Directors

Professor Timothy Lindsey

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Tim Lindsey is a Director of the Asian Law Group and Professor of Asian Law at the University of Melbourne. He is also Director of the Asian Law Centre and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam at University of Melbourne. Prior to this he was a solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jacques, a major Australian law firm and then a barrister, practicing in insolvency, business law and intellectual property law. He maintains a practice in commercial matters and international litigation.

Tim is an internationally recognized specialist in Indonesian law and society and holds the degrees of BA (Hons), LLB, BLitt (Hons) and PhD from the University of Melbourne. He is a visiting professor at the Australian National University and the Northern Territory University.

Tim has worked extensively as a consultant on international legal education programs and on law reform, particularly in Indonesia but also in Vietnam, Mongolia and elsewhere. He consults regularly to policy makers in Indonesian government ministries, foreign embassies and within international aid organizations. He is a member of the Australia-Indonesia Institute and of the Foreign Affairs Advisory, advisory boards within the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Current projects include:

  • A major study of Islamic Law in Indonesia and Malaysia;
  • A major study of the law reform process in Indonesia post-Soeharto focusing on law enforcement issues.

Tim has near-native fluency in bahasa Indonesia and is conversant in Malay. He has worked in Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam, Mongolia, Canada, the USA and Australia. He is the author of the leading texts on contemporary Indonesian law and law reform: Indonesia: Law and Society and Indonesia, Bankruptcy, Law Reform and the Commercial Court and (with Helen Pausacker) The Chinese in Indonesia: Remembering, Distorting and Forgetting. His recent publications include a collection of papers on corruption in Indonesia and Vietnam, Corruption In Asia: Rethinking the Governance Paradigm. Tim is also a founding editor of The Australian Journal of Asian Law, a key international journal for Asian Law scholars and practitioners.


Dr Pip Nicholson

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Penelope (Pip) Nicholson is a Director of the Asian Law Group and Associate Director (Vietnam) in the Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne. She is recognized as one of few Western lawyers with a comprehensive knowledge of Vietnamese law, regulation and society. She holds BA and LLB degrees from the University of Melbourne, a Masters degree in Public Policy from ANU and a PhD in Law from the University of Melbourne. Her doctoral studies focused on how national political orientation affects the transplantation of legal institutions, in particular within Vietnam.

Prior to completing her PhD, Pip was a litigation lawyer in the major Australian law firm, Blake Dawson Waldron and subsequently, a solicitor with Legal Aid, specializing in community outreach for disadvantaged clients. Pip advised the Australian Attorney General’s department on a government-level program between Canberra and Hanoi in 1996. In 1997 she was recruited to design and manage international legal training programs for the University of Melbourne. Her clients have included the ADB, AusAID, Danida and various government departments.

Her transaction expertise includes:

  • Negotiating bilateral legal projects with Vietnam, including legal conferences, customized training and technical assistance;
  • Technical Needs Analysis and managing international legal education projects including infrastructure, curriculum design, budget and pedagogic issues;
  • Commercial litigation and criminal advocacy;
  • Institutional strengthening; particularly courts and arbitration centres;
  • Managing Vietnam-based projects on WTO and anti-dumping.

Pip’s current projects include:

  • The relevance of legal culture to the permutation of transplanted legal institutions;
  • Incorporating indigenous legal culture in legal reform;
  • Efficiency of court-oriented reforms in Vietnam.

Pip has intermediate fluency in Vietnamese and French.

Pip currently teaches in Comparative Law, Asian Law and Principles of Public Law at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has published extensively on Vietnamese law, Vietnamese legal institutions and regulation and on law reform within Asia.

 

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