University of Sydney

Faculty Member, Law

Associate Professor

Thesis Title: Form, Substance, and Neo-Proceduralism in Comparative Contract Law: Law in Books and Law in Action in New Zealand, England, the United States of America, and Japan

About

Dr Luke Nottage specialises in comparative and transnational commercial and consumer law (especially contracts, product liability and safety regulation, arbitration and corporate governance). He is a founding Co-director of the Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL), and Japanese Law Links Pty Ltd (www.japaneselawlinks.com).


Luke was previously a lawyer in Wellington and Lecturer at VUW, Associate Professor of Transnational Law at Kyushu University in Japan, Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI and CAPI Fellow at the University of Victoria in Canada.

Current projects include:

1. co-editing (with UMelbourne's Richard Garnett) "International Arbitration in Australia": Federation Press, September 2010, 11 chapters

2. developing a third co-edited book on Japanese law focused on judicial system reforms underway particularly since 2001 (including a co-authored chapter comparing Japan's government lawyers): Edward Elgar, early 2011

3. updating a selective annotated bibliography of Japanese business law related works in Western languages (chapter in German for Carl Heymans, 2nd edition book in English)

4. exploring the interface between product safety and consumer credit regulation (and more generally, the private and public)

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