Sydney Law School Visitors

Current visitors to the faculty
Future visitors to the faculty
Previous visitors to the faculty

Current visitors to the faculty


Dr Gail Evans, University of London
16 November – 11 December 2009
Room 539, ext 10481, email: gevans36@yahoo.co.uk
Dr Evans is a Reader in International Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Commercial Law Studies. During her visit she will be working on her monograph entitled “Geographical Indications and the Politics of Place.”

Dr David Bilchitz, South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights & International Law
16 November – 4 December 2009 (Faculty Visiting Scholar Scheme)
Room 504, ext 10229, email: davidb@saifac.org.za
Dr Bilchitz is visiting under the Faculty’s Visiting Scholar Scheme and will be working with Professor David Kinley. For his full bio please go to this website.

Professor Louis J. Kotze, North-West University, South Africa
11 November 2009 – 6 December 2009
Room 622, ext 10475, email: louis.kotze@nwu.ac.za
Professor Kotze is a visitor to ACCEL for his details please click here.

Mr Ferdinando Franceschelli, University G. d'Annunzio of Chieti and Pescara, Italy
9 November – 27 November 2009 (Visiting Scholar)
Room 603, ext 10482, email: ferdinandofranceschelli@yahoo.com
Mr Franceschelli is a Lawyer and is currently undertaking a PhD on “European and comparative law of enterprise and market” at University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti and Pescara. His area of research also concerns the international investments in the field of energy.

Professor Tatsuya Nakamura, Kokushikan University
21 September 2009 – March 2010 (Visiting Professor)
Room 639, ext 10491, email: nakamura@jcaa.or.jp
Professor Tatsuya Nakamura of the Faculty of Law at Kokushikan University in Tokyo also serves as the General Manager of the Arbitration and Mediation Departments of the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association (JCAA). He will be visiting us for six months from September 2009 to March 2010 to conduct research on arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution in Australia. His recent Japanese language publications include (2008) International Dispute Resolution (Daigaku Kyoiku Shuppan). Recent English language publications include "Arbitration in Japan" in the 2008 Japan Business Law Guide (CCH) and "Final Settlement of Disputes on Existence and Effect of Arbitration Agreements under the UNICTRAL Model Law" 23(8) International Arbitration Report (2008).

Judge Yoshinori Hashiguchi
13 June 2009 – 12 June 2010 (Visiting Scholar)
Room 632, ext 10423, email: hashiguchiyoshinori@gmail.com
Judge Hashiguchi is the “ANJEL Judge in Residence” for 2009/10 at the University of Sydney. His research in Australia will focus on two pressing issues as Japan recommences in May 2009 a quasi-jury (saiban'in) system for serious criminal cases: (1) how such systems interact with media coverage of trials, and (2) the use of "bench books".

Dr Roberto Buonamano, Faculty of Law, UTS
5 October – 12 December 2009 (Visiting Scholar)
Room 401, Julius Stone Institute, email: Roberto.buonamano@uts.edu.au
Dr Buonamano will be continuing his research in the fields of legal and political philosophy, legal history, international human rights and international humanitarian law.

Judge Hyug Sung KANG, Seoul Northern District Court
31 August 2009 – 28 February 2010 (Visiting Scholar)
Room 425, ext 10386, email: khs0427@gmail.com
Judge Kang will be conducting research on Bankruptcy, Corporate Reorganization, Mergers & Acquisitions, and on Sentencing Reform.

Dr Grant Lamond, Balliol College, Oxford
11 August – 18 December 2009, (Visitor Scholar)
Room 401, email: grant.lamond@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Grant Lamond is University Lecturer in Legal Philosophy at Oxford University and Felix Frankfurter Fellow in Law at Balliol College. He studied philosophy and law at Sydney University after which he worked as the Associate to the Chief Justice of the Australian Federal Court. He took the BCL at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was a Junior Research Fellow at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he completed a doctorate on practical reasoning. He has taught at Melbourne University and King’s College London. His research interests lie in the philosophy of law and the philosophical foundations of criminal law.

Associate Professor Ian Lee, University of Toronto
13 July – 16 December 2009 (Visiting Scholar)
Room 603, ext 10245, email: ian.lee@utoronto.ca
Ian B. Lee is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. After graduating from the University of Toronto with an LL.B. in 1994, he clerked with Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dubé of the Supreme Court of Canada and Justice Mark MacGuigan of the Federal Court of Appeal, and later served as a legal researcher with the Privy Council Office. He received an LL.M. from the Harvard Law School in 1998, and went on to practise with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in Paris, France, and New York, New York, before joining the Faculty of Law in 2003. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of constitutional law, corporate law and European Union law.

Associate Professor Hong Xue (Harte), Southwest University of Political Science and Law
January 2009 - December 2009
Room 425, ext 10285, email: hartex@yeah.net
A/Professor Xue is here to continue his study of comparative research on the Suspect’s right protection in pre-trial stage between Australia and China; The system of Coroner and The Writ of Habeas Corpus.

Future visitors to the faculty

Previous visitors to the faculty


Professor Stephen Hall, Chinese University of Hong Kong
31 August – 30 October 2009
Room 425, ext 10365, email: stephenhall@cuhk.edu.hk
Before going to Hong Kong, Stephen Hall taught in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales for six years where he was Director of the European Law Centre. His areas of research and teaching expertise are International Law, European Union Law, Contract Law, and the traditions of Natural Law and the Common Law. He has been admitted as a barrister and solicitor in Australia, and practised law with the Australian Attorney-General's Department for nine years mainly in the area of Administrative Law and Judicial Review. He is currently Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) and Programme Director of the Juris Doctor (JD) and JD/MBA programmes.

Professor Tom Campbell, Charles Sturt University
11 August – 29 October 2009 Tues – Thurs, (JSI Distinguished Visiting Fellow)
Room 401, email: Tom.Campbell@anu.edu.au
Tom Campbell has written extensively on law and legal philosophy throughout his distinguished career. Among other positions, he was Dean of the ANU Faculty of Law from 1994 to 1997. He is currently working under an ARC Discovery Grant on an Australian alternative to Bills of Rights.

Associate Professor Hejun Zhao
29 Sep 2008 - 28 Sep 2009
Room 425, ext 10362, email: hejunzhao79@126.com
Hejun Zhao is Associate Professor at China Women's University and he will be continuing his research on legal theory during his visit.

Professor Lawrence Gostin, Georgetown University
12 June – 15 September 2009 (Faculty Special Visiting Fellow & Distinguished Speaker)
Room 539, ext 10481, email: gostin@law.georgetown.edu
Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally acclaimed scholar, is Associate Dean (Research and Academic Programs) and the Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he directs the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Dean Gostin is also Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University and Director of the Center for Law & the Public’s Health at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities - a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dean Gostin is Visiting Professor of Public Health (Faculty of Medical Sciences) and Research Fellow (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies) at Oxford University. He is the Health Law and Ethics Editor, Contributing Writer, and Columnist for the Journal of the American Medical Association. In 2007, the Director General of the World Health Organization appointed Dean Gostin to the International Health Regulations (IHR) Roster of Experts and the Expert Advisory Panel on Mental Health. While with the faculty Professor Gostin will be teaching the PG unit LAWS6920 – Global Health Law and will be speaking at two events as a part of the Distinguished Speakers Program, for details go to http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/law/456.html?eventcategoryid=86

Professor Ian Dennis, University College London
31 August – 23 September 2009 (Visiting Professor & Guest Lecturer)
Room 628, ext 10480, email: ian.dennis@ucl.ac.uk
Ian Dennis is Professor of English Law at University College London. He joined the Law Faculty in 1974, became a Reader in English Law at UCL in 1982 and a Professor in 1987. He has been the Editor of the Criminal Law Review since 1999, and is the author of The Law of Evidence (3rd ed, 2007, Thomson Sweet & Maxwell) and numerous essays and journal articles. He is a consultant to the Law Commission of England and Wales on criminal law, including reform of the law of homicide. His research interests are in criminal law, and criminal procedure and evidence. Professor Dennis will be teaching the PG unit Comparative Law of Evidence and delivering a lecture as part of the Distinguished Speakers program titled “Common Law Right to Confrontation: Meanings and Myths”.

Professor Yasuhei Taniguchi, Emeritus Professor, Kyoto University
6 July – 20 August 2009 (Faculty Special Visiting Fellow &
Professor Taniguchi is one of the world's most eminent experts in comparative civil procedure and cross-border dispute resolution. He served on the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization from 2000 until 2007. He has also been active in international arbitration, especially in the ICC and throughout the Asia-Pacific, and is currently president of the Japan Association of Arbitrators. Professor Taniguchi was also former president of the Japanese Association of Civil Procedure, and former Vice-President of the International Association of Procedural Law. He recently retired from Senshu University Law School, and before that taught principally at Kyoto University for 39 years. He has also presented many courses world-wide as a Visiting Professor, including at the University of Michigan, University of California at Berkeley, Duke University, Stanford University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, New York University, the University of Melbourne, Murdoch University, the University of Hong Kong and the University of Paris XII. Cornell Law School, which awarded him a JSD in 1964, recently hosted a WTO conference and special law journal issue commemorating his achievements.

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’.

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