The University of Melbourne | Victoria 3010 | Australia Phone: +61 3 8344 6172 http://law.unimelb.edu.au/centres/alc

Professor Pip Nicholson Dean, William Hearn Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School Contact Details: W: 8344 6172 E: p.nicholson@unimelb.edu.au

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Curriculum Vitae Qualifications

(Academic) 2001 Ph.D., Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne 1994 Masters of Public Policy, Australian National University 1988 LL.B., University of Melbourne 1987 B.A., University of Melbourne

Awards Academic Appointments (Current) Academic Appointments (Previous)

Ministry of Justice, Vietnam, ‘Medal for the Cause of Justice’, 2014 Dean and William Hearn Professor of Law Melbourne Law School (2018 - ) Professor (2010 - ) Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne Associate Professor (2008 - 2009) Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne

Senior Lecturer (2004 – 2007) Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne Lecturer (2002 – 2003) Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne Senior Fellow, MLS (1998 – 2001) Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne Sessional Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Deakin University (2000) Sessional Lecturer, Public Policy Program, Australian National University (1993-1994)

Professional Appointments Jan 1999 Legal Skills Consultant, ADB Project: Retraining Mongolian

Government Legal Officers 1997-1999 Consultant, Law School, University of Melbourne, International

Programs Jan 1997 – End 1998 Assistant Legal Training Expert, ADB Project: Retraining of Vietnamese

Government Legal Officers 1997 Program Coordinator/Course Designer, AusAID Project: Vietnam -

Australia Legal Sector Assistance Project, Australia 1994 – 1996 Part-time lawyer, Slater & Gordon 1990 – 1992 Solicitor, Victorian Legal Aid Commission 1990 – 1992 Tutor in Law at Ormond College, University of Melbourne 1989 – 1990 Solicitor and Articled Clerk with Blake Dawson Waldron 1987 Associate to Judge Rowlands, then President of the Administrative

Appeals Tribunal of Victoria 1986 – 1990 Volunteer with Fitzroy Legal Service

Professional Qualifications

Admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria (1990 - 1992)

Professional Memberships

Asian Studies Association of Australia Vietnam Studies Association of Australia Comparative Law Association

Languages French and Vietnamese (some)

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EXTERNAL Member, Ormond College Council (2020 - )

Council of Australian Law Deans, Executive Member, Chair International Committee (2018 - )

UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

Chair, Students and Learning Operations Advisory Group (2019 - ) Chair, After Believe Taskforce (2019 - ) Member, ELG (2019 - ) Chair, Respect Taskforce (2019)

Academic Board Vice President Academic Board (2017) Deputy Vice President Academic Board (2015 - 2016) Member, Academic Programs Committee (2011 - 2018) Member, Selection Procedures Committee (2015 - 2016) Member, Academic Consultation and Coordination Committee (2015 -

2018) Member, University Appointments and Promotions Committee (2015 -

2018) Member, International Advisory Group (2014 - 2017) Stream Leader, Engagement and Teaching and Learning, Strategy

Review, 2015 Chair, Teaching and Learning Development Committee, University of

Melbourne (2011 - 2012) Member, Teaching and Learning Development Committee, University of

Melbourne (2010 - 2016) Member, Teaching and Learning Quality Assurance Committee,

University of Melbourne (2011 – 2012, 2017 - 2018) Member of the Review Panel, Student Advising (2010) Melbourne Law School Dean, (2018 - )

Chair, MLS Executive Member, MLS Advisory Council (2018 - ) Member, Law School Foundation (2018 - ) Member MLS Executive (2009 – 2011, 2014 – mid 2017)

Associate Dean (International), MLS (2014 - 2017) Member, Towards 2011 Project, Working Group F (2009) Associate Dean (JD) (2009 – mid 2011) Member, Associate Deans Teaching and Learning Forum, University of

Melbourne (2010) Member of several JD-related working groups (Curriculum architecture

and Selection (2009), Pathways and Admission to the JD (2009)) Chair, JD Selection Committee, Chair, (2009 - 2013)

Member JD Selection Committee (2008 - 2013) JD Course Director (2008)

Member of the LLB Committee (2005 – 2007, 2009 –mid 2011) and working groups (Member of Sub-committee on Assessment (2006), Policy paper on Independent Learning (2006), Policy paper on Word Length and Penalties (2005)).

Director of Teaching (2006-2007) International Committee Visitors Scheme Sub-committee (2005) Academic Transition Working Group (2005) National Bench-Marking on Transition Policies (2005)

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Academic Transition Coordinator (2005) International Committee (2003-2005) Outgoing International Student Exchange Coordinator (2003-2004) Member, Alumni Reference Group (2003 – 2007)

ASIAN LAW CENTRE Director, Asian Law Centre (2013 - 2017)

Director, Comparative Legal Studies Program, Asian Law Centre (2006 -2017) Director, Asian Law Online (2003 - 2017) Associate Director (Vietnam), Asian Law Centre (1999 - 2017)

CENTRE FOR COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL STUDIES

Member, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies (2005 - 2017)

TEACHING Director of Teaching, Melbourne Law School (2006 – 2007) Jointly established Office of Teaching and Learning, Melbourne Law

School (2006)

Editorial Boards Law in Asia Series, Routledge, (2013 - )

Australian Journal of Asian Law (2004 - ) Asian Law Centre, Briefing Papers (2015 - )

Research Grants

2017 - 2019

Folke Bernadotte Academy Grant, Sweden

Constitutional Implementation for Sustainable Peace

SEK 200,000

2015 - 2018

University of Hong Kong General Research Fund

An Empirical and Comparative Study of Law Students' Perceptions of Their Values in Four Asian Civil Law Countries: China, Vietnam, Japan and South Korea

HK $798,480

2013 - 2015

Folke Bernadotte Academy Grant, Sweden

Post-conflict rule of law: the local experience of Timor Leste

SEK 207,909

2010-2012 ARC Discovery Grant

‘Drugs, Law and Criminal Procedure in Southeast Asia: A Comparative Analysis’ (with Prof. Lindsey)

AUS $281,000

2008-2010 ARC Discovery Grant

‘Testing Court Reform Projects in Cambodia and Vietnam’ (with Prof. Camille Cameron)

AUS $275,000

2006-2008 Teaching and Learning Fund, UOM

‘Generic and Professional Skills Project’ (with Prof. Ian Malkin, Prof. Camille Cameron, Dr Wendy Larcombe and Prof. Lee Godden)

AUS $101,036

2006-2007 Teaching and Learning Fund, UOM

‘Studying Law Survey’ (with Prof. Ian Malkin and Dr Wendy Larcombe)

AUS $40,000

2005 SSHRN Grant, Canada

Managing Poverty and Prosperity: Land and Rural Livelihoods in Vietnam’s Market Economy Transition

AUS $93,000

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2004 Early Career Research Grant, UOM

Vietnamese commune-based mediation AUS $5,000

Research Grants – Conference, Publication and Teaching Development Support

2019 DFAT Death Penalty: Comparative Criminal Justice Project

AUS $25,000

2016 - 2017

DFAT Human Rights grant

First Death Penalty Law and Practice Conference co-hosted with HCMC University of Law, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

AUS $25,000

2015 MLS- Asia Research Collaboration

Support Visiting Fellowship for Associate Professor Anup Surendranath, National Law University, Delhi

AUS $9,995

2014 MLS- Asia Research Collaboration

Support Visiting Fellowship for Dr Bui Ngoc Son, NUS

AUS $8,360

2014 International Research and Research Training Fund (IRRTF)

Funds to enable co-convened doctoral forum for students working on Chinese law (co-funded by Hong Kong University, School of Law)

AUS $30,000

2013 - 2014

Teaching and Learning (Asia Capabilities Initiatives) Fund, UOM

Implementation of Melbourne Law School Asia Strategy – Scoping Visit to India (with Associate Professor Farrah Ahmed)

AUS $ 7,660

2014 Melbourne Asia Visiting Fellows Program

Support Visiting Fellowship for Professor Jiunn-rong Yeh, National Taiwan University

AUS $10,475

2009 Monash University

Funds to enable the co-hosting of ‘Interpreting Legal Transfers’ Conference, Prato, Italy

AUS $25,000

2007 SSHRN Grant, Canada

Funding for International Conference convened jointly by Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne and University of Victoria, Canada - New Courts in Asia, held at University of Victoria, Canada (with Prof. Andrew Harding, University of Victoria, Canada)

AUS $40,000

2006-2007

Centre for Excellence in Asia, ANU

Funding for International conference convened jointly by Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne and University of Victoria, Canada - New Courts in Asia, held at University of Victoria, Canada (application with Prof. Kent Anderson)

AUS $8,600

2005 Small Grant Scheme, UOM

Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne to support an edited collection of papers on comparative law in Asia

AUS $5,000

2003-2004

Deakin Conference and

Funding for Asian Socialism and Legal Change (with Prof. John Gillespie)

AUS $15,000

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publication support

2003 International Seminar Support Scheme, AusAid

Funding for international visitors to attend Asian Socialism and Legal Change Workshop (with Prof. John Gillespie)

AUS $15,000

Academic Teaching * indicates new courses developed or co-developed

Current Doctoral Supervision One doctoral student Supervision to completion Seven doctoral candidates (2005, 2006, 2010, 2016, 2017 X 2, 2018)

Two SJD Candidates (2005, 2007) Law Subjects University of Melbourne

Law and Legal Practice in Asia (JD)

Legal Method and Reasoning (JD) Dispute Resolution (JD) Judicial Power in Asia (JD Research offering) Commercial Law in Asia (MLM) Law and Economic Reform in Asia (MLM) Rule of Law in Asia (MLM) Drugs and the Death Penalty in Asia (MLM) Law and Society in Southeast Asia (LLB) Land, Race and Law in Southeast Asia (LLB) Principles of Public law (2006-2007) (LLB) History and Philosophy of Law II (2002-2004) (LLB) History and Philosophy of Law I (2001-2005) (LLB) Introduction to Business Law (2001) - FBE

Academic – Publications

Books Fu Hualing, John Gillespie, Pip Nicholson and William Partlett (eds), Socialist Law in Socialist East Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Tim Lindsey and Pip Nicholson, Drugs Law and Legal Practice in Southeast Asia (Hart Publishing, 2016).

John Gillespie and Pip Nicholson (eds), Law and Development and the Global Discourses of Legal Transfers (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Andrew Harding and Pip Nicholson (eds), New Courts in Asia (Routledge, 2010).

Pip Nicholson and Sarah Biddulph (eds), Examining Practice, Investigating Theory: Comparative Legal Studies in Asia (Martinus Nijhoff, 2008).

Pip Nicholson, Borrowing Court Systems: The Experience of Socialist Vietnam (Martinus Nijhoff, 2007).

John Gillespie and Pip Nicholson (eds), Asian Socialism and Legal Change: The Dynamics of Vietnamese and Chinese Reform (Asia-Pacific Press, 2005).

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Chapters in Books

Pip Nicholson and Do Hai Ha ‘The Vietnamese Constitution: Politics, Reform and Ambiguity’ in Wen-Chen Chang, Albert Chen and David Law (eds), Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Asia (OUP, forthcoming).

Do Hai Ha and Pip Nicholson ‘Vietnamese Deliberative Authoritarianism’ in Chen Weitseng and Fu Hualing (eds) Authoritarian Legality in Asia: Formation, Development and Transition, (CUP 2020, forthcoming).

Pip Nicholson and Do Hai Ha ‘Vietnamese Lawyering’ in R Abel, Hilary Sommerlad, Ulrike Schultz and Ole Hammerslev (eds), Lawyers in 21st-Century Society (Hart, 2020) 855 - 878.

Pip Nicholson and Samantha Hinderling 'Court Development in Timor Leste: Handover and its Long Shadow' in research Handbook on the Rule of Law edited by Chris May, Adam Winchester & Gill Gardner, (Edward Elgar, 2018). Pip Nicholson and Pham Lan Phuong, ‘Roots and Routes: Adapting the Soviet-inspired Vietnamese Court and Procuracy Systems’ in Fu Hualing, John Gillespie, Pip Nicholson and William Partlett (eds), Socialist Law in Socialist East Asia (CUP, 2018).

Pip Nicholson and Nguyen Hung Quang, ‘Asia-Pacific Judiciaries: Independence, Impartiality and Integrity in Vietnam’ in H.P. Lee (ed), Asia Pacific Judiciaries (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Pip Nicholson and Cait Storr, ‘The Vietnamese Courts and reform dynamics’ in Christoph Antons (ed), Routledge Handbook of Asian Law (Routledge, 2016) 94-109.

Pip Nicholson, ‘Renovating Courts: The Role of Courts in Contemporary Vietnam’ in Jiunn-Rong Yeh and Wen-Chen Chang (eds), Asian Courts in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2016) 528-565.

John Gillespie and Pip Nicholson, ‘Taking the Interpretation of Legal Transfers Seriously: The Challenge for Law and Development’ in John Gillespie and Pip Nicholson (eds), Law and Development and the Global Discourses of Legal Transfers (Cambridge University Press, 2012) 1-26.

Pip Nicholson with Simon Pitt, ‘Official Discourses and Court-Oriented Legal Reform in Vietnam’ in John Gillespie and Pip Nicholson (eds), Law and Development and the Global Discourses of Legal Transfers (Cambridge University Press, 2012) 202-236.

Pip Nicholson, ‘Access to Justice in Vietnam: State Supply – Private Distrust’ in John Gillespie and Albert Chen (eds), Legal Reforms in China and Vietnam: A Comparison of Asian Communist Regimes (Routledge, 2010) 188-216.

Pip Nicholson and Samantha Hinderling, ‘Effectiveness of Donor-funded Legal Education: A Vietnamese Perspective’ in Stacey Steele and Kathryn Taylor (eds), Legal Education in Asia: Globalization, Change and Contexts (Routledge, 2010) 241-259.

Andrew Harding and Pip Nicholson, ‘New Courts in the Asia: Law, Development and Judicialisation’, in Andrew Harding and Pip Nicholson (eds), New Courts in Asia (Routledge, 2010) 1-28.

Pip Nicholson and Minh Duong, ‘Legitimacy and the Vietnamese Economic Courts’ in Andrew Harding and Pip Nicholson (eds), New Courts in Asia (Routledge, 2010) 31-55.

Pip Nicholson, ‘Vietnam’ in Stanley N. Katz (ed), The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Vol 6) (Oxford University Press, 2009) 78-80.

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Pip Nicholson with Simon Pitt ‘Vietnamese Legal Reform: The Discourses of Aid?’ in Per Bergling, Jenny Ederlof and Veronica Taylor (eds), Rule of Law Promotion: Global Perspectives, Local Applications (Iustus Forlag, Umea University, 2009) 287-216.

Pip Nicholson and Sarah Biddulph ‘Expanding the Circle Comparative Legal Studies in Transition’ in Pip Nicholson and Sarah Biddulph (eds), Examining Practice, Investigating Theory: Comparative Legal Studies in Asia (Brill, 2008) 10-21.

Pip Nicholson, ‘Legal Culture Repacked: Drug Trials in Vietnam’ in Pip Nicholson and Sarah Biddulph (eds), Examining Practice, Investigating Theory: Comparative Legal Studies in Asia (Brill, 2008) 71-108.

Pip Nicholson, ‘Comparative Law and Legal Transplants between Socialist States: An Historical Perspective’ in Tim Lindsey (ed), Law Reform in Developing and Transitional Economies (Routledge, 2007) 143-158.

Pip Nicholson, ‘Vietnamese Courts: Contemporary Interactions Between Party-State and Law’ in Mark Sidel and Stephanie Balme (eds), Vietnam’s New Order: International Perspectives on the State and Reform in Vietnam (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) 178-197.

Pip Nicholson, ‘The Diversity and Dynamism of Legal Change in Socialist China and Vietnam’ in John Gillespie and Pip Nicholson (eds), Asian Socialism and Legal Change: The Dynamics of Vietnamese and Chinese Reform (ANU E Press, 2005) 1-20.

Pip Nicholson, ‘Vietnamese Jurisprudence: Informing Court Reform?’ in John Gillespie and Pip Nicholson (eds), Asian Socialism and Legal Change: The Dynamics of Vietnamese and Chinese Reform (ANU E Press, 2005) 159-190.

Pip Nicholson, ‘The Vietnamese Courts and Corruption’ in Tim Lindsey and Howard Dick (eds), Corruption in Asia: Rethinking the Good Governance Paradigm (Federation Press, 2002) 201-218.

Pip Nicholson, ‘Vietnam’s Labour Market: Transition and the Role of Law’ in Sean Cooney, Tim Lindsey, Richard Mitchell and Ying Zhu (eds), Law and Labour Market Regulation in East Asia, (Routledge, 2002) 122-156.

Pip Nicholson, ‘Vietnamese Legal Institutions in Comparative Perspective: Contemporary Constitutions and Courts Considered’ in Kanishka Jayasuriya (ed), Law, Capitalism and Power in Asia (Routledge, 1999) 300-329.

Pip Nicholson, ‘Vietnam’ in Graham Hassall and Cheryl Saunders (eds), Asia-Pacific Constitutional Yearbook 1997 (University of Melbourne, 1999) 321-330.

Pip Nicholson, ‘Appointing High Court Judges: Need for Reform?’ in David Lovell, Ian McAllister, William Maley and Chandran Kukathas (eds), The Australian Political System (Longman, 2nd ed, 1998) 172-183.

Pip Nicholson and Phan Nguyen Toan, ‘Vietnam’ in Graham Hassall and Cheryl Saunders (eds), Asia-Pacific Constitutional Yearbook 1995 (University of Melbourne, 1997) 335-344.

Refereed Journal Articles

Pip Nicholson, ‘Vietnamese Constitutionalism: The Reform Possibilities’ (2016) 11 Asian Journal of Comparative Law 199-207.

Bui Ngoc Son and Pip Nicholson, ‘Activism and Popular Constitutionalism in Vietnam’ (2016) Law & Social Inquiry 1-34.

Benjamin Van Rooij and Pip Nicholson, ‘Inflationary Trends in Law and Development’ (2015) 24 Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law 297-348.

Pip Nicholson and Teilee Kuong, ‘Japanese Legal Assistance: An East Asian Model of Legal Assistance and Rule of Law?’ (2014) 6 Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 141-177.

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Wendy Larcombe, Letty Tumbaga, Ian Malkin, Pip Nicholson, and Orania Tokatlidis, 'Does an Improved Experience Of Law School Protect Students Against Depression, Anxiety and Stress? An Empirical Study of Wellbeing and the Law School Experience of LLB And JD Students' (2013) 35 Sydney Law Review 407-432.

Pip Nicholson and Samantha Hinderling, ‘Japanese Aid in Comparative Perspective’ (2013) 5 Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 274-309.

Pip Nicholson and Sally Low, ‘Local Accounts of Rule of Law Aid: Implications for Donors’ (2013) 5 Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 1-43.

Wendy Larcombe, Ian Malkin and Pip Nicholson, ‘Law Students’ Motivations, Expectations and Levels of Psychological Distress: Evidence of Connections’ (2012) 22(1) Legal Education Review. Pip Nicholson with Kieu Truong, ‘Drugs Prosecutions in Vietnam: The Modern Propaganda Trial’, (2008) 34(2) Monash University Law Review 430-456.

Pip Nicholson, Wendy Larcombe and Ian Malkin, 'Commencing Law Students' Interests and Expectations: Comparing Undergraduate and Graduate Cohorts' (2008) 1 Journal of the Australasian Law Teachers Association 227-238.

Pip Nicholson, Wendy Larcombe and Ian Malkin, 'Performance in Law School: What matters in the beginning?' (2008) 18 Legal Education Review 95-122.

Pip Nicholson and Nguyen Hien Quan, ‘Vietnamese Law: A Guide to Sources and Commentary’ (2007) 2(1) Journal of Comparative Law 1-40.

Pip Nicholson and Nguyen Hung Quang, ‘The Vietnamese Judiciary: The Politics of Appointment and Promotion’ (2005) 14(1) Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal 1-34.

Pip Nicholson, ‘Distinguishing Law and Development: Legal Assistance in Asia and the Vietnamese Courts’ Experiences of Legal Assistance to Countries in Transition, Seguira and Aikyo (eds), (Centre for Asian legal Exchange, Nagoya University, Japan, 2005) 43-61.

Pip Nicholson, ‘Vietnamese Law: A Bibliography’ (2003) 22(2/3) Legal Reference Services Quarterly 139-200.

Pip Nicholson, ‘Judicial Independence and the Rule of Law: The Vietnam Court Experience’ (2001) 3(1) Australian Journal of Asian Law 37-58.

Pip Nicholson and Nguyen Thi Minh, ‘Commercial Disputes and Arbitration in Vietnam’ (2000) 17(5) Journal of International Arbitration 1-18. [Nicholson 80%; Nguyen 20%]

Pip Nicholson, ‘Arbitration: Changes and Challenges for the Vietnamese Court System’ (1996) 15(1) The Arbitrator 45-52.

Book Reviews FU Hualing, J Gillespie, P Nicholson, W Partlett, ‘East Asian Socialism and East Asian Legality: A Response to Ewan Smith’ Asian Journal of Comparative Law, 1-4, 2019 Pip Nicholson and Samantha Hinderling, ‘Book Review: Rule of Law Dynamics’ (2014) 15(2) Australian Journal of Asian Law article 6, 1-6.

Pip Nicholson, ‘Book Review of David K Linnan (ed) 'Legitimacy, Legal Development and Change Law and Modernisation Reconsidered (Ashgate, 2012)’ (2013) 13(2) Australian Journal of Asian Law article 8, 1-5.

Pip Nicholson, ‘Comparative Legal Studies: Traditions and Transitions’ (2004) 6(2) Australian Journal of Asian Law 203-206.

Pip Nicholson, ‘The High Court at the Cross Roads, Essays in Constitutional Law’ (2001) 10(3) Journal of Judicial Administration 172-175.

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Pip Nicholson, ‘Legal Reform and Private Enterprise: The Vietnamese Experience’ (2000) 2 Australian Journal of Asian Law 96-98.

Pip Nicholson, ‘Asian Legal Systems’ (1998) (72)12 Law Institute Journal 41.

Pip Nicholson, ‘Commercial Legal Developments in Vietnam: Vietnamese and Foreign Commentaries’ (1998) 22(2) Asian Studies Review 274-277.

Opinion Pieces

Pip Nicholson, ‘Back to the classroom for tech’s regulators’ Financial Times, 3 May 2019

Pip Nicholson, ‘Why Law Degrees Matter’ Pursuit, 9 February 2018 Pip Nicholson and Bui Ngoc Son, ‘Vietnam Moves Cautiously on Constitutional Reform,’ Asian Currents, 15 June 2015

Pip Nicholson, ‘The death penalty in SE Asia: is there a trend towards abolition?’, The Conversation, 4 March 2015.

Pip Nicholson, ‘The Death Penalty in Southeast Asia’, The Law Report, ABC Radio, 14 October 2014.

Reports Pip Nicholson (co-editor – English version), Justice Index Report (UNDP, 2013).

Pip Nicholson (Research design and editor – English version), Right to Counsel in Criminal Law and Practice (UNDP, 2012).

Pip Nicholson, (Research design and editor – English version), Appointed Counsel in Criminal Law and Practice in Vietnam (UNDP, 2012

Pip Nicholson, Comparative Research on the Organisation and Activities of Agencies within the Justice Sector (UNDP, 2009).

Pip Nicholson with Tim Lindsey, Greg Fealy, Gemma Parsons and Simon Pitt, UIN Jakarta Syariah and Law Faculty Curriculum Review (DFAT, 2009).

Pip Nicholson and Nguyen Hung Quang, Publication of Judgments in Vietnam (DANIDA, Hanoi, 2008)

Pip Nicholson (ed), Survey of Vietnamese District Courts (UNDP, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2007) 1-101.

Pip Nicholson, and Phan Nguyen Toan, Commercial Dispute Resolution, Business Sector Programme Support (DANIDA, Denmark, 2005) 1-33.

Pip Nicholson, Jurgen Kurtz and A McCarty (eds), Anti-Dumping: A Handbook, Ministry of Trade Vietnam and CEG Vietnam (AusAID, 2005).

Conference Papers

‘Innovation and the Contemporary Law School’, Sino-China, Law Deans Conference, Wuhan PRC, 27 October 2018 ‘Rule of law with socialist characteristics and democratic centralism: Vietnam considered’ troubling (the) rule of Law, ANU, 7 – 10 September, 2017

‘The Death Penalty in Asia and its Reduction: Overview’ presented at The Death Penalty in Comparative Perspective: Regional Laws and Practice, Asian Law Centre and Ho Chi Minh University School of Law, Ho Chi Minh City, 3 March 2017

‘Vietnamese Judicial Power and Rule of Law Aid’, National University of Singapore, March 2016.

‘Vietnamese Constitutionalism: The Reform Possibilities’, Interpreting the 2013 Vietnamese Constitutional Debates, National University of Singapore, February 2016.

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‘Soviet Legal Legacy in Vietnam’, What is Socialist about Socialist law?: Exploring Epistemic and Institutional Change in Socialist Asia, Hong Kong, 28-29 October 2015.

‘The Suspended Death Penalty in Asia’, Contemporary Issues in Public Law: Transnational Perspectives, Oxford University, MLS and National Law University Delhi, Delhi, 12 April 2015

‘Australian Legal Education and Globalisation’, Legal Education on the Context of Globalisation, Hanoi Law University, 7 November 2014.

‘Comparative Judicial Power’, Keynote, UNDP/MOJ, Haiphong, Vietnam, October 2013.

‘The East Asian Challenge to the West’s Rule of Law Addiction’, Folke Bernadotte Academy with SOAS, London, 28 – 29 April 2013.

‘Demand-Led Development: Recognising Constraints on the Export of the Rule of Law’, at conference The State in Asia: Power, Citizenship and the Rule of Law, Leiden University, The Netherlands, December 2012.

‘Donors and Court Reform in Vietnam’ UNDP Forum, Hanoi, October 2012.

Presenter and Convenor, Japanese Aid in Vietnam and Cambodia, Attorney General’s Seminar Series, Melbourne, September 2012

‘Vietnam: Power and the Place of Courts in Vietnam’, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, March 2012

‘Prospects of Legal Technical Assistance: from Assistance to Cooperation’ Keynote Address to the annual Japanese International Cooperation Agency conference, Osaka, Japan, January 2012

‘Local and donor accounts of court-oriented legal reform: constraints and possibilities in Vietnam’, ANU and the Folke Bernadotte Academy, Canberra, December 2011

‘The Discourses of Court-oriented Legal Reform in Vietnam’, at Interpreting Legal Transfers: A Comparative Analysis Workshop, hosted by The Asia Pacific Business Regulation Group, Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University and the Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne, Prato, Italy, 15-16 October, 2009

‘Publication and Public Access: The Largely Inaccessible Vietnamese Court Decisions’, at Legal Developments in East Asia: China –Vietnam Compared, hosted by Centre for Comparative and Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong and The Asia Pacific Business Regulation Group, Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University, 3-4 December, 2008.

Co-Chair, Independent Adjudication in Vietnam Roundtable, UNDP, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2 November, 2008.

‘Legal Diffusion: Legal Origins and Legal Diffusion in Asia’, at Varieties of Capitalism, Legal Origins, Legal Diffusion and Legal Evolution Workshop, hosted by Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University, 24 October, 2008.

‘Legal Reform: The Vietnamese Economic Court’, at New Courts in Asia, hosted by the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria, Canada and the Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne, Victoria, B.C., Canada, 15-17 July, 2007.

‘Legal Training in Asia: A Vietnamese Retrospective’, at Legal Education in Asia: Professor Malcolm DH Smith, In Memoriam, Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne, 9 July 2007.

‘Maintaining and Promoting the Rule of law?’, at Further Conceptualization and Practical Progress on Building Coherent and Effective Rule of Law Programmes and Strategies, The Hague, 26-27 June, 2007.

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‘Vietnamese Court Reform: The Discourse(s) of Aid?’, at Rule of Law on the International Agenda: Policy, Politics and Morality, University of Umea, Sweden, invitational symposium, 15-16 June, 2007.

‘Legal Culture Unpacked’, at Translating Paradigms: Comparative Law in Asia, University of Melbourne Roundtable, 12 July, 2006.

‘Teaching Development in Asia: Law and Economic Reform in Asia’, at Law, Development and Transition: New Questions and Directions, University of Illinois, College of Law, University of Umea, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, 9 March, 2006.

‘Economic Rights and Land in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Rhetoric or Reality?’, at Legitimacy and Western and Non-Western Views of Human Rights, Barnes Symposium, Law School, University of South Carolina, 3-4 February, 2006.

‘Transition: Badges and their Consequences’, at University of Melbourne, 21 July, 2005.

‘Comparative Legal Studies in Transition’, at Legal Culture and Globalisation Roundtable, University of Melbourne, 22 March, 2005.

‘Revisiting Legal Culture’, at Legal Culture and Globalisation Roundtable, University of Melbourne, 22 March, 2005.

‘Comparative Legal Studies: Traditions and Transitions and Asia: A Dialogue’, at The Other Lived Experience of Comparative Law: Asian Comparisons Roundtable, University of Melbourne, 21 October, 2004.

‘Exchange: Vietnamese Legal Cultures and Comparative Legal Studies’, at The Other Lived Experience of Comparative Law: Asian Comparisons Roundtable, University of Melbourne, 21 October, 2004.

‘Distinguishing Law and Development: Legal Assistance in Asia and the Vietnamese Courts’, at Japanese Comparative Law Society, Nagoya University, Japan, 29 May, 2004.

‘Vietnamese Courts: Party State and Law’, at The State of Law and the Rule of Law in Post Doi Moi Vietnam, CERI, Paris, 6-7 October, 2003.

‘Vietnam’s Labour Market: Transition and the Role of Law’, at Problems with Comparative Labour Law: Labour Regulation in Asia, University of Melbourne, 2 October, 2003.

Co-Chair ‘Law and Governance: Socialist Transforming Vietnam’, University of Melbourne, 11-12 June, 2003.

‘Vietnamese Jurisprudence: A Trajectory for Court Reform?’, at Law and Governance: Socialist Transforming Vietnam, University of Melbourne, 11-12 June, 2003.

‘Vietnamese Courts: The Changing Shape of Party Instrumentalism’, at Staff and Graduate Student Research Seminar, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 1 April, 2003.

Commentator, Mapping Vietnam’s Legal Culture: Whither Vietnam? Conference, Victoria, B.C., Canada, 27-29 March, 2003.

‘Vietnamese Court Reform: Constancy and Change in the Contemporary Period’, at Mapping Vietnam’s Legal Culture: Whither Vietnam? Conference, Victoria, B.C. Canada, 27-29 March, 2003.

‘Comparative Law and Legal Transplants Between Socialist States: An Historical Perspective’, at Law Reform in Developing and Transitional Economies, Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne and Asian Law Centre, University of Seattle, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 2-3 July, 2001.

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‘Good Governance and Institutional Accountability: The Role of the Vietnamese Courts’, at Rethinking the Good Governance Paradigm: Corruption & Social Engineering in Indonesia & Vietnam, Asian Law Centre and Australian Centre for International Business, University of Melbourne, 27 October,p 2000.

‘Judicial Independence and the Rule of Law: The Vietnam Court Experience’, at LAWASIA Constitutional Standing Committee, 4th Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, May, 1999.

Commentator, Chinese Laws Outside China Conference, Australian National University, July 1998.

‘Commercial Disputes and Arbitration Reforms in Vietnam’, at Contract Governance, Commercial Cultures and Change in Asia Colloquium, Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne, August, 1997

‘Vietnamese Institutions in Comparative Perspective: Courts and Constitutions Considered’, at Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Perth, November, 1996.

‘Law Systems Across Cultures: Imperialism Perpetuated?’ at Asian Studies Conference, Melbourne, July, 1996.

Key Notes

‘Legal Transplantation to Asian Socialist States: Constitutional Signalling’, Universidad Pontifica de Chile, Chile, April 2020 ‘Vietnam: Constitutions as Signalling Instruments’, 8th Asian Constitutional Law Conference, Hanoi, December 2019

‘Rule of law with socialist characteristics and democratic centralism: Vietnam considered’, Asian Law and Society Association Conference, Bond University, November 2019 ‘Legal issues faced by professionals in Vietnam’, Loseby lecture, Ho Chi Minh City, 6 November 2018 and repeated 8 November 2018 Hanoi, Vietnam

Guest Lectures/ Seminars

Comparative Law and Doctoral Studies, VNU, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 2019 ‘Independent Lawyering in Contemporary Vietnam: A Negotiated Practice’, GLSA Lecture, 4 September 2018.

‘Lawyers and the Rule of Law: An Australian Account’, 30 July 2018.

‘Wrongful Death: Regulating Civil Claims’, Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, 2016.

‘Vietnamese Courts: Changes and roles’, National University of Singapore, 22 April, 2013.

‘East Asian Challenge to Rule of Law Assistance’, Harvard Law School, 17 April, 2013.

‘Japanese Aid and Rule of Law Assistance’, University of British Columbia, 12 April, 2013.

‘The Vietnamese Party-State and Evolving Court Reforms’, at CEAL Seminar, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 20 January, 2009.

‘The Modern Propaganda Trial: Drugs Prosecutions in Vietnam’, at Public Lecture, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 19 January, 2009.

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‘The Under-explored Challenges of Court-oriented Legal Reform: A Southeast Asian Account’, at Staff Seminar, Warwick University, Warwick, United Kingdom, 15 January, 2009.

‘The Under-explored Challenges of Court-oriented Legal Reform: A Southeast Asian Account’, Seminar Paper, School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, 14 January, 2009.

‘Vietnamese and Cambodian Court Reform in Comparative Perspective’ (with Prof. Camille Cameron), at Staff Seminar, Faculty of Laws, University College, London, January, 2009.

‘Analysing Asian Courts: A Vietnamese Case Study’, at Staff Seminar, Van Vallenhoven Institute, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 10 December, 2008.

‘Asian Legal Studies in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities’, at Open Lecture, Van Vallenhoven Institute, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 8 December, 2008.

Economic Courts in Transition, Graduate Seminar, University of Victoria Canada, 14 July, 2007.

‘Feedback and Assessment’, at Staff Seminar, Law School, University of South Carolina, 2 February, 2006.

Consultancies and Pro Bono Work

Pro Bono adviser on death penalty litigation involving Australian nationals in Vietnam (2015 - 2019)

International Consultant, UNDP Vietnam, ‘Vietnamese Court Support for 2015 – 2016’ (2014)

Pro Bono review of the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City’s Master of Business Law (2013)

Pro Bono advice to the Death Penalty Defence Clinic, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Boalt Hall (2013)

International Consultant, UNDP, Comparative Research on the Organisation and Activities of Agencies within the Justice Sector, (2009)

Consultant team member, DFAT, UIN Jakarta Syariah and Law Faculty Curriculum Review (2009)

International Consultant, UNDP, Independent Judicial Decision Making (2008)

International Consultant, DANIDA, Publication of Judgments Program (2008)

Pro bono review and comment on UNDP Survey of Vietnamese District Courts (2007)

Pro bono advice to English nationals on the death penalty and defence of drug trials in Vietnam to Reprieve UK (2006-2007)

Pro bono advice to Australian nationals on the death penalty and defence of drug trials in Vietnam (2005-2006)

Member of Board, ‘Looking Up’, Melbourne, Australia: promoting alternative strategies to cope with depression (2006)

Legal Expert, Development Real Estate in Vietnam, CIEM, AusAID (2005)

Director, two AusAID CEG governance projects, Vietnam (2005)

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Director, Vietnamese Integration into the World Economy, MOT, Training Program, AusAID, (2004-2005)

Consultant, DANIDA, Business Strategy, Commercial Dispute Resolution (2004)

Technical Assessment Panel, MUP, Vietnamese Benchbook Program (2004)

AusAID - Consultant Indonesia-Australia Specialized Training Project (1999-2001)

AusAID - Consultant for Vietnam-Australia Technical Assistance Project (1998)

Assistant Legal Training Expert, ADB Project: Retraining of Vietnamese Government Legal Officers (1996-1997)

Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department - Consultant to Australian International Legal Advisory Committee (1995-1996)