Kent Anderson is a member of the ANU College of Law and ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, and is Head of the Japan Centre in the Faculty of Asian Studies. He convenes a variety of courses on Japanese law for both the Law and Asian Studies faculties. His research has largely focused on comparative law, particularly with regards to Japan; private international law (ie, conflict of laws); commercial law, particularly insolvency; and Law & Film Studies. Before joining ANU, Kent was first a marketing manager with a regional airline in the United States; later a practicing lawyer specialising in international transactions and debt restructuring with a large commercial firm in Hawaii; and then associate professor at Hokkaido University School of Law. He has also been a visiting professor at Waseda University, Nagoya University, and Chuo University. Outside work, Kent enjoys brewing Ales, listening to the Blues, and playing with his Child—the ABCs of life. Email Kent.

Dr Luke Nottage is an Associate Professor at Sydney Law Faculty. He studied at Kyoto University and Victoria University of Wellington, and first taught at the latter and Kyushu University Law Faculty. His book on Product Safety and Liability in Japan: From Minamata to Mad Cows was published by Routledge Curzon in January 2004. His publications include another co-authored book, two co-edited books, and over 60 major book chapters or articles, in English and Japanese. These focus on contract law, product liability, civil dispute resolution (especially arbitration), corporate governance, cyber-law, and legal education, mostly comparing developments in Japan or transnationally. Over 2000-6, Luke was a contributing editor for Japan in the CCH Doing Business in Asia looseleaf/CDROM service; and from 2007 became contributing editor for the CCH Japan Business Law Guide (2-volume looseleaf) He is also qualified to practice law in Australia and New Zealand. Email Luke.

Leon Wolff is an Associate Professor and Director of Teaching and Learning at the Faculty of Law, UNSW. With a Master of Arts in Japanese Interpreting and Translation (MAJIT) from the University of Queensland and a LLM in Japanese Law from the University of Washington, Leon is admitted to practice in New South Wales. He holds a Large Australian Research Council Grant in Japanese Law (2001-2003) and is published in a wide range of areas of Japanese law such as corporate governance, public administration and sexual harassment. He convenes the Asian and Comparative Law program at UNSW, which features one of the most comprehensive programs on Japanese law outside of Japan itself. Email Leon.

Hitoshi Nasu is a lecturer at the Australian National University, ANU College of Law. He is a graduate of Aoyama Gakuin University (BA & MA) and the University of Sydney (MIL, PhD). He specialises in international and migration law and is interested in a variety of areas of international law including international law on the use of armed force, international human rights law, international environmental law, international law in Japan and human rights in Japan.

Carol Lawson is the principal of Legal Communications Japan, a Japanese to English legal translation consultancy. Carol holds degrees from the Australian National University (BA (Asian Studies) / LLB), the University of Sheffield (MA in Advanced Japanese with Distinction) and the University of NSW (LLM). She has published papers on topics including the new Japanese privacy legislation and Japanese government legal translation initiatives. She specializes in the translation of legislation and case law and is involved in teaching legal translation in the Masters in Japanese Interpreting and Translating at the University of Queensland and Japanese law subjects offered in the Asian and Comparative Law stream at the University of NSW. Her current research interests include the recent reforms to the Japanese prisons legislation, the sociology of Japanese legal language and facilitating legal communication in the Japanese-English language pair.

Showhey Matsui is a final year undergraduate combined law student at the University of Sydney. He has been a member of ANJeL's "Team Australia" in the International Negotiation and Arbitration Competition for the last two years.