Sydney Law School Visitors

Current visitors to the faculty
Future visitors to the faculty
Previous visitors to the faculty in 2008


Current visitors to the faculty

Associate Professor Hejun Zhao
29 Sep 2008 - 28 Sep 2009
Hejun Zhao is Associate Professor at China Women's University and he will be continuing his research on legal theory during his visit. He is currently located in room 1135, ph:10393.

Future visitors to the faculty

Professor Phil Scraton
February - March 2009
Phil Scraton is a Professor in Criminology, Institute of Criminology and Social Justice, School of Law at Queens University Belfast. He is visiting under the Sydney Law School Visiting Fellow Scheme.
His areas of reasearch are: Deaths in Controversial Circumstances (public inquiries, inquests, criminal investigation); Disasters Analysis ('rights' of the bereaved and survivors); Politics and Processes of Truth and Acknowledgement; Regulation and Criminalisation of Children and Young People; Children's Rights; Politics of Imprisonment and Prisoners' Resistances; Critical Theory and Critical Research (from the structural to the personal). Current funded research: ‘The Imprisonment of Women and Girls’; ‘Understanding the Lives of Children and Young People in the Context of Conflict and Marginalisation; A Rights-based Approach’; ‘Childhood, Transition and Justice’.

Previous visitors to the faculty in 2008

Professor Brian Arnold
Thu 23 October - Wed 29 October 2008
Brian J. Arnold is a tax consultant with Goodmans LLP, Toronto. Professor Arnold is a graduate of Harvard Law School and taught tax law at a Canadian law school for 28 years. He has been a consultant to various Canadian government departments, the OECD, the Office of the Auditor General, the South African Revenue Service, and the Australian and New Zealand governments. He teaches international tax courses at the Harvard Law School and the University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna. Professor Arnold taught the course LAWS6170 Comparative Income Tax.

Professor George Smith
Faculty of Law, Catholic University of America
1 August – 17 August 2008
Professor George P. Smith joined the Catholic University of America Law Faculty in August 1977 as a law professor. He has had previous law teaching affiliations at the University of Michigan, Indiana University, Georgetown, George Washington and Notre Dame. His core teaching areas are property law, land use and environmental law. His areas of specialization are law, science and medicine - specifically bioethics and health law. He is the Founding Faculty Editor of The Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy at the Catholic University of America Law School. He has held over 60 research appointments with institutions including: the medical schools at the universities of Chicago, Columbia, Indiana, Minnesota, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington, as well as the universities of Arizona State; Auckland; New Zealand; British Columbia; Cambridge; McGill; Oxford; Sydney, Australia; The Hoover Institution, The Max Planck Institute, Germany; The Rockefeller Foundation; Bellagio, Italy, Trinity College at Dublin University; Dartmouth College; The Free University of Berlin; Princeton Seminary and the divinity schools at Cambridge, Yale and Vanderbilt. In 1984, Professor Smith received an Australian-American Fulbright award to teach at the University of New South Wales as The Fulbright Visiting Professor Law and Medical Jurisprudence. He has also held teaching appointments as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, in 2005, and as the Parsons Visiting Professor of Law at The University of Sydney in 2003 and in 1998, and as Visiting Professor of Law at The University of New South Wales in 2001, 1990 and 1987. Widely published and recognized as a leading national and international scholar, he has a bibliography of over 180 entries which includes 13 books, 18 monographs and 140 law review articles and essays. His contributions to the legal profession were recognized by Indiana University in 1998 when he was awarded an LL.D. degree, Honoris Causa. He is listed in Who's Who in the World and Outstanding Writers of the 20th Century as well as WHO’s WHO IN AMERICAN EDUCATION and WHO’s WHO in AMERICAN LAW. He is a life member of the American Law Institute.

Professor David McLauchlan
Professor David McLauchlan is the McWilliam Visiting Professor for 2008. He will be in Sydney from on 23 March 2008 and from 14 July to 31 Aug 2008.

Professor Ian Dennis
Professor Ian Dennis is visited the faculty under the International Visiting Research Fellowships Scheme. He visited Sydney from 1 March to 11 April 2008.

Professor Ryuichiro Fukasawa, Kyoto University
Professor Ryuichiro Fukasawa was a visitor under the ANJeL Research Visitor program. He was researching the fundamental principles of Australian administrative law and visited the faculty from April to September 2008.

Professor Ian Cram
Visiting Professor Ian Cram is Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the School of Law, Leeds University where he is Director of the LLM Programme in International and European Human Rights Law. He visited the Sydney Law School as part of the WUN Visiting Fellowship Programme. His research interests lie in freedom of expression, constitutional law and human rights. He was in Sydney from 28 January to 9 February 2008. .

Mr Christophe Waerzeggers
Mr. Christophe Waerzeggers has been a VAT lecturer at Utrecht University School of Law, the Netherlands since 2005, and a coordinator of the Indirect Tax course of the Tax Governance Programme since 2006. Before joining Utrecht University he was a tax and customs lawyer in Brussels, Belgium from 1998. Mr Waerzeggers has also been a consultant for the Technical Assistance and Legal Reform Unit of the IMF since 2003 and in 2007 he spent 7 months with the IMF in Washington DC providing technical assistance to developing countries in drafting tax and customs laws. He was in Sydney from 29 January to 22 February 2008.

Professor Ralph Henham
International Visiting Research Fellow Professor Ralph Henham is Professor of Criminal Justice, Nottingham Trent University. He is one of the founders of the International and Comparative Criminal Trial Project. He was Lecturer in Law at the University of Greenwich from 1977 - 1979, then at Nottingham Trent University from 1979 - 1985 (Senior Lecturer there from 1985, Reader in Law from 1995). In 1998, he was appointed Professor of Criminal Justice at Nottingham Trent University. Professor Henham is a Fellow of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (University of London). He was in Sydney from from January until February 22 2008.

Professor Makoto Ibusuki
Professor Makoto Ibusuki, from Ritsumeikan University Law School spent 6 months sabbatical leave based primarily in this Faculty. His research project compares transparency in criminal procedure, especially the hot issue in Japan (and elsewhere) of the recording of pre-trial interrogations. Makoto is also one of Japan's leaders in cyber-law, and the Director of the ANJeL-supported Kyoto Seminar in Japanese Law for Australia and Japanese law students (http://www.kyoto-seminar.jp/).
He also helping co-ordinate ANJeL's annual conference, held this time in Kyoto on 16 February comparing Australian and Japanese law (http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/anjel/content/anjel_events_anjelconf2008.htm).

Judge Shimpei Takahashi
Judge Shimpei Takahashi was based primarily at the Law School since June 2007 as the fourth ANJeL Judge-in-Residence sent by Japan's highest (Supreme) Court to research aspects of Australian law over a year-long stay. He was previously at the Yokohama District Court and has a particular interest in administrative law, including migration law.


The Sydney Law School also hosts visitors under the Parsons Visitors Program