schule Genf, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 1981 - 1983: Rathkeale College, Masterton, New Zealand

Awards and Grants

  • 2005: Australian Research Council Networks, "Asia Pacific Futures", "Govnet" (comparative governance)
  • 2004-6: Australian Research Council, Discovery grant (with ANJeL co-directors) - Japan's commercial regulation reforms since the 1990s
  • 2003: Japan Society for Promotion of Science - funding for translation
  • 2002-8: numerous Legal Scholarship Research Fund grants for comparative research on BSE, risk, arbitration, product safety and consumer credit; Law Faculty Teaching Innovation Grant (with Greg Tolhurst) for "Contract Law Online"; College of Humanities & Social Sciences seed funding grants (with Brett Williams) for research on BSE/GMOS
  • April 1999 - September 2001: International Communications Foundation (Tokyo) joint research grant - IT and legal practice, education, democracy
  • April 1999 - March 2000: Tostem Foundation (Tokyo) joint research grant - produc tliability and safety guidelines
  • March 1999: Monbusho (Japanese Ministry of Education) travel grant - Japanese law session and paper presentation at the Law & Society Association annual meeting (Chicago, May 1999).
  • March 1998: Kyushu University Foundation travel grant - paper presentation at the Law & Society Association annual meeting (Aspen, June 1998).
  • September 1997 - October 1998: Matsushita Foundation (Tokyo) joint research grant - product liability and safety guidelines
  • 1995 - 1996: New Zealand Asia 2000 Foundation (Wellington) research and travel grants - contract law and practice.
  • 1990 - 1994: Monbusho Postgraduate Scholarship
  • 1987: AH Johnstone Prize in Constitutional Law (VUW)
  • 1985: Economics Society Prize (VUW Economics Faculty)
  • 1983 : Junior National Scholarship; Dux, Rathkeale College