Director: Professor Ned Aughterson

Professor Jesse Wu Min Aun

Usha Vidot

Usha Vidot holds degrees in Law and Arts from the University of Madras, and a Master of Laws from Monash University. Usha is an Accredited Mediator, and is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria. Usha has published as co-author the chapter entitled "Coping with the Legislative Explosion: Limiting Professional Liability," in Droits des Tous Les Horizons, the Silver Jubilee Commemorative Volume of the Comparative Law Society, Pondicherry, India (1998).

Other publications include a paper and co-author of an article, the paper being "Recent Changes and Development in the Family Law Act of 1975" delivered to the Comparative Law Society, Dr Ambedkar, Government Law College, Pondicherry, India (1997). The article was titled "Conveyencers: Imperatives for Recognition of Regulation" in the Victorian Law Institute Journal, March 1996, and reprinted in Conveyencing Australia in June 1996. Usha is a lecturer at the NTU School of Law, and has special interests in International Commercial Law and Mediation.

Stephen Gray

Stephen Gray holds law degrees from Monash University and the University of Melbourne. He has written many articles and book chapters on indigenous legal issues and intellectual property. Stephen teaches intellectual property law, criminal law and mining law in the NTU law school and he worked as a visiting lecturer in France in 1999. He is a co-investigator of the NTU project on 'The legal protection of indigenous and regional cultural expressions in Australia and Indonesia'.

Associated Fellows:

Duncan Poulson holds degrees in law and arts from the University of Tasmania and is an officer of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in Darwin. He has been a lecturer in commercial law and in international business at the University of Tasmania (1996-2000) and he has gained teaching experience in Singapore and Malaysia. From 1994 to 1995, he carried out legal research in Taiwan under the Asia Fellowship Program. He has also been a visiting fellow at Michigan State University (1996-1997 and 1999-2000) and at Hangzhou University in China (1998). Duncan's research interest is the management of legal aspects of e-commerce for international market entry.

Matthew Storey holds degrees in law and economics from Northern Territory University and from the Australian National University and is the Director of the Law Policy and Conciliation section of the Northern Territory Anti-Discrimination Commission. An accredited mediator, Matthew has published in the area of indigenous legal issues. He worked previously as senior solicitor and interim director for the North Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, as consultant for the Central Land Council and as Capital Works Officer for the Tangentyere Council in Alice Springs. Matthew lectures in property law in the NTU law school and is currently undertaking a Masters of Laws in environmental law at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is a co-investigator of the NTU project on 'The legal protection of indigenous and regional cultural expressions in Australia and Indonesia'.

PhD Students:

Anthony Buckland

Visitors in 2001:

February 2001: Dr. Jean Berlie, Centre for Asian Studies, Hong Kong University

March 2001: Mr. Naoyuki Sakumoto, Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo, Japan

October to December 2001: Professor Nobuyuki Yasuda, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University, Japan