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Associate Professor Luke Nottage

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Degrees

BCA / LLB VUW LLM Kyoto PhD VUW


Previous Positions

  • From June 2001 - December 2007: Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney Law Faculty, 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 2006 - 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
  • Many publications are reproduced online

Courses & Seminars

  • University of Sydney (since June 2001): Contract Law (LLB), International Commercial Transactions (LLB), Japanese Law (LLB), International Commercial Arbitration (LLM and University of North Carolina "Summer School"), "International Dispute Resolution - Practice and Procedure" (LLM, co- taught with Dr Tim Stephens and others), "Consumer Counterfeits and Product Defects" (LLM, co-taught with Dr Jocelyn Kellam), "International Investment Law" (LLM, with Kate Miles and Chester Brown),"Dispute Resolution in Asia and Law" and "Investment in Asia" (LLM, with Simon Butt and Edwin Bikundo).
  • CLE seminars on Corporate Governance (2001 and 2008), Arbitration joint (2002, 2003, 2007), Japanese Law (2003), and International Contracts (2008).
  • 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 (LLM); Commonwealth Law (LLB); Dispute Resolution & Japanese Law (BA).
  • VUW (1994 - 1996): Comparative Law, Contract Law (LLB); North Asian Law (LLB 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: PhD 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 PhD 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

  • 2009: Institute of Social Sciences New Capacity Program grant, "Intersections in Foreign Investment Law and Policy" (with Kate Miles and Susan Park)
  • 2005-9: Australian Research Council Networks, "Asia Pacific Futures", "Govnet" (comparative governance)
  • 2004-7: 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
  • 2002-9: numerous Legal Scholarship Research Fund grants for comparative research on BSE, risk, arbitration, product safety, consumer credit and corporate governance; 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